The Journey of Newborn Screening: Inception to Conclusion.

abstract：:Epilepsy surgery is safe and effective treatment in children who fail to respond to antiepileptic medications. After failure of two appropriate antiepileptic medications, chances that the child will become seizure free with more or different medications is <5%, and she should be diagnosed with "refractory epilepsy". A...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Gupta A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a new case of the split notochord syndrome (SNS) with dorsal enteric fistula in an eight-month-old-boy. The child had also central nervous system anomalies including dysgenetic corpus callosum, absence of septum pellucidum, triventricular hydrocephalus, small posterior fossa, and lipomyelomeningoc...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Kanmaz T,Demirbilek S,Oztürk A,Baykara S,Yücesan S

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3-yr-old boy presented with respiratory distress of 2 days duration. There was a history of blunt trauma to the lower chest having occurred 5 days earlier. Although missed initially, serial chest X-rays and a computed tomographic (CT) scan revealed an isolated traumatic right-sided diaphragmatic hernia without any i...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Jain P,Kushwaha AS,Pant N,Debnath PR,Chadha R,Choudhury SR,Kumar P

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone injuries during the process of delivery were studied among 34, 946 live born babies over a 11 period. There were 35 cases of bone injuries giving an incidence of 1 per 1,000 live births. Clavicle was the commonest bone fractured (45.7%) followed by humerus (20%), femur (14.3%) and depressed skull fracture (11.4%)...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Bhat BV,Kumar A,Oumachigui A

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sedation is being used increasingly in children to allay anxiety and discomfort. Sedation can also increase the efficiency of performing both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in children. There are a wide array of available sedation methods that are used by radiologists, gastroenterologists, hematologists/oncolog...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Suresh S,Hall SC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The present study aimed at assessing the population prevalence of goiter and iodine deficiency in school children of 6-12 yr living in urban slums of Bhubaneswer, the capital city of Orissa. METHODS:A cross-sectional study was performed using the 30-cluster sampling methodology and surveillance methods for i...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Sethy PG,Bulliyya G,Mallick G,Swain BK,Kar SK

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance is a key factor leading to emerging/ re-emerging infections. Rational antimicrobial therapy or antimicrobial stewardship is one of the important interventions to prevent emergence of resistance. Choosing correct empiric therapy is crucial not only to prevent antimicrobial resistance but also t...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Singhal T

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the incidence, etiology and outcome of Cardiorenal syndrome (CRS) in hospitalized children. METHODS:A prospective cohort study was carried out in 242 children between 6 mo to 18 y of age hospitalized with primary cardiac, renal or any systemic disorder at a tertiary care center in India. The pr...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Athwani V,Bhargava M,Chanchlani R,Mehta AJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the etiological profile of patients with acute febrile encephalopathy syndrome focusing chiefly on the viral etiology, and to correlate clinical and radiological features of patients with viral encephalitis. METHODS:A prospective hospital based study conducted on the consecutive patients admitted in...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Karmarkar SA,Aneja S,Khare S,Saini A,Seth A,Chauhan BK

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To predict neuromotor outcome in Very Low Birth Weight infants at 1 year using Movement Assessment of Infants scale at 4 and 8 months of corrected age. METHODS:This hospital based prospective observational study consecutively recruited 45 infants with birth weight ≤ 1,500 g and admitted to neonatal intensive...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Metgud DC,Patil VD,Dhaded SM

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective communication with parents is a very important skill for pediatricians especially in a neonatal setup. The authors analyzed non-verbal communication of medical caregivers during counseling sessions. Recorded videos of counseling sessions from the months of March-April 2016 were audited. Counseling episodes w...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Nimbalkar SM,Raval H,Bansal SC,Pandya U,Pathak A

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The authors measured and recorded the physical (outdoor playing) and mental (home study) activity behavior and blood pressure amongst school going children and observed their association with the blood pressure levels. METHOD:It was a cross sectional school-based study from 12 primary schools; selected by s...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Thakor HG,Kumar P,Desai VK

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：:Thirty patients below the age of 15 years (range 8-1/2 to 15 years, mean 11.8 years) have been studied for the severity of rheumatic mitral regurgitation. Moderately severe to severe pulmonary venous hypertension was found in 76.6% and pulmonary arterial hypertension in 60%. Left ventricular volumes could be calculate...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Shrivastava S,Subramanyan K,Tandon R

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighty-seven patients with pectus excavatum underwent cardiac examination and echocardiography (M-mode) to determine the diagnostic significance of pectus in children for mitral valve prolapse (MVP). Patients' ages ranged from 1 month to 18 years with a mean age of 5.4 years. Sixty-seven were males. Twenty of the 87 p...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Park JM,Varma SK

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To find out correlation between serum anti-tissue transglutaminase immunoglobulin-A (tTGA) levels and Marsh grading on duodenal histopathology in Celiac disease (CD). METHODS:In a prospective cohort study, a total of 52 symptomatic patients between age group of 2-18 y were enroled. All enroled patients were ...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Jora R,Raghuvanshi V,Payal V,Sharma P,Vishnoi SK

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine pulmonary function abnormalities in children with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) from Western India. METHODS:In this cross sectional study conducted at Surat, Gujarat, India; equal number of age and gender matched children i.e., 99 in the age group of 6-18 y was recruited in case (children with SCD) ...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Purohit R,Rao SS,Goyal JP,Shah VB,Charan J

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial infections in Pediatric Intensive Care Units (PICUs) caused by multidrug-resistant bacterial organisms are increasing. This review attempts to report on significant findings in the current literature related to nosocomial infections in PICU settings with an international perspective. The types of nosocomial...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： McGrath EJ,Asmar BI

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CMV is a ubiquitous virus. In India, there is high seroendemicity with almost 99% adults showing IgG antibodies. Infection or re-activation becomes important in immunocompromised host (Transplant recipients, Cancer therapy patients and patients with HIV/AIDS). Neonates form a distinctive high risk population for conge...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Bhatia P,Narang A,Minz RW

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effective management of tuberculosis (TB) in children and important data of disease burden continue to rely on a clinical approach to diagnosis, as diagnosis of childhood TB is not confirmed in the majority. Many diagnostic scoring systems have been developed to aid with diagnosis. This article reviews the use and eva...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Graham SM

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted in children under the age of four years for a period of one year. By domiciliary visits the diarrheal episodes were recorded, analysed and presented. The findings are based on the diarrheal experience of 4860 children. The attack rate was 2.6/child/year. Family with more than one child had mor...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Reddaiah VP,Kapoor SK

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increased interest in the surgical management of epilepsy in children in the last decade or two. The plasticity of the developing brain and realization of the deleterious effects of uncontrolled seizures on the brain have prompted earlier surgery where indicated. All patients with uncontrolled partial seizure...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Singh VP

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty children presenting with acute encephalopathic illness within a month of measles were studied. A male preponderance was found and 83.3% of cases were below 5 years of age. The interval between onset of measles rash and that of encephalopathy ranged from 0 to 20 days. Fever (96.6%), convulsions (70%), and coma (...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Kumar R,Kumar A,Dubey A,Misra PK

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major causes of emergence of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) in neonatal sepsis include empiric antibiotic prescriptions, unregulated use of over-the-counter drugs, high incidence of healthcare associated infections (HAI), lack of awareness about antibiotic stewardship program and under staffing of neonatal i...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Wattal C,Kler N,Oberoi JK,Fursule A,Kumar A,Thakur A

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous supra-pharmacological doses of corticosteroids are used in various inflammatory and autoimmune conditions because they are cumulatively less toxic than sustained steroid treatment at lower quantitative dosage. Their action is supposed to be mediated through non-genomic actions within the cell. Common indic...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Sinha A,Bagga A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebral Palsy (CP) is the most common chronic disability of childhood. The problems involved are complex; not only do these children have problems of mobility, but a plethora of associated problems [1]. A recent definition of CP includes secondary musculoskeletal problems [2]. The inclusion of this in the definition ...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Johari R,Maheshwari S,Thomason P,Khot A

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In India, child malnutrition is prevalent, especially among the poor and vulnerable. It is mostly the result of high levels of exposure to infection and inappropriate infant and young child feeding and caring practices, and it sets in mostly during the first 2 to 3y of life. Therefore, the present study was done to as...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Shahrawat R,Joon V

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Castleman's disease is an atypical lymphoproliferative disorder having two types of presentation--the localized and the multicentric form. The localized form presents as a slowly growing mass with a relatively benign course. Multicentric Castleman's disease has a more aggressive clinical course with diffuse lymph node...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Sharma R,Seth R,Thavaraj V,Bagga A,Kabra SK,Karak AK,Atri S

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the safety and efficacy of off label usage of Recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa) in children with severe bleeding in non-hemophiliac children with diverse etiologies like leukemia, post hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, dengue shock syndrome and Glanzmann thrombasthenia. METHOD:Med...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Bhat S,Yadav SP,Anjan M,Dinand V,Sachdeva A

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is one of the most common preventable causes of mental retardation in children. Early diagnosis and treatment prevent the devastating outcome of mental retardation. Clinical features of CH are subtle and are not evident early in the neonatal period. Therefore, universal newborn screening...

journal_title：Indian journal of pediatrics

authors： Salim FA,Varma SK

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00