Incidence, Paris classification, and follow-up in a nationwide incident cohort of pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate the incidence, baseline disease characteristics, and disease location based on the Paris classification in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in the Hungarian nationwide inception cohort. In addition, 1-year follow-up with therapy was analyzed.

Methods: From January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2009, newly diagnosed pediatric patients with IBD were prospectively registered.

[Long-term follow up study of children with celiac disease].

27 long term monitored coeliac children were assessed. The average length of follow-up was 6.4 years, the average age of the children was 11.

[Current diagnostic method for saccharose-isomaltose malabsorption].

The authors present the cases of 4 children who suffered from saccharose-isomaltose malabsorption. The clinical symptoms developed following artificial feeding. The diagnosis was made by the histological examination of small intestine samples and with the simultaneous measurement of disaccharide enzyme activity.

[Demonstration of antibodies against gliadin using an immunofluorescence method in childhood celiac disease].

IgA and IgG type antibodies against gliadin were demonstrated in 396 serum samples of 350 patients with immunofluorescence method. The procedure was used in cases of clinically suspected celiac disease and for the control of the diet of patients with diagnosed celiac disease. The sensitivity of the patient material was 83% in the case of antibodies against IgA and 85% with antibodies against IgG.

Comparison of ketotifen and DSCG in treatment of food allergy in children.

The authors treated 17 food allergic, 2-14 year old children with chemoprophylactic drugs. The patients got either ketotifen or DSCG in random allocated for 4 weeks and thereafter a washout period of 2 weeks separated the trial period of the other drug. Oral challenge with the food was performed before the trial period and after a 4 week lasting elimination diet on the last day of each treatment.

[Mould infection causing obstructive bronchitis. Diagnostik and therapeutic approaches (author's transl)].

The authors compared the results of mycologic examinations of asthmatic and control patient's throat. Fungi other than Candida were cultivated from the throat in 15% of asthmatic children and 3% of controls. In secrets from the lower respiratory tract gained by bronchoscopy, laryngoscopy, or through tracheostomy there were moulds in 34% among the asthmatics and in 15% of the other cases.