Genital Hair-Thread Tourniquet Syndrome.

Background: Hair-thread tourniquet syndrome is a rare disorder that occurs when a hair or other fiber becomes wrapped around an appendage, resulting in swelling, pain, or even loss of the appendage. Some cases affecting the female genitals have been reported.

Case: The case of a 10-year-old girl with a 3-day history of genital pain is presented.

[Hypotonic-hyporesponsive episode following acellular pertussis vaccination].

The introduction of routine vaccination against whooping cough caused a drastic decline in the incidence of this disease, but remains today a public health problem even in countries with high vaccination coverage. However, with this decrease in cases, there were an emergence of neurological severe adverse events such as the "hypotonic-hyporesponsive episodes" (HHE), characterized by sudden loss of muscle tone associated with poor response to stimuli and skin pallor or cyanosis. The HHE is a rare phenomenon after administration of pertussis vaccine, but it is essential for health workers recognition of such reactions, especially in the 48 hours following vaccination.

Peripheral precocious puberty due to inadvertent exposure to testosterone: case report and review of the literature.

Sexual development in children due to exogenous androgen exposure is rare and sparsely reported. In this paper, we present a new case of peripheral precocious puberty of exogenous origin in an 18-month-old boy due to inadvertent exposure to a testosterone gel used by his father as hormonal replacement therapy. We also review other cases in the literature.

[Sepsis by Leuconostoc spp. in a healthy infant].

Leuconostoc genus, belonging to the lactic acid bacteria group, are Gram-positive bacteria intrinsically resistant to vancomycin, broad distributed in nature and widely used in the food industry. Traditionally considered safe for humans, has recently been implicated in various diseases in susceptible individuals, increasingly isolated and with a broad profile of pathogenicity, and it is now classified as an emerging opportunistic pathogen. Children are particularly vulnerable, especially premature babies and those suffering from severe digestive pathology.