Dear Readers,

We have the pleasure to introduce a next issue of our journal, this time concentrating on paediatric issues. The studies concern a broad spectrum of topics, from a variety of areas within paediatrics. The reasons and disorders which are the cause of admitting children to paediatric departments are of various types; hence the knowledge and experience of doctors working there must be extensive.

Dear Reader, in this issue you will find five original studies, four case report and four review papers.

The article Załęska-Ponganis et al. “Urinary tract infections in children – selected aspects of management based on current guidelines” you will find that in children the urinary tract infections treatment is starting with empirical giving the antibiotic or the chemotherapeutic agent. Choice of the medicine should be in accordance with local, systematically updated microbiological analyses and verified after recognizing the aetiological factor and him medical sensitivity and based on the clinical reaction of the child to the treatment.

The article Jackowska et al. “Guidelines for immune thrombocytopenia as outlined by The American Society

of Hematology (2011)” features comprehensive guidelines concerning the procedures for ITP that have become a standard in the diagnosis and treatment of this disease.