Epistaxis in children and adolescents with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.

Objectives/hypothesis: Our objective was to describe epistaxis onset and severity in pediatric hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) patients and study the cumulative incidence of epistaxis by age of onset within each genetic subtype.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort chart review.

Methods: Charts were reviewed of patients age 0 to 18 years with a clinical or genetic diagnosis of HHT who were evaluated at a tertiary multidisciplinary HHT clinic from January 2010 to June 2016.

Embolisation of an iatrogenic pulmonary artery pseudoaneurysm.

A 62-year-old woman with idiopathic cardiomyopathy and class IIIB/stage C heart failure sustained right pulmonary artery injury from a Swan-Ganz catheter during a pretransplant work up. Postprocedure, it was noted that the patient's segmental pulmonary artery catheter was wedged for an unclear period of time. The patient developed a small volume of blood-tinged sputum and a chest CT revealed a 1.

Complex nontuberculous mycobacterial cervicofacial lymphadenitis: What is the optimal approach?

Objectives/hypothesis: Assess the role of combined antimicrobial and surgical therapy for difficult-to-treat nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) lesions of the head and neck in children.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort.

Methods: Retrospective review of pediatric head and neck NTM lesions at a tertiary children's hospital from 1999 to 2012.