Endoscopic findings of the digestive tract secondary to caustic ingestion in children seen at the Emergency Department.

Background: Caustic ingestion in pediatrics is a common cause of visits to the Emergency Department. An indiscriminate use of cleaning chemicals and an easy access to them are determining factors for these injuries.

Population And Methods: Descriptive, analytical study.

Treatment of choledochal cyst in a pediatric population. A single institution experience of 15-years. Case series.

Background: Choledochal cyst (CC) is a rare congenital anomaly of the bile duct that approximately 75% of the patients are diagnosed in childhood. Without a standardized surgical procedure for the biliary reconstruction, we present our experience over the last 15 years and show the differences between the biliary reconstructions techniques in our population.

Methods: We did a retrospective hospital archive search for patients admitted to the pediatric surgery department with the diagnosis of a choledochal cyst from January 2000 to June 2015.

Abnormal oral-pharyngeal swallowing as cause of morbidity and early death in Stüve-Wiedemann syndrome.

Stüve-Wiedemann syndrome (SWS) is an autosomal recessive bone dysplasia (OMIM #601559) characterized by bowing of long bones, camptodactyly, respiratory insufficiency, hyperthermic episodes, and neonatal death from hyperthermia or apnea. We describe two female siblings with SWS born from consanguineous Gypsy parents. For a further delineation of SWS, we report hypothyroidism and ectopic thyroid as part of its phenotypic spectrum.

[Efficacy of two Helicobacter pylori eradication treatments in children with recurrent abdominal pain].

Objective: To compare clinical and bacteriologic efficacy of two therapeutic trials to eradicate Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) in two series of pediatric patients with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP).

Materials And Methods: n = 36 children with RAP-associated H.

Changing trends in prevalence, morbidity, and lethality in persistent diarrhea of infancy during the last decade in Mexico.

Background: Persistent diarrhea (PD) of infancy has incurred high morbidity and lethality. However, decrease in its prevalence, morbidity, and lethality appeared to occur progressively throughout the last decade of the twentieth century. Our objective in this study was to compare prevalence, lethality, and morbidity of infants and children with PD managed in a pediatric referral hospital.