Course of acute nonspecific mesenteric lymphadenitis: single-center experience.

Unlabelled: Available reports dealing with acute nonspecific mesenteric lymphadenitis do not address the total duration of symptoms. However, it is commonly assumed a time for recovery ≤ 4 weeks. The purpose of this report was to investigate the course of acute nonspecific mesenteric lymphadenitis in childhood.

Acute kidney injury in symptomatic primary Epstein-Barr virus infectious mononucleosis: Systematic review.

Background And Objectives: Textbooks and reviews do not mention the association of symptomatic primary Epstein-Barr virus infectious mononucleosis with acute kidney injury in subjects without immunodeficiency or autoimmunity.

Study Design: Stimulated by our experience with two cases, we performed a review of the literature.

Results: The literature documents 38 cases (26 male and 12 female individuals ranging in age from 0.

Blistering eruptions in childhood Henoch-Schönlein syndrome: systematic review of the literature.

Unlabelled: The occurrence of blistering eruptions in childhood Henoch-Schönlein syndrome has been so far addressed exclusively in individual case reports. To describe epidemiology, clinical presentation, and therapeutic options in Henoch-Schönlein patients ≤18 years of age with blistering eruptions, we completed a systematic literature search. For the final analysis, we retained 39 reports.

Taste acceptability of pulverized brand-name and generic drugs containing amlodipine or candesartan.

Trials with pulverized brand-name antihypertensive drugs suggest that, from the perspective of taste acceptability, crushed candesartan, chlortalidon, hydrochlorothiazide, lercanidipine and lisinopril should be preferred to pulverized amlodipine, atenolol, bisoprolol, enalapril, irbesartan, losartan, ramipril, telmisartan and valsartan. Brand-name antihypertensive drugs and the corresponding generic medicines have never been compared with respect to their taste acceptability. We therefore investigated among healthy health care workers the taste acceptability of a pulverized 1 mg-test dose of the brand-name and two generics containing either the dihydropyridine calcium-channel blocker amlodipine (Norvasc(®), Amlodipin-Mepha(®) and Amlodipin Pfizer(®)) or the angiotensin receptor antagonist candesartan (Atacand(®), Cansartan-Mepha(®) and Pemzek(®)).

Hypokalemic rhabdomyolysis in congenital tubular disorders: a case series and a systematic review.

Hypokalemia is a recognized cause of rhabdomyolysis but very few reports document its association with inborn renal tubular disorders. We report our experience with hypokalemic rhabdomyolysis in 5 pediatric patients affected by inborn renal tubular disorders and the results of a careful review of the literature disclosing 9 further cases for a total of 14 patients (8 male and 6 female subjects, aged between 1.6 and 46, median 16 years).