Molecular characterisation and prenatal diagnosis of Asparto-acylase deficiency (Canavan disease)--report of two novel and two known mutations from the Indian subcontinent.

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：:Hypocalcemia is a rare, but reversible, cause of congestive heart failure. We report a 4-month-old boy diagnosed as dilated cardiomyopathy who had prolonged QoTc with low blood levels of calcium, normal phosphate, elevated alkaline phosphatase and findings suggestive of rickets. In view of non response to calcium and ...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Gulati S,Bajpai A,Juneja R,Kabra M,Bagga A,Kalra V

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：:Disseminated cryptococcosis is a rare and often fatal disease in children. The majority of cases usually occur in individuals with defective cell-mediated immunity, most commonly due to HIV infection. The authors here in report an 8-year-old girl from Nepal who presented with fever, cough, headache, lymphadenopathy, h...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Chaudhary MW,Sardana K,Kumar P,Dewan V,Anand VK

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caroli's disease is a rare congenital disorder and occasional cases have been reported from Japan and other parts of Asia. It comprises of congenital dilation of the lower (segmental) intrahepatic bile duct. Cholangitis liver, cirrhosis and cholangiocarcinoma are its potential complication. A case of caroli's disease ...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Gupta AK,Gupta A,Bhardwaj VK,Chansoria M

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination is one of the most cost effective methods of prevention of diseases without even raising the socioeconomic status of the community. Small pox eradication from the world is the perfect example of the role of mass vaccination of the entire community of the universe. India is feeling proud to be polio free fo...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Dutta AK,Ray S

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-Specific Aorto-arteritis or Takayasu's arteritis (TA) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the aorta and its major branches which either presents with constitutional symptoms in its active phase or with steno-occlusive symptoms in the healing phase. In children, it is an aggressive disease and often lethal. Conges...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Vijayalakshmi

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary Moyamoya disease, also known as Moyamoya syndrome has been rarely associated with Down syndrome. In pediatric patients, the usual presentation is that of ischemic stroke. Here is reported a 4-year-old child with Down syndrome and Moyamoya syndrome who presented with acute-onset right hemiplegia. A high index...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Bhalala US,Parekh PR

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the presence of Y-chromosome sequences and determine their frequency in patients with Turner syndrome. METHODS:The study included 23 patients with Turner syndrome from Brazil, who gave written informed consent for participating in the study. Cytogenetic analyses were performed in peripheral b...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Silva-Grecco RL,Trovó-Marqui AB,Sousa TA,Croce LD,Balarin MA

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the rising prevalence of childhood obesity, pediatricians are increasingly called upon to treat clinically overweight children. The primary treatment options are behavioral lifestyle modification, pharmacotherapy, and surgery. The cornerstone of childhood obesity treatment is lifestyle modification and has been s...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Dolinsky DH,Armstrong SC,Kinra S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children who had undergone adenotonsillectomy for recurrent adenotonsillitis showing no signs of clinical or radiological obstructive manifestations were evaluated with pulmonary function tests before, and one month after the operation. In relation to the result obtained by function tests, 60% of 45 cases (27) had the...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Kavukcu S,Coskun S,Cevik N,Kuscu B,Akkoclu A

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Caudal dysplasia syndrome (CDS) and the femoral hypoplasia-unusual facies syndrome (FHUFS) have been reported to be more frequent among infants of diabetic mothers (IDMs). Infact, uncontrolled maternal diabetes is the most common cause of both the syndromes. Till now, there is no case report to suggest absent radi...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Gupta P,Khatri PC,Agarwal R,Gupta P

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the prevalence of school bullying and to investigate the behavioral, emotional, socio-economic and demographic correlates of bullying behaviors among Indian school going adolescents. METHODS:Self-reports on bullying involvement were collected from 9th to 10th class students (N = 209; Mean = 14.82...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Malhi P,Bharti B,Sidhu M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors report a case of Kawasaki disease that manifested in a newborn and presented at the age of 6 weeks of age with coronary artery aneurysms. ...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Bhatt M,Anil SR,Sivakumar K,Kumar K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To present evaluation of a quality improvement program for Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs). METHODS:This community intervention trial was conducted in Ballabgarh, India during 2012-2014 with two Primary Health Center (PHC) areas being the intervention areas and two PHC areas being non-intervention...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Goel AD,Gosain M,Amarchand R,Sharma H,Rai S,Kapoor SK,Krishnan A

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify biomarkers for neuronal injury and outcome in perinatal asphyxia. METHODS:This prospective cohort study was done in authors' level III NICU involving 80 neonates - 40 babies with perinatal asphyxia and 40 weight and gender matched normal neonates. Levels of cytokines IL-6, IL -1β, IL-2 and TNF -...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Bharathi B,Bhat BV,Negi VS,Adhisivam B

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To find out various life stressors of adolescents, coping strategies adopted by them and the impact of stress on adolescent mental health. METHODS:A descriptive, cross sectional study was conducted in the schools in south zone of Delhi, capital city of the country. Data was collected on 360 adolescents betwe...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Mathew N,Khakha DC,Qureshi A,Sagar R,Khakha CC

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital cystic dilatation of the intrahepatic bile ducts involving the major intrahepatic radicles was first described by Caroli and hence named as Caroli's disease. We present here a case in which the only symptom was intermittent pain in the abdomen for last one-and-a-half-year and a radionuclide scan done effect...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Sharma R,Mondal A,Taneja V,Rawat HS

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Untreated vertically transmitted human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection progresses rapidly with 50% mortality at 1 y and most of the remainder dying before 5 y of age. The authors present a case of a 13-y-old boy, a paternal orphan with vertically transmitted HIV infection, lost to follow up after diagnosis in i...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Sagar A,Vasudevan B

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of neonatal Bartter syndrome is reported. The baby born pre-term following a pregnancy complicated by polyhydramnios, presented at 7 months of age with failure to thrive, gastroenteritis and facial dysmorphisms. An unusual feature was the absence of the classical biochemical abnormality of hypochloremic alkalos...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Muranjan MN,Kantharia VC,Bavdekar SB,Kabde U,Parmar RC

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) is an effective therapy for children and adolescents with chronic phase of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). For the majority of patients with CML in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), imatinib is the TKI of choice for reasons of cost, availability, and experience. C...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Bansal D

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To describe the clinico-bacteriological profile, and early outcomes of infants diagnosed with Group B streptococcus (GBS) meningitis. METHODS:This was a retrospective review of infants (aged 1 mo to 2 y) diagnosed with GBS meningitis in a tertiary care hospital in New Delhi from October 2010 through January...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Dwivedi S,Das BK,Aneja S,Sharma S,Chaturvedi MK,Kahn G,Fitzwater SP,Chandran A,Wadhwa N,Bhatnagar S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron overload is a serious and potentially fatal condition that results from multiple blood transfusions required over a long period of time to treat certain types of anemias such as, that caused by beta-thalassemia, sickle cell disease and myelodysplastic syndrome. Deferoxamine, which has been used since four decades...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Agarwal MB

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Stem cells have generated great interest for their potential therapeutic use because of their capacity to self-renew indefinitely and to generate all cell lineages (pluripotency). Many diseases such as neurodegenerative disorders or diabetes are caused by loss of functionality or deficiency of a particular cell type. ...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Bhagavati S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moebius syndrome is characterized by congenital complete or partial facial nerve palsy with or without paralysis of cranial nerves and often associated with other malformations. Cardiac anomalies though known are very rare and till date only 4 cases have been reported. We present a case of Moebius syndrome with suprac...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Suvarna J,Bagnawar M,Deshmukh CT

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the iron profile and find out an accurate diagnostic tool which reflects iron status in different types of infection in severely malnourished children aged 12 months to 71 months. METHODS:Hundred and Eight (108) children of whom 72 children were infected and 36 non infected severely malnourished chi...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Atiar Rahman M,Mannan MA,Rahman MH

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the epidemiology of rotavirus gastroenteritis in Haryana post-introduction of rotavirus vaccine. Expanded National rotavirus surveillance network in India reported high burden of rotavirus diarrhea in India. The Government of India introduced the monovalent rotavirus vaccine made in India by Bhara...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Dalal P,Gathwala G,Singh J,Nair NP,Thiyagarajan V

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with upper airway obstruction are both unique and variable in their presentation and management, often posing a challenge to the pediatrician. Several anatomical and physiologic peculiarities make a child vulnerable to develop an obstruction of upper airways. The characteristic finding in upper airway obstruc...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Mandal A,Kabra SK,Lodha R

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of mortality and morbidity pattern of hospital admissions of children under 14 years during 1966-68 and 1977-81 has been made. Annual admission rate has increased from 1515 to 2515, which is in proportion to the population increase of 3 lacs from 1966 to 1981. Recently more than 70% were discharged within...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Chansoria M,Thora S,Patel NV,Mukerjee B,Shrivastava DK,Kaul KK

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00