Toomoo Fujisawa, A. Inui, H. Komatsu, Y. Miyagawa, M. Onoue
We followed 53 children with chronic hepatitis C for more than 3 years. Spontaneous remission occurred only 3 (6%) in whom the serum titer of HCV-RNA was low. We considered interferon (IFN) should be adopted in all children with chronic hepatitis C but those who expected to be remitted spontaneously. We evaluated the effect of IFN therapy on 32 children and investigated factors that may influence the outcome of the treatment. A complete response was obtained in 13 children (41%). IFN was well tolerated.
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A 2-month-old female infant, presented with frequent choking and cyanosis during feeding, and poor sucking capability since the age of 45 days. Growth retardation with body weight and length below the third percentile, and head girth below the tenth percentile, were noted on admission. Generalized hypotonia, mild proximal muscle weakness and diminished tendon reflex were also noted. A biopsy from the left quadriceps femoralis showed uniform type 1 fiber (90%) predominance, and a decrease in fiber size and number of type 2 fibers. A biopsy from her father revealed uniform type 1 predominance (99.8%) and 30% central nuclei change. The course of her illness was rather short, and the patient has developed normally since the age of 4 months. Significant improvement in muscle strength and normol intelligence were observed after 3 years of clinical follow-up.
{"title":"Congential Myopathy with Uniform Type 1 Fiber Predominance and Type 2 Fiber Hypoplasia: Report of One Case","authors":"Miao Huang, C. Tsai, Cheng-Chun Lee","doi":"10.7097/APS.199802.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7097/APS.199802.0062","url":null,"abstract":"A 2-month-old female infant, presented with frequent choking and cyanosis during feeding, and poor sucking capability since the age of 45 days. Growth retardation with body weight and length below the third percentile, and head girth below the tenth percentile, were noted on admission. Generalized hypotonia, mild proximal muscle weakness and diminished tendon reflex were also noted. A biopsy from the left quadriceps femoralis showed uniform type 1 fiber (90%) predominance, and a decrease in fiber size and number of type 2 fibers. A biopsy from her father revealed uniform type 1 predominance (99.8%) and 30% central nuclei change. The course of her illness was rather short, and the patient has developed normally since the age of 4 months. Significant improvement in muscle strength and normol intelligence were observed after 3 years of clinical follow-up.","PeriodicalId":306859,"journal":{"name":"Acta paediatrica sinica","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127596197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}