- Review Articles
- Neonatology (Perinatology)
- Respiratory support with heated humidified high flow nasal cannula in preterm infants
- Ga Won Jeon
- Clin Exp Pediatr. 2016;59(10):389-394. Published online October 17, 2016
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The incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) has not decreased over the last decade. The most important way to decrease BPD is by weaning the patient from the ventilator as soon as possible in order to reduce ventilator-induced lung injury that underlies BPD, and by using a noninvasive ventilator (NIV). Use of a heated, humidified, high flow nasal cannula (HHHFNC), which...
- Neurology
- Enterovirus 71 infection and neurological complications
- Kyung Yeon Lee
- Clin Exp Pediatr. 2016;59(10):395-401. Published online October 17, 2016
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Since the outbreak of the enterovirus 71 (EV71) infection in Malaysia in 1997, large epidemics of EV71 have occurred in the Asia-Pacific region. Many children and infants have died from serious neurological complications during these epidemics, and EV71 infection has become a serious public health problem in these areas. EV71 infection causes hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in children,...
- Original Articles
- Allergy
- Clinical and laboratory findings of childhood buckwheat allergy in a single tertiary hospital
- Kyujung Park, Kyunguk Jeong, Sooyoung Lee
- Clin Exp Pediatr. 2016;59(10):402-407. Published online October 17, 2016
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Purpose Buckwheat allergy is one of the most severe types of food allergy in some countries, especially among children. However, few studies have investigated this condition. The aim of this study was to report the clinical and laboratory findings in Korean children with buckwheat allergy.
Methods Thirty-seven subjects, aged 1 to 14 years, were enrolled by retrospective medical record review from January 2000...
- Cardiology
- Prediction of unresponsiveness to second intravenous immunoglobulin treatment in patients with Kawasaki disease refractory to initial treatment
- Euri Seo, Jeong Jin Yu, Hyun Ok Jun, Eun Jung Shin, Jae Suk Baek, Young-Hwue Kim, Jae-Kon Ko
- Clin Exp Pediatr. 2016;59(10):408-413. Published online October 17, 2016
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Purpose This study investigated predictors of unresponsiveness to second-line intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) treatment for Kawasaki disease (KD).
Methods This was a single-center analysis of the medical records of 588 patients with KD who had been admitted to Asan Medical Center between 2006 and 2014. Related clinical and laboratory data were analyzed by univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses.
Results Eighty (13.6%) of the 588 patients...
- Developmental and Behavioral Medicine
- Behavioral and intelligence outcome in 8- to 16-year-old born small for gestational age
- Kyung Hee Yi, Yoon Young Yi, Il Tae Hwang
- Clin Exp Pediatr. 2016;59(10):414-420. Published online October 17, 2016
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Purpose We investigated behavioral problems, attention problems, and cognitive function in children and adolescents born small for gestational age (SGA).
Methods Forty-six SGA children born at term and 46 appropriate for gestational age (AGA) children born at term were compared. Psychiatric symptoms were examined with reference to the Korean-Child Behavior Checklist, Korean-Youth Self Report, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Rating Scale (ADHD-RS). Cognitive...
- Case Report
- Rheumatology
- Recurrent macrophage activation syndrome since toddler age in an adolescent boy with HLA B27 positive juvenile ankylosing spondylitis
- Joon Hyeong Park, Yu Mi Seo, Seung Beom Han, Ki Hwan Kim, Jung Woo Rhim, Nack Gyun Chung, Myung Shin Kim, Jin Han Kang, Dae Chul Jeong
- Clin Exp Pediatr. 2016;59(10):421-424. Published online October 17, 2016
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Recurrent macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) is very rare. We present the case of an adolescent boy with human leukocyte antigen (HLA) B27-positive ankylosing spondylitis (AS), who experienced episodes of recurrent MAS since he was a toddler. A 16-year-old boy was admitted because of remittent fever with pancytopenia and splenomegaly after surgical intervention for an intractable perianal abscess. He had been...
