To the Editor: Left atrial appendage (LAA) is one of the major sources of atrial arrhythmias in children.[1] But atrial tachycardia (AT) with an epicardial LAA origin is uncommon and usually arises from the base.[2] C...
GenSci Research Fund for young and middle-aged Pediatric Endocrinologist(No.2-3-1-1-06)。
To the Editor:The coincidence of Turner syndrome(TS)and Duchenne muscular dystrophy(DMD)is extremely rare,although each is familiar as a sex chromosome aneuploidy and neuromuscular disorders.We report a Chinese girl w...
To the Editor:Pediatric lung transplantation is a highly specialized therapy for end stage pulmonary disease in children,and is performed in only a handful of transplant centers around the world.In the past decade,abo...
Supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81770875);the Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province(No.2018SZ0142);the Sichuan University(No.2018SCUH0093);the National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics of West China Hospital(No.Z2018B05);the 1.3.5 Project for Disciplines of Excellence,West China Hospital,Sichuan University(No.2020HXFH008,No.ZYJC18003).
To the Editor:A 15-year-old girl from Chengdu(Sichuan province,China)came to our hospital in December 2019.Hermother stated that the girl’s bodywas thin since she was 3 years old,but no other abnormalities were noted...
To the Editor:Noonan syndrome (NS)is a common genetic multisystem disorder caused by aberrant signal flux through mitogen-activated protein kinase (Ras-MAPK) and has an estimated prevalence of 1 in 1000-2500[1]. It wa...
To the Editor:With the advent of antibiotics application,intracranial complications of paranasal sinusitis,including meningitis, intracranial abscess,subdural empyema (SDE),epidural abscess, cavernous sinus thrombosis...
To the Editor: A 10-year-old girl presented with an asymptomatic ulcerated tumor on her right forearm for 18 months [Figure 1a]. The minor initially was inconspicuous and then gradually enlarged with painless ulcerat...
To the editor:Rupture of mitral chordae tendineae often happens in adults resulting in mitral insufficiency.Here we reported a 6-year-old girl with acute rupture of mitral valve chordae tendineae,which rarely happens...
To the Editor: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is quite rare in the Asian population that an epidemiological study in the Japanese population revealed the incidence of CF being about I in 350000.
Hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) is a rare disorder that can be seen in various organ systems, but its major tissue target is the heart.' The most characteristic cardiovascular abnormality in HES is endomyocardial ...