Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Changes in Coronal and Sagittal Plane Alignment After Transphyseal ACL Reconstruction Performed Within Two Years of Skeletal Maturity: Results From the PLUTO Study Group

Background: For patients with open physes approaching skeletal maturity, transphyseal anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) with soft tissue autograft and metaphyseal fixation is often preferred. Although iatrogenic physeal injury is rare, growth disturbances have been...

Real-World Versus Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Estimates of Pediatric Retinal Detachment Repair Times

Purpose: To compare real-world pediatric retinal detachment (RD) repair times with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates for complex RD surgeries. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was performed of complex pediatric RD perioperative times from pediatric r...

Integrating Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia into the Diagnostic Workup of Adolescent Heavy Menstrual Bleeding

ABSTRACT To understand the effect of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasis (HHT) on uterine bleeding is paramount to improving clinical care of menstruating individuals with HHT. Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) in adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with HHT is underrecognized and...

Understanding Remote Monitoring within an Outpatient Setting

Date presented: April 25, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Kelly M. Farrell, kelly.farrell2@cchmc.org

Glucocorticoid exposure disrupts vascular-immune interactions and impairs steroidogenesis in the fetal mouse testis

Abstract Antenatal corticosteroid (ACS) therapy, typically using dexamethasone (Dex), is a cornerstone of improving preterm infant survival by accelerating lung maturation. However, its systemic effects on other developing organs remain poorly understood. Here, we reveal a previo...

Managing growth and puberty concerns in individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: Updated guidance and future directions

Long-term glucocorticoid therapy is standard of care for individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) but often results in impaired growth and delayed or incomplete puberty, impacting their physical and psychosocial health. Although DMD endocrine care has evolved, leading t...

Effects of Pharmacologically Induced Hyper-Protein O-GlcNAcylation on the Heart Transcriptome

Background/Objectives: O-GlcNAcylation is a post-translational modification affecting diverse cell functions, including transcriptional regulation. Aberrant levels of protein O-GlcNAcylation have been observed in neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases. We have previously d...

Pediatric Mental Health Integration and Perceived Quality of Care

OBJECTIVE: This study examined how access to behavioral and mental health (B/MH) professionals varied across general and subspecialty pediatricians and whether access to, and degree of, B/MH integration in clinical settings was associated with pediatricians' perceptions of health...

Predicting Underweight Status in Infants With Cleft Lip and/or Palate in 10 US Children's Hospitals

ObjectiveTo develop and compare models predicting which infants with cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) will be underweight at 4 months, using multicenter electronic health record data.DesignUsing data from birth to 3 months, we evaluated 63 anthropometric, clinical, healthcare-utili...

Occupational and Environmental Hazards in Pediatric Home Healthcare: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background: Home healthcare workers (HHCWs) face challenges related to hazard exposure and disease prevention. The Home Healthcare Environmental Assessment Survey (HHEAS) was developed as a mobile-friendly version of the Home Healthcare Observation tool (HHCWO) to assess occupati...

Medicaid utilization in children: Condition‐specific incidence and spending

Abstract Medicaid insures over half of US children, yet gaps remain in understanding how funds are allocated across the care of nonchronic conditions, the care of chronic conditions, and preventative services. We conducted a retrospective analysis of 7.2 million Medicaid‐enrolled...

Antibiotic Choice for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children With Medical Complexity

BACKGROUND There are no guideline recommendations for antibiotic choice for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in children with medical complexity (CMC). We compared broad- vs narrow-spectrum antibiotics in CMC hospitalized with nonsevere CAP. METHODS This cohort study was conduc...

Comparison of prenatal self-report of tobacco use to direct measurement of umbilical cord cotinine

Abstract Objective This study compared maternal self-reports of prenatal tobacco product use with biochemically confirmed cotinine in umbilical cord tissue in newborns exposed to opioids in utero and unexposed controls. Study design Secondary data analysis on 179 pregnant women a...

Early-life microbiota direct an epithelial S100 program required for neonatal immunity

Despite appreciation that neonatal immune responses differ markedly from those of adults, the mechanisms that enable early-life immunity remain poorly understood. Here, we find that healthy newborn mice express high concentrations of the S100 calcium-binding protein A8/A9 (S100A8...

Development of an Achievable Benchmarks of Care Report Card for Pediatric Hospital Medicine

OBJECTIVES: To develop an Achievable Benchmarks of Care (ABCs) report card for common conditions managed by pediatric hospital medicine (PHM). METHODS: We performed a retrospective cross-sectional study of encounters for 13 common pediatric conditions between January 1, 2023, and...

Clinical Trial: Dupilumab Improves Eosinophilic Oesophagitis Outcomes Versus Placebo Regardless of Comorbidities or Treatment History in a Randomised Clinical Trial

BACKGROUND: Patients with eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) can present with differing disease characteristics, treatment resistance, and associated type 2 inflammatory comorbidities. We assessed the efficacy of dupilumab in subgroups of patients with EoE from the LIBERTY EoE TREET...

Acute Kidney Injury After Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygen in Children: Phenotypes and Prognosis in a Single-Center Cohort, 2020–2023

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the association between acute kidney injury (AKI) phenotypes and major adverse kidney events at 30 days (MAKE30) after initiating extracorporeal membranous oxygenation (ECMO). DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Neonatal, pediatric and cardiac cri...

Acceptance of Organs From Deceased Donors: Results of a Global Survey.

Background: With <10% of transplantation needs being met, one contributing factor may be the potential subjectivity in transplant specialists' acceptance of organs. Such decisions, if influenced by knowledge and/or comfort gaps, warrant intervention. We assessed knowledge and com...

The Childhood Liver Disease Research Network's prospective characterization of pediatric primary sclerosing cholangitis.

BACKGROUND: Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare biliary fibrosing disease that leads to significant morbidity and the need for liver transplantation. The Childhood Liver Disease Research Network is conducting a prospective, observational longitudinal study to define th...

Mind the Gap: Disparities in Education on Organ Donation and Transplantation-Results of a Global Survey.

Background: Widely accessible education on organ donation and transplantation (ODT) is a tool to reduce waiting lists, as <10% of transplant needs are met (Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation). We aimed to assess the current state of access to education on ODT worl...