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Paediatrics and Child Health: Recent submissions
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-08)OBJECTIVE: To assess the extent to which children may be falsely diagnosed as HIV-infected, using data from an antiretroviral therapy (ART) site in Pretoria, South Africa. METHODS: This was a retrospective patient record ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-08)While visiting our kids and grandson last year, I had a recurring thought: being a grandparent is not for 'sissies'. My wife and I thought about how grandparenting challenged our health; each day saw some insult to body ...
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(Elsevier, 2012-04)BACKGROUND: Human rotavirus vaccine (HRV; i.e., Rotarix) reduced the incidence of severe rotavirus gastroenteritis (RVGE) by 77% (95% Conficence interval: 56% to 88%) during the first year of life in South Africa. Persistence ...
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(Medpharm Publications, 2012-07)Asthma is one of the most common childhood illnesses with which patients will present to general practitioners. Despite this, the associated mortality and morbidity remain high, particularly in South Africa. This is largely ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-08)BACKGROUND: Allergic rhinitis (AR) is an important disease in South Africa. The South African Allergic Rhinitis Working Group (SAARWG) has published previous guidelines for AR diagnosis and management. Areas of concern ...
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(Nature, 2012-06)Mitochondrial disease can be attributed to both mitochondrial and nuclear gene mutations. It has a heterogeneous clinical and biochemical profile, which is compounded by diversity of the genetic background. Disease-based ...
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From the coalface of clinical paediatric neurology : Menkes disease – a lesson not to be forgotten (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-05)The differential diagnosis of child abuse or non-accidental injury is extensive and includes rare metabolic disorders. We report a case in which child abuse was wrongly diagnosed. Fortunately the correct diagnosis could ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-06)OBJECTIVES: To report the characteristics of juvenile-onset (<20 years) myasthenia gravis (MG) in Africa. SUBJECTS AND METHOD: Six South African centres collected data which included acetylcholine receptor-antibody ...
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Costs of admission for paediatric pneumonia in a setting of human immunodeficiency virus infection (International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2011-12)BACKGROUND: Pneumonia in South African children remains a major public health concern. The costs of hospital admission for pneumonia should be determined, especially where human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection ...
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(Bentham Open, 2011)Pediatric asthma has been well researched and actively managed in Southern Africa for many years. From the earliest study of asthma prevalence in 1979 revealing a significant rural – urban asthma gradient to more recent ...
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(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)Non-cystic fibrosis-related bronchiectasis is a chronic inflammatory lung disease, which is regarded as an “orphan” lung disease, with little research devoted to the study of this condition. Bronchiectasis results in ...
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(Hellenic Society of Nuclear Medicine, 2012-01)There is a lack of objective tools to reliably diagnose exacerbations in bronchiectasis. The primary aim of this study was to assess the ability of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed ...
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(International Online Medical Council (IOMC), 2012-02-16)BACKGROUD: Studies in adults have shown that smokers have a higher risk of death and a higher risk of developing AIDS. Other studies have shown an increased risk of smoking HIV-positive adults to infections. There is, ...
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(Medpharm Publications, 2011)No abstract available.
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(Federation of Infectious Diseases Societies of South Africa, 2011)A two-month-old HIV-infected infant was ventilated for very severe Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia. After successful extubation, he was started on antiretroviral therapy. He developed a proven cytomegalovirus infection, ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-02)BACKGROUND: Unthinking application of the routine diarrhoea management protocol in patients presenting with diarrhoea could risk possible co-morbidities such as HIV infection being ignored in an environment with a high ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-03)AIM: To examine false-positive HIV DNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test results in children, and the potential implications for the paediatric HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS: A review was done of records ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-02)No abstract available.
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-02)The most commonly acquired kidney diseases in children are post-infectious glomerulonephritis, nephrotic syndrome and diarrhoea-associated haemolytic uraemic syndrome. In all of the above cases examination of the urine is ...
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