[Quantitative chloramphenicol detection in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of infants with bacterial meningitis].

Twenty-six meningitic infants aged less than one year were administered daily oral or intravenous doses from 44 to 170 mg chloramphenicol per kg body weight. Serum levels measured were 5.4 to 55.

[Ultrasonic evaluation of the upper abdomen in cystic fibrosis].

Abdominal sonography should compulsory be used in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). It is not difficult to detect early morphologic changes at liver, gall-bladder, pancreas, spleen, and vessels by ultrasound. As a non-invasive method sonography is a very useful tool for a comprehensive special care of outpatients with CF.

[Therapy of pediatric anorectal prolapse].

No generally valid and accepted views, applicable to all severities, have so far existed regarding aetiopathogenesis and therapeutic strategies for surgical approach to anorectal prolapse in childhood. More ground has been assumed in recent years by sclerosing therapy. The injections therapy has proved to be highly suitable for severity stages One and Two and for Type I according to Reifferscheid and Altemeier.