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Golandaj JA
…re an attempt has been made to trace the number of notified Pediatric TB cases during and after COVID-19 lockdown and unlock period, and then compared with the same period of previous year. The epidemic data on notified pediatric TB cases for 2019 and 2020 were extracted from the…
Raizada N, McDowell A, Parija D, Sachdeva KS, Khaparde SD, et al.
Background A significant proportion of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) patients go unnotified due to the challenges in diagnosis of TB among children. The experiences of this vulnerable group while going through the TB care cascade remain largely undocumented. The aim of this study w…
Fekadu G, Bekele F, Bekele K, Girma T, Mosisa G, et al.
…berculosis drugs result in non-adherence to treatment among pediatric patients. Hence, this study was aimed to evaluate pediatrics adherence status among tuberculosis pediatric patients on anti-tuberculosis treatment at Nekemte Specialized Hospital. Methods A health facility-base…
Mohammed Suleiman, Andrés Pérez-López, Ruwa Mohamed, Faheem Mirza, Amina Souli, et al.
…GX-MTB/R) assay, with conventional mycobacterial culture in pediatric non-sputum samples. A total of 417 non-sputum samples from a tertiary pediatric facility underwent simultaneous GX-MTB/R-U and culture testing. Performance was evaluated using conventional culture as a gold sta…
Gupta S, Vats P, Jha A, Singh K, Ghosh S, et al.
…l manifestations of tuberculosis (TB) in the oral cavity in pediatric patients. Study design Four pediatric patients were enrolled in the study. Clinical symptoms, auxiliary examinations, treatments, and outcomes were recorded and analyzed. Four pediatric patients who presented w…
Fritschi N, Schmidt AJ, Hammer J, Ritz N
Background 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. Methods…
Mi Zhou, Xuren Chen, Jie Huang, Runlin Su, Hongmei Lei, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Pediatric tuberculosis (TB) management remains an underemphasized area plagued by diagnostic and treatment challenges that are compounded further due to rising levels of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). Even though TB incidence is high in China, limited data e…
Salerno SN, Capparelli EV, McIlleron H, Gerhart JG, Dumond JB, et al.
…tuberculosis co-infection leads to significant mortality in pediatric patients, and treatment can be challenging due to the clinically significant drug-drug interaction (DDI) between lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/RTV) and rifampin. Doubling LPV/RTV results in insufficient lopinavir tr…
Chawla K, Burugina Nagaraja S, Siddalingaiah N, Sanju C, Kumar U, et al.
… The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of screening pediatric household contacts (under the age of 15 years) for tuberculosis (TB) in India through verbal screening, tuberculin skin testing, and chest radiography at intervals of 0, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months. The study also a…
Villarreal EG, Ramos-Barrera E, Estrada-Mendizabal RJ, Treviño-Valdez PD, Tamez-Rivera O
…d Analyzing the epidemiology and clinical manifestations of pediatric tuberculosis in endemic regions is crucial to meet the goal of ending tuberculosis. The objective was to assess the various clinical scenarios of tuberculosis in a large pediatric cohort in Mexico. Methods This…
Maharaj S, Mungul S, Ahmed S
…l treatment. We have also described the demographic data of pediatric versus adult patients and the predominant age-related subtypes of deep neck space infections. Patients and methods A retrospective review of the data from patients with deep neck space infections during a 5.5-y…
Goussard P, Retief F, Burke J, Malherbe A, Janson J
… to identify relevant literature. The search was limited to pediatrics, pulmonology, bronchoscopy, and pediatric pulmonary tuberculosis for all articles published in English on pediatric bronchoscopy between 2010 and 2020. Recent advances in pediatric bronchoscopy was included, a…
Surve S, Naukariya K, Shah I
…s been reported between 21 and 48%. The exact prevalence of pediatric LTBI in India is still not clear, however, as per few studies, the LTBI prevalence ranges around 40% and 22% in adolescent followed by under-5 population. Studies to fill in the research gap of scarcity of prev…
Zhang KX, Varma H, Cao Y, Shah VS
…es are variable, and complications are frequent. Only a few pediatric cases have been reported, and further insight is needed to assess the child's alignment outcomes and ability for postsurgical gain of function. The aim of our study is to report the outcomes of this surgical pr…
Luan H, Deng Q, Sheng W, Mamat M, Guo H, 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…
Campbell J, Sandora T, Haberer J
…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…
…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…
Wong SA, Lee Meijuan D, Loh SW, Thoon KC, Tan NWH, et al.
… remains a major cause of mortality and morbidity globally. Pediatric patients are more likely to develop severe disease. Abdominal TB is a rare manifestation of pediatric TB and can present with chronic and nonspecific abdominal symptoms. This study examines the clinical profile…
Aaditya Daga, Manjiri Karlekar, Anurag Lila, Vijaya Sarathi, Anima Sharma, et al.
**OBJECTIVES:** Pediatric primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI) etiologies beyond congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) show regional variations. Given limited data from India, this study aims to describe the etiological profile, phenotype, and genotype of pediatric PAI in an Indian…
Abdallah A
…ors aimed to present the surgical outcomes of 3 consecutive pediatric patients with SSA. Materials and methods We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of pediatric patients with spinal lesions who underwent surgery at 2 neurosurgical centers spanning 7 years, from 2012 to…
Gaensbauer JT, Reves RR, Katz D, Ahmed A, Venkatappa T
… component of clinical and public health efforts to prevent pediatric tuberculosis (TB). Pediatric data comparing the 2 IGRAs in the United States are very limited. We compared the performance of the 2 IGRAs among a large pediatric cohort tested for TBI and assessed whether disco…
Chatterjee S, Banta A
Introduction Pediatric spinal tuberculosis is characterized by rapid bone destruction and carries the risk of rapid onset neurological deficits and severe deformity of the spine. Behavior of spinal deformity over time is affected by growth of spine. Owing to this dynamic behavior…
Lindsay A Concha-Mora, Aracely Guzmán-Guajardo, José E Mares-Gil, Oscar Tamez-Rivera
**BACKGROUND:** Pediatric tuberculosis (TB) remains underdiagnosed and underreported in Mexico, with limited data on its spatial distribution. This study used geographic information systems (GIS) to map pediatric TB cases diagnosed at a tertiary referral hospital in Nuevo Leon, M…
Isabelle Munyangaju, Andreas Jahnen, Ridwaan Esmail, Benedita José, Jacinta Adrigwe, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Pediatric tuberculosis diagnosis relies heavily on imaging, yet access, equipment standards, and dose monitoring differ widely across health systems. Evidence describing how these contextual factors influence imaging use and radiation exposure in children remains …
Deosthali A, Donches K, DelVecchio M, Aronoff S
…erse. No systematic review of the differential diagnosis of pediatric cervical lymphadenopathy has been conducted. Objective . To determine the prevalence rate of specific etiologies of pediatric cervical lymphadenopathy. Data Sources . EMBASE, PubMed, and SCOPUS were searched el…