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Hendriarto A, Juliandri R, Hartanto BR
…zation, and surgery. The use of Gardner well tongs (GWT) in pediatrics spinal TB is rare due to associated risks and lack of supporting evidence. This case report aims to document the application of GWT traction in conjunction with surgical intervention for a pediatric patient wi…
Wang X, Yu U, Li X, Wang C, Zhang Q, et al.
…event severe complications. Case presentation We report two pediatric patients who developed tuberculosis after receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for thalassemia major among 330 recipients between January 2012 and August 2019. Patient A presented with pulmonary tu…
Selvarasu K, Ghosh R, Saralaya S, Desai AK
…oux test and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) levels in pediatric tuberculosis and also signifies the impact of this test in treatment planning and implementation in pediatric cleft lip and palate patients. Methodology Retrospective analyses of the records of 2010 pediatric c…
Grønningen E, Nanyaro M, Sviland L, Ngadaya E, Muller W, et al.
Pediatric extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) is a diagnostic challenge. A new immunochemistry based MPT64 antigen detection test has shown improved sensitivity compared to current laboratory tests. The aim of this study was to implement and validate the test performance in a reso…
Kashyap B, Jhanjharia S, Saha R, Gomber S
Background Multi-drug resistance (MDR) in pediatric tuberculosis (TB) is a growing global threat. Unavailability of conventional or molecular drug susceptibility test (DST) in resource-limited settings often impede the determination of the extent of first line anti-tubercular dru…
Al Bulushi Y, Saint-Martin C, Muthukrishnan N, Maleki F, Reinhold C, et al.
…fectious entity that often presents as lymphadenitis in the pediatric age group. Current practice involves invasive testing and excisional biopsy to diagnose NTM lymphadenitis. In this study, we performed a retrospective analysis of 249 lymph nodes selected from 143 CT scans of p…
Dhaked S, Sharma N, Chopra KK, Khanna A, Kumar R
…ovides the extent of patient and health system delays among pediatric tuberculosis (TB) patients. Objectives The study attempted to understand the treatment seeking pathways of pediatric TB patients under revised national tuberculosis control program (RNTCP). Study design and set…
Jian Zeng, Haitao Su, Jin Wang, Jiaohong Zhang, Shuihua Lu, et al.
…nvestigate the clinical features and prognostic outcomes of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) in Shenzhen. **METHODS:** This retrospective study collected demographic, clinical, laboratory, and prognostic data from pediatric patients diagnosed with TB between January 2013 and January …
Principe-Collazos J, Ramos-Yataco A, Nombera-Aznaran N, Ramos-Orosco EJ, Sangster-Carrasco L
… nodes, peritoneal lymphomatosis causing ascites is rare in pediatric patients. We present a unique case of DLBC lymphoma in a Peruvian child presenting as ascites associated with peritoneal lymphomatosis. The 11-year-old boy was admitted with ascites and dyspnea. Physical examin…
Hamdar H, Nahle AA, Ataya J, Jawad A, Salame H, et al.
…ristics, diagnostic methods, and early mortality rate among pediatric patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) who were admitted to a hospital in Syria. Methods This retrospective cohort study was conducted at the University Children's Hos…
González Saldaña N, Macías Parra M, Xochihua Díaz L, Palavicini Rueda M, Carmona Vargas AJ, et al.
…steoarticular tuberculosis (OATB) in patients in a tertiary pediatric hospital, to know if the diagnosis of OATB in pediatrics is a challenge due to its insidious clinical presentation. Methods A retrospective, descriptive study of the cases of Tuberculosis (TB) in children was c…
Christine Anterasian, Anele Gela, Temwa-Dango Mwambene, Javeed A Shah, Josh Ivie, et al.
…lus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)-vaccination and susceptibility to pediatric tuberculosis (TB) vary across individuals, the underlying cellular mechanism regulating this heterogeneity is poorly understood. We used a nested case-control study with a 2-yr prospective observation period to…
Kapur S, Bhalla AS, Jana M
…iques. However, a significant concern with their use in the pediatric population is the associated ionisation radiation. The use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in pulmonary imaging has lagged behind its adoption in other organ systems. Previously, the lung parenchyma was con…
Bhatt C, Prabhu SP, Parihar A
… most dreaded manifestation of systemic tuberculosis in the pediatric age group. It is associated with high morbidity and mortality due to severe neurological complications and sequelae. Knowledge about the imaging spectrum of CNS TB will help in early presumptive diagnosis and p…
Xu H, Blair RV, Veazey RS, Wang X
…losis (Mtb) in infants when administered at birth. However, pediatric HIV infection is most devastating in the disease progression of TB. It remains challenging whether early antiretroviral therapy (ART) could maintain immune development and function, and restore Mtb-specific imm…
Singhal R, Dayal R, Bhatnagar S, Nayak M, Yadav N, et al.
…d as compared to CBNAAT in gastric aspirate (GA) samples in pediatric tuberculosis (TB). Methods This cross-sectional study was performed at Department of Pediatrics of a tertiary care hospital. Children aged 0-18 y diagnosed as presumptive tuberculosis were consecutively enrolle…
Gaensbauer J, Gonzales B, Belknap R, Wilson ML, O'Connor ME
…uantiFERON-tuberculosis (TB) Gold (QFT)-based screening for pediatric latent TB infection (LTBI) in the Denver Health Community Health System (CHS), an urban primary-care network in the US. Study design We retrospectively analyzed all QFTs (n = 6685) performed on children aged 2-…
Gray DM, Davies MA, Githinji L, Levin M, Mapani M, et al.
…ad with far-reaching impacts on health-care systems. Whilst pediatric data consistently shown a milder disease course, chronic lung disease has been identified as a risk factor for hospitalization and severe disease. In Africa, comprised predominantly of low middle-income countri…
Yue Xi, Huiwen Zheng, Yonghong Wang, Yajie Guo, Jing Xiao, et al.
**OBJECTIVES:** Tuberculosis screening in pediatric lupus nephritis (LN) patients presents unique diagnostic challenges. This study aimed to analyze the frequency of indeterminate QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus (QFT-Plus) results among children with LN and the potential influence facto…
Shah I, Antony S, Jaiswal A, Bodhanwala M, Shah D, et al.
…ptimized background regimen including Dlm or Bdq or both in pediatric MDRFQ/SLI/XDR-TB patients who failed a standard MDR-TB regimen under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme in Mumbai, India. Design and methods Retrospective descriptive analysis study. National Tuber…
Nayir Büyükşahin H, Emiralioğlu N, Ademhan Tural D, Özsezen B, Sunman B, et al.
…iberoptic bronchoscopy findings of patients referred to our pediatric pulmonology department due to difficult-to-treat asthma and determine the effects of flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy on the differential diagnosis and treatment. Materials and methods The demographic character…
Zhang S, Li X, Chen H, Gao X, Cai Z, et al.
…d become a new biomarker for the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. Methods We have analyzed the clinical data of 776 children who are underwent TB-IGRA testing in the Department of Allergy and Rheumatology of Guangzhou Women and Chi…
Miranda-Schaeubinger M, Venkatakrishna SSB, Otero HJ, Marais BJ, Goussard P, et al.
…volving role in diagnosis, classification and management of pediatric pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). During the pre-chemotherapy era, CXR aided in determining infectiousness, mainly to guide isolation practices, by detecting calcified and non-calcified lymphadenopathy. The availabi…
Mane SS, Shrotriya P
…TB in children, which accounts for around 31% of the global pediatric TB load. However, over the past 10 y, children have consistently made up 6-7% of all patients treated yearly under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP). There is an estimated detection gap of …
Grohs E, Short M, Griffin G, Sheets A, Tegarden T, et al.
… in facilities with robust TB control programs. We report a pediatric case of TB meningitis who had an adult visitor with active pulmonary TB. We identified 96 contacts from the index case. One high-risk contact had a positive follow-up TB test with no clinical symptoms. TB contr…