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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Heidi A Kim, Andrew G Yu, Nicole P Kim, Mehreen S Iqbal, Ryan Butts
BACKGROUND: The Child Opportunity Index (COI) comprehensively measures children's social determinants of health. We describe association between COI and outcomes after listing for heart transplantation. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective review of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database for U.S. children listed for heart transplant between 2012 and 2020. ZIP codes were utilized to assign COI. Primary outcome was survival from time of listing. Secondary outcomes included waitlist survival, one-year post-transplant survival, and conditional one-year post-transplant survival...
May 2, 2024: Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
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Heather L Yardley, Erin F McTiernan, Kathleen L Lemanek
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Suicide is a leading cause of death for adolescents. Medical professionals are increasingly being asked to screen for depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation with little training. The purpose of this paper is to review factors related to suicidal thoughts and actions, assessment of symptoms, and initial suggestions for treatment for medical providers. METHODS: A literature review of risk and resilience factors, assessment measures, and treatment options for depression and suicidal ideation and behavior in adolescent females was conducted...
May 2, 2024: Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Thierry Rigoine de Fougerolles, Théophile Baïssas, Guillaume Perquier, Olivier Vitoux, Pascal Crépey, José Bartelt-Hofer, Hélène Bricout, Audrey Petitjean
BACKGROUND: Seasonal influenza epidemics have a substantial public health and economic burden, which can be alleviated through vaccination. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a 75% vaccination coverage rate (VCR) in: older adults (aged ≥ 65 years), individuals with chronic conditions, pregnant women, children aged 6-24 months and healthcare workers. However, no European country achieves this target in all risk groups. In this study, potential public health and economic benefits achieved by reaching 75% influenza VCR was estimated in risk groups across four European countries: France, Italy, Spain, and the UK...
May 3, 2024: BMC Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hannah Littlecott, Shari Krishnaratne, Jacob Burns, Eva Rehfuess, Kerstin Sell, Carmen Klinger, Brigitte Strahwald, Ani Movsisyan, Maria-Inti Metzendorf, Petra Schoenweger, Stephan Voss, Michaela Coenen, Roxana Müller-Eberstein, Lisa M Pfadenhauer
BACKGROUND: More than 767 million coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) cases and 6.9 million deaths with COVID-19 have been recorded as of August 2023. Several public health and social measures were implemented in schools to contain the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and prevent onward transmission. We built upon methods from a previous Cochrane review to capture current empirical evidence relating to the effectiveness of school measures to limit SARS-CoV-2 transmission...
May 2, 2024: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
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Badriyeh Karami, Mahya Abbasi, Maryam Tajvar
BACKGROUND: Children mortality is considered as one of the main indicators of population development and health, while most of the children's deaths are preventable. This study systematically reviewed the determinants of children mortality in Iran. METHODS: This systematic review was conducted to summarize all the factors associated with children mortality in three age groups; Neonate (0-28 d), Infant (28 d-1 yr old) and children (<5 yr old), based on the PRISMA guideline...
January 2024: Iranian Journal of Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Charles A James, Mark J Hogan, Ryan P Seay, Luke T James, Hanna K Jensen, Nicholas A Kaukis, Mary B Moore, Leah E Braswell
BACKGROUND: Reports of technical success, adverse events, and long-term outcome of percutaneous cecostomy in children are limited. OBJECTIVE: To characterize technical success, 30-day severe adverse events, and long-term outcome of percutaneous cecostomy at two centers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective review of hospital course and long-term follow-up (through May 2022) of percutaneous cecostomy tubes placed May 1997 to August 2011 at two children's hospitals was used...
May 2, 2024: Pediatric Radiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Deborah Rund
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April 2024: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
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Lindsey A Fitzsimons, Delanie M Kneeland-Barber, Gracie C Hannigan, David A Karpe, Lyman Wu, Michael Colon, Jess Randall, Kerry L Tucker
Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy (LVNC) is a structural heart defect that has been associated with generation of arrhythmias in the population and is a cause of sudden cardiac death with severe systolic dysfunction and fatal arrhythmias. LVNC has gained increasing acknowledgment with increased prevalence. We conducted a systematic review of reported electrocardiogram (ECG) results for pediatric LVNC patients. EMBASE database query was performed, yielding 4531 articles related to LVNC between 1990 and December 2023...
May 2024: Physiological Reports
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Fenella Beynon, Hélène Langet, Leah F Bohle, Shally Awasthi, Ousmane Ndiaye, James Machoki M'Imunya, Honorati Masanja, Susan Horton, Maymouna Ba, Silvia Cicconi, Mira Emmanuel-Fabula, Papa Moctar Faye, Tracy R Glass, Kristina Keitel, Divas Kumar, Gaurav Kumar, Gillian A Levine, Lena Matata, Grace Mhalu, Andolo Miheso, Deusdedit Mjungu, Francis Njiri, Elisabeth Reus, Michael Ruffo, Fabian Schär, Kovid Sharma, Helen L Storey, Irene Masanja, Kaspar Wyss, Valérie D'Acremont
Effective and sustainable strategies are needed to address the burden of preventable deaths among children under-five in resource-constrained settings. The Tools for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (TIMCI) project aims to support healthcare providers to identify and manage severe illness, whilst promoting resource stewardship, by introducing pulse oximetry and clinical decision support algorithms (CDSAs) to primary care facilities in India, Kenya, Senegal and Tanzania. Health impact is assessed through: a pragmatic parallel group, superiority cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT), with primary care facilities randomly allocated (1:1) in India to pulse oximetry or control, and (1:1:1) in Tanzania to pulse oximetry plus CDSA, pulse oximetry, or control; and through a quasi-experimental pre-post study in Kenya and Senegal...
December 31, 2024: Global Health Action
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Christopher W Mastropietro, Peter Sassalos, Christine M Riley, Kurt Piggott, Kiona Y Allen, Elizabeth Prentice, Raya Safa, Jason R Buckley, David K Werho, Martin Wakeham, Arthur Smerling, Andrew R Yates, Ilias Iliopoulos, Hitesh Sandhu, Saurabh Chiwane, Asaad Beshish, David M Kwiatkowski, Saul Flores, Sukumar Suguna Narashimhulu, Rohit Loomba, Christine A Capone, Francis Pike, John M Costello
OBJECTIVES: Multicenter studies reporting outcomes following tracheostomy in children with congenital heart disease are limited, particularly in patients with single ventricle physiology. We aimed to describe clinical characteristics and outcomes in a multicenter cohort of patients with single ventricle physiology who underwent tracheostomy before Fontan operation. DESIGN: Multicenter retrospective cohort study.SETTING: Twenty-one tertiary care pediatric institutions participating in the Collaborative Research from the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society...
April 29, 2024: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Arianna Laoreti, Valentina Sala, Daniela Casati, Stefano Faiola, Luigina Spaccini, Irene Cetin, Mariano M Lanna
Pregnancies complicated by severe polyhydramnios are associated with a high rate of underlying fetal anomaly. Amnioreduction may be offered to alleviate maternal symptoms. This is a retrospective study of amnioreductions performed on singleton and twin gestations complicated by symptomatic polyhydramnios between 2010 and 2023 at our tertiary referral center. The indications, procedural techniques and pregnancy and neonatal outcomes were retrieved from an archive database and reviewed with the use of the maternal and child medical record chart, the hospital electronic clinical discharge report and telephone recalls...
April 22, 2024: Children
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ceyhun Bozkurt, Volkan Hazar, Barış Malbora, Alphan Küpesiz, Utku Aygüneş, Tunç Fışgın, Musa Karakükçü, Barış Kuşkonmaz, Suar Çakı Kılıç, Derya Bayırlı, Özlem Arman Bilir, Koray Yalçın, Salih Gözmen, Vedat Uygun, Murat Elli, Hakan Sarbay, Funda Tayfun Küpesiz, Hatice İlgen Şaşmaz, Başak Adaklı Aksoy, Ebru Yılmaz, Fatma Visal Okur, Funda Tekkeşin, Fatma Demir Yenigürbüz, Gülcihan Özek, Abdullah Avni Atay, İkbal Ok Bozkaya, Suna Çelen, Seda Öztürkmen, Adalet Meral Güneş, Orhan Gürsel, Elif Güler, Alper Özcan, Duygu Uçkan Çetinkaya, Selime Aydoğdu, Namık Yaşar Özbek, Gülsün Karasu, Gülay Sezgin, Ömer Doğru, Davut Albayrak, Gülyüz Öztürk, Serap Aksoylar, Hayriye Daloğlu, Işık Odaman Al, Melike Sezgin Evim, Sinan Akbayram, Yurday Öncül, Emine Zengin, Canan Albayrak, Çetin Timur, Yeter Düzenli Kar, Hasan Fatih Çakmaklı, Özlem Tüfekçi, Ersin Töret, Bülent Antmen
BACKGROUND: Data on the risk factors and outcomes for pediatric patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19) following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) are limited. OBJECTIVES: The study aimed to analyze the clinical signs, risk factors, and outcomes for ICU admission and mortality in a large pediatric cohort who underwent allogeneic HSCT prior to COVID-19 infection. METHOD: In this nationwide study, we retrospectively reviewed the data of 184 pediatric HSCT recipients who had COVID-19 between March 2020 and August 2022...
May 2024: Pediatric Transplantation
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Omar Nasher, Nigel J Hall, Rajnikant Mehta, Yousef El-Gohary, Marian Knight
PURPOSE: This study aims to evaluate different surgical approaches to long-gap esophageal atresia (LGEA) with or without tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) is unclear. METHODS: A systematic literature review was done comparing gastric transposition versus esophageal lengthening with delayed primary anastomosis in infants with LGEA+/-TEF. The primary outcome was time to full oral feeds. Secondary outcomes were time to full enteric feeds, need for further surgery, growth, mortality, and postoperative adverse events...
April 24, 2024: Pediatric Surgery International
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E M S Martins, L C Nascimento da Silva, M S Carmo
Acute diarrhea is the second leading cause of morbidity and mortality attributed to infections in children under five years of age worldwide, with 1.7 million annual estimated cases and more than 500,000 deaths. Although hydroelectrolytic replacement is the gold standard in treating diarrhea, it does not interfere with the restoration of the intestinal microbiota. Several studies have searched for an adequate alternative in restructuring intestinal homeostasis, finding that treatments based on probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics are effective, which made such treatments increasingly present in clinical practice by reducing illness duration with minimal side effects...
2024: Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Puck J Peltenburg, Harry Gibson, Arthur A M Wilde, Christian van der Werf, Sally-Ann B Clur, Nico A Blom
Despite its low prevalence, the potential diagnosis of catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) should be at the forefront of a paediatric cardiologists mind in children with syncope during exercise or emotions. Over the years, the number of children with a genetic diagnosis of CPVT due to a (likely) pathogenic RYR2 variant early in life and prior to the onset of symptoms has increased due to cascade screening programmes. Limited guidance for this group of patients is currently available...
April 24, 2024: Cardiology in the Young
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Britta Darchinger, Jürgen Härlein, Gabriele Fley
Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment in the PICU From the Nursing Staff's Perspective: Integrative Review Abstract: Background: Withdrawal of life sustaining measures is a common mode of treatment prior to the death of a critically ill child and has implications for all involved. The perspective of nurses has not yet been considered in this context. Aim: How do nurses experience the termination of life-sustaining measures in the paediatric intensive care unit? What is their role in this process? Methods: An integrative review was conducted to answer the research question...
April 23, 2024: Pflege
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Robert E Black, Jamie Perin, Diana Yeung, Tushara Rajeev, Jacob Miller, Sarah E Elwood, James A Platts-Mills
BACKGROUND: Information on the causes of deaths from diarrhoea in children younger than 5 years is needed to design improved preventive and therapeutic approaches. We aimed to conduct a systematic analysis of studies to report estimates of the causes of deaths from diarrhoea in children younger than 5 years at global and regional levels during 2000-21. METHODS: For this systematic review and Bayesian multinomial analysis, we included 12 pathogens with the highest attributable incidence in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study...
April 19, 2024: Lancet Global Health
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Fatemeh Mehrabi, Mohammad Karamouzian, Behnam Farhoudi, Shahryar Moradi Falah Langeroodi, Soheil Mehmandoost, Samaneh Abbaszadeh, Shahrzad Motaghi, Ali Mirzazadeh, Behnam Sadeghirad, Hamid Sharifi
BACKGROUND: Mother-to-child transmission is the primary cause of HIV cases among children. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) plays a critical role in preventing mother-to-child transmission and reducing HIV progression, morbidity, and mortality among mothers. However, after more than two decades of ART during pregnancy, the comparative effectiveness and safety of ART medications during pregnancy are unclear, and existing evidence is contradictory. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness and safety of different ART regimens among pregnant women living with HIV at preconception or during pregnancy...
April 19, 2024: BMC Infectious Diseases
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Vijetha V Maller, Jason N Johnson, Umar Boston, Christopher Knott-Craig
A transseptal coronary artery course, also known as a transconal course, is an anomalous course of the left main coronary artery (LMCA) or the left anterior descending artery (LAD) through the conal septal myocardium. The conal septal myocardium is the posterior wall of the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT), acting as a dividing myocardial wall between the subaortic and subpulmonary outflow tracts. The initial segment of a transseptal coronary artery has an extraconal course between the aorta and the RVOT cranial to the true intramyocardial segment...
April 19, 2024: Pediatric Radiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zahra Ali Padhani, Komal Abdul Rahim, Gizachew A Tessema, Jodie C Avery, Negin Mirzaei Damabi, Patience Castleton, Rehana A Salam, Salima Meherali, Zohra S Lassi
BACKGROUND: Preconception health provides an opportunity to examine a woman's health status and address modifiable risk factors that can impact both a woman's and her child's health once pregnant. In this review, we aimed to investigate the preconception risk factors and interventions of early pregnancy and its impact on adverse maternal, perinatal and child health outcomes. METHODS: We conducted a scoping review following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines to include relevant literature identified from electronic databases...
2024: PloS One
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