[Turner's syndrome, diagnosis and therapeutical approach].

Turner's Syndrome is a rare chromosomal disorder of females (1 : 2500) characterized by short stature and the lack of sexual development at puberty. Other physical features may include a webbed neck, heart defects, kidney abnormalities, and/or various other malformations. Diagnosis should be considered in individuals with primary or secondary amenorrhea and adult women with unexplained infertility, particularly when such individuals also are short in stature.

[New therapeutic strategies in bronchial asthma].

Bronchial asthma becomes one of the most frequent respiratory diseases of the childhood. Progresses of the last decade did not interfere with long term prognosis of the disease. New therapeutic researches try to stop the chronic inflammatory respiratory mechanism: cytokines, leukotrienes, transcription factors, IgE.

[Clinical and therapeutical correlations in Moraxella catarrhalis respiratory infection in children].

In childhood recurrent respiratory infection with Moraxella catarrhalis have high incidence demonstrated by multiple risk factors association (atopia, immunsuppresion, chronic diseases, malnutrition) that makes this common bacteria pathogen. The study was carried on 56 children (0-16 years old). Authors try to find correlations between clinical signs and microbiological markers that determine recurrent respiratory infection with Moraxella catarrhalis.

[An etiopathogenic and therapeutic update in chronic viral hepatitis in children].

The author presents the new prospects in the treatment of the chronic viral hepatitis in children, which is an up-to-date-problem in the last decade. There are emphasized the present aspects concerning the etiopathogenesis of the disease, which represent a constellation of achievements as a scientific foundation for the therapy: new notions about the viral genome, the mutant viruses, the host's cell-mediated immunity. There are reminded the classifications of the chronic hepatitis and especially the new one of the chronic type B hepatitis, the carries state risks, the vertical transmission from mother to child as an epidemiological source, valid in our country, too.

[A case of the prune belly syndrome].

Rare heterogeneous syndrome, the prune belly syndrome was first described in 1839 and associates the agenesis of the abdominal musculature with other complex malformations of the genitourinary tract and bilateral cryptorchidism. In this plurimalformative context, the main evolutive problem is represented by the chronic renal insufficiency. The work presents a new case of prune belly syndrome which through its clinical evolutive aspects joins the category of classical cases published in literature.

[The newborn infant of a diabetic mother].

The authors present a case of a newborn of a diabetic mother with fatal outcome in the 6th day postnatally. The principal troubles in newborn were: fetal macrosomy, hypoglycemia and a lot of congenital malformations. They discuss the relationship between the maternal alteration of hydrocarbonate metabolism and the troubles in fetus and newborn.