Persistent diarrhea: 15 years experience at a tertiary care hospital.

Objective: To determine the risk factors, causative enteric pathogens, final diagnosis and treatment outcomes of persistent diarrhea in children.

Material And Method: A retrospective study of the patients who had diarrheal symptoms for at least 14 days diagnosed as persistent diarrhea (PD) and admitted at QSNICH during January 1997 and December 2011. Demographic data, risk factors, causative enteric pathogens, management and outcome were reviewed.

Clinical features of gastrointestinal salmonellosis in children in Bangkok, Thailand.

This retrospective descriptive study was conducted at Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health (QSNICH), Bangkok, Thailand to describe the clinical features of gastrointestinal salmonellosis in children. The medical records of 134 patients admitted to QSNICH in 2009 who had a positive stool culture for Salmonella spp were reviewed. Demographic, clinical, laboratory, treatment, culture and antimicrobial sensitivity data were collected and analyzed.

Hepatocellular carcinoma in children presents with massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a very rare pediatric tumor. The incidence is 0.5-1.

Eosinophilic gastrointestinal disease: analysis of sixteen cases from ten years experience in Thailand.

Objective: To study eosinophilic gastrointestinal disease (EGIDs) in children concerning the clinical presentations, diagnostic methods and results of treatment.

Material And Method: A retrospective study of EGIDs was done from January 2000 to December 2009. All patients diagnosed as EGIDs according to gastrointestinal symptoms combined with eosinophilic infiltration in mucosal, muscular or serosal layer of involvement.

Gastrointestinal manifestations in severe strongyloidiasis: report of 3 cases and literature review.

We report here three cases of severe strongyloidiasis in normal and immunocompromised hosts. The first was a patient with a normal immune system who presented with acute severe abdominal pain. The second and third patients were immunocompromised due to steroid and chemotherapy treatment of underlying diseases.