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Paediatrics and Child Health: Recent submissions
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2012-02)BACKGROUND: Acute onset vomiting and diarrhoea is one of the most common illnesses of infancy, and is second only to respiratory illnesses as a cause of childhood deaths worldwide. Existing guidelines for management of ...
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(International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2012-01)BACKGROUND: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected children have an eleven-fold risk of acute lower respiratory tract infection. This places HIV-infected children at risk of airway destruction and bronchiectasis. OBJECTIVE: ...
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(Allergy Society of South Africa, 2011-11)The mechanisms for the aetiology and pathobiology of allergy and asthma are currently matters of hot debate in the scientific world. Each week it seems that a new theory for their origins is proposed, new evidence for ...
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(Allergy Society of South Africa, 2011-11)Dividing preschool wheezing infants into episodic wheezers or multitrigger wheezers, or into groups used in longitudinal cohorts may only be clinically useful if temporal factors such as severity and frequency, and ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2011)This article provides a summary of the types of video laryngoscopes available in South Africa, and highlights some interesting paediatric cases in which video laryngoscopes were used at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria.
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(Allergy Society of South Africa, 2011-08)This article describes the history of the Diploma in Allergy, provides an outline of the requirements and its purpose and discusses future developments.
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011-09)Birth trauma is well described in the neonatal literature, but intra-abdominal injuries occur infrequently and are often forgotten in the differential diagnosis of a hypovolaemic shocked infant with an abdominal mass. The ...
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(Medpharm Publications, 2011)No abstract available.
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(Elsevier, 2010-08)Subvalvular aneurysms of the left ventricle are very rare and often the cause is uncertain. Most of the cases of subvalvular left ventricular aneurysms described in the literature are due to congenital weakness of the ...
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(Wiley, 2010-02)We report on a premature neonate who presented with cyanosis soon after birth. She was found on echocardiography to have an unguarded tricuspid valve orifice associated with pulmonary valve atresia and an intact interventricular ...
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(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2010-05)no abstract available.
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(South African Heart Association, 2010)Shone’s complex is a rare cardiac anomaly consisting of four obstructive lesions of the left heart: supramitral membrane/ring; parachute mitral valve; subaortic stenosis; and coarctation of the aorta. We report on an ...
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(Elsevier, 2010-03)INTRODUCTION: The objective of asthma management is to control the condition. However, world-wide surveys reveal that only 5% of asthmatics are well controlled. One reason for this phenomenon is the fact that patients and ...
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(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2010-01)BACKGROUND: Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe gastroenteritis among young children worldwide. Data are needed to assess the efficacy of the rotavirus vaccine in African children. METHODS: We conducted a ...
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(Elsevier, 2011-03)Reports from the seventies and eighties have shown that cystic fibrosis (CF) patients with severe lung disease have high levels of IgG and that this is associated with worse prognosis. We decided to explore IgG level as ...
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(Allergy Society of South Africa, 2010-11)RATIONALE: Asthma is said to be an atopic condition and the presence of atopy is regarded as a surrogate marker for determining asthma in a young child with chronic respiratory symptoms. However some local community ...
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(Clinics Cardiv, 2011-09)We report two rare cases of an anomalous origin of the left pulmonary artery (AOLPA) from the ascending aorta, associated with pulmonary atresia, a ventricular septal defect and a left aortic arch. The cases are unusual ...
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(South African Heart Association, 2010)Most children with congenital heart disease have a good outcome if treated appropriately, however the majority of children with heart disease in South Africa do not receive appropriate care. This is related to serious ...
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(South African Heart Association, 2010)OBJECTIVE: To evaluate paediatric cardiac services in South Africa with respect to referral base, services provided and human resources. STUDY DESIGN: A descriptive study design was used. An audit of the referral base, ...
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When to consider an inborn error of metabolism : an approach to paediatric neurometabolic disorders (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2011-04)Neurological symptoms are commonly the presenting problem in many inborn errors of metabolism (IEM). It is vital to identify treatable conditions early in order to reduce or prevent neurological impairment.
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