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  • - The WE-ROCK study is a multinational collaboration aimed at improving the management and outcomes of children undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) for acute kidney injury (AKI) and fluid overload (FO).
  • - Conducted over three years across 32 medical centers in seven countries, the study involves a retrospective analysis of nearly 1,000 pediatric patients to understand various factors influencing CRRT outcomes.
  • - This research represents the largest international registry of its kind and aims to shed light on practice variability and potential future interventions to enhance patient care in pediatric critical nephrology.
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Reproducibility of Left Ventricular Dimension Versus Area Versus Volume Measurements in Pediatric Patients With Dilated Cardiomyopathy.

Circ Cardiovasc Imaging

November 2017

From the Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA (E.S.S.T.); New England Research Institutes, Watertown, MA (D.H.-P., M.L., F.T.); Department of Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University, MO (C.K.L.); Department of Pediatrics, New York Presbyterian Medical Center, Columbia University (K.A.); Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA (C.D.-M., S.D.C.); Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, ON, Canada (F.G.); Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC (S.G.M.); Department of Pediatrics, Primary Children's Medical Center, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City (K.M.); Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, CA (S.N.); and Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Children's Hospital of South Carolina, Charleston (C.L.T.).

Background: Multiple echocardiographic methods are used to measure left ventricular size and function. Clinical management is based on individual evaluations and longitudinal trends. The Pediatric Heart Network VVV study (Ventricular Volume Variability) in pediatric patients with dilated cardiomyopathy has reported reproducibility of several of these measures, and how disease state and number of beats impact their reproducibility.

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Background: The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) clinical trials and other studies have demonstrated a relationship between diet and cardiovascular outcomes in adults, yet little is known of this relationship in children. Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with similar increases in hypertension among this population. The purpose of our study was to examine the association between dairy intake and blood pressure (BP) in a cohort of children and adolescents (aged 4-17 years) enrolled in a weight management program.

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