Exhausted and Apoptotic BALF T Cells in Proinflammatory Airway Milieu at Acute Phase of Severe Mycoplasma Pneumoniae Pneumonia in Children.

Severe mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (MPP) in children presents with serious clinical complications. Without proper and prompt intervention, it could lead to deadly consequences. Dynamics of the inflammatory airway milieu and activation status of immune cells were believed to be the hallmark of the pathogenesis and progress of the disease.

Effect of Chinese drugs combining with chemotherapy on quality of life in 146 children with solid tumor.

Objective: To explore the effect of Chinese drugs for supporting essence and strengthening Pi ( SESP) combining with chemotherapy on the quality of life (QOL) in the children with solid tumor.

Methods: Using a digital table, 146 children with solid tumor were randomized into two groups, 77 in the control group and 69 in the treated group. They received conventional chemotherapy, but to the patients in the treated group, SESP were administered additionally.

[Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias in 7 children].

Objective: Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias (IIPs) have been increasing in children in recent years. The type and prognosis of IIPs in children in China has not been clear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the type and prognosis of IIPs in children.

Current state of clinical diagnosis and treatment of infantile cytomegaloviral hepatitis.

Cytomegaloviral hepatitis is an infantile liver disease commonly encountered in China, which could be differentiated into 4 patterns with different clinical conditions. Along with the progress of laboratory diagnostic techniques, multiple diagnostic approaches are available for this disease, but accurate diagnosis can only be made when individual patients' realities are taken into consideration. Clinical treatments are various, and the Western medicine used is mainly anti-viral agents such as Ganciclovir, and so far no unified therapeutic program has been formed.

[Congenital intrapulmonary lymphangioma and pulmonary hemangioma in 5 infants and young children].

Objective: To analyze the clinical, imaging and pathological findings of congenital intrapulmonary lymphangioma and hemangioma in 5 infants and young children.

Method: Data of 3 cases with congenital intrapulmonary lymphangioma and 2 cases with haemangioma were analyzed.

Result: All the 5 cases had cough, difficulty in breathing, cyanosis of lips, and shortness of breath.

[Diagnosis and treatment of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in 21 children with non-hematologic diseases].

Objective: To explore diagnosis and treatments of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) in children with non-hematologic diseases.

Method: Twenty one patients without hematological malignancy were diagnosed with proven or possible IPA from July 2002 to June 2008. The risk factors, clinical manifestations, chest radiographic findings, microbiological and histopathological evidence, diagnostic procedures, treatment and prognosis were retrospectively reviewed.

[Value of serum galactomannan assay in the diagnosis of pediatric invasive pulmonary aspergillosis].

Objective: Galactomannan (GM) is a major aspergilli cell-wall constituent released into circulation during the early stage of invasive disease, and can be detected. Many studies suggest that serum galactomannan assay has an excellent sensitivity and specificity for the early diagnosis of adult invasive aspergillosis (IA). However, there have been few studies on serum galactomannan assay in pediatric patients.