Childhood asthma: mothers' affective attitude, mother-child interaction and children's compliance with medical requirements.

Maternal critical attitude (CA) and negative mother-child verbal interaction in families with an asthmatic child and in controls were investigated in the present study. Twenty-eight children with bronchial asthma (6-13 yr) and 23 healthy children with their mothers participated in the project. Mothers were asked to describe their child (Five Minute Speech Sample; FMSS).

Childhood asthma: paternal critical attitude and father-child interaction.

The study investigated paternal critical attitude (CA) and negative father-child communication in families with an asthmatic child and in controls. Twenty-seven children with bronchial asthma (6-13 yr) and 23 healthy children with their fathers participated in the project. Fathers were asked to describe their child (Five Minute Speech Sample; FMSS).

The syndrome of Klippel-Trenaunay, a polyvalent angiodysplasia.

The syndrome of Klippel and Trenaunay remains basically a venous angiodysplasia. Newer investigative methods have however allowed us to distinguish a polyvalence of the vascular morphology. The basic clinical triad: vascular nevus, varicosities and limb hypertrophy remains the main clinical diagnostic characteristic.