Published in Pediatric diabetes
For youth with type 1 diabetes (T1D), the early adolescent period is associated with worsening diabetes management and high rates of negative psychosocial issues, including depressive symptoms and family conflict. Alternative clinical models may help improve both diabetes and psychosocial outcomes. Our study aims to investigate whether Team Clinic,...
Published in Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
The prevalence of acute vulvovaginal involvement in toxic epidermal necrolysis can be as high as 70%; up to 28% of female patients will also develop chronic vulvovaginal sequelae. There is little consensus regarding prevention and treatment of the gynecologic sequelae of both Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis (SJS/TEN). We rev...
Published in Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
Published in Pediatric diabetes
Disadvantaged and minority youth with type 1 diabetes are less likely to be on insulin pump therapy compared to the majority population. Little is known about how pediatric endocrinology providers determine eligibility for insulin pump. We aimed to identify provider factors influencing the decision to initiate insulin pump therapy. We conducted a s...
Published in Regional anesthesia and pain medicine
Published in The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma
While a single but truncated ICD code (493) had been widely used for identifying asthma in asthma care and research, it significantly under-identifies asthma. We aimed to develop and validate a diagnostic codes-based algorithm for identifying asthmatics using Predetermined Asthma Criteria (PAC) as the reference. This is a retrospective cross-sectio...
Published in Pediatric diabetes
We examined parental diabetes monitoring behaviors in a cohort of children at increased genetic risk for type 1 diabetes. We hypothesized that being informed of a positive islet autoantibody (IA) would increase monitoring behaviors. The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study follows 8676 children with high-risk human leuc...
Published in Fetal and pediatric pathology
Laryngeal papillomatosis (LP) is the most common benign neoplasm affecting the upper respiratory tract mucosa in children. The most common genotypes of HPV associated with LP are types 6 and 11. Methods: Among 187 patients identified in our institution with LP, four cases showed malignant transformation to invasive squamous carcinoma. Results: Thes...
Published in AAPS PharmSciTech
Pediatric drug development faces many difficulties. Traditionally, pediatric drug doses are simply calculated linearly based on the body weight, age, and body surface area of adults. Due to the ontogeny of children, this simple linear scaling may lead to drug overdose in pediatric patients. The physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model, as...
Published in Japanese journal of infectious diseases
Soft tissue infections with Mycobacterium mageritense are uncommon. We report the case of a 5-year-old girl who developed a subcutaneous abscess in her right ankle caused by M. mageritense. She had a history of acute encephalopathy and adrenal insufficiency and was hospitalized for acute pancreatitis. During hospitalization, the patient developed f...
