A new finding about how a virus evades immune defenses may offer clues to reducing unwanted inflammation in severe infections and cancers.

Alumni notes from Winter 2016.

A 17-year-old previously healthy Caucasian female presents with recent history of syncope while rowing in open water. She fainted and fell out of her boat while rowing with her crew team.

Alumni notes from Spring 2016.

A previously healthy 3-year-old boy was brought to the Emergency Department (E.D.) because of a change in mental status and diarrhea. The child was born full-term and was healthy until 6 months prior to admission, when he started to gain weight rapidly.

Just as prenatal imaging is imperative to establishing the diagnosis of fetal neck mass, genetic testing can be crucial to determining prognosis, availability of fetal interventions and recurrence risk for a family.

Over the past 20 years, CHOP’s Reach Out and Read program has given one million books to patients.

The treatment of lymphatic malformations is complex and requires a multidisciplinary team, including pediatric interventional radiology. At CHOP, there are two pediatric interventional radiologists with a special interest in treating vascular malformations.

Congenital neck masses are now more often detected in utero due to high-resolution ultrasounds and fetal MRIs, which help differentiate the various types of neck masses.

Newborns with a neck mass are cared for in CHOP's N/IICU by the Neonatal Surgical Team. Sclerotherapy is one of the treatment method used in babies with lymphatic malformations.