Children's Hospital Agia Sophia

Process mapping: finding new routes to guideline adherence

Invited commentary of Shaw, L., Wilson, C., Haskell, L. et al. Process mapping to design theory-informed strategies reducing inappropriate HFNC use in emergency bronchiolitis care. Pediatr Res (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-026-05304-w

Infectious triggers in IgA vasculitis in children: current evidence, causal attribution and immunopathogenic mechanisms

Abstract IgA vasculitis (IgAV) is the most common systemic vasculitis in childhood. Its seasonal distribution and frequent respiratory or gastrointestinal prodromes implicate environmental exposures. However, microbiological detection temporally proximate to disease onset is insu...

Diagnostic Value of Serum Amyloid A in Neonatal Sepsis: A Literature Review

Neonatal sepsis remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, while early diagnosis is challenging due to nonspecific clinical manifestations and the limited accuracy of currently available biomarkers. Serum amyloid A (SAA), a rapidly responding acute-phase protein,...

Candidate Stress-Specific microRNA Expression in Pediatric Thrombosis and Healthy Children: A Comparative Analysis of Serum miR-34a-5p in Relation to Stress Levels and Inflammatory Genetic Traits

Background: Pediatric thrombosis (PT) is a rare clinical entity manifesting from neonatal life to adolescence with possibly severe clinical complications and increasing prevalence in the last decade. Its pathogenesis has been attributed to a multitude of factors, all of which sha...

Low-dose atropine-related esotropia in a myopic child: a case report

AIMS/PURPOSE: Acute-onset strabismus in highly myopic children raises a broad differential diagnosis. In this article, we report a pediatric case with high myopia and prolonged near focus who presented concomitant esotropia during treatment with atropine 0.05% eye drops. METHODS:...