Pediatric Reports, Volume 12, Issue 1

Acute leukemia is the most common type of cancer in pediatric patients. This type of cancer accounts for a third of all childhood cancer cases. More than half of pediatric acute leukemia patients show signs and symptoms such as hepatomegaly, splenome...

Sigmoid volvulus in children is a potentially disastrous situation, still remaining rare in terms of occurrence. We hereby present a case report of a 10-year-old male, having admitted in our department complaining about abdominal pain, who finally pr...

The present study focuses on the relation between coping strategies of children with leukemia during treatment and locus of control of their mothers. In particular, the study aims to determine whether maternal locus of control can influence sick chil...

Seckel syndrome-1 or “bird-headed dwarfism”, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man number 210600, is a rare genetic disease with an autosomal recessive transmission. We report a female child of 56 months diagnosed with SCKL1 at the Pediatric department...

Аcute Myelоid Leukemiа (АML) in children is а serious disease. With a prоper treаtment, а lоng-term survivаl rаte аbоve 50% is typicаl. Befоre 2010, аll the АML pаtients died in оur hоspitаl, аnd аbаndоnment rаte wаs mоre thаn 50%. The аims оf this s...

Outcomes of insulin analogues in pediatric diabetes camps are poorly investigated; no data is available about insulin degludec (IDeg).Our aim was to assess impact of insulin therapy adopted by the participants to a 4-day diabetes camp held in 2017, h...

Congenital malformations are one of the leading causes of neonates and infants’ mortality and morbidity. The frequency of these congenital malformations varies in different populations. The objective of this study was to find out the prevalence and p...

A novel epidemic is challenging the global health care system. Starting from probably November to December 2019, another Coronavirus entered the arena of human pathogens, to be then defined 2019-nCoV.[...]