Triple X syndrome is a relatively common chromosomal abnormality affecting 0.1% of live-born girls. Most of these girls have a normal phenotype and only a few cases have birth defects. The diagnosis of triple X syndrome may never be made because the clinical manifestations are no...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2023/v11i2214
Background: Epilepsy is a common neurological disorder that affects people of all ages, races, and social classes, but it can be especially devastating to a growing child. Adults and children experience fractures 2-6 times more frequently than the general population due to the ad...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2023/v11i1212
Background: Prediction scores could help to timely identify patients at risk. More intense care monitoring outside the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) could improve outcomes. These concepts of critical care without borders could be implemented shortly with local resources an...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2023/v11i1213
Guillian-Barre syndrome (GBS) is an acute immune-mediated inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy characterized by symmetrical limb weakness and areflexia preceded by an infection while Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus is a neurotropic RNA virus belonging to Flaviviridae family...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2023/v11i1211
Lukman Amadu, Keren-Happuch Twumasiwaa Boateng, Vida Nyagre Yakong, Williams Kwame Boateng, Ani-Amponsah, Mary, Richardson Doris, Theresa Abena Jamebe Antwi & Dzigbordi Kpikpitse·Asian Journal of Pediatric Research·2023
Background: Mothers who give birth to low birth weight or premature babies who are therefore highly delicate may experience shock and depression as a result of having their newborns hospitalised in NICUs. This kind of hospitalisation ruins the family dynamic and throws the parent...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2023/v11i1210
Aims: Alopecia areata is a non-scarring autoimmune disease, quite frequent in the pediatric population. Trichoscopy plays a fundamental role in its diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic evaluation. Our objective was to describe the trichoscopic signs of alopecia areata in children...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2023/v11i1209
Introduction: Febrile seizures are the most common type of seizure in children occurring in 2-5 % of them with a peak incidence in 16-18 months. Various factors have been described in the pathophysiology of febrile seizures like susceptibility of the immature brain to temperature...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4208
Background: Lung Ultrasound (LUS) has recently become an important method for diagnostic examination and monitoring of lung disease. Many lung diseases, such as respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTNB), pneumonia were diagnosed by chest X-ray...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4207
Background: Patients-ventilator asynchrony defined as a mismatch between the patient’s respiratory effort and the ventilator delivered breaths and it is common in clinical practice. Patient ventilator interaction is a key element in optimizing MV. The change from inspiration to e...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4206
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute, febrile, erupting, self-limited autoimmune disease with systemic vasculitis as the main lesion. It is more common in children under 5 years old, and the main lesions associate the coronary arteries. With the increasing incidence, it has become t...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4205