Pediatric Visceral Leishmaniasis Caused by Leishmania infantum in Northern Cyprus.

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a vector-borne disease widespread in the Mediterranean basin, including Cyprus. During the last decades no cases were notified from northern Cyprus, but herein three cases of VL (female: 2, male: 1, median age: 24.6 months) diagnosed during their hospital admission between January 2011 and December 2012 are reported.

Significant loss of hepatitis A Ab after allogeneic hematopoietic SCT in pediatric patients.

Loss of specific immunity after hematopoietic SCT (HSCT) is well documented for polio, measles, mumps and tetanus. There are limited studies reporting the loss of Hepatitis A virus immunity and no reports evaluating the effect of donor immunity on Hepatitis A virus (HAV) immunity loss after HSCT. A total of 49 of the 81 patients who received HSCT at the Ankara University Pediatric HSCT Unit from January 1997 to December 2006 had HAV serology tested before HSCT and were evaluated for seroprevalence, and 30 of 49 patients were evaluated for the loss of Ab and for the effect of donor immunity on the loss of HAV Abs.

Obstructive jaundice: an unusual initial manifestation of intra-abdominal non-Hodgkin lymphoma in a child.

Obstructive jaundice is an unusual manifestation of non-Hodgkin lymphomas in children. Although surgical drainage is one of the initial treatment choices in some cases, usually lymphomatous masses rapidly response to chemotherapy and jaundice decreases due to regression of the mass, without any surgical procedure. The authors report the case of a 16-year-old girl who presented with biliary obstruction due to a neoplasm involving the duodenum.