Designing a research study.

abstract：:Hypertransfusion and regular chelation therapy have allowed improved survival in patients with thalassemia major (TM). Despite medical advances, growth failure and hypogonadism remain significant clinical problems in these patients in adolescence. Disproportionate truncal shortening which is common especially among ad...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Low LC

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The cause of majority of acute leukemias is unknown, but likely to involve interaction of environment, hematopoitic development and weak susceptibility loci within an individual's genetic constitution. The present study evaluates the association between plasma levels of homocysteine, folate and vitamin B12 an...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Sadananda Adiga MN,Chandy S,Ramaswamy G,Appaji L,Krishnamoorthy L

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study was planned to evaluate the MCH services, particularly immunization in rural areas of the poor-performing state of Rajasthan. METHODS:A community-based, cross-sectional survey using the WHO 30 cluster technique was carried out as a field exercise by participants of 9th Field Epidemiology Training ...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Jain SK,Chawla U,Gupta N,Gupta RS,Venkatesh S,Lal S

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow transplantations have a definite role in treatment of leukemias and lymphomas. In acute myeloid leukemia and CML an allogeneic transplant using an HLA identical donor certainly provides a far superior survival than chemotherapy. Patients with Ph' chromosome need to be transplanted in first remission if a s...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Vats TS

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypocalcemia is a frequently observed clinical and laboratory abnormality in neonates. Ionic calcium is crucial for many biochemical processes including blood coagulation, neuromuscular excitability, cell membrane integrity, and many of the cellular enzymatic activities. Healthy term infants undergo a physiological na...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Jain A,Agarwal R,Sankar MJ,Deorari A,Paul VK

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth monitoring programs are often considered failures. These failures often stem from a lack of understanding of program implementation. The 10 most common pitfalls of the system are listed as follows: 1) Health workers tend to desire a diagnostic curative approach to malnutrition where Growth Monitoring and Pre...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Hendrata L,Rohde JE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate factors involved in causing hypocalcemia in critically ill patients. METHODS:The patients aged 1 mo to 18 y, admitted to PICU at Nemazee Hospital, from May through November 2012, were reviewed. Those with impaired calcium hemostasis or on vitamin-D supplement were excluded. Calcitonin and par...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Haghbin S,Serati Z,Sheibani N,Haghbin H,Karamifar H

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to compare two methods of breast milk expression, namely, the manual and the pumping method using a hand-held cylindric pump. The parameters evaluated were (i) the output of breast milk during milk expression sessions of 15 minutes' duration, and, (ii) the subjective preference of the method by...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Paul VK,Singh M,Deorari AK,Pacheco J,Taneja U

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare tympanic membrane temperature and rectal temperature in febrile pediatric patients. METHODS:Sixty febrile children were enrolled as continuous enrollment at initial triage. Two readings of ear temperature were taken in each child with Thermoscan infrared thermometer. Rectal temperature was recorde...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Sehgal A,Dubey NK,Jyothi MC,Jain S

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Medical bioethics has developed as a new field of study in the US in the past quarter decade, focusing upon the moral principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. These principles may, however, reflect biases in American culture, rather than a truly universal approach to ethical problems in medici...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Brody H

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED), a measure found useful in different settings and cultures has not been validated in the subcontinent. This study validated this measure for identifying Anxiety Disorder (AD) among adolescents in an Indian community context. METHODS:Five hundred a...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Russell PS,Nair MK,Russell S,Subramaniam VS,Sequeira AZ,Nazeema S,George B

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The OMENS syndrome involves craniofacial maldevelopment of the orbit, ear cranial nerve and soft tissue, while OMENS-plus syndrome also includes extracraniofacial anomalies. These may be skeletal, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, renal and central nervous system malformations. A fourteen-year-old girl pres...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Kapoor S,Mukherjee SB,Paul R,Dhingra B

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the risk factors for small for gestational age (SGA) babies. METHODS:The present study was a nested case control study which was carried out by two Medical Officers of Health areas (The field level administrative unit responsible for provision of preventive and promotive health services) in Colom...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Ruwanpathirana T,Fernando DN

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 289 newborn infants from birth till one year of age. Low birth weight babies (less than 2.5 kg) were 52.9%. Boys suffered 9.7 episodes of sickness, and girls 8.6 episodes of sickness. The mean episodes of various sicknesses, and their impact on weight gain, feeding pattern and growth pattern are discussed. ...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Patel RB

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Jaundice is a common clinical problem in neonatal period which may result in brain damage even in healthy full term newborns, when it is severe. The aim of this study was to characterize the therapeutic effect of clofibrate in full term neonates who present with nonhemolytic jaundice. METHODS:A clinical cont...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Eghbalian F,Pourhossein A,Zandevakili H

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the various aspect of the experimental phase preceding the establishment of an umbilical cord blood (UCB) bank within a regular blood bank, a situation totally different from that of de novo establishing a cord blood bank having human and financial resources. An ethically approved two-year study h...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Elias M,Choudhury N,Sibinga CT

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The packing and composition of ORS has undergone a change since its introduction. In India, some companies are manufacturing smaller pouches (4.2 g) to be dissolved in 200 ml of water. Therefore, out of confusion some prescribers routinely advise the patients to dissolve the standard formulation ORS pouch (21 g) in a ...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Quereshi UA,Bhat JI,Ali SW,Mir AA,Kambay AH,Bhat IN

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High dose vitamin A (HDVA) concentrate began to be distributed in India in 1970 as a short-term, stop-gap approach to reduce clinical signs of vitamin A deficiency. As this problem declined globally, the purpose of distributing them changed to the reduction of young child mortality. However, their impact on this has a...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Greiner T,Mason J,Benn CS,Sachdev HPS

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary arterial hypertension in children can occur secondary to shunt lesion like ventricular septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus or it may be idiopathic, the so called primary pulmonary hypertension (PPH). The progression of PPH is usually rapid in children as compared to adults and the mean survival is 2-3 ye...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Krishnan U

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite evidence about the value of high quality postnatal services for the survival, health and wellbeing of the mother and neonate, sub-optimal use of the available services delivered through public sector remains a persistent challenge in India and most low-middle income countries. An extensive search till Dec 31, ...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Deshmukh V,John S,Arora NK

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical treatment for congenital heart disease has become available over the last five decades. Palliative procedures have been designed to improve physiologic abnormalities, for example systemic artery (or venous) to pulmonary artery shunts of various types to increase the pulmonary blood flow, pulmonary artery cons...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Chopra PS,Rao PS

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the use of umbilical cord blood culture (UCBC) as compared to neonatal blood culture (NBC) in the diagnosis of early onset neonatal sepsis (EONS). METHODS:This hospital based prospective observational study was conducted in the Department of Pediatrics and Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology a...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Meena R,Meena KK,Athwani V,Gothwal S,Bairwa GS,Sitaraman S

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Nosocomial infections are one of the most important causes of mortality and morbidity in hospitals. These are major public health problems worldwide, but particularly in developing countries. These infections have the most common frequency in pediatric hospitals-especially in neonatal wards- second to burn ho...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Salamati P,Rahbarimanesh AA,Yunesian M,Naseri M

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Suicide among youth is of great concern and a subject requires thorough study to formulate prevention strategy. In this paper the incidence and trends of suicide among children and adolescent of South Delhi have been reported. METHODS:A retrospective analysis was carried out on 222 cases of suicidal deaths p...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Lalwani S,Sharma GA,Kabra SK,Girdhar S,Dogra TD

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the prevalence of culture-confirmed cholera in patients with acute dehydrating diarrhea, at a tertiary care center in north India, during a 6-month period from March to August, 2006. METHODS:We studied 145 children, who presented to the pediatric emergency services of a tertiary care teaching hos...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Kuttiat VS,Lodha R,Das B,Kohli U

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasound (US) is a simple, non-invasive imaging modality which allows high-resolution imaging of the musculoskeletal (MSK) system. Its increasing popularity in pediatrics is due to the fact that it does not involve radiation, has an ability to visualize non-ossified cartilaginous and vascular structures, allows dyna...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Karnik AS,Karnik A,Joshi A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cohort study at a tertiary care neonatal service was undertaken to determine the neurodevelopmental outcome of neonates who required intensive care. One hundred and nineteen nursery graduates were enrolled for follow up if they fulfilled any of the following risk factors: birth weight less than 1500 g, Apgar score l...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Paul VK,Radhika S,Deorari AK,Singh M

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood samples from 813 newborns were spotted on to filter paper and the 17-hydroxyprogesterone concentration was measured using the Delfia (R) fluorometric immunoassay. The median, mean, and standard deviation (SD) for the total population were 20, 21 and (11) nmol/L respectively. Males had significantly higher levels...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： al-Nuaim AR,Abdullah MA,Stevens B,Zain M

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The timing and role of chemotherapy in the management of Wilms' tumor has long been the matter of debate, with different groups showing equally comparable and encouraging results. Over the last decade, however, both the ideol-ogies seem to be converging and the attempt has been to identify groups benefitting with pre-...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Kumar A,Bakhshi S,Agarwala S

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To establish a technique for mutation identification and prenatal screening in confirmed cases of Canavan disease. METHOD:Mutations in ASPA gene were identified by sequencing. Six exons of ASPA gene were amplified using intronic primers flanking the exons and then sequenced on ABI 3500Dx automated unit. Thi...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Bijarnia S,Kohli S,Puri RD,Jacob RJ,Saxena R,Jalan A,Sistermans EA,Mahmood S,Verma IC

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00