Critically ill infants with SARS-COV-2 delta variant infection.

Background: SARS-CoV-2 is described to cause mild to moderate symptoms in children. To date, clinical data and symptoms of the Delta variant in pediatric patients are lacking.

Aim: To describe clinical characteristics and outcomes of infants admitted in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) during the period of Delta variant predominance.

Severe and critical SARS-COV-2 delta variant infection in infants without underlying medical conditions.

We report herein a case series of infants, with no comorbidities, who developed a life-threatening illness due to the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of children, aged under 15 years, admitted to PICU, during the peak of Delta infection, between June 23 and August 16 2021, with severe and critical forms of SARS-CoV-2 infection, confirmed by RT-PCR. Twenty infants were included, the median age was 47 days (IQR: 26.

[Cryptorchidism in children: Predictive factors of orchidopexy failure and postoperative testicular atrophy].

Introduction: Outcomes of orchidopexy for undescended testes may be disappointing. The aim of our study was to identify predictive factors of testicular atrophy and orchidopexy failure.

Methods: It was a prospective monocentric study including all boys operated for undescended testes between January 2009 and December 2014.

A rare case report of a neonatal idiopathic intussusception in a full-term newborn.

Introduction: In contrast with the usual idiopathic intussusception appearing in infants, neonatal intussusception in full-term newborns is a rare entity and usually due to an organic lead point lesion. It has a misleading and variable presentation. This manuscript reports a very rare case of neonatal idiopathic intussusception in a full-term male newborn in order to highlight the difficulties in establishing an early diagnosis.

Self extrusion on an ingested foreign body: a case report.

Foreign body ingestion is a frequent issue in paediatrician's practice. Foreign bodies often pass the gastro-intestinal tract spontaneously but can sometimes generate complications (1% of the cases). The migration of ingested foreign bodies is rare, but their spontaneous extrusion through the skin is even rarer and was previously described only in the neck.