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ation.Abdominal lipoblastomas are uncommon soft tissue tumors in children and rarely arise from the mesentery. Due to intraabdominal location and slow growth, these masses can go unnoticed for long periods of time and often found on surgical exploration. We present a case of a 12-year-old male with years of abdominal distension accompanied by new onset early satiety that was found to have an intra-abdominal mass. He underwent an exploratory laparotomy revealing a large 33 x 27 x 15 cm rubbery mesenteric mass displacing the entire intra-abdominal contents, connected by a single vascular pedicle and encasing a loop of small intestine. The mass was resected and the patient did well without signs of recurrence. Histology confirmed the presence of mature adipocytes but on further cytogenetic analysis, a translocation between chromosomes 2 and 8 at the 12q arm was detected, which is often associated with lipoblastomas. This case represents the one of the largest mesenteric lipoblastomas that matured extensively to lipoma-like histology at the time of surgical resection.Dermatological disorders are the most common extrapulmonary complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, of which Mycoplasma-induced rash and mucositis (MIRM) has recently been proposed to be a separate diagnostic entity. MIRM could easily be misdiagnosed as atypical Stevens-Johnson syndrome by clinicians due to the unawareness of this rare disease. We retrospectively reviewed the inpatient database from Jan. 2016 to Dec. 2019 of the Children's Hospital of Fudan University. In total, five patients (mean age 5.5 years, three male) matched the diagnostic criteria of MIRM. All patients had scattered lesions and more than two sites of mucosal involvement. The serum IgA level of three patients was higher than normal. Two patients had a significant decrease in peripheral blood CD3+ T and CD4+ T cells that improved with recovery. The percentage of TCRαβ+ CD4-CD8-T cells of Patient five was higher than normal. All patients received treatments with antibiotics and corticosteroids, 3 patients received intravenous immunoglobulin. Among five patients, three patients complained of dyspigmentation, and two patients had an uneventful recovery. MIRM is a separate entity with predominant mucosal involvement and excellent prognosis that more often affects younger patients. Excessive inflammatory reactions may lead to immune disorders, including lymphopenia and a redistribution of CD4+ T cells. We recommend that pneumonia accompanied by mucocutaneous eruptions, especially in young patients, should raise clinical suspicion of MIRM.Introduction Fetal inflammatory response syndrome (FIRS), defined as elevated umbilical cord blood interleukin-6 (IL-6) values > 11 pg/ml, is associated with an increased risk of neonatal morbidity and mortality. The primary aim of the present study was to evaluate a potential influence of FIRS on cerebral oxygen saturation (crSO2) and fractional tissue oxygen extraction (cFTOE) during immediate postnatal transition in preterm neonates. The secondary aim was to analyze the potential influence of FIRS on cerebral injury and mortality. Methods Secondary outcome parameters of prospective observational studies were analyzed. Preterm neonates with measured IL-6 values from umbilical cord blood and cerebral near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) measurements during immediate transition after birth were included. Preterm neonates with FIRS (FIRS group) were matched 11 for gestational age (± 1 week) to preterm neonates without FIRS (non-FIRS group). crSO2, cFTOE, arterial oxygen saturation (SpO2), heart rate (HR), and frang the first minutes after birth. This observation may be a result of compromised oxygen consumption and delivery in the first minutes after birth in neonates with FIRS.Background Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile illness that largely affects young children before 5 years of age. Younger children with KD are reported to have a higher prevalence of coronary artery abnormalities. Little is known about infants in the first 3 months of age diagnosed with KD. Methods A retrospective study was conducted at the National Institute of Pediatrics in Mexico City from 1995 to 2019. Clinical features, laboratory results and cardiac outcomes were recorded. Infants in the first 3 months of age were compared with older patients. Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney analysis was performed for continuous variables and Fisher's exact test for categorical variables. Results Six hundred and eighty-eight cases of KD were included in this study. Fourteen cases were diagnosed in the first three months of age. Heart failure and KD shock-syndrome was found in five cases (35.7%). Giant coronary artery aneurysms were found in six cases in the younger group (42.9%). Conclusions Diagnosis of KD in children younger than 3 months of age is rare. In most cases, an incomplete presentation contributed to a delay diagnosis, treatment, and complications. Younger patients with KD have an increased risk of presenting cardiac complications, including giant coronary artery aneurysms, shock, and death.Introduction Newborns are subject to many painful procedures. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches alone are not enough, and it is necessary to consider other contributing elements such as the environment, interprofessional collaboration and parental involvement. The aim of this feasibility study was to explore interprofessionality and the role of parents in improving the management of painful procedures in newborns and pain management strategies. https://www.selleckchem.com/ Materials and Methods a pre-post feasibility study using a mixed method approach was conducted. Questionnaires, interviews and focus groups were used to describe the parents' views on their child's pain management and involvement in care as well as to explore the level of interprofessionality and feasibility. Results Collaboration between physicians and nurses improved following the implementation of a complex interprofessional intervention involving professionals, parents and newborns. In spite of improving professional collaboration in procedural pain management, parents were attributed a passive role or only marginally involved in in the infant's pain management. However, parents stated-as elicited by the questionnaires and interviews-that they wished to receive more information and be included in painful procedures executed on their infant. Discussion Management of painful procedures in neonates needs to be changed. Interprofessional collaboration contributes to improved procedural pain management in neonates. It is essential to include parents as active members in the interprofessional healthcare team.