Aims: Alopecia areata is a non-scarring autoimmune disease, quite frequent in the pediatric population. Trichoscopy plays a fundamental role in its diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic evaluation. Our objective was to describe the trichoscopic signs of alopecia areata in children...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2023/v11i1209
Introduction: Febrile seizures are the most common type of seizure in children occurring in 2-5 % of them with a peak incidence in 16-18 months. Various factors have been described in the pathophysiology of febrile seizures like susceptibility of the immature brain to temperature...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4208
Background: Lung Ultrasound (LUS) has recently become an important method for diagnostic examination and monitoring of lung disease. Many lung diseases, such as respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTNB), pneumonia were diagnosed by chest X-ray...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4207
Background: Patients-ventilator asynchrony defined as a mismatch between the patient’s respiratory effort and the ventilator delivered breaths and it is common in clinical practice. Patient ventilator interaction is a key element in optimizing MV. The change from inspiration to e...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4206
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute, febrile, erupting, self-limited autoimmune disease with systemic vasculitis as the main lesion. It is more common in children under 5 years old, and the main lesions associate the coronary arteries. With the increasing incidence, it has become t...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4205
Olusola Oladeji, Md. Shamsuz Zaman, Mohammad Sazzadul Alam, K. M. Ishtiaque Sayeed, Anjola Oladeji, Rayhan Uddin Rana, Liza Paul & Yulia Widiati·Asian Journal of Pediatric Research·2022
Background: Neonatal morbidity and mortality contribute significantly to under‑five morbidity and mortality. A substantial reduction in neonatal mortality is therefore necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals targets. Aims: Assessed the pattern of neonatal admission...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4204
Background: Guillian Barre Syndrome (GBS) is the most common cause of minor flaccid paralysis in the world and post-polio eradication is the most common cause on the Indian subcontinent as well. It affects 0.6-4 people per 1 lakh people per year. Guillian-Barre syndrome should be...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4202
Introduction: Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome linked to temporal with SARS-Cov2 is a new hyper inflammatory disorder that affects children with Covid-19 infection. It usually occurs 2 to 6 weeks following illness or exposure. Materials and Methods: Descriptive retrosp...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4203
Background: Surgical repair of congenital heart diseases (CHD) affects heart rate variability (HRV) in different ways. It leads to varying degrees of cardiac autonomic derangement, clinically detectable as depression of HRV parameters. The aim of this work was to evaluate HRV in...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4200
Shahenda Bdair Al-Beltagy, Hesham Ahmed El-Serogy, Sahar Abd ElAzim Abd Elaziz & Tarek Mohammed Al-Gohary·Asian Journal of Pediatric Research·2022
Background: Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that appears in early life. B6 and B12, and folate support homocysteine (Hcy) metabolism. Hence, any defect to them leads to Hcy accumulation in the body. Hcy, vitamins B12, B6 and folate are important in psychiatric disorders s...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i3199