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Summary

Background. No specific clinical signs of influenza are defined, although type A is thought to dominate and be responsible for more severe cases of influenza diseases.

Our study aimed to determine the value of clinical signs and routine laboratory results on influenza diagnose among children, reveal possible differences among different influenza subtypes.

Introduction. Urinary tract infections could be the only sign of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). Vesicoureteral reflux is congenital urinary tract abnormality observed for children. There have not been any studies about methods to diagnose VUR for children by using voiding urosonography (VUS) in Lithuania before.

Aim - to review data on the prevalence, the type of disorder and the risk factors of sleep disorders in children with chronic kidney diseases.

Methods. In the review we summarized results of studies on sleep disorders performed over the year 2005-2017 in children with chronic kidney diseases.

While many countries of the world are experiencing epidemics of AIDS, Lithuania is one of those countries where HIV incidence among children is very low. Paediatric HIV didn’t seem to be a problem for many years in Lithuania, unfortunately the epidemiological situation has changed recently. The rise in the number of HIV-infected women in Lithuania has led to the emergence of new cases of congenital HIV infection.

Background. Central giant cell granuloma (CGCG) is regarded as a benign tumour affecting the jaws. The first description of this rare lesion was introduced by Jaffe in 1953. CGCG usually occurs in patients younger than 30 years, is more common in females than in males, and is more common in the mandible than in the maxilla. Electronmicroscopic and immunohistological analyses showed that CGCG is a process that arises from monohistocyte-like cells. CT is excellent for demonstration of bone thinning or destruction.

Sepsis is the most common cause of children death in the world. It is important to know the etiology of sepsis in a particular hospital to improve the outcome.

Aim. Analyze the outcome of sepsis and their relations with patient’s characteristics, causativemicroorganisms, antibiotic resistance, resistance changes and sepsis outcome.

Objectives. Nephronophthisis (NPH) is the most common genetic cause of endstage renal disease (ESRD) in childhood and adolescence. Diagnosis is often late as it is difficult to suspect until complications of slowly decreasing renal function manifest. Treatment of NPHP is symptomatic until ESRD, then renal replacement therapy (RRT) is started. We report our centre’s experience with NPH diagnosis and results of kidney transplantation

Background. The objective of this study was to evaluate quantitative changes of B, NK and T lymphocyte subsets in peripheral blood and their predictive significance in children with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) under chemotherapy in Centre for pediatric oncology and hematology, Children‘s Hospital, affiliate of Vilnius University Hospital “Santariškių Klinikos”.

Background. Acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE) is a rare encephalopathy occurring after minor infection in children. ANE was initially described in 1995 in Asian children. The brain lesions are remarkably similar among patients with ANE, including white matter, bilateral thalamic, brain stem, and cerebellar lesions. Most children experience a monophasic illness but there is a predisposition to recurrent episodes in patients who have (dominant/de novo) mutarion in RANBP2 gene.

Background. Primary immunodeficiencies are inherited disorders of immune system predisposing affected subjects to an increased rate and severity of infection, immune dysregulation with autoimmune disease and aberrant inflammatory responses as well as matignancies. Primary immunodeficiency can occur at any age. Any compartiment of the immune system can be aftected serving as a base of primary immunodeficiencies classification. According to this, primary immunodeficiencies are classified. In 2003 Eu ro pean So ciety of Immunodeficiencies Registry was established.