[Music and singing in neonatal and paediatric intensive care].

A neonatal and paediatric intensive care unit studied the benefit of music therapy for children and their parents. The teams set up a project around singing thanks to the intervention of a musician. The babies, their parents and the caregivers appreciate these moments which promote the wellbeing of all involved.

Spontaneous pneumothorax: Diagnosis may be a click away.

We report the case of a 14-year-old boy presenting to our unit because of a spontaneous left pneumothorax. Over the 3 preceding weeks, he described a rhythmic precordial click and the sensation of bubbles floating inside his chest. This noise, audible to the patient and his family without a medical device, proved to be the Hamman sign, a rare although typical sound formerly related to pneumomediastinum that can be exceptionally encountered in isolated left pneumothorax.

[Airbag-related death in a toddler. A poorly known danger?].

We report the case of an 8-month-old baby killed by the deployment of an airbag. He was correctly positioned, in a safety seat designed for his age class, on the passenger side, and rear-facing. The accident occurred at low speed, on the left front of the car, without provoking any harm to the mother who was driving the vehicle, but the impact led to airbag deployment.

[Extrarespiratory manifestations of Mycoplasma pneumoniae: a case report].

Extrapulmonary manifestations of Mycoplasma pneumoniae are sometimes severe and may even be life-threatening. A 10-year-old patient was hospitalized due to a flu-like illness lasting 48 h with impaired general condition, after an extended stay in Africa. There was an inflammatory syndrome associated with hyponatremia, but malaria was negative.

[Candida albicans endocarditis after pulmonary artery banding].

Endocarditis is uncommon in infants and is exceptionally related to Candida albicans on pulmonary banding. We report on a case in a 7-month-old infant who had pulmonary artery banding for a ventricular septal defect and who presented with candidal endocarditis. Banding was chosen because of the patient's poor trophic and unstable status, which could be risky for surgery involving extracorporeal circulation.

[Cases of imported cholera in France, summer 2005. A. Tarantola for the incident management teams].

Cholera is a bacterial infection, which causes digestive symptoms and massive diarrhoea. It may lead to dehydration and death if appropriate medical management is not rapidly initiated. Most cases of infection by choleric vibrio, however, remain symptom-free or may mimic common gastroenteritis.

[Neonatal nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis].

Unlabelled: Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis is not widely known in neonates.

Case Reports: We report three new cases which illustrate some specific aspects of this pathology. Respiratory distress with severe pulmonary hypertension, systemic hypotension and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy in a full-term newborn were characteristic findings.

[Radiotherapy for a massive hepatic hemangioma in a six-week-old infant].

We report the case of a six-week-old baby who underwent irradiation for a giant hepatic hemangioma. After medical treatment including corticosteroids and interferon, no response was observed. She progressed to respiratory failure, requiring the use of mechanical ventilation.

Abdominal lymphatic dysplasia and 22q11 microdeletion.

We report the case of a child with 22q11 microdeletion who presented with abdominal lymphatic dysplasia resulting in exsudative enteropathy. This primitive and localized lymphatic malformation is consistent with the vascular theory in the velocardiofacial syndrome.