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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5769/1510004

A New Outlook on Clinical Course of Juvenile Dermatomyositis - Experience of a Single Center

Krzysztof Orczyk, Joanna Swidrowska, Jerzy Stanczyk and Elzbieta Smolewska

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: April 08, 2015

Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) is the most common inflammatory myopathy in children. Diagnostic criteria by Bohan & Peter are originally formulated for adults. A wide range of differences in clinical course of dermatomyositis between adults and children has provoked to set a new look at the existing criteria....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5769/1510003

Short Lingual Frenulum and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children

Yu-Shu Huang, Stacey Quo, J Andrew Berkowski and Christian Guilleminault

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: April 08, 2015

A retrospective study of prepubertal children referred for suspicion of obstructive sleep apnea, found 27 subjects with non-syndromic short lingual frenulum. The children had findings associated with enlarged adenotonsils and/or orofacial growth changes....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5769/1510002

Six-Month Therapy with Metformin in Association with Nutritional and Life Style Changes Obesity in Children and Adolescents with Obesity

Maria Cristina Azcona-Sanjulian, Ana Catalan Lamban and Borja Lana Ruiz

Article Type: Original Article | First Published: March 13, 2015

Objective: To assess the effect of metformin on weight, BMI, body fat, and insulin sensitivity in obese children and adolescents. Methodology: The study was prospective, and included 21 patients with obesity (8 male, 13 female) with a mean age of 12.31 (3.87) years. Inclusion criteria were a fat mass percentage (FM%) of over 25% in males and over 30% in females, a BMI of greater than the 95th percentile, and a lack of response to nutritional and lifestyle changes over three months....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5769/1510001

Multidetector Row Computed Tomography Evaluation in Pediatric Heart Diseases-Additional Information to Echocardiography and Conventional Cardiac Catherterization

Yasunobu Hayabuchi, Miho Sakata and Shoji Kagami

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: February 20, 2015

Multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) scanners are a widely available, accurate, and noninvasive technique for the diagnosis of pediatric cardiovascular disorders. A lots of articles published regarding the usefulness of MDCT mostly describe that it can be an alternative to the invasive catheterization and angiography. The unique diagnostic features of this imaging modality have been largely ignored or disregarded. We presented the pathological conditions that cannot be diagnosed by conve...

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