Děti a smích

MUDr. Karel Nešpor CSc

Pediatr. praxi. 2007;8(4):199  

Chlamydia trachomatis infection in children and adolescents

MUDr. Ivana Pinkavová, doc. MUDr. Petr Koliba CSc

Pediatr. praxi. 2007;8(4):205-207  

This article will review the epidemiology, microbiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnostics and treatment of Chlamydia trachomatis infections in children and adolescents.

Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis in children and teenagers

prof. MUDr. Karel Křepela CSc

Pediatr. praxi. 2007;8(4):208-210  

We present a review of diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis in children and teenagers. Diagnosis in children is based on epidemiologic relations, X-ray examination, and tuberculin skin test. Bacteriology confirmation is difficult because children do not have any sputum expectorations. The treatment uses a combination of antituberculotic in the length of 9 months.

Infant colic

doc. MUDr. Josef Sýkora Ph.D, MUDr. Jan Schwarz, MUDr. Michal Huml

Pediatr. praxi. 2007;8(4):212-214  

This paper focuses on the problem of infantile colic from the practical point of view.

Therapy for asthma in children - today‘s approac

doc. MUDr. Vít Petrů CSc

Pediatr. praxi. 2007;8(4):216-219  

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects people of all ages and its prevalence has increased over the past two decades in many parts of the world. Studies of the natural history of asthma have demonstrated that the majority of people with asthma begin demonstrating signs of disease within the first years of life. New guidelines emphasize as their main objective gaining controle of asthma. This approach means controlling symptoms, limitation of activities, sleep disturbance, lung function and the use of rescue medication. A new update of the GINA (Global Initiative on Asthma) guidelines was recently available and it is based on the control...

Microflora of the gastrointestinal tract and probiotics

MUDr. Tomislav Švestka CSc

Pediatr. praxi. 2007;8(4):220-221  

The human microflora has a central role in health and disease, being unique in its complexity and range of function. In the last decades there has been an increasing interest in the manipulation of intestinal microbs with probiotics for the prevention and treatment of the most diseases, especially of the gastrointestinal tract.

Actual trends in prevention and treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus

MUDr. Pavla Mendlová, MUDr. Stanislava Koloušková CSc

Pediatr. praxi. 2007;8(4):222-226  

Type 1. diabetes mellitus results from an autoimmune destruction of insulin producing pancreatic beta cells. Long interval between the start of the autoimmune process to the real manifestation and the possibility to identify subjects in high risk of the development of the disease based on their genetics, presence of diabetes related autoantibodies and the status of the metabolism of glucose make this disease very attractive target of the prevention on all of its three stages. This article lists in detail important projects of T1DM prevention carried on recently or currently under research and possibilities of replacement or renewal of the insulin self-production,...

Viral hepatitis in children and adolescens and vaccination against hepatitis

MUDr. Luděk Rožnovský CSc

Pediatr. praxi. 2007;8(4):228-230  

In the Czech Republic, the most important viral hepatitis are hepatitis A, B and C. Most of hepatitis A cases are observed in children, adolescents and young adults. Acute and chronic hepatitis B and C are rare among children. Incidence of hepatitis B and C increases among adolescents, hepatitis B cases are connected especially with initiation of sexual life, hepatitis C cases with intravenous drug abuse. Vaccination against hepatitis A and B is available, but hepatitis C vaccine was not invented yet. Individual hepatitis A vaccination is recommended for all children, especially before trip abroad. Regular hepatitis B vaccination is used among infants...

Headaches in school child

MUDr. Marta Neklanová

Pediatr. praxi. 2007;8(4):233-236  

Children with headache are very frequent patients of general pediatricians as well as of the childrens’ neurologists. Diagnostic assessment has to be very wide; the most important is detailed anamnesis. The key task is to differentiate primary and secondary headaches because the medication of the ones is quite different.

Hypertenze dětského věku a její vztah k inzulinové rezistenci

MUDr. Dalibor Pastucha, MUDr. Jiří Hyjánek, MUDr. Jana Malinčíková Ph.D, MUDr. Dagmar Horáková Ph.D, Ing. Luděk Čížek, Ing. Gabriela Janoutová Ph.D, prof. MUDr. Vladimír Janout CSc

Pediatr. praxi. 2007;8(4):237-239  

Floridní rachitida jako vedlejší nález na rentgenovém snímku plic

prof. MUDr. Vladimír Mihál CSc, MUDr. Kamila Michálková

Pediatr. praxi. 2007;8(4):243-244  

Jaká je Vaše diagnóza?

MUDr. Luděk Ryba, MUDr. Vlastimil Koditek, MUDr. Eva Hrubá

Pediatr. praxi. 2007;8(4):240-242  

Jaká je Vaše diagnóza? odpovědi

MUDr. Luděk Ryba

Pediatr. praxi. 2007;8(4):245-246  

Bobule kolem nás

MUDr. Antonín Gabera

Pediatr. praxi. 2007;8(4):XXV-XXVIII  

Ptáte se - odpovídáme

prof. MUDr. Vladimír Mihál CSc, doc. MUDr. Ivan Novák CSc

Pediatr. praxi. 2007;8(4):242