Background: Patients-ventilator asynchrony defined as a mismatch between the patient’s respiratory effort and the ventilator delivered breaths and it is common in clinical practice. Patient ventilator interaction is a key element in optimizing MV. The change from inspiration to e...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4206
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute, febrile, erupting, self-limited autoimmune disease with systemic vasculitis as the main lesion. It is more common in children under 5 years old, and the main lesions associate the coronary arteries. With the increasing incidence, it has become t...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4205
Olusola Oladeji, Md. Shamsuz Zaman, Mohammad Sazzadul Alam, K. M. Ishtiaque Sayeed, Anjola Oladeji, Rayhan Uddin Rana, Liza Paul & Yulia Widiati·Asian Journal of Pediatric Research·2022
Background: Neonatal morbidity and mortality contribute significantly to under‑five morbidity and mortality. A substantial reduction in neonatal mortality is therefore necessary to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals targets. Aims: Assessed the pattern of neonatal admission...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4204
Background: Guillian Barre Syndrome (GBS) is the most common cause of minor flaccid paralysis in the world and post-polio eradication is the most common cause on the Indian subcontinent as well. It affects 0.6-4 people per 1 lakh people per year. Guillian-Barre syndrome should be...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4202
Introduction: Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome linked to temporal with SARS-Cov2 is a new hyper inflammatory disorder that affects children with Covid-19 infection. It usually occurs 2 to 6 weeks following illness or exposure. Materials and Methods: Descriptive retrosp...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4203
Background: Surgical repair of congenital heart diseases (CHD) affects heart rate variability (HRV) in different ways. It leads to varying degrees of cardiac autonomic derangement, clinically detectable as depression of HRV parameters. The aim of this work was to evaluate HRV in...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i4200
Shahenda Bdair Al-Beltagy, Hesham Ahmed El-Serogy, Sahar Abd ElAzim Abd Elaziz & Tarek Mohammed Al-Gohary·Asian Journal of Pediatric Research·2022
Background: Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that appears in early life. B6 and B12, and folate support homocysteine (Hcy) metabolism. Hence, any defect to them leads to Hcy accumulation in the body. Hcy, vitamins B12, B6 and folate are important in psychiatric disorders s...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i3199
Background: Esophageal varices (EVs) are a serious complication of portal hypertension in patient with chronic liver disease (CLD). The major portion of ammonia carried by portal blood is shunted into systemic circulation in chronic liver disease. The upper GI endoscopy is curren...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i3198
Zhaoling Shi, Kai-Sheng Hsieh, Hong Wang, Xiaodong Yang, Ling Zhang, Xiangyue Kong, Jianying Feng, Juyan Wang & Fuyong Jiao·Asian Journal of Pediatric Research·2022
Aspirin only prevents platelets from accumulating in the dilated coronary arteries and prevents thrombosis, thus minimizing thrombosis as much as possible, and does not shrink the already dilated coronary artery tumor. Therefore, it plays an important role in the treatment of Kaw...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i3197
Nutcracker syndrome results from compression of the left renal vein (LRV), usually in the fork formed by the abdominal aorta and the superior mesenteric artery (SMA), leading to stenosis of the aorto-mesenteric part of the left renal vein and dilation of its distal part. We repor...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i3196
Permanent Junctional Reciprocating Tachycardia (PJRT) is a rare type of supraventricular tachycardia. It can be misdiagnosed and hence under-treated in infants and children, leading to significant cardiac morbidities and mortalities. We describe four cases of young infants who pr...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i3195
Hydrops fetalis is defined by the accumulation of fluids in the serous membranes (pleurisy, ascites, pericarditis...), it is a rare condition; its etiologies are divided into immunological and non-immunological. Supraventricular tachycardia remains a known cause, non-immunologica...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i2194
In this paper, we report a case of autism in a child who was cured of Kawasaki disease and the condition of autism was significantly improved. Kawasaki disease (KD), also known as cutaneous mucosal lymph node syndrome, was first reported by Japanese doctor Tomaku Kawasaki in 1967...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i2193
Background: Neonatal mortality rate is an important indicator which does not only reflect the overall health of a child and well-being but also assesses the social and economic development of a country. Aim: The study was carried out to determine the pattern and factors associate...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i2192
Background: Serological testing is urgently required since COVID-19 is the pandemic that is spreading the fastest in recent times, Although RT-PCR is an effective and specific method for diagnosing acute patients, serological tools are urgently required for examining antibody res...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2022/v10i2191