Evaluation of pediatric migraine triggers: a single-center study.

Background: Pediatric migraines are primarily treated with medications. However, recognizing the triggers related to patient behaviors and lifestyle is also important.

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the factors that trigger pediatric migraines.

Protecting our future: environmental hazards and children's health in the face of environmental threats: a comprehensive overview.

Children face the excitement of a changing world but also encounter environmental threats to their health that were neither known nor suspected several decades ago. Children are at particular risk of exposure to pollutants that are widely dispersed in the air, water, and food. Children and adolescents are exposed to chemical, physical, and biological risks at home, in school, and elsewhere.

Ileocolic Intussusception Accompanied with Inflamed Appendix: 2 Case Reports.

Intussusception and acute appendicitis are common emergency conditions in children. They should be promptly differentiated in pediatric patients presenting with suggestive symptoms. However, both diseases may occur simultaneously.

The different effects of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist therapy on body mass index and growth between normal-weight and overweight girls with central precocious puberty.

Purpose: The effects of gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa) treatment on body mass index (BMI) are controversial in girls with central precocious puberty (CPP). We therefore evaluated auxological parameters during GnRHa therapy in patients with CPP, specifically focusing on changes in BMI.

Methods: Seventy-seven girls with idiopathic CPP who underwent GnRHa therapy were retrospectively recruited.

A Case of Small Bowel Ulcer Associated with Helicobacter pylori.

The etiology of peptic ulcer disease in children may be primary, associated with Helicobacter pylori infection, or secondary, relied on underlying disease. Ulcerative lesions by H. pylori are mainly distributed in the duodenal bulb and they are rare below the ampulla of Vater because H.

Risk for developing epilepsy and epileptiform discharges on EEG in patients with febrile seizures.

Purpose: The aim of the present study was to investigate the correlation between epileptiform discharges on EEGs after febrile seizures and the prognosis of patients in terms of the development of epilepsy and recurrence of febrile seizures. This study also evaluated the characteristics of epileptiform discharges and EEG changes on follow-up examination. methods: This study consisted of 36 children who presented to our hospital with febrile seizures and whose electroencephalograms (EEG) showed epileptiform discharges.

First report of glucose transporter 1 deficiency syndrome in Korea with a novel splice site mutation.

Glucose transporter type 1 deficiency syndrome (Glut-1DS) is caused by autosomal dominant haplodeficiency or autosomal recessive with homozygous mutation of the glucose transporter 1 (SLC2A1) gene and is characterized by severe seizures, developmental delay, ataxia and acquired microcephaly. We describe the first known Korean patient with glucose transporter 1 deficiency syndrome, who had a novel mutation in the splice site. The patient began having intractable seizures at 4 days of age that initially presented as eye blinking and apnea, evolving into generalized tonic seizures.

Prevalence and clinical characteristics of primary headaches among school children in South Korea: a nationwide survey.

Objectives: To determine the 1-year prevalence of headache and clinical characteristics of primary headaches among school children in South Korea.

Background: Many population-based studies have estimated the 1-year prevalence of headache, migraine, and tension-type headache (TTH). The results of those studies vary in terms of race and region.

The role of neuroimaging in children and adolescents with recurrent headaches--multicenter study.

Objectives: To evaluate the role of neuroimaging and to estimate the prevalence of significant and treatable intracranial lesions in children and adolescents with recurrent headaches.

Background: Neuroimaging studies are commonly performed in children and adolescent patients with headache because of increasing demands by parents and physicians, although objective data and studies to support this widespread practice are minimal.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of all 1562 (male 724, female 838) new patients presenting with recurrent headaches to 9 Pediatric Neurology Clinics of tertiary Hospitals.

Case report of pediatric gastroenteritis due to CTX-M-15 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Salmonella enterica serotype enteritidis.

A clinical isolate of Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis in Korea was found to produce the extended-spectrum beta-lactamase CTX-M-15. The isolate was recovered in 2008 from the stool of a 3-yr-old boy with gastroenteritis. This isolate was found to be resistant to multiple drugs, including ampicillin, piperacillin, cefotaxime, ceftazidime, cefepime, and aztreonam.