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  1. Female hypospadias is a rare congenital anomaly and defined as a female urethral opening on the anterior vaginal wall. Diagnosis is challenging due to its rarity. Different anatomical variations exist dependin...

    Authors: Hooi Hooi Tan and Shung Ken Tan
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:86
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  2. Arterial spin-labeling (ASL) imaging is currently the most useful method for diagnosing mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like attack syndrome (MELAS). However, ASL is often an optio...

    Authors: Makoto Shimada, Tae Ikeda, Ryohei Fukui, Katsuhiro Kida, Ryutaro Matsuura, Takuya Akagawa and Sachiko Goto
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:85
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  3. Paediatric intensive care units (PICU) experience a big challenge with malnutrition. It significantly impacts the development and prognosis of critically ill patients (CIP). CIP are those who require high reli...

    Authors: Mohamed Abdallah Abd El Megied, Iman Khaled Ayada, Omnia Yahia Abd El Dayem, Ramy Abd El Naser Abd El Wareth, Mohamed Salah Ghonaim, Aya Osama Mohamed and Shereen AbdelMonem Mohamed
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:54
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  4. This study assessed the value of measuring both arterial lactate levels and central venous oxygen saturation (ScvO2) in predicting cardiac surgery outcomes in pediatric patients.

    Authors: Alyaa Ahdy Abdelaziz, Fady Mohammed ElGendy, Alaa Atef Hegazy, Mai Hussein and Ramy Mohamed Ghazy
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:84
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  5. As double-outlet right ventricle has a wide pathophysiology spectrum, its comprehensive treatment strategy is determined based on relevant factors, such as the location and size of the ventricular septal defect, ...

    Authors: Yuzo Katayama, Sho Isobe, Tsukasa Ozawa and Takeshiro Fujii
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:82
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  6. Community-acquired pneumonia represents a noteworthy concern in terms of morbidity and mortality, particularly in countries with lower and middle-income levels. Accurate and timely diagnosis of pneumonia is cr...

    Authors: Shereen A. Mohamed, Hafez M. Bazaraa, Sally K. Ishak, Mohamed H. El-Ghobashy and Maie A. Gommaa
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:83
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  7. Asthma is a common and potentially serious chronic disease that imposes a substantial burden on patients, their families, and the community.

    Authors: Khaled Amin Nasef Ahmed, Iman Ali Abd El Aziz, Sara Tarek, Hager Mahmoud Abd El Fattah and Ahmed Said Behairy
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:53
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  8. Neonatal jaundice is a common disorder in neonates. Phototherapy is associated with various side effects despite being safe. This research aimed to determine the impact of phototherapy (PT) on eosinophil level...

    Authors: Sara Tarek, Dalia S. Mosallam, Doaa Saber, Nehal Diaa, Omnia Y. Abd El Dayem and Samira Abdelmonem
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:80
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  9. Early identification of sickle renovascular changes via renal Doppler sonography among sickle cell disease patients to help in early diagnosis and interventions to prevent progression to end-stage renal disease.

    Authors: Mona Hassan Eltagui, Hadeel M. Seif Eldein, Marwa Abd Elhady, Dalia El-Sayed, Nouran Momen, Yasmeen M. M. Selim and Mai Mohammed Abd EL Salam
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:81
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  10. Pediatric endocrine disorders (PED) are a common component of medical health challenges in Saudi Arabia. We aimed to describe the pattern and clinical outcomes of different non-diabetic pediatric endocrine dis...

    Authors: Ahmed Hassan Al-Ghamdi, Abdelhamid Ahmed Fureeh, Rawan Ibrahim Alshawikhat, Fatimah Ali Alshaikh Jafar, Saad Khalid Alamri, Abdulrhman K. Alzahrani, Abdulghani A. Alzahrani, Ahmed Saleh Alghamdi and Ali Abdulrraheem Almathammi
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:66
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  11. Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare multisystemic autosomal recessive (AR) disorder, which falls under the spectrum of ciliopathic disorders. As BBS is a very rare entity in India, its diagnosis is most ofte...

    Authors: Gargi Ramesh Rekhawar, M. P. Bhavana, Vishal Dnyaneshwar Sawant, Sushma Save and Alpana Kondekar
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:52
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  12. Germinal matrix hemorrhage affects 20 to 25% of infants with a low birth weight (less than 1500 g). About one-tenth of them progress to intra-parenchymal hemorrhage, usually during the first days after birth. ...

    Authors: Khaled Amin Nasef Ahmed, Dalia Ahmed Saied, Eman E. L. Sayed Mustafa Megahed, Sara Mahmoud Kamel and Mona Ahmed Kamel
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:79
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  13. Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admissions can have significant repercussions on families, including financial burdens and psychological distress. Not only do they face the overwhelming concern for their ...

    Authors: Varun Ravindra Jagtap, Sushma Save and Praveen Unki
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:78
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  14. COVID-19-related lockdowns had resulted in overburdening on health services. The lockdowns along with anxiety of the disease have resulted in delay in routine vaccination of many under-5 children. The current ...

    Authors: S. S. Dhanawade, R. V. Kawade and V. B. Waghachavare
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:51
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  15. Furosemide is the foremost drug used in the management of acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF). By tradition, it was administered as repeated intravenous boluses but fluctuations in intravascular volume an...

    Authors: Marwa Zarzor, Bothina Hasaneen, Mohamed Magdy Abouelkheir and Hanan El-Halaby
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:77
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  16. Caroli’s disease is characterized by non-obstructive dilatation of intrahepatic biliary radicals with formation of calculi followed by recurrent episodes of cholangitis. It is a rare congenital malformation an...

    Authors: Abhishek Mishra, Achinta Kumar Mallick, A. K. Singh and Anushree Mishra
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:76
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  17. Globally, infectious diseases, including pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria, along with pre-term birth complications, birth asphyxia and trauma, and congenital anomalies remain the leading causes of death for un...

    Authors: Samar Abd ElHafeez, Mahmoud A. Hassan, Esraa Abdellatif Hammouda, Abdelrahman Omran, Ola Fahmy Esmail, Amira Saad Mahboob, Mohamed Mostafa Tahoun, Dina Hussein El Malawany, Mohamed Kamal Eldwiki, Passent Ehab El-Meligy, Ehab Elrewany, Shaimaa Gadelkarim Ebrahim Ali, Amira Mahmoud Elzayat, Ahmed Ramadan, Abdelhamid Elshabrawy, Naglaa Youssef…
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:75
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  18. Acute hemolytic anemia (AHA) is a common emergency in pediatric emergency departments, hence the need to adapt pre-existing high-quality practice guidelines for the diagnosis, management, and prevention of AHA...

    Authors: Galila Mokhtar, Ashraf Abdel Baky, Ilham Youssry, Iman Ragab, Laila Sherief, Marwa Zakaria, Mervat Hesham, Nouran Salah, Rasha Abdel-Raouf, Sara Makkeyah, Sherein Shalaby, Sonia Adolf Habib, Tarek Omar, Yasser Amer and Niveen M. Salama
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:74
    Content type: Guidelines Published on:

  19. Hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma (HMH) is the second most common benign hepatic tumor in the pediatric age group. The etiology of HMH is unclear. Theories include abnormal hepatic mesenchyme, a reactive change or...

    Authors: Shirbin Joe Mathews, Athiya Perveen K, Bini Mariam Chandy and Ria K. Mathew
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:50
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  20. Bone marrow transplantation (BMT) is not always feasible in resources-limited countries for treatment of acquired aplastic anemia (AA); accordingly, an alternative and acceptable non-BMT is required to avoid m...

    Authors: Mohamed Abdallah Abd El Megied, Rasha Abdel-Raouf Abdel-Aziz Afifi and Howida Ahmed Ali
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:73
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  21. Insomnia is a very common condition in childhood with a prevalence of 25–50%. It can present as difficulty with initiating and maintaining sleep with frequent disruptions throughout the night. Sleep insomnia i...

    Authors: Eman Hassanin, Shelbea Peters and Folasade Rotimi
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:72
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  22. Jaundice in the newborn period is a very common entity; rare inherited causes are often forgotten. Persistent unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia in the intermediate levels with non-hemolytic features must prompt ...

    Authors: Ramya Srinivasa Rangan, Shagun Shah and C. T. Deshmukh
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:49
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  23. Neonatal sepsis is a leading cause of newborn mortality in the developing world. Most of the newborn babies admitted to a neonatal ICU for different reasons acquire hospital-acquired infections. Early and opti...

    Authors: Javeed Iqbal Bhat, Shaib Mohd Bhat, Zubair Mushtaq Tramboo and Bashir Ahmad Charoo
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:48
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  24. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory airway disease characterized by episodic reversible airway obstruction that variably presents with cough, wheezing, shortness of breath, or chest tightness. It is a multigeneti...

    Authors: Magdy Mohamed Zedan, Mona El Wassefy, Eman Omar Khashaba, Hagar Sallam and Suzy Abd El Mabood
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:47
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  25. Individuals with asthma are thought to suffer from a variety of distinct disorders, or phenotypes, each of which is characterized by a unique combination of genetic and environmental factors. Syndromes that ar...

    Authors: Magdy M. Zedan, Doaa M. Radwan, Nashwa Khairat Abousamra, Yahya Mohammed Wahba and Engy Osman
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:46
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  26. Congenital segmental intestinal dilatation (CSID) is a rare cause of neonatal bowel obstruction. Patients can present in the early newborn period with feeding intolerance and abdominal distension. Diagnosis is...

    Authors: Hooi Hooi Tan, Shung Ken Tan, Roslina Bt Abd. Halim, Md Yusri Md Yusof, Pavitratha Puspanathan and Pak Inn Teoh
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:45
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  27. Cholesteatoma is regarded as a critical health issue in the world. Nevertheless, congenital cholesteatoma (CC) is an unusual problem, and bilateral CC is extremely rare.

    Authors: Navid Nourizadeh, Mohamad Reza Afzalzadeh and Masoud Mahdavi Rashed
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:44
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  29. Considering the necessity and importance of providing health care to children during the Covid-19 epidemic, this study aims to investigate primary health workers performance for infants under 6 months during t...

    Authors: Fatemeh Sharifi Oroomi, Shokouh Shahrousvand, Mahboobeh Mohammad Hosseini, Narjes Tavakolikia, Saeed Taammoli, Elahe Hesari and Abbas Vosoogh-Moghadam
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:42
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  30. Sedation is an integral part in the management of critical patients in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Optimum sedation is when the child is asleep but easily arousable. The patient should be able to...

    Authors: Nidhie Shajan, Monika Sharma and Gurmeet Kaur
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:41
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  31. Pyogenic liver abscess is a rare condition in children especially in early infancy. The diagnosis requires a high index of suspicion and treatment has to be aggressive to avoid fatality. There is a rarity of r...

    Authors: Oluwafunmilayo Funke Adeniyi, Nelson Daniel, Olivia Ashefor and Patricia Akintan
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:40
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  32. A wealth of data exists concerning pediatric burn epidemiology in general, but more is explicitly needed in infants under 1 year of age, a particular group in which mobility begins to develop.

    Authors: Yasemin Demir Yiğit, Ebral Yiğit and Ilhan Taş
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:39
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  34. Vitamin D has immunomodulating actions which have a major role in the regulation of the inflammatory response. In this study, we aimed to determine the presence of an association between the serum level of vit...

    Authors: Marwa Ibrahem Abdelrazic, Alshimaa Mohammed Rateeb, Walid Abdelwahab Eid, Eman Fathi Abdelrazik and Ibtehal Saad Abuelela
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:37
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  35. Estimated baseline serum creatinine (bSCr) affects the incidence and outcomes of childhood severe malaria. Herein, we estimated baseline serum creatinine (bSCr) levels of 541 children with severe malaria using...

    Authors: Olayinka Rasheed Ibrahim, Folake Moriliat Afolayan, Michael Abel Alao, Bashir Mohammed, Bello Mohammed Suleiman and Olanrewaju Timothy Adedoyin
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:36
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  36. Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity (PSH) is the result of dysregulated autonomic function with sympathetic symptoms characterised by increased heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure and temperature wit...

    Authors: Jay Bhagwat Jomalkar, Vineetha Vijayan, Avanti Rajendra Saoji, Abhinaya Vaidyanathan, Praveen Unki, Santosh Kondekar, Surbhi Rathi and Chandrahas T. Deshmukh
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:35
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  37. Pulmonary exacerbations have been found to negatively impact the natural course of pediatric bronchiectasis. However, prognostic factors that might predict the severity of exacerbations are poorly identified. ...

    Authors: Heba A. Ali, Mona A. Salem and Marwa A. Abdelwahad
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:34
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  38. Neonatal sepsis is a clinical syndrome characterized by signs and symptoms of infection with or without accompanying bacteremia in neonatal period. Most of neonatal sepsis-related morbidity and mortality can b...

    Authors: Thirunavukkarasu Arun Babu, Arundhathi Shankaralingappa, Vijayasankar Vijayadevagaran, Vijayan Sharmila and Vinoth Kumar Kalidoss
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:32
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  39. It’s thought that respiratory epithelium-produced reduced hydrogen sulphide (H2S) plays a role in the pathophysiology of acute asthma. In this case–control research, blood H2S levels were examined between matched...

    Authors: Mohamed Abdallah Abd El Megied, Mohammad Abdel Fattah Abdel Motey and Ahmed Salama Amen
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:31
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  40. From quiet environment in uterus, neonates in special care newborn units (SCNU) get exposed to a stressful technology-driven environment. Noise level in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) depends on social a...

    Authors: Saptasikha Das, Pinaki Chakraborty, Reeta Bora and Priyanko Chakraborty
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:30
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  41. This study aims at determining why fathers do not follow their children to the clinic or hospital and exploring the factors that will promote father’s participation in healthcare of their children.

    Authors: Olubunmi Temitope Bodunde, Oluwafolahan Oluwagbemiga Sholeye, Olubukunonla Ayodele Jeminusi, Haroun Adetunji Ajibode, Taibat Olusola Otulana and Emmanuel Olusegun Adebayo
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:29
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  42. To our knowledge, no other studies investigated the internal consistency of the Edinburgh Visual Gait Score (EVGS). The aim of our study was to determine the reliability and construct validity of the EVGS in c...

    Authors: İsmail Uysal, Fatih Özden, Serap Tuna and İsmet Tümtürk
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:28
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  43. Authors: Antoine AbdelMassih, Aya Kamel, Ali Mohamed Zaki, Ayten Aboudeif, Clara Emad, Dina Ramadan, Hanya Gaber, Harvey Bastorous, Mehraiel Shaker, Nancy Salah, Nourhan Hany, Nur El-Mestkawy, Rana Adel Naguib Sawiris, Rana Mamdouh, Sandy Atalla, Sara Abozeid…
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:33
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2022 70:22

  44. Short stature is one of the main causes of children referral to pediatric endocrinologists. Common etiologies include idiopathic growth hormone deficiency (IGHD), small for gestational age (SGA), and idiopathi...

    Authors: Amira Ahmed Gad, Radwa Shamma, Mohamed A. Elmonem, Nora E. Badawi, Lubna Fawaz and Mona Mamdouh Hassan
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:27
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  45. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) exhibits high mortality rates among children, accounting for up to 50% in severe cases.

    Authors: Mohamed Abdallah Abd El Megied, Mohammad Abdel Fattah Abdel Motey, Miriam Magdy Aziz and Mohammed Mohammedy Ebrahim
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:24
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  46. A toxin produced by Clostridium tetani causes an acute illness called tetanus. Although there are still isolated incidences of the disease in emerging nations with social and economic squalor, the number of ca...

    Authors: Abiola O. Fafolahan, Oladunni P. Sodipo, Kafayat K. Adeoye, Badiru O. Musa, Erioluwa Jegede, Titilope Musari and Blessing O. Adeyemi
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:23
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  47. In childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), relapse is most commonly seen in the bone marrow (10–20%), followed by the central nervous system (3–8%). Isolated skin relapse is very rare in ALL. We report an ...

    Authors: Yeter Düzenli Kar, Zeynep Canan Özdemir, Ersin Töret, Evrim Yılmaz and Özcan Bör
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:21
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  48. Authors: Bahia Moustafa, Sawsan Moselhy, Moftah Rabie, Ayman Hammad, Doaa Youssef, Mohamed Shouman, Samuel Makar, Ahmed Badr, Sameh Mansour, Dina Ebrahim, Marwa Nabhan, Fatma Ateia, Hend Abdel-Nabi, Ahmed Hussein, Manal Salman, Mai S. Korkor…
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:26
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:12

  49. Vitamin E supplementation in many adult populations has been found to reduce the impact of oxidative stress from chronic diseases which include HIV infection. With paucity of data among the pediatric populatio...

    Authors: O. B. Olibamoyo, P. E. Akintan, O. F. Adeniyi and O. O. Soriyan
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:19
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  50. The facilities for intensive care are improving day by day in all departments including pediatrics, and prognostication has always been the duty of a physician. Scoring systems are useful to objectively measur...

    Authors: M. M. Anjali and Deepa T. Unnikrishnan
    Citation: Egyptian Pediatric Association Gazette 2023 71:25
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