CONTEMPORARY PEDIATRICS Edited by Öner Özdemir Contemporary Pediatrics Edited by Öner Özdemir Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2012 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. 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Publishing Process Manager Irena Voric Technical Editor Teodora Smiljanic Cover Designer InTech Design Team First published March, 2012 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechweb.org Contemporary Pediatrics, Edited by Öner Özdemir p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0154-3 Contents Preface IX Part 1 The Public and Pediatrics Chapter 1 Paediatrics, the People and Politicians in Spain – History, Development, Reality and Future 3 Miguel Labay Matías Part 2 Nutritional Health 25 Chapter 2 Feeding and Fluids in the Premature and Sick Newborn in the Low-Middle Income Countries 27 Tina Slusher, Yvonne Vaucher, Tara Zamora and Beverly Curtis Chapter 3 The Long-Term Effects of Breastfeeding on Development 57 Wendy H. Oddy, Jianghong Li, Monique Robinson and Andrew J.O. Whitehouse Chapter 4 Breastfeeding and Infant Growth 79 Luiz Antonio Del Ciampo Chapter 5 Nutrition in Healthy Children 87 Şenay Çetinkaya Chapter 6 The Growth and Development in Healthy Child 121 Şenay Çetinkaya Chapter 7 Probiotics for Autoimmune Diseases: Is There a Benefit? 153 Öner Özdemir and Azize Yasemin Göksu-Erol VI Contents Part 3 Pediatric Cardiology 181 Chapter 8 Infants Born with Intrauterine Growth Restriction: Renal and Cardiovascular Follow-Up 183 Silvia Visentin, Martina Bertin, Michela Rampon, Daniele Trevisanuto, Vincenzo Zanardo and Erich Cosmi Chapter 9 Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: A Challenge of Skill and Creativity in Constant Search Results 201 Miguel Angel Maluf Part 4 Pediatric Hemato-Oncology 281 Chapter 10 Alpha Thalassemia Disorders 283 Vefik Arica and Secil Gunher Arica Chapter 11 Neuroblastoma and Whole Genome Searches 295 Mario Capasso Chapter 12 Neuroblastoma – Molecular Basis for Diagnosis and Staging System 315 Priscila Torres Babié, Ramón de J. Ropero Toirac, Jesús de los Santos Renó and Samira Proveyer Derich Chapter 13 Fertility and Fecundity After Chemotherapy for Childhood Cancer 333 C. Berger, S. Thouvenin, O. Richard and J.L. Stephan Chapter 14 Fatigue in Pediatric Oncology Patients 345 Hatice Bal Yılmaz Chapter 15 Cancer Illness in Children and the Socioeconomic Resources of Parents 355 Astri Syse Part 5 Pediatric Infectious Diseases 383 Chapter 16 Fungal Infections in Patients of Paediatric Age 385 Giuseppina Caggiano and Maria Teresa Montagna Chapter 17 Infantile Chronic Recurrent Parotitis (ICRP): Analysis of Changes in the Expression of Parotid Salivary Proteins Associated with the Disease 403 Irene Morales-Bozo, Blanca Urzúa Orellana and Mirtha Landaeta Mendoza Preface It is a great pleasure for me to be the editor of the book Contemporary Pediatrics. Nowadays; there is lot of classical pediatric text books describing various well-known topics. In these kinds of text books, there have always been similar topics, which are written with the same styles. Nevertheless, in this book volume, beyond classical themes, a different approach was made to current pediatric issues and topics. This volume, as understood from its title, describes nutritional infant health and some interesting topics from pediatric subspecialties such as cardiology, hemato-oncology and infectious diseases. Book has 17 chapters which will help get us and patients enlightened with the new developments on the contemporary pediatric issues. The introductory section is about the public, politicians and pediatrics. The state and relations between pediatricians and the people as well as politicians in Spain are being told by Labay Matias Miguel, et al. Nutritional health section depicts the importance of nutrition beginning from newborn period to late childhood. In addition to breastfeeding of infant, growth and development of child is being mentioned. Also, the role of probiotics use in healthy nutrition is discussed under recent literature, in the context of prevention of autoimmune diseases. Probiotics use is a hot topic and draws lots of attention from different medical disciplines. Pediatric cardiology section enlightens us on cardiovascular changes in fetuses / infants as well as some pediatric cardiovascular surgical procedures needing skill under recent developments. Pediatric hemato-oncology section explains novel developments of well-known diseases such as neuroblastoma and thalassemias. For instance; whole genome searches and molecular basis for diagnosis of neuroblastoma are discussed. However, this section also includes some common complications of oncology e.g. fertility and fatigue seen in these patients. Also, socioeconomic issues related to cancer illness are mentioned in detail. Lastly, pediatric infectious diseases section describes chronic infantile recurrent parotitis and fungal infections during childhood. In conclusion; with the 17 chapters this book volume has, it enlightens us on classical pediatric age diseases as well as different aspects of these diseases such as therapeutic complications. X Preface Before I finish my words here, I am indebted to my mother Nikâme, beloved wife Seval Hülya and mother-in-law Sevgi Baş for their invaluable support during the editing process of time. Öner Özdemir, MD Assoc. Prof. of Pediatrics İstanbul Medeniyet University Göztepe Research/Training Hospital 3rd Clinic of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Allergy/Immunology Kadıköy, İstanbul, Turkey . CONTEMPORARY PEDIATRICS Edited by Öner Özdemir Contemporary Pediatrics Edited by Öner Özdemir Published by. orders@intechweb.org Contemporary Pediatrics, Edited by Öner Özdemir p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0154-3 Contents Preface IX Part 1 The Public and Pediatrics Chapter 1 Paediatrics,. Cordoba being the most important with 300,000 medicine texts in its library. Contemporary Pediatrics 4 Many Arab doctors wrote about infant diseases in their works. Among them, Garibai-Ben- Said