Iheanyi O. Okonko, Tochi I. Cookey, Ifeyinwa N. Chijioke-Nwauche, Sofiat Adewuyi-Oseni & Charles C. Onoh·Asian Journal of Pediatric Research·2021
Aim: Paediatric testing for HIV in low-income and middle-income countries is poor and must be raved up as this is important for treatment and survival among this disease-prone demographic area. This study was carried out to detect the presence of HIV-1 and -2 antibodies among chi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2021/v5i130163
Wejdan Khaled Ba- Atiyah, Riad Abou Zahr, Zaheer Ahmad, Yahia Mohamed El Mahdi & Mohammed Omar Galal·Asian Journal of Pediatric Research·2020
Aims: To understand the accuracy of non-invasively obtained blood pressure gradients (cuff vs Doppler gradient) with an invasively measured pressure gradient. Study Design: Retrospective study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Cardiolog...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v4i430160
Background: Children with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) are posed to the danger of recurrent pyelonephritis, kidney scar and renal failure. Nowadays, the evaluation of VUR is carried out using different imaging methods that are accompanied with different limitations. Pediatricians...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v4i430158
Background: Diarrhoea is one of the commonest causes of death in children in developing countries. Proper home management can reduce morbidity and mortality. High rates of dietary restriction, poor knowledge of preparation of ORS solutions and low attention given to clinical indi...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v4i430159
Aims: To firstly determine the incidence of acute renal failure (ARF) related to malaria in a series of 11 cases among admitted patients at the pediatric hospitals in Dakar, Senegal and to lastly measure the performance of rapid diagnostic test (RDT) and microscopy in malaria dia...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v4i430157
Objective: Patients with primary and secondary dystonic syndromes occasionally develop severe episodes of generalized dystonia and rigidity which is known as status dystonicus (SD) or dystonic storm. This is a frightening hyperkinetic movement disorder and it is an emergency. Mar...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v4i430156
The “Type of Article” of this paper is “Letter to the Editor”. This paper discuses about: “Effect of COVID-19 on Routine Pediatric Vaccination”. No formal abstract is available. Readers are requested to read the full article.
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v4i430155
Temtamy syndrome is a congenital syndrome. It was first described by Temtamy et al. in 1991. Characterized by mental retardation, ocular coloboma, seizures, variable craniofacial dysmorphism, and brain abnormalities, including abnormalities of the corpus callosum and thalamus. Th...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v4i430154
Bartter syndrome is an inherited renal tubular disorder caused by a defective salt reabsorption in the thick ascending limb of loop of Henle. It characterized by urinary loss of sodium, potassium, and chloride; hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis; normal blood pressure, high plasma l...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v4i430153
Tanvir Kabir Chowdhury, S. M. Humayun Kabir, Md. Abdullah Al Farooq, Md. Khurshid Alam Sarwar, Rajib Khastagir & Md. Minhajuddin Sajid·Asian Journal of Pediatric Research·2020
Aims: While the developed world has significantly reduced mortality from surgical conditions in children, there is lack of adequate data on the outcome of children’s surgical conditions in the developing world. This study aims at assessing the spectrum of mortalities from childre...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v4i330151