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Paediatrics and Child Health: Recent submissions

  • Recent advances in asthma care 
    Green, Robin J. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009-03)
    The buzz word in asthma circles today is ‘control’. We speak fairly glibly about measuring control and getting patients to achieve good asthma control. Whilst this is an excellent and admirable sentiment, what is seldom ...
  • Atopy in HIV-infected children in Pretoria 
    Masekela, Refiloe; Moodley, Teshni; Mahlaba, N.; Wittenberg, Dankwart F.; Becker, Piet J.; Kitchin, Omolemo P.; Green, Robin J. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2009-11)
    INTRODUCTION: The development or aggravation of a pre-existing atopic state in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has not been thoroughly investigated in South Africa. HIV-infected adults have been shown to ...
  • Discrepant clinical and haematological features in siblings of Pakistani origin with β-thalassaemia 
    Prinsloo, Andrea; Potgieter, Johan J.C.; Moodley, Vanessa; Pool, Roger; Opperman, Johannes; Henderson, Shirley; Old, John (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2009-05)
    An 8-year-old boy was referred with anaemia and splenomegaly. Physical examination revealed short stature, thalassaemic facies, pallor and splenomegaly. The full blood count showed a hypochromic, microcytic anaemia. The ...
  • Factors affecting HIV-infected mothers' ability to adhere to antenatally intended infant feeding choice in Tshwane 
    Matji, J.N. (Joan Nteboheleng); Wittenberg, Dankwart F.; Makin, J.D. (Jennifer Dianne); Jeffery, Bridget; MacIntyre, Una Elizabeth; Forsyth, Brian William Cameron (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2009-03)
    OBJECTIVES: To determine the factors influencing the ability of HIV-infected mothers to adhere to antenatal feeding choices after routine prevention of mother-to-child transmission counselling. PATIENTS and METHODS: The ...
  • Guideline for the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of paediatric ventilator-associated pneumonia 
    Morrow, B.M.; Argent, A.C.; Jeena, Prakash M.; Green, Robin J. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2009-04)
    OBJECTIVE: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) has been poorly studied in South Africa, but is likely to be a significant problem, with resulting increased morbidity and mortality in the paediatric intensive care unit ...
  • Parental perceptions and practices of emergent literacy development in young children with Down syndrome : the development of intervention guidelines 
    Van Heerden, Cherie; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha) (South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2008)
    Key findings of emergent literacy research conclude that emergent literacy experiences correlate with later reading success and that emergent literacy intervention for children with special needs is essential. As a ...
  • Every death counts : use of mortality audit data for decision making to save the lives of mothers, babies, and children in South Africa 
    Bradshaw, Debbie; Chopra, Mickey; Kerber, Kate; Lawn, Joy E.; Bamford, Lesley; Moodley, Jack; Pattinson, Robert Clive; Patrick, Sean Mark; Stephen, C.R. (Cindy); Velaphi, Sithembiso (Elsevier, 2008-04-12)
    South Africa is one of the few developing countries with a national confidential inquiry into maternal deaths. 164 health facilities obtain audit data for stillbirths and neonatal deaths, and a new audit network does so ...
  • Asthma control - practical suggestions for practicing doctors in family practice 
    Green, Robin J.; Masekela, Refiloe; Moodley, Teshni; Kitchin, Omolemo P. (Medpharm Publications, 2008-03)
    Many surveys of asthma care suggest that only 5% of asthmatics are meeting the ‘Goals of asthma management’ as set out in the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) guidelines. Despite the availability of useful asthma therapies ...
  • Metastatic calcification as a result of extensive bone metastases in a paediatric patient with parameningeal embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma 
    Ismail, Farzanah; Lockhat, Zarina I.; Khan, Nausheen; Van de Werke, Irma; Adroos, Narosha; Sathekge, Mike Machaba; Kruger, Mariana; Reynders, David (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2008-04)
    We present a case of parameningeal embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma with the primary lesion arising in the middle and inner ear, with associated diffuse skeletal metastases and metastatic calcifications.
  • Asthma and sport 
    Risenga, Samuel Malamulele (Allergy Society of South Africa, 2008-06)
    Parents of children with asthma are often worried when their children participate in sport. Many sportspeople who are asthmatic do well at a competitive level. Most people with exercise-induced asthma (EIA) have ...
  • Influenza prevention and treatment 
    Green, Robin J. (Medpharm Publications, 2008-03)
    This year’s influenza guideline was published in the South African Medical Journal. It adds important new data with regard to influenza prevention and treatment. This article highlights the role of the nurse in influenza ...
  • Combined tarsal and carpal tunnel syndrome in Mucolipidosis Type III : a case study and review 
    Smuts, Izelle; Potgieter, Denise; Van der Westhuizen, Francois Hendrikus (Blackwell, 2008)
    Mucolipidosis type III (MLIII) (MIM# 252600) is an uncommon autosomal recessive disorder that results from uridine 5'-diphosphate-N-acetylglucosamine: lysosomal hydrolase N-acetyl-1-phosphotransferase or UDP-GlcNAc ...
  • Neonatal near miss : a measure of the quality of obstetric care 
    Avenant, Theunis Johannes (Elsevier, 2009)
    Thirty-seven percent of under-five deaths occur in the neonatal period. Identifying and correcting factors that contribute to neonatal and maternal care are of the utmost importance. Evaluation of severe acute maternal ...
  • Implementation of asthma guidelines in South Africa : what are the challenges? 
    Green, Robin J. (Allergy Society of South Africa, 2008-06)
    As we stand at the brink of revisions to existing childhood asthma guidelines for South Africa we need to consider wisely our needs so that we enter into the process with a clear mandate and knowledge of expected outcomes. ...
  • Scaling up kangaroo mother care in South Africa : 'on-site' versus 'off-site' educational facilitation 
    Bergh, Anne-Marie; Van Rooyen, Elise; Pattinson, Robert Clive; Pattinson, Bob (BioMed Central, 2008-07-23)
    Background Scaling up the implementation of new health care interventions can be challenging and demand intensive training or retraining of health workers. This paper reports on the results of testing the effectiveness of ...
  • Influenza guideline for South Africa - update 2008 : guideline 
    Green, Robin J.; Feldman, Charles; Schoub, Barry D.; Richards, Guy A.; Madhi, Shabir A.; Zar, Heather J.; Lalloo, Umesh G. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2008-03)
    OBJECTIVE: The South African Thoracic Society, in conjunction with interested stakeholders, published a Guideline for Influenza Management in Adults in 1999. This year the South African Thoracic Society (SATS) identified ...
  • Reasons for delay in initiation of antiretroviral therapy in a population of HIV-infected South African children 
    Feucht, Ute Dagmar; Kinzer, M.; Kruger, Mariana (Oxford University Press, 2007-12)
    The aim of this study was to determine the reasons for delay of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in eligible HIV-infected children after the implementation of the South African National ART programme in April 2004, and to ...
  • Unsuitable blood glucose measuring devices in neonatal or paediatric acute care 
    Wittenberg, Dankwart F.; Terblanche, Alta J.; Smuts, Izelle; Opperman, Johannes (2007-12)
  • Asthma control - is there a problem? 
    Green, Robin J. (Medpharm Publications, 2007-03)
    In 1998 the ISAAC study reported a 12 month prevalence of selfreported asthma symptoms ranging from 7.5% to 17%.1 The prevalence of “asthma ever” was 3.3% in this group of children (Figure 1). The International Study of ...
  • Symptomatic treatment of upper respiratory tract symptoms in children 
    Green, Robin J. (Medpharm Publications, 2007-06)
    Most upper respiratory tract infections are viral and require symptomatic treatment. Antibiotics are commonly overused, even though they should be thought of as being contra-indicated due to the rapid emergence of ...