Preventing Unplanned Perioperative Hypothermia in Children.

Unplanned perioperative hypothermia is a common surgical risk. Unplanned hypothermia is defined as a body temperature below 36° C (96.8° F) during any phase of the perioperative period.

Effect of calcium and vitamin D supplementation on bone mineral density in children with inflammatory bowel disease.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of calcium and vitamin D2 supplementation on bone mineral density (BMD) in children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Patients And Methods: This was an open-label, prospective study conducted over a 12-month period. Seventy-two patients were divided into 2 groups based on lumbar spine areal BMD (L2-4 aBMD).

Peripheral blood intracellular cytokine analysis in children newly diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease.

Patterns of cytokine profiles have emerged for different forms of inflammatory bowel disease with a predominance of type 1 cytokines in patients with Crohn disease and type 2 cytokine expression in patients with ulcerative colitis. Most of these studies have involved older patients with long-standing disease or after various therapeutic interventions, and patterns of cytokine expression were hypothesized to be influenced by these factors. To evaluate for these possibilities, we studied 23 patients (15 boys) with newly diagnosed Crohn disease (n = 14) or ulcerative colitis.