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Guide de pratique clinique pour la prise en charge de l’obésité chez l’enfant Open

Geoff D.C. Ball, Roah Merdad, Catherine S. Birken, Tamara R. Cohen, Brian Goodman , et al. · 2025

CONTEXTE: L’obésité est une maladie chronique complexe et stigmatisante caractérisée par une accumulation anormale ou excessive de graisse corporelle susceptible de nuire à la santé, d’accroître le risque de complications médicales et de r…

Managing obesity in children: a clinical practice guideline Open

Geoff D.C. Ball, Roah Merdad, Catherine S. Birken, Tamara R. Cohen, Brian Goodman , et al. · 2025

This guideline will support children, families, and health care providers to have informed discussions about the balance of benefits and harms for available obesity management interventions to support value- and preference-sensitive decisi…

Effectiveness of surgical interventions for managing obesity in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis framed using minimal important difference estimates based on <span>GRADE</span> guidance to inform a clinical practice guideline Open

Krista Oei, Bradley C. Johnston, Geoff D.C. Ball, Donna Fitzpatrick‐Lewis, Muhammad Usman Ali , et al. · 2024

Summary Objective To summarize the literature on bariatric surgery for managing pediatric obesity, including intervention effects to improve patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs), cardiometabolic risk factors, anthropometry, and assess…

Pullthrough pitfalls in treating Hirschsprung disease Open

Kristy L. Rialon, Jacob C. Langer · 2024

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Alana L. Beres, St Christopher', Andrea L. Dixon, Sherif Emil, Jacob C. Langer , et al. · 2024

A308 AN UNUSUAL CASE OF MACE DYSFUNCTION: THE BENEFIT OF USING ANTEGRADE CONTRAST FOLLOW THROUGH MIMICKING HOME SETTINGS Open

David Rodríguez, Jacob C. Langer, Michelle Gould · 2024

Background Malone Antegrade Continence Enema (MACE) is indicated in cases where medical management for constipation or faecal incontinence with laxatives or enemas has failed. MACE allows the administration of flushes with and without laxa…

The Canadian Pediatric Surgery Workforce: A 10-year Prospective Assessment Open

Sherif Emil, Jacob C. Langer, Geoffrey K. Blair, Ann Aspirot, Guy F. Brisseau , et al. · 2024

The Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons launched a 10-year prospective assessment of the Canadian pediatric surgery workforce and training environment, beginning in 2013. The results of the first 5 years (2013-2017) were previously…

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Alexander Koven, Fardod O’Kelly, Ali El-Ghazzaoui, Jacob C. Langer, David Levin , et al. · 2021

Reducing Underdiagnosis of Hirschsprung-Associated Enterocolitis: A Novel Scoring System Open

Ruth A. Lewit, Laura V. Veras, Robert A. Cowles, Kathryn L. Fowler, Sebastian King , et al. · 2021

Skip Segment Hirschsprung Disease Managed by Pull-Through of the Right Colon Open

Hira Ahmad, Alejandra Vilanova-Sánchez, Isabel Amengual, Laura Guerra, Marta Garrido‐Pontnou , et al. · 2021

Hirschsprung disease is the most common neurocristopathy in children, resulting in the congenital loss of enteric ganglia. Rare reports of skip lesions have previously been reported in the literature. We present a case of skip lesions know…

Genotype–phenotype correlation in children with hereditary spherocytosis Open

Soumitra Tole, Priya Dhir, Jakob Pugi, Luke Drury, Sheila Butchart , et al. · 2020

Summary Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) is a common inherited haemolytic anaemia attributed to disturbances in five different red cell membrane proteins. We performed a retrospective study of 166 children with HS and describe the clinical ph…

Variability among Canadian pediatric surgeons and pediatric urologists in the management of cryptorchidism in boys before the publication of major guidelines: a retrospective review of a single tertiary centre Open

Jin K. Kim, Michael Chua, Jessica M. Ming, Min Joon Lee, Amre Kesavan , et al. · 2019

There was wide variation in the management of primary UDT between pediatric urologists and pediatric surgeons before the publication of guidelines. The most prominent difference between the 2 groups was in the ordering of preoperative ultr…

Comparison of three different analgetic therapy concepts following tonsillectomy Open

J. Kohl, K. Begall, Jacob C. Langer · 2019

A sufficient analgetic therapy after tonsillectomy is despite many studies still an all-day challenge in clinical life. So 340 patients following tonsillectomy at the Clinic for ENT Surgery at AMEOS Halberstadt could be compared in a retro…

Guidelines for synoptic reporting of surgery and pathology in Hirschsprung disease Open

Laura V. Veras, Michael Arnold, Jeffrey R. Avansino, Kevin E. Bove, Robert A. Cowles , et al. · 2019

Early weight loss in adolescents following bariatric surgery predicts weight loss at 12 and 24 months Open

Lisa Chu, Brooke Howell, Alissa Steinberg, Alisa Bar‐Dayan, Alène Toulany , et al. · 2019

Summary Background Growing evidence supports the efficacy of paediatric bariatric surgery. However, there is a paucity of data examining adolescent outcomes post surgery. Among adults, studies have shown that early weight loss is associate…

Successful treatment of liver abscesses with corticosteroids and antibiotics in an infant with chronic granulomatous disease Open

Jennifer Tam, David Fahmy, Jeffrey Traubici, Jacob C. Langer, Shaun K. Morris , et al. · 2018

Liver abscesses occur in up to one-third of patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). Surgery has traditionally been considered the cornerstone of management. Emerging reports in older children and adults, however, have demonstrat…

Hearing after induction chemotherapy and definitive chemoradiotherapy in advanced oropharyngeal carcinoma Open

W Pethe, S Drüg-Skamel, Jacob C. Langer · 2018

In patients with locally advanced oropharyngeal carcinoma, neoadjuvant induction chemotherapy with docetaxel, cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil (TPF) with subsequent definitive chemoradiotherapy is an established and regularly used treatment op…

Plastic closure after excision of periauricular skin malignancies Open

F Kriesche, W Pethe, Jacob C. Langer · 2018

Basal cell- and Squamous cell carcinoma are the most common facial skin malignancies. The surgical excision is still the first line threapy. After histologic checked excision a plastic coverment is mostly needful, for example with shift or…

OP23.09: Perinatal outcome in fetuses with dislodged pleuroamniotic shunts (PAS) Open

Nimrah Abbasi, Rory Windrim, Gareth Seaward, Greg Ryan, Edmond Kelly , et al. · 2017

To evaluate perinatal outcome in fetuses with large primary pleural effusions treated with PAS, which subsequently dislodged in utero. 169 fetuses underwent PAS at a single tertiary fetal medicine centre from 1991-2016. Fetuses whose shunt…

Obituary for Barry Shandling, MD Open

Jacob C. Langer · 2017

Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of Hirschsprung-associated enterocolitis Open

Ankush Gosain, Philip K. Frykman, Robert A. Cowles, John D. Horton, Marc A. Levitt , et al. · 2017

PC172. The Spectrum and Management of Noniatrogenic Vascular Trauma in Children Open

Ahmed Kayssi, Maged Metias, Jacob C. Langer, Augusto Zani, Thomas L. Forbes , et al. · 2016

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Jay L. Grosfeld, Yan Shi, James I. Geller, Irene Ma, Rishikesh Chavan , et al. · 2016

Hematologic outcomes after total splenectomy and partial splenectomy for congenital hemolytic anemia Open

Brian R. Englum, Jennifer Rothman, Sarah Leonard, Audra J. Reiter, Courtney D. Thornburg , et al. · 2015

Morbidity after elective resection of prenatally diagnosed asymptomatic congenital pulmonary airway malformations Open

Nigel Hall, Priscilla Chiu, Jacob C. Langer · 2015

Summary Background/Aim The optimal management of prenatally diagnosed asymptomatic congenital pulmonary airway malformations (CPAM) is controversial. Since there is a paucity of data relating to surgical risks in this specific population, …

A case of pancreatitis, panniculitis and polyarthritis syndrome: Elucidating the pathophysiologic mechanisms of a rare condition Open

Inés Loverdos, Marc C. Swan, Shant Shekherdimian, Abdulrahman Al-Rasheed, Rayfel Schneider , et al. · 2015

Obituary – Sigmund Ein, MD (1936–2015) Open

Jacob C. Langer, Paul W. Wales · 2015

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