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Xiaoxia Wang, Shaomei Huang, Hua Chen
… clinical and Imaging characteristics between children with pediatric pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and children with pneumonia who were initially suspected of PTB, and to explore valuable indicators for differential diagnosis. Methods This retrospective study enrolled pediatric i…
Piastra M, Picconi E, Morena TC, Valentini P, Buonsenso D, et al.
…TB) in the adult setting, and it is even less common in the pediatric population. The presence of comorbidities and the possibility of a delayed diagnosis may further impair the clinical prognosis of critically ill patients with disseminated TB and acute respiratory failure. In t…
Gao LW, Yin QQ, Tong YJ, Gui JG, Liu XY, et al.
…stigate the clinical and genetic features of CGD in Chinese pediatric patients. Methods Pediatric patients with CGD from Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital Medical University, China, were enrolled from January 2006 to December 2016. Results A total of 159 pediatric patients wit…
Damla Sel Coban, Hıncal Özbakır, Berna Avci Yavuz, Berna Kahraman Çetin, Özlem Erdoğan, et al.
…tion. A previously healthy 13-year-old boy presented to the pediatric outpatient clinic with a 2-week history of fever, cough, loss of appetite, weight loss and night sweats. His immunizations were up to date for his age. Family history revealed that his grandfather had been diag…
Rachel Collins, Bhajan Singh, Donald Payne, Chrianna Bharat, William Noffsinger, et al.
AIM: Transfer from pediatric to adult services could lead to clinical deterioration, few studies have examined this. We sought to examine the clinical impact of a structured individualized transition and transfer process in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). METHODS: Medical rec…
Saïd O. Ali, Hanitriniaina S. C. Samena, Kanto A. Razafindraibe, Annick Robinson
…o chest x-ray images compared to GeneXpert for diagnosis of pediatric tuberculosis.Methods: A retrospective diagnostic accuracy study was carried out on hospitalized children aged 0 to 14 years old, tuberculosis suspect in the pediatric department of the Tsaralalana mother child …
Duque-Silva A, Hampole V, Cheng YN, Flood J, Barry PM
… describe the characteristics and posttreatment outcomes of pediatric patients with central nervous system (CNS) tuberculosis (TB) and to identify factors associated with poor outcome. Methods We included children aged 0 to 18 years with CNS TB reported to the California TB regis…
Rebecca B, Chacko A, Verghese V, Rose W
Background Pediatric tuberculosis (TB) is often underdiagnosed with poor estimate of its true burden. Availability of Xpert MTB/RIF assay enhances diagnostic capacity of pediatric TB. Methods A 3-year retrospective review of hospital records was done for all children diagnosed wi…
Gao P, Liu L, Zhang Z, Xu L, Wu C, et al.
…nd Intussusception is a frequent abdominal emergency in the pediatric population when the proximal bowel invaginates into the distal bowel. However, catheter-induced intussusception has not previously been described in pediatric renal transplant recipients, and the risk factors n…
Faith Angakobi Angafuh, Raymond Babila Nyasa, Bertrand Myson Palle Sone, Jane-Francis Akoachere
…ne in the national immunization program, the persistence of pediatric TB in the Buea Health District raises concerns about immunization coverage and its relationship with disease burden. Aims: This study assessed the trends in BCG vaccination coverage and TB prevalence in childre…
Sujing Xue, Kewu Lin, Ledan Lin, Huijie Zhou, Lishuang Dong, et al.
Background Sputum retention in pediatric pneumonia hinders recovery. This study evaluated the therapeutic benefits of incorporating mechanical vibration-assisted sputum clearance (MVSC) as an adjunct to standard pharmacological treatment and developed a nomogram to optimize treat…
Heba A. Ali, Mona A. Salem, Marwa A. Abdelwahad
… have been found to negatively impact the natural course of pediatric bronchiectasis. However, prognostic factors that might predict the severity of exacerbations are poorly identified. Therefore, this study was designed to identify the best prognostic factors associated with pul…
Mohammed Rizwanul Ahsan, Manzoor Hussain, Sabrina Makbul, Probir Kumar Sarkar, ABM Mahfuj Hassan Al Mamun
Background: Pediatric tuberculosis (TB) contribute a significant proportion of the TB burden in Bangladesh yet little is known about the clinical characteristics of this childhood TB which remains unclear. Objectives: This study of paediatric TB is designed to evaluate the clinic…
Suárez-González J, Santoveña-Estévez A, Soriano M, Fariña JB
…n must contain the lowest number of excipients accepted for pediatrics and fulfill all the pharmacopeia requirements. Significance: At present, there is no adequate market dosage form available for children. There is, however, one in a prequalification phase by the World Health O…
Demir OF, Onal O
…udy was to discuss the effectiveness of mediastinoscopy for pediatric patients as the use of EBUS-EUS (Endobronchial Ultrasound-Endoscopic Ultrasound) has replaced mediastinoscopy for adult patients in evaluation of the mediastinal area. Methods The records of patients subject to…
Mandalakas AM, Highsmith HY, Harris NM, Pawlicka A, Kirchner HL
… associations with key demographic variables during routine pediatric use in a low tuberculosis burden setting. Methods For pediatric samples received at Oxford Diagnostic Laboratories between 2010 and 2015, the associations between initial test outcome and demographics were esti…
Jeffrey I. Campbell, Mingwei Sun, Wei He, Gabriella S Lamb, Gabriella S Lamb, et al.
Abstract Background The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) or interferon gamma release assays (IGRAs) to test for tuberculosis (TB) infection in children ≥2 years old, and prioritizes IGRA testing in Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine recipients d…
Chapagain RH, Adhikari S, Bista B, Bhattarai T, Thapa P
… scrub typhus among the children admitted in tertiary level pediatric hospital for febrile illness. Methods A case control study was conducted among hospitalized children with acute febrile illness in a government pediatric referral hospital of central Nepal for two years (2021 t…
Joy Morcilla, Ma. Liza Antoinette Gonzales, Anna Lisa Ong‐Lim
…in the Philippines. Diagnosis remains to be a challenge for pediatricians due to its paucibacillary nature, difficulty in obtaining specimens, cost of test as well as the varied sensitivity of the different tests available. Gastric aspirate (GA), commonly used for bacteriological…
Dewi Elizadiani Suza, Setiawan Setiawan, Diah Arruum
…hs. Therefore, this study aims to explore the experience of pediatric nurses in caring for TB children from various ethnic groups during the new normal life. This study used a phenomenological method, consisting of 12 nurses working in a pediatric ward who were interviewed in an …
Mihailov OM, Stavar Matei L, Tocu G, Ciubara A, Mihailov R
… prognostic factors associated with depressive disorders in pediatric patients diagnosed with tuberculosis through a prospective analysis. Materials and methods A prospective study was conducted on 190 pediatric patients, aged 7 to 18 years, diagnosed with tuberculosis and treate…
Rayhana, Rahmini Shabariah, Kisi Anandita
… at Central General Hospital X in July 2019. A sample of 72 pediatric tuberculosis patients was taken using a simple random sampling technique. The data used is secondary data from medical records for the period January 2016-December 2018 to look at the characteristics of pediatr…
Duy Quoc Ngo, Toan Duc Tran, Quy Xuan Ngo, Quang Van Le
Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) occurs rarely in the pediatric population, contributing to 1%–2% of childhood malignancies. Lung metastases have been reported to occur in 7%–30% in this age group. Moreover, pulmonary metastases presented with miliary pattern of micronodules a…
Yang G, Wen Y, Chen T, Xu C, Yuan M, et al.
…parse. This study aimed to analyze the clinical features of pediatric TE receiving surgical intervention. Methods We performed a retrospective study of children with empyema secondary to community-acquired pneumonia who underwent surgery in our institution. The clinical character…
Villar-Hernández R, Latorre I, Noguera-Julian A, Martínez-Planas A, Minguell L, et al.
…antigens. Methods We tested the NTM-IGRA in 99 samples from pediatric patients. Seventy-five were patients with lymphadenitis: 25 were NTM confirmed, 45 were of unknown etiology but compatible with mycobacterial infection and 5 had lymphadenitis caused by an etiologic agent other…