Successful Treatment of Rapidly Progressive Interstitial Lung Disease in Juvenile Dermatomyositis.

Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is a rare systemic autoimmune disease characterized by cutaneous findings, muscle inflammation, and vasculopathy. Patients with antimelanoma differentiation associated gene 5 (anti-MDA5) JDM may have subtle muscle weakness, absence of pathognomonic rashes, and more polyarthritis and ulcerative skin lesions when compared with other JDM subtypes. Although there is a known association of rapidly progressive interstitial lung disease (RP-ILD) in patients with anti-MDA5 dermatomyositis, few case reports describe this association in the pediatric literature.

Steering the Titanic: One tertiary care children's hospital's experience navigating safe sleep for hospitalized infants.

Background: Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) is the leading cause of death in infants 1 month to 1 year of age in the United States. Despite extensive efforts in research and public education, rates of sleep-related infant death have plateaued since the late-1990s, largely due to unsafe sleep practices and environments.

Local Problem: A multidisciplinary team assessed our institution's compliance with its own infant safe sleep policy.

Reasons and predictors for early termination of pediatric polysomnography: one children's hospital's experience.

Study Objectives: We sought to identify reasons for early polysomnography termination in pediatric patients.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed all studies conducted at the Pediatric Sleep Center at UT Southwestern Medical Center from January 1, 2017, through December 31, 2019, that were terminated before study completion. We investigated reasons for early termination and gathered characteristics such as age, sex, presence of neurocognitive impairment, payor status, seasonal variability, and testing site location.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children With Autism.

Study Objectives: To describe the demographic and clinical characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) referred for polysomnography (PSG) and to look for predictors of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and severe OSA in these children.

Methods: This is a retrospective case series of children ages 2 to 18 years who underwent PSG between January 2009 and February 2015. Children were excluded if they had major comorbidities, prior tonsillectomy, or missing data.

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Risk for Sudden Unexpected Infant Death in Children of Adolescent Mothers: A Qualitative Study.

Objective: To investigate practices, knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs regarding infant sleep among adolescent mothers, a demographic at high risk for sudden unexpected infant death, and to identify novel public health interventions targeting the particular reasons of this population.

Study Design: Seven targeted focus groups including 43 adolescent mothers were conducted at high school daycare centers throughout Colorado. Focus groups were recorded, transcribed, validated, and then analyzed in NVivo 10.