Hospital-acquired malnutrition in children with mild clinical conditions.

Objective: Little is known about the incidence and risk factors of hospital-acquired malnutrition in children with mild illness (grade 1 clinical conditions) and its timing of occurrence. The aim of this study was to recognize any early stage of denutrition and possible risk factors leading to nutritional deterioration in children hospitalized due to mild clinical conditions.

Methods: Four hundred ninety-six children (age 1-192 mo) with mild clinical conditions were studied.

A new case of combined factor V and factor VIII deficiency further suggests that the LMAN1 M1T mutation is a frequent cause in Italian patients.

Combined factor V and factor VIII deficiency (F5F8D) is an extremely rare worldwide congenital hemorrhagic disorder that is more prevalent in the Mediterranean area. We report the clinical presentations and the identification of a LMAN1 mutation in a 3-year-old Italian boy who was diagnosed with F5F8D. The mutation identified (M1T) has already been found in several Italian patients.

[Meckel's diverticulum in childhood. The authors' own experience].

Meckel's diverticulum occurs in approximately 2 percent of the population and may present at any age. Although Meckel's diverticulum may produce an intestinal obstruction or perforation, simulating an appendicitis, hemorrhage is its most important clinical presentation. From 1989 to 1994, Meckel's diverticulum was discovered in ten children at laparotomy.

[Cardiovascular complications of Kawasaki disease: clinical cases].

The Authors report the cases of Kawasaki disease (K.D.) observed between July 1988 and october 1991 in OO.

[Symptomatic renal candidiasis with multiple mycetomas: a case report].

Candida albicans is the most prevalent and pathogenic fungal infection of the urinary tract. Although fungal urinary tract infection occur less frequently than bacterial infections, their incidence has increased during the last decades. Parenteral nutrition, corticosteroids, immunosuppressive drugs and prolonged antibiotic therapy are often predisposing factors.

[Respiratory function involvement in intestinal chronic inflammatory disease: description of a case].

In the process of chronic intestinal inflammatory diseases the involvement of other organs and apparatuses is frequent. The respiratory apparatus, however, is not so frequently concerned as other organs, especially with regard to the paediatric age. The rarity of clinical evidences concerning the respiratory apparatus contrasts with the anomalies of the lung functionality tests described in literature.

[Clinico-instrumental diagnosis of adrenal hematoma].

The authors relate about 3 cases of newborn babies with adrenal haemorrhage. The only clinical sign found was the palpation of the lowered kidney. The diagnosis was made after an abdominal ultrasonography which turned out to be the decisive instrumental analysis.