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Paediatrics and Child Health: Recent submissions
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(Elsevier, 2018-03)BACKGROUND : In low- and middle-income countries, including South Africa, the epidemiology of pertussis in relation to immunization, nutritional, and HIV status is poorly described. This article reports on risk factors ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2017)BACKGROUND. Despite the recognized benefit of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for preventing and treating HIV, some studies have reported adverse birth outcomes with in utero ART exposure. We evaluated the effect of infant ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2017-03)BACKGROUND : Niemann-Pick disease type C (NP-C) is a rare, inherited neurodegenerative disease of impaired intracellular lipid trafficking. Clinical symptoms are highly heterogeneous, including neurological, visceral, or ...
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(Allergy Society of South Africa, 2017-09)Caesarean sections, and especially elective Caesarean sections, are on the increase worldwide. The grey-matter volume of the foetal brain undergoes a linear increase of 1,4% per week from 29 weeks until 40 weeks of ...
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(Allergy Society of South Africa, 2017-09)Neutrophil disorders are commonly encountered in clinical practice. However, these encompass a variety of different conditions with variable presentation, making neutrophil disorders a diagnostic challenge to most clinicians. ...
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(American Diabetes Association Inc., 2017-07)Neonatal diabetes is frequently part of a complex syndrome with extra-pancreatic features: 18 genes causing syndromic neonatal diabetes have been identified to date. There remain patients with neonatal diabetes who have ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-06)Neonatal sepsis is a clinical syndrome consisting of nonspecific symptoms and signs of infection, accompanied by a bacteraemia in the first 28 days of life. The risk of neonatal sepsis and death increases with decreasing ...
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(Elsevier, 2017-12)Port-a-cath is a widely used device in patients with long-term venous access demand such as frequent or continuous administration of medications such as Enzyme Replacement Therapy (ERT), chemotherapy delivery, blood ...
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(In House Publications, 2017)Cerebral palsy (CP) cases are some of the primary reasons for litigation of high quantum amounts against obstetricians both in the public and private sector, on the basis of acute intrapartum hypoxia resulting in ...
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(Allergy Society of South Africa, 2017-06)The enteric nervous system and the central nervous system are no longer viewed as being separate entities. They are connected to each other by the vagal nerve which allows for bi-directional communication between cells ...
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(Allergy Society of South Africa, 2017-03)The delivery of healthcare has, over the past 2 500 years, been firmly entrenched in the domain of the physician. Since the ‘Father of Medicine’, Hippocrates (470 BC) created his vision for just, moral and ethical ...
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(BioMed Central, 2017-07-26)BACKGROUND : In October 2012 Uganda extended its prevention of mother to child HIV transmission (PMTCT) policy to Option B+, providing lifelong antiretroviral treatment for HIV positive pregnant and breastfeeding women. ...
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(Allergy Society of South Africa, 2017-03)Primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) remain largely undiagnosed and underreported in South Africa.1 PIDs are inherited, non-communicable disorders that involve a defect in one or more components of the immune system. ...
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(Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2017-06)BACKGROUND : South Africa has utilized three independent data sources to measure the impact of its program for the prevention of mother–to–child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. These include the South African National ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017-05)Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is a genetic disorder with multi-system manifestations and a high burden of disease. In 2013, an international panel of TSC experts revised the guidelines for the diagnosis, surveillance ...
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(BMJ Publishing Group, 2017)OBJECTIVES Wealth-related inequality across the South African antenatal HIV care cascade has not been considered in detail as a potential hindrance to eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission (EMTCT). We aimed ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2017-07-27)BACKGROUND : Young Southern African women have the highest HIV incidence globally. Pregnancy doubles the risk of HIV acquisition further, and maternal HIV acquisition contributes significantly to the paediatric HIV burden. ...
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(Public Library of Science, 2017-07-03)INTRODUCTION : Streptococcus pneumoniae is a leading cause of severe bacterial infections globally. A full understanding of the impact of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) on pneumococcal disease burden, following its ...
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(Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2017-05-01)BACKGROUND : Development of country plans for prevention of mother-to- child HIV transmission (PMTCT), including expansion of comprehensive, integrated services, was key to Global Plan achievements. APPROACHES : Use ...
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(Wiley, 2017-08)BACKGROUND : The South African Renal Registry (SARR) was re-established in 2010. The first report was produced in 2014. It revealed that only 3182 patients out of 43.6 million people who were dependent on the state for ...
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