Paediatrics and international child health 
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CONCLUSION: Maternal TB status during pregnancy, the epidemiological history, T-SPOT.TB and other TB-related aetiological tests and imaging are important for the early diagnosis and treatment of CTB, and are associated with a favourable outcome.ABBREVIATIONS: AFB: acid-fast bacilli; Amk: amikacin; Cs: cycloserine; CT: computed tomography; E: ethambutol; GeneXpert MTB/RIF: GeneXpert Mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance; H: isoniazid; IVF-ET: in-vitro fertilization-embryo transfer; Lzd: linezolid; Mfx: moxifloxacin; MTB: Mycobacterium tuberculosis; mNGS: next generation sequencing; MTB-DNA: Mycobacterium tube...
Source: Paediatrics and international child health - August 17, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Feng Zhang Xiao-Fo Zhang Hai-Yi Zhou Source Type: research
Acute focal bacterial nephritis and prolonged fever
Paediatr Int Child Health. 2023 Aug 13:1-4. doi: 10.1080/20469047.2023.2235932. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAcute focal bacterial nephritis (AFBN) is characterised by a complicated upper urinary tract infection ranging from acute pyelonephritis to renal abscess. Timely diagnosis of AFBN is important because antibiotic therapy of longer duration is required. A 10-year-old boy presented with fever for 5 days and bilateral flank pain. He was oriented and cooperative but appeared ill. Physical examination did not reveal any oedema or costovertebral angle tenderness. Acute phase reactants such as erythrocyte sedimentation rat...
Source: Paediatrics and international child health - August 13, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: T ülay Becerir İlknur Girişgen Furkan Ufuk G ülsün Gülten Selcuk Yuksel Source Type: research
Cerebral sinus venous thrombosis: a rare complication of varicella infection in a 12-year-old girl
Paediatr Int Child Health. 2023 Aug 4:1-4. doi: 10.1080/20469047.2023.2242173. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTVaricella infection can present with a variety of neurological manifestations, the most common of which are cerebellitis and encephalitis. A 12-year-old girl presented with headache, altered sensorium, blurring of vision and status epilepticus 2 weeks after she developed varicella lesions. Imaging demonstrated cerebral venous sinus thrombosis involving the left transverse sinus, sigmoid sinus and internal jugular vein with a haemorrhagic infarct in the left parieto-occipital region. Measures were taken to decrease t...
Source: Paediatrics and international child health - August 4, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Arumugom Archana Narayanan Parameswaran Kaushik Maulik Gulrej Nisar Shaikh Joe Vimal Raj Ananthanarayanan Kasinathan Dhandhapany Gunasekaran Bobbity Deepthi Source Type: research
