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The authors are presenting well – arrangend statement about the possibility of pharmacological and nonphramacological treatment dysrrhythmias of children with the orientation at the needs of practical pediatrician. This statement should serve as an elementary aspect within the area but is should not perform the treatment process guidelines. Diagnostics and treatment of dysrrhythmias represent the interest prominence but at the same time they are unambegiously the domain of child cardiology. The point out the particularities of the child age, the influence of the autonomic nervous system, the possibility of innocent dysrrhythmias (benign) and...
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Reflux oesophageal disease is caused by abnormal gastroesophageal reflux. Gastroesophageal reflux is recurrent backward flow of gastric or gastric and duodenal content of stomach to oesophagus. It is essentially physiologic and may or may not cause changes on oesophageal mucosa. It belongs to the group of motility disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. The development of reflux disease depends on the balance between aggressive and protective factors. Gastroesophageal reflux is common in children, especially infants. Mild vomiting may be frequently the only symptom. It resolves in most children with aging. If it persists and further complications...
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Chronic cough is common and solving of this problem is difficult for the patiens, their parents as for the doctors, too. Succesfull treatment of chronic cough needs good diagnostics, finding the cause of the cough and causal treatment. The most common causes of the chronic cough are postviral cough, postnasal drip syndrome, asthma bronchiale and gastroesophageal reflux. Basic evaluation include medical history, fysical examination, basic lab, chest X ray, spirometry and ENT examination. Symptoms of the causal diseases are often atypical and sometimes there is more than one reason for the chronic cough. Once a reasonable cause of the chronic cough...
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Delayed puberty is characterised by absence of physical changes of sexual development in 13 years in girls and 14 years in boys or when the pubertal development not progress appropriately: the interval between first signs of puberty and menarche in girls/completition genital growth in boys is more than 5 years. Pubertal delay is associated with short stature and bone age retardation in most patients. The aim of the assessement is to determine whether the delay or lack of development is a result of a physiological lag in normal pubertal maturation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal axis (in 50–60 %) or represents an underlying congenital...
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The review article presents basic information about human papillomaviruses (HPV) and their clinical manifestation in gynaecology and pediatry. A special accent is put on the relation of HPV to cervical cancer and to clinical implications of vertical transmission of the virus. In conclusion, data related to current status of prophylactic HPV vacccination in preparing are presented.
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Valid epidemiological data are frequently missing and based on commonly underreported cases may be risk of invasive pneumococcal diseases underestimated. The purpose of this work is to present data from different countries and based on their extrapolation make conclusions for the Czech Republic. In countries, where the general strategy of vaccination has not yet been accepted for economical reasons, it is necessary to vaccinate risk groups. This strategy is only a temporary solution and pneumococcal vaccine is a serious candidate for general vaccination not only in the Czech Republic, but worldwide, as experience from many countries prove.
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Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is acute disease caused predominantly with Staphylococci bacteria producing toxic shock syndrom toxin – TSST – 1. Two types of syndrome were described: menstrual and non – menstrual. We demonstrate nonmenstrual type of TSS.
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The problem of efficacy of complex treatment of haemophilia (substitution, prophylaxis, home therapy, physical therapy etc.) and their expanses can be encountered in many professional articles. It is evident that physical therapy is an indispensable and important part of care for patients with coagulation disorders. In spite of the fact that rehabilitation of high quality is an indispensable part of effective long-term treatment of the disease, it is used minimally. This fact is caused by lack of low number of specialized rehabilitation centres, their accessibility, financial means, but above all the motivation of patients.
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