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H. B. Luan, Q Deng, Sheng Wang, M Mamat, Huiping Guo, et al.
…ervicothoracic segmental tuberculosis (TB) with kyphosis in pediatric patients.Methods: The clinical data of 15 pediatric patients admitted to our hospital from January 2010 to December 2017 who underwent staged posterior–anterior combined surgery for cervicothoracic segmental TB…
Renee Gresh, Kimberly Davidow, Jeff Myers, D Morley
…s been a metric tracked for the US News and World Report in pediatric oncology. Electronic health record (EHR) based tools may be used to improve rates of vaccination. An oncology knowledgebase is an internal web portal that integrates relevant diagnostic and clinical data from t…
Nora Fritschi, Schmidt A.J., Jürg Hammer, Nicole Ritz, Swiss pediatric surveillance unit
…ckground:</i></b> In Europe, surveillance and monitoring of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) remains important, particularly in the light of migration in recent years. The aim of the study was to evaluate incidence rates of childhood TB and detailed diagnostic pathways and treatment. …
Mae Anne Rizalyn Allam, Mary Jane Dolores Ayson
Objective: Pediatric HIV is a national health concern that has grown exponentially in the past 5 years. This study aimed to determine the clinico-demographic profile and outcome of pediatric HIV/AIDS patients 0-18 years old seen at the Western Visayas Medical Center (WVMC) HIV/AI…
Jeffrey I. Campbell, Thomas J. Sandora, Jessica E. Haberer
…ts to eliminate TB by 2030. Identification and treatment of pediatric LTBI requires completion of a complex care cascade. While attention has been given to LTBI care cascades in adults, to date there has been no attempt to map literature on the pediatric LTBI care cascade. Facili…
Sabila Salsabila, Ni Made Mertaniasih, Retno Asih Setyoningrum
…common result on the Xpert MTB/RIF examination in suspected pediatric TB cases. Abstract Introduction: The difficulty of diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) is the most significant challenge in pediatric pulmonary TB cases. More accurate and faster diagnostic tools are essential for det…
Nicolas A. Menzies, Tyler S. Brown, Jeffrey W. Eaton, Peter J. Dodd, Ted Cohen, et al.
…d dying from tuberculosis (TB). We estimated the additional pediatric TB cases and deaths that could occur over 2025-2034 if programmes supported by United States bilateral health aid and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund) are discontinued. Met…
Trim Lajqi, Natascha Köstlin‐Gille, Christian Gille
…in 2020. Particularly, in low- and middle-income countries, pediatric infectious diseases remain a significant public health concern. During early development, infants rely mainly on the activity of the innate immune responses in the defense against invading pathogens. Until rece…
Enrique G. Villarreal, Ricardo J. Estrada-Mendizábal, Emilia Ramos-Barrera, Pablo D Treviño-Valdez, Oscar Tamez‐Rivera
…cal trends of the different clinical presentations of TB in pediatric population. Methods A retrospective, cross-sectional study, carried out at a pediatric referral hospital in Mexico between 2012-2021. Pediatric patients diagnosed with TB were included. Descriptive statistics w…
Dhira Rizki Putri, Marichatul Jannah
…n 2017, Indonesia had 4.950 new cases of HIV infection in pediatrics. In HIV, a chest x-ray is generally used to determine the Opportunistic Infections (OIs) to accelerate treatment. There are differences in the projections and the typical features on chest x-ray in each OI. Th…
Bineeta Kashyap, Neha Gupta, Pooja Dewan, Puneeta Hyanki, NarendraPal Singh
… of disease in TBM. We aimed to assess serum TNF-α level in pediatric patients with TB in association with clinicoradiological and microbiological features, with special reference to TBM. Materials and methods Serum TNF-α level was estimated using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assa…
Bineeta Kashyap, Neha Gupta, Pooja Dewan, Puneeta Hyanki, Narendra Singh
… cough, low fever and weight loss. Radiological features in pediatric pulmonary TB may also remain non-specific, most typical being hilar or paratracheal lymphadenopathy. So the diagnosis remains difficult. Microbiological confirmation remains challenging due to suboptimal pulmon…
Ananya S Willsraj, Suba Joice, Y Dishan, Blessed Singh, Ajin Chandran
…ials and methods: A cross-sectional study was done among 90 pediatric HHC (5–15 years) of 48 microbiologically confirmed pulmonary TB patients notified in Neyyattinkara TB unit from March 2021 to July 2022. Data were entered and analyzed using SPSS trial version 26. All qualitati…
Juan J. Gómez-Valverde, Ramon Sanchez, José Luis Ribó, H. Simon Schaaf, Lara García Delgado, et al.
…ly those under the age of 5 years. The complex diagnosis of pediatric TB, compounded by limited access to more accurate diagnostic tests, underscores the need for improved tools to enhance diagnosis and care in resource-limited settings. </sec> <sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This…
Daniel Capellán-Martín, Abhijeet Parida, Juan J. Gómez-Valverde, Ramon Sanchez, Pooneh Roshanitabrizi, et al.
…is (TB) remains a significant global health challenge, with pediatric cases posing a major concern. The World Health Organization (WHO) advocates for chest X-rays (CXRs) forTB screening. However, visual interpretation by radiologists can be subjective, time-consuming and prone to…
Patricia Comella-del-Barrio, José Luis Izquierdo-García, Ramón Campos‐Olivas, Clara M. Santiveri, Jesús Ruı́z-Cabello, et al.
…al scoring systems limited by the TB clinical presentation. Pediatric TB diagnosis research should be focused on new biomarkers from non-invasive and non-sputum-based samples. By metabolomics we can obtain a “fingerprint<i>”</i> of the metabolites presents in a biological sample,…
Andrea M. Prinzi, Sarah K. Parker, Cary Thurm, Meghan Birkholz, Anna Sick-Samuels
…s of data obtained from the Children's Hospital Association Pediatric Health Information System database between January 1, 2016, through December 31, 2019. Participants were all patients hospitalized with mechanical ventilation aged less than 18 years. Exposures: A charge for an…
Jocimar da Silva Santos, Franciely da Costa Alves, Efraim José Dos Santos Júnior, José Lamartine Soares‐Sobrinho, Mônica Felts de La Roca Soares
…nd dapsone. This represents results in lack of adherence in pediatric patients and drug therapy failure, although numerous formulations and technologies have already been developed. AREA COVERED: This study aims to analyze the technological evolution of the pharmaceutical treatme…
Mandira Chakraborty, Sayani Sardar, Rituparna De, Malabika Biswas, Maria Teresa Mascellino, et al.
…tance patterns of pathogens causing infections in adult and pediatric patients in the ICUs of a tertiary care hospital in Kolkata, India. A cross-sectional, retrospective study was conducted from January 2022 to October 2022 on a total of 139 adult and 146 pediatric patients. Dep…
Jyoti Sharma, Sanjeev Chaudhary, Sandesh Guleria, Vipan Garg, Anju Bala
…umptive pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) in pediatric patients.Materials and methods: It was a descriptive observational study done in pediatric presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and EPTB patients in a tertiary care institute of northern India.Pulmonary as …
Qionghua Chen, Yuelin Shen, Hui Xu, Xiaolei Tang, Haiming Yang, et al.
… aimed to investigate medical and other challenges faced by pediatric CF patients in China. Method Treatments and treatment outcomes were retrospectively analyzed for 46 pediatric CF patients diagnosed from August 2009 to June 2019. Pre- and post-treatment results were compared u…
Ahmad Faried, Satria Prawira Putra, Eka W. Suradji, Trianto, Rafiqa R. Akbar, et al.
…frastructure. A retrospective cohort study was performed on pediatric TBM patients that were admitted to Regional Public Hospital (RSUD) Teluk Bintuni, West Papua, Indonesia (Jan 1st–Dec 31st, 2017). Out of fourty three pediatric tuberculosis patients, there were 7 children with …
A Mosses, D Philbert, F Ngadaya, D Solomon, F Msafiri, et al.
…sistent challenges in the timely diagnosis and treatment of pediatric TB due to resource limitations, underreporting, and diagnostic complexities. To address detection gaps, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the use of Treatment Decision Algorithms (TDAs) to improve …
Bineeta Kashyap, Neha Gupta, Pooja Dewan, Puneeta Hyanki, Narendra Pal Singh
…ovitaminosis D with clinical and microbiological profile in pediatric TB. Materials and methods A case–control study was conducted on 60 clinically diagnosed (clinical findings and radiography and/or contact history and/or Mantoux test) or microbiologically confirmed (smear and/o…
Jane E. Gross, Michael McCown, Caroline U. A. Okorie, Lara Bishay, Fei Jamie Dy, et al.
The following is a concise review of the Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine Core reviewing pediatric pulmonary infections, diagnostic assays, and imaging techniques presented at the 2021 American Thoracic Society Core Curriculum. Molecular methods have revolutionized microbiology. We h…