Alcohol intoxication requiring hospital admission in children and adolescents: retrospective analysis at the University Children's Hospital in the Slovak Republic.

Background: Few epidemiological studies have investigated the problem of children and adolescents taken to hospital with acute alcohol intoxication.

Methods: We reviewed the medical records of children and adolescents aged
Results: 537 patients (273 boys and 264 girls) were admitted to the hospital with intentional acute alcohol intoxication (1.

Delivery as a "physiological stress" and its influence on some parameters of oxidative stress.

Objectives: In healthy term newborns (HTN) to determine on the 1st and 5th day of life the activity of total antioxidant capacity (TAS), malondialdehyde (MDA), superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GPX) and to compare the values with the group of asphyxiated term newborns (ATN).

Patients/methods: The series consisted of 15 HTN and 24 ATN. In both groups TAS, MDA, GPX and SOD were investigated.

A successful therapy of renovascular hypertension.

Authors describe a rare cause, diagnostic difficulties and successful therapy of renovascular hypertension in a 12 year-old girl caused by anular stenosis of the intrarenal arterial branch. Activation of the system renin-angiotensin (RAS) is found in all forms of renovascular hypertension at the beginning. Etiologically, stenosis in childhood is caused mostly by renal artery dysplasia, affecting mostly media, and fibromuscular dysplasia.

Delivery as "physiological stress" and its influence on liver enzymatic systems in asphyxial newborns.

A new aspect on delivery as "physiological stress" provides the possibility for assessing its influence in asphyxial newborns. Asphyxia is characterized by hypoxic ischemic damage of organs with subsequent damage due to reoxygenation and reperfusion. The aim of the study was to compare the activity of liver enzymatic systems of healthy newborns with asphyxial newborns.

Children in the focus of the attention of pediatricians and pediatric surgeons.

Children represent the future of humankind. They are the bridge to our immortality. They get the attention of everybody who wants to help and do something for them.