Diseases of children (pediatrics)

Chronic pancreatitis in children

Chronic pancreatitis is an inflammatory process in the pancreas with a phase-progressive course, focal or diffuse destructive and degenerative changes in the acinar tissue, duct system, the development of functional insufficiency of varying severity and subsequent decrease in external and internal secretory functions and the development of fibrosis of the pancreatic parenchyma.

Cystic fibrosis in children

Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease that affects the exocrine glands, mainly the gastrointestinal tract and the respiratory system. As a result, COPD, deficiency of the exocrine part of the pancreas and an abnormally high content of electrolytes in the sweat develop. The diagnosis is based on a swallowing test or identification of 2 mutations causing cystic fibrosis in patients with characteristic symptoms.

Syndrome Schwamman-Diamond

Syndrome Shvakhmana-Diamond is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by pancreatic insufficiency, neutropenia, neutrophil chemotaxis disorder, aplastic anemia, thrombocytopenia, metaphyseal dysostosis, physical development delay.

Acute appendicitis in children

Acute appendicitis is the most common surgical disease in children (4: 1000). Symptoms of acute appendicitis in children are extremely diverse and variable depending on the age of patients and the characteristics of reactivity, the severity of the inflammatory process, the location of the process in the abdominal cavity.

Acute pancreatitis in children

Acute pancreatitis is an acute inflammatory-destructive pancreatic lesion associated with the activation of pancreatic enzymes within the gland itself and enzymatic toxemia. In children, acute pancreatitis is much less common than in adults.

What causes acute gastrointestinal diseases?

Parenteral dyspepsia is associated with acute diseases outside the gastrointestinal tract (pathology of the respiratory, cardiovascular, urinary and other systems), when into the gastrointestinal tract is affected by intoxication, hypoxia, circulatory disorders, changes in the CNS and VNS, motor disorders and intestinal dysfunction.

Acute gastrointestinal diseases in children

Acute gastrointestinal diseases according to the frequency of occurrence take the second place after SARS among pathologies of young children. Acute gastrointestinal diseases at this age are never limited to the morphological and functional changes only of the stomach and intestines, and almost always combine with more or less pronounced disturbances in the general condition of the child, the functions of other organs, violation of CBS, metabolism, especially water-salt.

Stomach ulcer in children

Peptic ulcer of the stomach and / or duodenum is a chronic, cyclical disease characterized by ulceration in the stomach, duodenum, less often - in postbulbarnyh departments.

How is chronic gastritis and gastroduodenitis treated?

The main goal of the treatment is the normalization of the functional and morphological state of the cells of the mucous membrane of the stomach and duodenum to achieve long-lasting and stable remission of the disease.

Diagnosis of chronic gastritis and gastroduodenitis

To establish the diagnosis of chronic gastritis and gastroduodenitis, it is necessary to collect an anamnesis, including genetic and epidemiological, and to find out the patient's complaints. Particular attention should be paid to the nature of nutrition, the presence of bad habits, concomitant diseases and previous medication.

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