Life-threatening airway obstruction secondary to mass in children-a preventable event?

Objectives: To investigate the management of children with life-threatening airway obstruction from large mediastinal masses.

Methods: Review of the medical records of children with mediastinal masses and severe airway obstruction who were admitted to a multidisciplinary pediatric intensive care unit.

Results: Eight patients with 12 life-threatening events were identified.

Ecthyma gangrenosum caused by disseminated Exserohilum in a child with leukemia: a case report and review of the literature.

We report an 8-year-old boy with acute leukemia who developed ecthyma gangrenosum secondary to infection with Exserohilum spp., a rare cause of human disease. The skin, paranasal sinuses and lungs were involved.

Pregnancy outcome in women treated with doxorubicin for childhood cancer.

Objective: Pregnancy outcome and the effect of pregnancy on cardiac function were assessed in women cured of childhood cancer.

Study Design: Forty women who received doxorubicin as part of a chemotherapy protocol for a neoplastic disorder in childhood were followed up at the same center during pregnancy and after delivery.

Results: Thirty-seven women (72 pregnancies) completed follow-up.