Late-term cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.

Background: Cardiac involvement in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children may have a spectrum ranging from mild disease to severe heart failure due to fulminant myocarditis. Cardiac involvement usually resolves after clinical recovery. However, the adverse effects of myocarditis on cardiac function after recovery are not fully known.

Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Single-center Experience.

Aim And Objective: To examine the clinical characteristics, indications, and complications of patients undergoing therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) in our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).

Materials And Methods: Patients who underwent therapeutic plasma exchange between January 2018 and January 2020 in the PICU were included in the study. Demographic, clinical, and laboratory data of patients were obtained retrospectively from medical records.

Comparison of the value of immature retyculocyte and immature platelet in the diagnosıs of sepsis.

Background: Sepsis is one of the causes of pre-treatment morbidity and mortality in the pediatric age group. In the present study, we investigated the place of the immature granulocyte percentage, (IG) immature reticulocyte fraction (IRF), and immature platelet fraction (IPF) in the diagnosis of sepsis.

Methods: Complete blood count, C-reactive protein, (CRP) procalcitonin (PCT) and blood cultures were measured in 125 critical patients who were followed-up in the intensive care unit with the suspicion of sepsis and 65 healthy children between 2017 and 2019.

Comparison of vena cava distensibility index and pulse pressure variation for the evaluation of intravascular volume in critically ill children.

Objective: In this study, the authors aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the vena cava distensibility index and pulse pressure variation as dynamic parameters for estimating intravascular volume in critically ill children.

Methods: Patients aged 1 month to 18 years, who were hospitalized in the present study's pediatric intensive care unit, were included in the study. The patients were divided into two groups according to central venous pressure: hypovolemic (< 8 mmHg) and non-hypovolemic (central venous pressure ≥ 8 mmHg) groups.

A multicentered study on efficiency of noninvasive ventilation procedures (SAFE-NIV).

Background/aim: To characterize the clinical course of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) and high flow humidified nasal cannula ventilation (HFNC) procedures; perform risk analysis for ventilation failure.

Material And Methods: This prospective, multi-centered, observational study was conducted in 352 PICU admissions (1 month-18 years) between 2016 and 2017. SPSS-22 was used to assess clinical data, define thresholds for ventilation parameters and perform risk analysis.

Outcomes and prognostic factors for pediatric cancer patients admitted to an intensive care unit in a university hospital.

Background And Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the factors predicting Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) mortality and the outcomes in cancer patients admitted to PICU.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective study in 48 consecutive cancer patients admitted to the PICU between January 1, 2015 and January 1, 2018. A total of 48 patients (21 males and 27 females) were enrolled in this study.

Could you say that was an atrial flutter or not?

Özsoylu S, Akyıldız BN, Dursun A, Pamukçu Ö. Could you say that was an atrial flutter or not? Turk J Pediatr 2019; 61: 608-610. Muscle-tremor artefact is a potential cause of misdiagnosis of atrial arrhythmias on electrocardiography (ECG) monitoring.

Ogilvie syndrome presenting with septic shock.

Özsoylu S, Akyıldız BN, Dursun A. Ogilvie syndrome presenting with septic shock. Turk J Pediatr 2018; 60: 225-227.

Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and mean platelet volume can be useful markers to predict sepsis in children.

Objectives: Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR) and Mean Platelet Volume (MPV) have been found to be useful indexes for the diagnosis of sepsis in adults. However, the knowledge of their roles and cut-off values in pediatric patients is limited. The primary objective of this study was to assess the ability of NLR and MPV to predict sepsis in children.

Evaluating the basic life support knowledge among schoolteachers: A cross-sectional survey in Kayseri, Turkey.

Dursun A, Özsoylu S, Emeklioğlu B, Akyıldız BN. Evaluating the basic life support knowledge among schoolteachers: A cross-sectional survey in Kayseri, Turkey. Turk J Pediatr 2018; 60: 702-708.

A fatal case caused by massive honey bee stings.

Bee venom is a complex substance which acts in different ways; local or systemic anaphylaxis associated with IgE and direct toxic effects of the large volume of injected venom. We report a 10- year-old boy who was the vulnerable of 5989 honey bee attacks. To the best of our knowledge, this case had the ultimate number of honey bee stings in the literature, until now.

Intracranial hemorrhage in infants as a serious, and preventable consequence of late form of vitamin K deficiency: a selfie picture of Turkey, strategies for tomorrow.

Purpose: Vitamin K deficiency bleeding is one of the most common causes of acquired hemostatic disorder in early infancy. Although vitamin K is practiced routinely after every birth in Turkey, children with type of vitamin K deficiency bleedings (L-VKDB) can be encountered. We aimed to evaluate the clinical features of the children with L-VKDB reported from Turkey.