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  1. Children and adolescents with HIV/AIDS are more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems than the general population. This can result in a continuing negative influence on the quality of life, school p...

    Authors: Demewoz Kefale, Abdisa Boka, Zureyash Mengstu, Zelalem Belayneh and Shegaw Zeleke
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:141
  2. Early microbial colonization is a relevant aspect in human health. Altered microbial colonization patterns have been linked to an increased risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Advances in understanding h...

    Authors: Izaskun García-Mantrana, Cristina Alcántara, Marta Selma-Royo, Alba Boix-Amorós, Majda Dzidic, Jose Gimeno-Alcañiz, Isabel Úbeda-Sansano, Ignacio Sorribes-Monrabal, Ramón Escuriet, Fernando Gil-Raga, Anna Parra-Llorca, Cecilia Martínez-Costa and María Carmen Collado
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:140
  3. It is still unclear if and at which trimester gestational weight gain is related to childhood adiposity. Thus we aimed to evaluate the association between trimester-specific gestational weight gain and body-fa...

    Authors: Wenyi Lu, Xi Zhang, Jiang Wu, Xiaomeng Mao, Xiuhua Shen, Qian Chen, Jun Zhang, Lisu Huang and Qingya Tang
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:139
  4. To evaluate the association between hematological parameters at birth and the risk of moderate-severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) in a cohort of extremely preterm infants.

    Authors: Xueyu Chen, Huitao Li, Xiaomei Qiu, Chuanzhong Yang and Frans J. Walther
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:138
  5. Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a major cause of pediatric morbidity and mortality around the world. It remains a frequent reason for infection-related admissions to emergency units among all age groups. Follow...

    Authors: Ali Salami, Hadi Fakih, Mohamed Chakkour, Lamis Salloum, Hisham F. Bahmad and Ghassan Ghssein
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:137
  6. No guidelines exist concerning the maintenance antiepileptic drug to use after neonatal seizures. Practices vary from one hospital to another. The aim of this study was to investigate etiologies and to report ...

    Authors: E. Baudou, C. Cances, C. Dimeglio and C. Hachon Lecamus
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:136
  7. This letter has been written by the components of the European Milk Bank Association (EMBA) Working Group on Human Milk Fortification in response to a recent paper published by Mathes et al. (BMC Pediatr. 2018...

    Authors: Sertac Arslanoglu, Caroline King, Clair-Yves Boquien, Delphine Lamireau, Paola Tonetto, Barbara Krolak-Olejnik and Jean-Charles Picaud
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:135
  8. Any event involving drug therapy that may interfere in a patient’s desired clinical outcome is called a drug related problem (DRP). DRP are very common in intensive therapy, however, little is known about DRP ...

    Authors: Ramon Duarte Leopoldino, Marco Tavares Santos, Tatiana Xavier Costa, Rand Randall Martins and António Gouveia Oliveira
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:134
  9. Bacterial ventriculitis is a common complication in children with temporary external ventricular drains (EVD) and the diagnosis is challenging. The present study compared the diagnostic accuracy of novel cereb...

    Authors: Mojca Groselj-Grenc, Metka Derganc, Andreja Natasa Kopitar and Maja Pavcnik
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:132
  10. Adolescents with DMD treated with chronic high dose GC therapy typically have profound pubertal delay. Testosterone, the main circulating androgen in men, promotes virilisation and growth with associated accru...

    Authors: C. L. Wood, T. D Cheetham, K. G Hollingsworth, M. Guglieri, Y. Ailins-Sahun, S. Punniyakodi, A. Mayhew and V. Straub
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:131
  11. Paediatric focal intracranial suppurative infections are uncommon but cause significant mortality and morbidity. There are no uniform guidelines regarding antibiotic treatment. This study reviewed management i...

    Authors: Fabian J. S. van der Velden, Alexandra Battersby, Lucia Pareja-Cebrian, Nicholas Ross, Stephen L. Ball and Marieke Emonts
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:130
  12. Transient elastography (TE) using FibroScan with M probe has been widely used in adults for controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) and liver stiffness measurement (LSM). In this study, we aimed to assess the f...

    Authors: Jing Zeng, Xi Zhang, Chao Sun, Qin Pan, Wen-Yi Lu, Qian Chen, Li-Su Huang and Jian-Gao Fan
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:129
  13. Juvenile xanthogranuloma (JXG) belongs to the heterogeneous group of non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis and is caused by an accumulation and proliferation of macrophages. In the majority of cases JXG is a disor...

    Authors: Michaela Höck, Bernhard Zelger, Gisela Schweigmann, Barbara Brunner, Bettina Zelger, Gabriele Kropshofer and Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:128
  14. Former evidence regarding reference values of abdominal fat percentage (AFP) and optimal anthropometric indicators in predicting abdominal obesity measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scan in Chi...

    Authors: Gengdong Chen, Huanchang Yan, Yuting Hao, Shiksha Shrestha, Jue Wang, Yan Li, Yuanhuan Wei, Jialiang Pan and Zheqing Zhang
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:127
  15. While ICF-CY-based models of care are promising avenues for improving participation of children with chronic health conditions, feasible and valid instruments to assess participation as an outcome in routine a...

    Authors: Freia De Bock, Catherin Bosle, Christine Graef, Johannes Oepen, Heike Philippi and Michael S. Urschitz
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:125
  16. To report first clinical experience on three cases of congenital complete heart block and the use of a pacemaker system with a maximum lower rate interval of 95 beats per minute.

    Authors: Stefan Kurath-Koller, Sabrina Schweintzger, Gernot Grangl, Ante Burmas, Andreas Gamillscheg and Martin Koestenberger
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:124
  17. Obesity and caries in young people are issues of public health concern. Even though research into the relationship between the two conditions has been conducted for many years, to date the results remain equiv...

    Authors: Martha Paisi, Elizabeth Kay, Cathy Bennett, Irene Kaimi, Robert Witton, Robert Nelder and Debra Lapthorne
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:122
  18. Despite significant advances in neonatology, bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) remains the most common cause of serious morbidity and mortality in premature infants. The aim of the present study was to determin...

    Authors: Young Hwa Jung, Jinhee Jang, Han-Suk Kim, Seung Han Shin, Chang Won Choi, Ee-Kyung Kim and Beyong Il Kim
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:121

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:263

  19. Small-for-gestational-age (SGA) is associated with increased neonatal mortality and morbidity. In low and middle income countries an accurate gestational age is often not known, making the identification of SG...

    Authors: Cecilie Bøge Paulsen, Birgitte Bruun Nielsen, Omari Abdul Msemo, Sofie Lykke Møller, Josephine Roth Ekmann, Thor Grundtvig Theander, Ib Christian Bygbjerg, John Peter Andrea Lusingu, Daniel Thomas Remias Minja and Christentze Schmiegelow
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:120
  20. Fever is a very common adaptive immune response in acute respiratory tract disorders during infancy. Antipyretic / analgesic drugs such as paracetamol (acetaminophen) are widely used to improve the comfort of ...

    Authors: Georg Seifert, Juliette Brandes-Schramm, Andrea Zimmermann, Walter Lehmacher and Wolfgang Kamin
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:119
  21. Undernutrition is an important public health indicator for monitoring nutritional status and survival. In spite of its importance, undernutrition is a significant problem health problem in many East African co...

    Authors: Kingsley E. Agho, Blessing J. Akombi, Akhi J. Ferdous, Irene Mbugua and Joseph K. Kamara
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:118
  22. In different ethnic groups, birth related factors have shown significant influence in the etiology of Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Based on these interesting findings, we aimed to investiga...

    Authors: Subhamita Maitra and Kanchan Mukhopadhyay
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:117
  23. Current evidence on the health effects of passive smoking on childhood blood pressure is limited and inconsistent. We investigated the associations between exposure to parental smoking and blood pressure in ch...

    Authors: Zilong Zhang, Jun Ma, Zhenghe Wang, Yanhui Dong, Zhaogeng Yang, Bin Dong and Yinghua Ma
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:116
  24. Gitelman syndrome (GS) is an autosomal recessive disorder and mild variant of classic Bartter syndrome. The latter is caused by defects in the genes CLCNKB and/or CLCNKA (chloride voltage-gated channel Ka and Kb)...

    Authors: Yuanmei Kong, Ke Xu, Ke Yuan, Jianfang Zhu, Weiyue Gu, Li Liang and Chunlin Wang
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:114

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:324

  25. Anemia remains a major public health problem among children under five years old in Ethiopia, rising unexpectedly from 44% national prevalence in 2011 to 57% in 2016. In this study, we investigated the househo...

    Authors: Shimels Hussien Mohammed, Tesfa Dejenie Habtewold and Ahmad Esmaillzadeh
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:113
  26. Controlled attenuation parameter (CAP) is a recently introduced, non-invasive and quantitative method to evaluate hepatic steatosis demonstrated in adults, but limited in obesity and not well evaluated in chil...

    Authors: Jaeseung Shin, Myung-Joon Kim, Hyun Joo Shin, Haesung Yoon, Seung Kim, Hong Koh and Mi-Jung Lee
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:112
  27. As survivorship care plan (SCP) use among childhood cancer survivors and their families has not been extensively researched, we report on their experiences with receiving an SCP after the completion of therapy.

    Authors: Samantha T. Pannier, Karely Mann, Echo L. Warner, Stephanie Rosen, Akanksha Acharya, Claire Hacking, Cheryl Gerdy, Jennifer Wright, Yelena P. Wu and Anne C. Kirchhoff
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:111
  28. The aim was to investigate the incidence of postoperative complications to surgery for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) with primary focus on enterostomy related complications.

    Authors: Jens Kristian Bælum, Lars Rasmussen, Niels Qvist and Mark Bremholm Ellebæk
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:110
  29. In low-resource settings, the lack of mental health professionals and cross-culturally validated screening instruments complicates mental health care delivery. This is especially the case for very young childr...

    Authors: Fabienne Nackers, Thomas Roederer, Caroline Marquer, Scholastic Ashaba, Samuel Maling, Juliet Mwanga-Amumpaire, Sothara Muny, Chea Sokeo, Vireak Shom, Maria Palha, Pauline Lefèbvre, Beatrice W. Kirubi, Grace Kamidigo, Bruno Falissard, Marie-Rose Moro and Rebecca F. Grais
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:108
  30. To investigate the prevalence and risk factors of premature thelarche (PT) in girls and gynecomastia (GM) in boys in Southern China.

    Authors: Jianwei Zhang, Jinliang Xu, Lifang Liu, Xiaohua Xu, Xinxian Shu, Zhifeng Yang, Lanqiu LV, Xiding Cai, Xianjiang Jin, Zaiyan Gu and Junfen Fu
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:107
  31. Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is the most common inherited metabolic disease with an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. It is characterised by raised serum levels of total cholesterol (TC) and low-d...

    Authors: Noor Shafina Mohd Nor, Alyaa Mahmood Al-Khateeb, Yung-An Chua, Noor Alicezah Mohd Kasim and Hapizah Mohd Nawawi
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:106
  32. Antimicrobial stewardship programs potentially lead to appropriate antibiotic use, yet the optimal approach for neonates is uncertain. Such a program was implemented in a tertiary care neonatal intensive care ...

    Authors: Nisha Thampi, Prakesh S. Shah, Sandra Nelson, Amisha Agarwal, Marilyn Steinberg, Yenge Diambomba and Andrew M. Morris
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:105
  33. Effects of obesity prevention interventions in early childhood are only meaningful if they are sustained over time, but long-term follow-up studies are rare. The school-based cluster-randomised Healthy School ...

    Authors: Åsa Norman, Zangin Zeebari, Gisela Nyberg and Liselotte Schäfer Elinder
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:104
  34. The present study was the first one aimed to investigate the current muscle fitness and its associated factors among children and adolescents in mainland China.

    Authors: Huijing He, Li Pan, Jianwei Du, Feng Liu, Yuming Jin, Jingang Ma, Li Wang, Pengben Jia, Zhiping Hu and Guangliang Shan
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:101
  35. The prevalence of periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and cervical adenitis (PFAPA) syndrome is unknown. Although an uncommon condition, it is considered to be the most common autoinflammatory dis...

    Authors: C. Sparud-Lundin, S. Berg, A. Fasth, A. Karlsson and P. Wekell
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:99
  36. Dystroglycanopathies, which are caused by reduced glycosylation of alpha-dystroglycan, are a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative disorders characterized by variable brain and skeletal muscle involvement. ...

    Authors: Kondakova Olga Borisovna, Krasnenko Anna Yurievna, Tsukanov Kirill Yurievich, Klimchuk Olesya Igorevna, Korostin Dmitriy Olegovich, Davidova Anna Igorevna, Batysheva Tatyana Timofeevna, Zhurkova Natalia Vyacheslavovna, Surkova Ekaterina Ivanovna, Shatalov Peter Alekseevich and Ilinsky Valery Vladimirovich
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:98
  37. This study aimed to determine the allometric exponents for concurrent size descriptors (stature, body mass and fat-free mass) and also to examine the contribution of chronological age and pubertal status combi...

    Authors: André O. Werneck, Jorge Conde, Manuel J. Coelho-e-Silva, Artur Pereira, Daniela C. Costa, Diogo Martinho, João P. Duarte, João Valente-dos-Santos, Rômulo A. Fernandes, Mariana B. Batista, David Ohara, Edilson S. Cyrino and Enio R. V. Ronque
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:96
  38. Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome (KTS) is a rare congenital condition characterized by the clinical triad of capillary malformations (port wine stains), varicose veins with or without venous malformations, and bony ...

    Authors: Rawan M. Al-Najjar and Rafael Fonseca
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:95
  39. Total colonic and small bowel aganglionosis (TCSA) occurs in less than 1% of all Hirschsprung’s disease patients. Currently, the mainstay of treatment is surgery. However, in patients with TCSA, functional out...

    Authors: Fereshteh Salimi Jazi, Julia M. Chandler, Chad M. Thorson, Tiffany J. Sinclair, Florette K. Hazard, John A. Kerner, Sanjeev Dutta, James C.Y. Dunn and Stephanie D. Chao
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:93

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:172

  40. Rasopathies are a group of genetic malformative syndromes including neurofibromatosis 1, Noonan, LEOPARD, Costello, cardio-facio-cutaneous, Legius, and capillary malformation-arteriovenous malformation syndromes.

    Authors: Irene Baquedano Lobera, Silvia Izquierdo Álvarez and María Jesús Oliván del Cacho
    Citation: BMC Pediatrics 2019 19:92

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