[Acute rhinoethmoiditis with periorbital cellulitis in a newborn].

Rhinoethmoiditis at newborn is rare. Possible complications include orbital abscess, orbital cellulitis, intracranial complications. Inflammation with orbital and periorbital acute onset at newborn present to clinician as therapeutical dilemma.

[The effects on growth velocity of inhaled corticosteroids therapy in children with asthma].

Introduction: Studies have demonstrated growth suppressive effects in case of use of inhaled corticosteroids therapy.

Objective: To assess growth velocity during 12 months of inhaled corticosteroids therapy in children with persistent asthma.

Methods: Measurements of height were performed in the study group including 109 children with mild and moderately severe, persistent asthma, after 12 month with low or medium doses of either beclomethasone dipropionate or fluticasone propionate.

[Obesity in children: new controversies and present prevention measures].

The authors realise a synthesis on classical data and recent pathogenic explanations in childhood obesity. The obesity is a nutritional disorder of great interest nowadays and surpasses the incidence of the major problem of pediatrics until now--the malnutrition. There is documented data concerning the global incidence of obesity which is continuously growing when it comes to children.

[Dissociated horizontal deviation--a diagnostic problem in strabismus].

Dissociated horizontal deviation (DHD) is one of the four components of the dissociated strabismus complex which also includes dissociated vertical deviation, dissociated torsional deviation and manifest-latent or latent nystagmus. These dissociated deviations may co-exist with concomitant strabismus (exotropia, esotropia, hyperopia). Sometimes it is difficult to make the difference between dissociated and non-dissociated component of the deviation.

[Epidemiological, clinical and urographic aspects on a historical sample of patients Wilms tumor].

While the benign renal tumors are exceptional at children, the malign tumors are relatively frequent and they represent the great majority of abdominal tumors on childhood age. In our country, the nephroblastoma is the second in the rate of frequency, after the lymphoma. The radiological investigations play an important role when establishing the diagnostic of Wilms tumor.

[Urticaria in children--the current etiopathogenetic and clinico-therapeutic aspects].

The authors present actualized data regarding urticaria, which is frequently encountered in children. The first part presents the etiology, pathogenesis and pathological aspects of urticaria. Next, are discussed clinical and paraclinical data, useful for the diagnosis.

[Preliminary considerations in a semiquantitative microbiological study in catheter-related infection].

In the interval September 1993-April 1994, 38 catheters from children admitted to the Children's Hospital of Iaşi were examined microscopically and by semiquantitative culture, in the children with sepsis and/or positive catheters hemocultures being performed concurrently. Twenty eight of these catheters proved to be sterile, the other 10 being positive to coagulase-negative staphylococci, gram-negative bacilli from Klebsiella-Enterobacter group, Candida species, the number of colonies/plate varying generally in concordance with the microscopic positive score. Of the 6 cases with > 50 colonies/plate, 3 progressed to septicemia, their hemocultures being positive to the same bacterial species demonstrating an identical sensitivity spectrum to antibiotics (2 cases with Enterobacter cloacae, 1 case with Klebsiella oxytoca).

[The indications and limits for echographic studies in pediatrics].

Echography is an non-invasive investigation with many advantages, but also with its limits. It allows diagnosis in numerous diseases and in other illness may suggest the choice of the next investigations, thus shortening considerably the diagnosis steps. The information provided by the echographic examination must be correlated with the clinical findings and other data furnished by the laboratory tests or other imagistic investigations, to obtain an integrated holistic evaluation, able to give a complete and correct final diagnosis.

[The immotile cilia syndrome. A case report].

A case of congenital bronchiectasis associated with hypoplasia [correction of hyperplasia] of maxillary sinuses and sinusitis in a 3-year-old boy is presented. The ultramicroscopic examination of nasal mucosa showed abnormalities in the ultrastructure of the mucociliary system (spare cilia, absence of basal corpuscles, cytoplasmatic projections) clearly suggesting the ciliary immotility syndrome.