[Correlation between essential hypertension and carotid intima media thickness in children].

Unlabelled: Essential hypertension is no longer un uncommon disease in children. This study try to determine if carotid intima thickness is increased in children with essential hypertension.

Material And Method: This subjects are compared with control group with normal blood pressure.

Increased arterial stiffness in children on haemodialysis.

Background: Measures of aortic stiffness--aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) and augmentation index (AIx)--have been shown to be powerful predictors of survival in adult haemodialysis (HD) patients. Very few data have been reported regarding arterial stiffness in paediatric renal populations.

Methods: PWV and aortic AIx were determined from contour analysis of arterial waveforms recorded by applanation tonometry using a SphygmoCor device in 14 children on HD (age = 14.

[Global survival rate calculated by Kaplan-Mayer method in children with malignant lymphomas].

The Kaplan Maier method is being used in oncology in order to calculate the survival rate during/at the end of the study. The purpose of this study is the assessment of the survival period referred to the clinical and histopathological state, laboratory findings, the diagnostic and treatment time. The material of the study is a LIMCO group (n = 308 cases) hospitalized in the Oncology Department of the Children's Clinical and Emergency Hospital "Sf.

[Primary obstructive megaureter- diagnosis and treatment].

The authors have treated 13 cases of primary obstructive megaureter (POM) in children, presenting without vesicoureteric reflux. The diagnostic possibilities and the surgical approach options are discussed. Both Cohen and Leadbetter--Politano uretero-vesical reimplantation techniques proved to be successful in this series.

[The morphofunctional characteristics of cardiac involvement in arterial hypertension in children].

Unlabelled: The aim of the study was to investigate the main morphofunctional aspects of the cardiac involvement in systemic hypertension in child.

Methods: 48 children with aged ranging between 2 months-18 years, diagnosed with systemic hypertension (SH), were followed up more than 1 year (with treatment) and investigated by clinical examination and noninvasive methods. The etiology of SH was: * secondary SH (40 cases): acute (8) and chronic nephropathy (20), 13 cases being dialysed; coarctation of aorta (10) and pheochromocytoma (2 cases) and * essential SH (8 cases): "borderline" type and also confirmed.