Background: Posterior urethral valve (PUV) is the most common obstructive anomaly of the urethra. Urethral valves have a wide range of clinical and anatomical presentations and today most patients are diagnosed in the prenatal or early neonatal period. Cold knife and diathermy fu...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v7i130204
Background: Sickle cell disease is an inherited disorder of hemoglobin. It poses a public health problem in Senegal and mainly affects children and adolescents. Infections are the main cause of morbidity and mortality in children with sickle cell disease. The objective of our wor...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v6i430203
Our study included 60 children with diabetes. We divided them into two groups: Group A and Group B. Patients assigned to Group A had controlled diabetes and formed our “Control Group”, while Group B was for patients with poorly controlled diabetes. This study was conducted in « T...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v6i430201
Introduction: Wolcott-Rallison syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by neonatal diabetes in consanguineous families. associated with liver dysfunction, epiphyseal dysplasia, and. growth retardation. It is caused by mutations in the gene encoding eukaryoti...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v6i430202
Primary distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA) is a rare genetic disease characterized by distal tubular dysfunction leading to metabolic acidosis and alkaline urine. It is associated with impaired acid excretion by the intercalated cells in the renal collecting duct. dRTA is dev...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v6i430200
Background: TORCH infection has a role in aplastic anemia (AA). Fetal hemoglobin may be high in certain acquired hematological conditions such as aplastic anemia. We conducted this study to evaluate the correlation between certain congenital infections and severity of aplastic an...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v6i430199
Zafer Turkyilmaz, Ramazan Karabulut, Ebru Ergenekon, Gokcen Emmez, Berrin Isik, Ibrahim Hirfanoglu, Teymursah Muradi, Melda Tas, Aysegul Simsek & Kaan Sonmez·Asian Journal of Pediatric Research·2021
Tracheomalacia (TM) is a disease that causes the airway obstruction of the tracheal lumen as a result of the structural disorder of the tracheal cartilage. We present a 4-month-old patient who developed ventilator depended TM after repair of esophageal atresia with tracheoesophag...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v6i330198
A misguided auto-reactive injury is responsible for diverse types of central nervous system (CNS) conditions. We suspect that, in some of these conditions, the adaptive immune system have a common cellular immune pathogenesis, driven predominantly by T cells, despite variability...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v6i330197
Introduction: Special newborn care units (SNCUs) have been established in several district and subdivisional hospitals to meet the challenges of high neonatal mortality. With single digit target of infant mortality in 2030, we need to review the functioning of these SNCUs in orde...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v6i330196
Solitary mastocytoma is the most common form of mastocytosis in children. The main symptom is pruritus. The treatment is symptomatic and it’s based on Topical corticosteroids. The prognosis is good with possibility of spontaneous regression at adulthood. This case report is about...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v6i330194