Community-acquired Pneumonia (CAP) is an infection of the lung parenchyma that is acquired outside of hospital, [1] involved approximately 150 million new cases annually, among children younger than 5 years old worldwide. We retrospectively evaluated the effect of Prednisolone in...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v5i330173
Elsharif A. Bazie, Abdulkarim Alanazi, Wejdan Hamed Abdullah Alshammari, Fahad Mishal Alharbi & Faisal Ahmed Alghamdi·Asian Journal of Pediatric Research·2021
Coronaviruses (CoV) are RNA respiratory viruses that present with a wide range of symptomatology which range from common cold to severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). In December 2019 a new strain was...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v5i230171
The “Type of Article” of this paper is “Letter to the Editor”. This paper discuses about: “Effect of COVID-19 on Mental Health of Teenagers”. No formal abstract is available. Readers are requested to read the full article.
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v5i230172
Background: Thrombocytopenia is a common hematological abnormality observed in neonatal sepsis and considered as early, nonspecific marker of sepsis. The studies related to organism specific platelet response are few. Objective: To assess the prevalence of thrombocytopenia and to...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v5i230170
The intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) of the term new-born is a rare pathology; the prevalence is estimated at 2% of live births. The clinical manifestations are variable and not specific. The causes of ICH are multiple and often intricate, the main pathophysiological mechanisms are...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v5i230168
Lamine Thiam, Adama Coundoul, Isabelle Jokébé Coly, Ndiogou Seck, Djibril Boiro, Aliou Abdoulaye Ndongo, Idrissa Basse, François Niokhor Diouf, Moustapha Ndiaye, Amadou Lamine Fall & Ousmane Ndiaye·Asian Journal of Pediatric Research·2021
Introduction: Febrile seizures are seizures associated with fever in children. They represent a frequent reason for consultation in pediatric emergencies. Febrile convulsions are often qualified as benign pathologies but they are a source of concern, explaining the number of toll...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v5i230167
Introduction: The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus forced the adoption of several measures for individual and collective protection measures, including isolation, which interrupted direct social contact and started to draw the attention of researchers due to its potential...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v5i130164
Mohanad Abdulhadi Saleh Lawgali, Marium Mohamed Mustafa, Rasmia H. Feituri & Faiaz Ragab Salem Halies·Asian Journal of Pediatric Research·2021
Aims: To recognize cardiac arrhythmias and conduction abnormalities in children who underwent a surgical repair for congenital heart disease. Patients and Methods: One hundred thirty one (131) patients underwent a surgical repair of congenital heart disease between 2000-2018, and...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v5i130166
This study aimed at assessing parental awareness of accidents prevention strategies towards the physical wellbeing of preschool children in Port Harcourt metropolis, Rivers State. A quantitative survey design was used for the study. A non-proportionate stratified random sampling...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v5i130165
Introduction: While several literature reports have been published about patients with microdeletions within chromosome 7p, only a small fraction of those reports is specific to deletions that encompass the TWIST gene and HOXA gene cluster. The large-span deletions within this c...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v5i130162