[Erythema multiforme in children versus Stevens-Johnson syndrome].

Unlabelled: 30 children treated between 1984-98 for erythema multiforme (versus SJS) in Department of Allergology at the Children's Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw. 25 children suffered from erythema multiforme minor and 5 suffered from Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. Before symptoms of the illness 13 children had been treated with antibiotics and 27 children demonstrated different symptoms of infections, mostly viral.

[Subglottic hemangioma as a rare cause of dyspnea in infants].

A case of congenital subglottic hemangioma of the larynx in a 7-month-old infant is presented. The dominant clinical symptoms were: laryngeal stidor, dyspnoea and recurrent obstructive bronchitis and pneumonia with unsatisfactory response to treatment. Early diagnosis and proper surgical therapy were life-saving in this child.

[A vascular ring as a rare cause of recurrent obstructive bronchitis in children].

The authors have described two cases of vascular ring in small children. Recurrent obstructive bronchitis and pneumonitis with severe dyspnoea, stridor and wheezing predominated in clinical manifestation. Early diagnosis and proper surgical treatment were the most important for the prognosis of the children.

[Epilepsy as a complication of bronchial asthma].

Unlabelled: Epilepsy was recognized in 9 of 120 patients with bronchial asthma, aged 7-15 years, hospitalized in the Department of Allergology and Infectious Diseases in the Years 1989-1992. All the children had severe asthma attacks previously, six of them required hospitalisation at Intensive Care Unit. In 8 of the patients grand mal (generalised, tonic-clonic) seizures was observed, one child had absence state.

[Results of electroencephalographic tests in children with bronchial asthma].

In the years 1988-1990, 100 children aged from 2 to 18 years were examined, who were hospitalized for bronchial asthma of moderately severe and severe clinical course. In all children the examinations were performed twice at intervals of several weeks or several months during administration of the full set of drugs, including euphylline. The results were estimated according to the number and character of electric discharges.