Objective: Electrolyte dysregulations particularly hypophosphatemia and hypokalemia following feeds in a starved person is known as refeeding syndrome, which may lead to life-threatening conditions like arrhythmias, heart failure, respiratory and neuromuscular compromise. To eval...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v3i230124
Introduction: Obesity is an emerging epidemic worldwide causing serious public health concern. The upper part of the body as Neck circumference (NC) can be used as a simple and time saving screening tool to evaluate it. Materials and Methods: From January 2018 to June 2019, this...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v3i230123
Aims: To study the anthropometric measurements of the neonates between 28 to 42 weeks of gestational age. To express them as smoothed percentiles and obtain their correlation with the constant. Comparing the data trend with the Shah Study conducted twelve years ago in the same i...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v3i230122
Introduction: Incidence of nephrotic syndrome (NS) and filariasis both is high in China, Japan & India. Studies have shown the association of filariasis in NS. In the coastal belt of Gujarat, Filariasis occurs as the mosquito responsible is still prevalent. Therefore, filaria...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v3i130121
Background and Objectives: There is no consensus over which drug best reduces symptoms in Bronchiolitis syndrome. The primary objective of our study is to establish comparative effect of adrenaline nebulisation alone and combination of adrenaline nebulisation plus injectable dexa...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v3i130120
Background: Vitamin K deficiency can cause severe haemorrhage in the newborn and is an important cause of infant morbidity and mortality. HDN can be classified according to the time of presentation after birth into early (0–24 hours), classical (1–14 days) and late (2–12 weeks) H...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v3i130119
Background and Objective: Hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus (HsPDA) is a common cause of morbidity in preterm infants. Indomethacin and Ibuprofen, which are cyclo-oxygenase (COX) 1, 2 inhibitors are commonly used drugs for closure of HsPDA. As, Ibuprofen has se...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v3i130118
Aim: Hypernatremia is a recognized complication of poorly constituted Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) use that can cause neurological manifestations which require careful but often challenging management to prevent morbidity and mortality. Herein we report a case of symptomatic h...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v3i130117
Background: A congenital anomaly may be defined in terms of physical structure as a malformation, an abnormality of physical structure or form usually found at birth or during the first few weeks of life. Congenital anomalies affect approximately 1 in 33 infants and result in app...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2019/v2i430116
Seyi Samson Enitan, John Cletus Ihongbe, John Okeleke Ochei, Adeolu Sunday Oluremi & Goziem Edikan Ajulibe·Asian Journal of Pediatric Research·2019
Background: Viral gastroenteritis is still a major public health challenge in the Sub-Sahara Africa, with Rotavirus and Adenovirus as the leading causes of acute gastroenteritis among children. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of Rotavirus and Adenovir...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2019/v2i430115
Connate myxedema is also known as congenital hypothyroidism is an inborn endocrine disorder, affects 1 in every 3000 to 4000 infants. Numerous genetic defects are related with perpetual congenital hypothyroidism (CH). Ambient atmosphere, iatrogenic and immunologic factors are kno...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2019/v2i430114
Waardenburg syndrome is an uncommon autosomal dominant or recessive disorder, distinguished by hypopigmentation of either skin or hairs or both, segmental, partial or complete heterochromia iridis or isohypochromia, hypertrichosis of eyebrow, synophrys, dystopia canthorum, broad...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2019/v2i430113
Transaldolase TALDO deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of the pentose phosphate pathway. It has variable presentations with poor outcome when present early in life. We present a young Saudi infant with a fatal early presentation of TALDO deficiency.
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2019/v2i430112
Background: Reflexology means the application of the manual the pressure to specific points of the feet called "reflex points" that are believed to correspond to other parts of the body. The study aimed to assess the effect of reflexology strategy on the mother’s breast milk volu...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2019/v2i430111
Introduction: A considerable amount of knowledge has accumulated in recent years regarding the pediatric aspects of sleep with its associated disorders being understood. Health education for parents and prospective-parents frequently pay little attention to sleep. In addition med...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2019/v2i330110