Hyponatremic dehydration as a presentation of cystic fibrosis.

Background: The purpose of this study is to present a case report of a child with hyponatremic dehydration diagnosed after CF and to review the cases of 13 patients with CF who had the same initial presentation in our hospital.

Methods: This report reviewed the clinical records of children diagnosed with CF to ascertain the prevalence of metabolic alkalosis with electrolyte depletion as the presentation of CF. It also used sweat tests to diagnose a child with CF.

Acute viral gastroenteritis: proportion and clinical relevance of multiple infections in Spanish children.

Dual infections associated with acute infectious diarrhoea and its microbiological, epidemiological and clinical findings have been evaluated in patients selected from a comprehensive survey of children under 4 years old, admitted to hospital emergency rooms from October 1996 to November 1997. A total of 820 children (433 males and 387 females) were enrolled. Stools were tested for rotavirus, adenovirus, astrovirus and bacterial enteropathogens.