The prevalence of H. pylori infection is significantly higher among families of infected index children. The presence of at least 1 infected family member in all H. pylori-positive index children suggests that the family could be the main source of H. pylori infection in children.

Children with familial IBD had earlier onset of disease compared with those with sporadic IBD. However, this had no significant impact on the clinical phenotypes, the course and/or the outcome of disease.

iterranean countries. As in most European studies, the independent prognostic value of TEL/AML1 is in doubt, because it is closely associated with other favorable factors. In this series, the modification of the therapeutic regimen (ie, omission of the SR arm) may be responsible for the similar outcome in TEL/AML1 ϩ and TEL/AML1 Ϫ cases, because it seems to lower the relapse risk for all children with ALL. BEHAVIORAL VARIABLES IN FUNCTIONAL DYSPEPSIA: THE TYPE A BEHAVIOR PATTERN, SYMPTOMS OCCURRENCE, AND EFFECTIVENESS OF PHARMACOLOGIC TREATMENT IN SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN Submitted by Igor Radziewicz-WinnickiIgor Radziewicz-Winnicki, Sabina Wicek, Halina Wo Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland INTRODUCTION:Functional dyspepsia (FD) is the most prevalent type of abdominal pain. Several organic disorders that result in FD have been identified, whereas psychological trials have suggested that patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders may present behavioral disorders simultaneously. Defining the relationship between common personality aspects, type A and/or type B behavioral patterns (TABPs/TBBPs), and coexisting symptoms as well as their change during FD treatment might be helpful in establishing focused therapy strategies, including appropriate psychological interventions. OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to evaluate the grade of TABPs in children with FD and FD subtypes to reveal correlations of behavioral patterns and experienced symptoms and to assess the relationship between analyzed factors and symptom relief during therapy. METHODS: A total of 66 children (aged 11-18 years) were diagnosed with FD following the Rome II criteria. The control group consisted of 86 healthy children who denied recurrent abdominal pain. In all children, severity of 10 dyspeptic symptoms was measured with the FACES Pain Rating Scale and the created visual-analog Dyspepsia Symptoms Questionnaire. Psychological evaluation was carried out by using the Type A/B Behavior Scale for Children and Adolescents (TAB) by Ogiń skaBulik and Juczyń ski. All patients received typical treatment for 4 weeks. After 8 weeks, children were asked to complete the symptoms questionnaires again. RESULTS: The general TABP pattern was significantly decreased in the FD group compared with the controls (P ϭ .0016), especially in boys. Moderate or extreme TABP was diagnosed in 4.2% of the boys with FD in comparison with 29.7% of the male controls; 66.7% of the boys with FD (vs 24.3% of the controls) and 37.2% of the girls with FD (vs 22.5% of the controls) met criteria for moderate or extreme TBBP. Boys with ulcerlike FD revealed scores lower than those of the controls on total TABP (P Ͻ .001) and all of the TABP subscales: competition, impatience, sense of time urgency, and hostility. Correlation analysis exposed the positive relationship between total TABP, competition, and hostility with dysmotility-like symptoms. Sense of time urgency and total TABP correlated negatively to the pain. During the therapy observation, hostilit...