Lethality by pneumonia and factors associated to death.

Objective: To describe the case-fatality rate (CFR) and risk factors of death in children with community-acquired acute pneumonia (CAP) in a pediatric university hospital.

Method: A longitudinal study was developed with prospective data collected from 1996 to 2011. Patients aged 1 month to 12 years were included in the study.

Preoperative pulmonary assessment of children for liver transplantation.

Pulmonary assessment should be part of the preoperative investigation of pediatric patients with chronic liver disease undergoing liver transplantation, as it allows the identification of pulmonary alterations that influence candidacy for transplantation and survival. To describe pulmonary changes found in pediatric patients who were candidates for liver transplantation. Retrospective study of 17 pediatric liver transplant candidates undergoing preoperative pulmonary evaluation assessing pulmonary clinical data, arterial blood gas analysis, CXR, respiratory function test by spirometry, pulmonary scintigraphy, and CEE.