Body composition in a pediatric population with type-1 diabetes - The importance of planned physical exercise.

Objective And Methods: This study aimed to assess the body composition of pediatric patients with type-1 diabetes (T1D) in a Portuguese pediatric endocrinology/diabetic clinic, using the InBody 570 bioimpedance system. Preschool children (<6 years) and those recently diagnosed (<6 months) were excluded.

Results: The study included 78 patients (53% female).

Management of newborns at increased risk for early-onset sepsis in perinatology department.

Introduction: Assessing newborn infants at risk for early-onset sepsis (EOS) is a common clinical task conducted by pediatricians. A change in the internal protocol for managing neonates at risk was implemented in 2016. Unlike the previous protocol, which determined laboratory testing in asymptomatic newborns in the presence of one risk factor (RF) for sepsis; the new protocol advocates the screening in the presence of at least two RF.

Antituberculosis Drug-Induced Liver Injury with Autoimmune Features: Facing Diagnostic and Treatment Challenges.

The authors present a case report of antituberculosis drug-induced liver injury that offered diagnostic challenges (namely, the possibility of drug-induced autoimmune hepatitis) and treatment difficulties.

Meningoradiculopathy Associated with Human Herpesvirus 7-A Virus with Potential to Cause Severe Neurologic Disease with Sequelae.

We present a case report of a meningoradiculopathy associated with human herpesvirus 7, with long-term motor neurologic sequelae. It is important to consider human herpesvirus 7 as a potential pathogen of severe neurologic disease and sequelae in immunocompetent children, especially in older patients presenting neurologic signs.

Acute mononeuropathy in a child with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Introduction: Neuropathy is a frequent complication of diabetes mellitus (DM), increasing with the duration of the disease, poor glycemic control and advanced age. Acute presentation of a neuropathy in the setting of a newly diagnosed type 1 DM is rare and holds a diagnostic challenge.

Case Report: A 10-year-old girl, presented at the emergency service with complaints of polydipsia, polyuria, asthenia and weight lost over the last 15 days, accompanied by difficulties in flexing the right foot, during the previous week.