Browsing Research Articles (Paediatrics and Child Health) by Title

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  • National surveillance using mobile systems for health monitoring : complexity, functionality and feasibility 
    Singh, Yages; Jackson, Debra; Bhardwaj, Sanjana; Titus, Natasha; Goga, Ameena Ebrahim (BioMed Central, 2019-09-16)
    BACKGROUND : Although the use of technology viz. mobile phones, personalised digital assistants, smartphones, notebook and tablets to monitor health and health care (mHealth) is mushrooming, only small, localised studies ...
  • Neonatal mortality in South Africa : how are we doing and can we do better? 
    Lloyd, Lizel G.; De Witt-Jordaan, T.W. (Wilma) (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013-08)
    Worldwide there has been a call for a two-thirds reduction in childhood mortality by 2015. Unfortunately, Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4) is unlikely to be reached in 2 years' time. Of the 130 million babies born every ...
  • 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 ...
  • Neonatal nurses's role in kangaroo mother care 
    Davy, Karen; Bergh, Anne-Marie; Van Rooyen, Elise (Medpharm Publications, 2011)
    No abstract available.
  • Neonatal presentation of a child with Liddle syndrome, South Africa 
    Steyn, Nicolene; Chale-Matsau, Bettina; Abera, Aron B.; Van Biljon, Gertruida; Pillay, Tahir S. (AOSIS, 2023-04-14)
    INTRODUCTION : Liddle syndrome is an autosomal dominantly inherited disorder usually arising from single mutations of the genes that encode for the alpha, beta and gamma epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) subunits. This leads ...
  • Neonatal sepsis : highlighting the principles of diagnosis and management 
    Coetzee, Melantha; Mbowane, N.T. (Ndziponile); De Witt-Jordaan, T.W. (Wilma) (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 ...
  • Neonatal tetanus associated with skin infection 
    Maharaj, M.; Dungwa, Norman (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2016-09)
    A 1-week-old infant was brought to a regional hospital with a history of recurrent seizures following lower abdominal septic skin infection. She was found to have neonatal tetanus, and a spatula test was positive. The ...
  • Neonatal, infant and child health in South Africa : reflecting on the past towards a better future 
    Goga, Ameena Ebrahim; Feucht, Ute Dagmar; Zar, Heather J.; Vanker, A.; Wiysonge, C.S.; McKerrow, N.; Wright, Caradee Yael; Loveday, M.; Odendaal, Willem A.; Ramokolo, Vundli; Ramraj, Trisha; Bamford, Lesley; Green, Robin J.; Pillay, Yogan; Nannan, N. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2019-11)
    Although the neonatal mortality rate in South Africa (SA) has remained stagnant at 12 deaths per 1 000 live births, the infant and under-5 mortality rates have significantly declined since peaking in 2003. Policy changes ...
  • Neuroblastoma : can lessons from the past help to improve the future? 
    Coopoosamy, Lurisha; Schoeman, Judy; Reynders, David; Omar, Fareed E.; Buchner, Ane (South African Medical Association, 2023-07)
    BACKGROUND : The outcome of patients with neuroblastoma in South Africa has always been very poor. We conducted a retrospective study in one state-funded paediatric oncology unit (POU), to describe the clinical course, ...
  • Neutralising neurophobia 
    Lamb, Gregory V. (Medpharm Publications, NISC (Pty) Ltd and Cogent, Taylor and Francis Group, 2018)
    No abstract available.
  • A new South African Pollen Network (SAPNET) 
    Berman, Dilys; Peter, Jonny G.; Green, Robin J. (Allergy Society of South Africa, 2020-06)
    For the last few decades, pollen counts in South Africa have been available only for Cape Town. There has been little monitoring of the pollen in the rest of the country and, for some South African cities, there are no ...
  • Niemann-Pick type C disease - the tip of the iceberg? A review of neuropsychiatric presentation, diagnosis and treatment 
    Evans, William R.H.; Hendriksz, Christian J. (American Psychological Association, 2017)
    Niemann-Pick type C (NP-C) disease is a rare neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorder. It is highly heterogeneous, and there is limited awareness of a substantial subgroup that has an attenuated adolescent/adult-onset ...
  • Non-IgE-mediated food allergies 
    Terblanche, Alta J.; Lang, A.C.; Gray, Claudia L.; Goddard, E.; Karabus, S.; Kriel, M.; Manjra, Ahmed I.; Risenga, Samuel Malamulele; Van der Spuy, D.A.; Levin, M.E. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2015-01)
    Non-imunoglobulin E (IgE)-mediated conditions include combined IgE and cell-mediated conditions such as atopic dermatitis and eosinophilic oesophagitis, and pure T-cell-mediated conditions such as food protein-induced ...
  • Non-indicated scheduled caesarean deliveries in low-risk pregnancies have harmful effects on gene expression and immune function 
    Van Niekerk, Andre; Delport, Suzanne D. (Allergy Society of South Africa, 2020-10)
    Medicalised birth is increasing on a global scale. Scheduled caesarean deliveries have become the most common delivery mode in the South African private sector despite evidence that a vaginal delivery is the safest delivery ...
  • Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor levels among HIV-exposed uninfected infants at the time of HIV PCR testing – findings from a tertiary healthcare facility in Pretoria, South Africa 
    Mazanderani, Ahmad Haeri; Murray, Tanya Y.; Sherman, Gayle G.; Snyman, Tracy; George, Jaya; Avenant, Theunis Johannes; Goga, Ameena Ebrahim; Pepper, Michael Sean; Du Plessis, Nicolette Marie (Wiley Open Access, 2019-06)
    INTRODUCTION : To date, very little programmatic data has been published regarding serial antiretroviral (ARV) levels in infants exposed to maternal treatment and/or infant prophylaxis during the first months of life. Such ...
  • Non-pharmacological treatment modalities for atopic dermatitis 
    Todd, G.; Manjra, Ahmed I.; Sinclair, Werner; Levin, Michael; Green, Robin J. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2014-10)
    Non-pharmacological measures to improve the management of atopic dermatitis (AD) are as important as pharmacotherapy for true healing of the skin. Skin dryness (which contributes to inflammation, loss of suppleness (leading ...
  • Normal anterior fontanelle sizes in newborn Igbo babies in south-eastern Nigeria 
    Uzukwu-Edeani, C.V.; Ibeziako, S.N.; Ikefuna, A.N.; Uchendu, U.O. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2013-05)
    BACKGROUND. Several factors, including gestational age (GA), gender, race and geographical/regional area, contribute to variations in the size of the anterior fontanelle (AF). While the impact of GA and gender are clearly ...
  • A novel mutation in ETFDH manifesting as severe neonatal-onset multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency 
    Van der Westhuizen, Francois H.; Smuts, Izelle; Honey, Engela M.; Louw, Roan; Schoonen, Maryke; Jonck, Lindi-Maryn; Dercksen, Marli (Elsevier, 2018-01)
    Neonatal-onset multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MADD type I) is an autosomal recessive disorder of the electron transfer flavoprotein function characterized by a severe clinical and biochemical phenotype, including ...
  • A novel screening tool to predict severe acute malnutrition through automated monitoring of weight-for-age growth curves 
    Nel, Sanja; Feucht, Ute Dagmar; Nel, Andre L.; Becker, Piet J.; Wenhold, Friedeburg Anna Maria (Wiley Open Access, 2022-07)
    Weight‐for‐age (WFA) growth faltering often precedes severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children, yet it is often missed during routine growth monitoring. Automated interpretation of WFA growth within electronic ...
  • Novel therapies in the management of food allergy : oral immunotherapy and anti-IgE 
    Gray, Claudia L.; Goddard, E.; Karabus, S.; Kriel, M.; Lang, A.C.; Manjra, Ahmed I.; Risenga, Samuel Malamulele; Terblanche, Alta J.; Van der Spuy, D.A.; Levin, M.E. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2015-01)
    The process of oral immunotherapy (OIT) consists of a series of dose escalations with the immediate goal of inducing desensitisation and ultimately achieving a state of tolerance. Owing to the limitations of OIT, including ...