Does recurrent sinusitis lead to a sinusitis remodeling of the upper airways in asthmatic children with chronic rhinitis?

Background: There is a growing recognition that some patients with long-standing asthma may possess a component of irreversible airflow obstruction due to airway remodeling. The underlying chronic inflammation has been implicated as the cause of this process. In the upper airways, the inflammation presents itself with symptoms of chronic rhinitis, leading to recurrent sinusitis, in some patients.

Hematuria with mumps infection.

Two cases with macroscopic hematuria as complication of acute mumps infection is reported. The patients have neither been vaccinated against mumps nor had mumps infection earlier. Macroscopic hematuria resolved spontaneously and renal functions did not deteriorate in both the patients.

Varicella vaccination in children with steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome.

We have studied serological and clinical response to live, attenuated varicella zoster virus (VZV) vaccine (Varilrix, SmithKline Beecham) in 20 patients with steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome (SSNS) in remission and 22 normal controls who had no history of varicella and no detectable antibody to VZV. Nephrotic patients included 15 boys and 5 girls, with a mean age of 4.7 years (range 2-11.