[Eating behaviors and emotional symptoms in childhood obesity: a cross-sectional exploratory study using self-report questionnaires in 63 children and adolescents].

Objectives: The main objective was to assess emotional symptoms (anxiety and depression) and to describe eating behaviours in a population of children and adolescents consulting for obesity. The second objective was to examine the interactions between these parameters.

Method: A cross-sectional exploratory study in obese children and adolescents was conducted using self-report questionnaires for depression (Child Depression Inventory), anxiety (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children), binge eating (Binge Eating Scale adapted for children), emotional, external, and restrained eating (Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire adapted for children) in obese children and adolescents, from both sexes, aged 7-15 years old.

Abnormal esophageal motility in children with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.

Background & Aims: Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome, an unexplained disorder of the central control of breathing that may reflect widespread dysfunction of brainstem structures, is regarded as a form of neuro cristopathy. Because swallowing-induced peristalsis is centrally controlled and depends on neural crest-derived esophageal innervation, we looked for esophageal dysmotility in patients with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.

Methods: Seven patients without dysphagia or any other upper gastrointestinal tract symptoms were studied prospectively (5 girls and 2 boys; median age, 14 years; range, 11-18 years).

Oroesophageal motor disorders in Pierre Robin syndrome.

Background: Feeding disorders are one of the main clinical features in PRS, which combines a posterior U-shaped cleft palate, retrognathia, and glossoptosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the oral and esophageal motor function of children with PRS without additional neurologic symptoms.

Methods: All children hospitalized with Pierre Robin syndrome either isolated (n = 27) or associated with Stickler syndrome (n = 8) were included.

Manometrical evaluation in visceral neuropathies in children.

Manometrical recordings were made at three levels of the digestive tract in 20 children with chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction (CIPO) defined clinically and histopathologically by deep biopsies showing a neuropathic process. Duodenal manometry showed severe abnormalities with hypomotility in all cases and absence of migrating motor complex in 13 of 20 cases. There was no relation between the histopathologic type and the motility pattern, but the most severe abnormalities were seen in the patients with extensive involvement of the digestive tract and the most severe clinical course.

Duodenal and esophageal manometry in total colonic aganglionosis.

Eleven children with total colonic aganglionosis were studied by esophageal and duodenal manometry. They were separated into two groups: group 1, with ileal involvement, and group 2, without ileal involvement. The results of the digestive motility studies were compared with the extent of ileal involvement of the aganglionosis and with the amount of artificial nutritional support required.

[Antipoliomyelitis vaccination of young children with a new inactivated vaccine. Serological results].

An inactivated trivalent poliovirus vaccine, prepared on simian line-cells (Vero cells), has been injected in 3 doses one month apart in 36 infants, 2 to 11 months old (30 of whom were 2 to 6 months old) to determine its tolerance and antigenic efficacy. Each dose contained 40, 8 and 32 antigenic D units for the 3 types respectively. DPT vaccine was injected simultaneously in another part of the body.

Seroimmunity following vaccination in infants by an inactivated poliovirus vaccine prepared on Vero cells.

An inactivated poliovirus vaccine prepared from cultures of Vero cells has been tested on 61 infants from two to 11 months of age (mean age, 4.3 months) for tolerance and serologic potency. Three doses of vaccine were given one month apart at the same time that diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine was injected at another body site.