Introduction We aimed to establish the clinical characteristics of children and young people (CAYP) currently receiving deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy for the management of movement disorders in ...

Objectives Primary: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in the diagnosis of appendicitis in paediatric patients presenting with suspected appendicitis. Secondary: ...

Maria Valentina Abate, Ingeborg Barisic, Michele Santoro, Alessio Coi, Joachim Tan, Ester Garne, Maria Loane, Ljubica Odak, Elisa Ballardini, Clara Cavero-Carbonell ...

Background/aim Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) and Angelman syndrome (AS) are rare imprinting disorders caused by the aberrant expression of 15q11.2-q13 imprinted genes. Due to their rarity, data on ...

3 Department of Clinical Psychology, St Mary’s Hospital, Isle of Wight, UK 4 Department of Paediatrics, St Mary’s Hospital, Isle of Wight, UK 5 David Hide Asthma and Allergy Research Centre, St Mary’s ...

1 Epidemiology Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA 2 ...

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Background In Europe, 50%–60% of pregnant women uses paracetamol (Dafalgan). While its use in pregnan-cy was considered safe, recent studies show an associ-ation between prenatal exposure to ...

Aims: To determine benefits and risks for gastrostomy or jejunostomy feeding compared with oral feeding for children with cerebral palsy. Methods: Systematic review. Search strategy: electronic ...

Meningococcal disease remains a major global cause of meningitis and septicaemia. In Europe and other industrialised countries, serogroup B (MenB) is responsible for most cases of invasive ...

Aim To survey sleep patterns and determinants of sleep quality in teenagers living in the United Kingdom (UK) and India. To study understanding amongst teenagers of the impact of poor sleep. Method ...