Browsing by Subject "pediatric"
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A Friend in Need: The Influence of Friendship on the Psychosocial Adjustment of Youth with Chronic Health Conditions
(2015)Friendship has consistently been found to act as a buffer against psychological maladjustment for healthy youth and youth experiencing difficulties including parental divorce and natural disasters. Less known is the role ... -
Cortical stimulation mapping for localization of visual and auditory language in pediatric epilepsy patients.
(Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics, 2019-11-08)OBJECTIVE:To determine resection margins near eloquent tissue, electrical cortical stimulation (ECS) mapping is often used with visual naming tasks. In recent years, auditory naming tasks have been found to provide a more ... -
Development of a Nutritional Screening Tool for Pediatric Cancer Patients in Uganda and Tanzania: An Exploratory Analysis
(2020)Background: Nutrition is a key determinant of pediatric cancer patient outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. Accurately identifying pediatric cancer patients at risk of malnutrition remains a challenge. There is a need ... -
Immediate Post-operative Enterocyte Injury, as Determined by Increased Circulating Intestinal Fatty Acid Binding Protein, Is Associated With Subsequent Development of Necrotizing Enterocolitis After Infant Cardiothoracic Surgery.
(Frontiers in pediatrics, 2020-01)Objectives: 1 Measure serial serum intestinal fatty acid binding protein levels in infants undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass to evaluate for evidence of early post-operative enterocyte injury. 2 Determine ... -
Practice variation in the diagnosis of acute rejection among pediatric heart transplant centers: An analysis of the pediatric heart transplant society (PHTS) registry.
(The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation, 2021-12)<h4>Background</h4>Freedom from rejection in pediatric heart transplant recipients is highly variable across centers. This study aimed to assess the center variation in methods used to diagnose rejection in the first-year ... -
Q Fever, Scrub Typhus, and Rickettsial Diseases in Children, Kenya, 2011-2012.
(Emerg Infect Dis, 2016-05)To increase knowledge of undifferentiated fevers in Kenya, we tested paired serum samples from febrile children in western Kenya for antibodies against pathogens increasingly recognized to cause febrile illness in Africa. ... -
Radiation Dose and Diagnostic Accuracy in Pediatric Computed Tomography
(2010)Since its inception in the 1970's, computed tomography (CT) has revolutionized the practice of medicine and evolved into an essential tool for diagnosing numerous diseases not only in adults but also in children. The clinical ... -
SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Children in the Biospecimens from Respiratory Virus-Exposed Kids (BRAVE Kids) Study.
(Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2020-11-03)BACKGROUND:Children with SARS-CoV-2 infection typically have mild symptoms that do not require medical attention, leaving a gap in our understanding of the spectrum of illnesses that the virus causes in children. METHODS:We ... -
The Biomechanics of the Perinatal, Neonatal and Pediatric Cervical Spine: Investigation of the Tensile, Bending and Viscoelastic Response
(2012)Pediatric cervical spinal injuries are associated with high morbidity and mortality. Cervical injuries observed in the pediatric population appear to be age dependent with younger children experiencing more upper cervical ... -
The Impact of a Hostel on Outcomes for Pediatric Cancer Patients in Northern Tanzania
(2019)Background: There is a significant disparity in survival rates for pediatric cancer in low and middle-income countries compared to high-income countries. A variety of factors contribute to this disparity including late stage ...
