Parenting stress predicts longitudinal change in parental involvement among mothers living with HIV.

Mothers living with HIV (MLH) face unique challenges that may compound parenting stress and impede effective parenting practices. Among the general population, research has demonstrated bidirectional longitudinal relations between parenting stress and parenting practices; yet, despite the additional stressors faced by MLH, these processes have not been examined longitudinally in this population. Utilizing the process model of parenting, the present study examined the longitudinal relations between parenting stress and parental involvement among a sample of MLH with children aged 6-14 years ( = 174).

Accelerated idioventricular rhythm in newborns: a worrisome but benign entity with or without congenital heart disease.

Broad QRS rhythms (fast and slow) are worrisome findings in newborns. We present five cases with varied clinical presentations found to have broad QRS tachycardias, consistent with idioventricular rhythms. Each patient had an excellent prognosis because the tachycardias resolved, and eventually the patients were in sinus rhythm.

Suspected vasculitis in an adolescent female with cardiomyopathy, myocardial infarction, and heart failure requiring heart transplantation.

A 15-year-old girl presented with dilated cardiomyopathy, positive cardiac markers, and electrocardiogram changes suggestive of acute coronary syndrome. Coronary angiography showed giant dilated coronary arteries. Pathological evidence for cardiomyopathy with acute myocardial infarction was present in the explanted heart.