期刊: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS, 2023; 69 (6)
Studies have reported that children with Congenital Zika Syndrome (CZS) experience changes in their sleep patterns, which can result in mood disturban......
期刊: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS, 2023; 69 (6)
Background: Uncertainty exists regarding the ideal interval between the administration of antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) and delivery. The study's ob......
期刊: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS, 2023; 70 (1)
Background: Blood culture collection practice in low-resource settings where routine blood culture collection is available has not been previously des......
期刊: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS, 2023; 69 (4)
Background Limited data exist about the vaccination of children with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) against vaccine preventable diseases. T......
期刊: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS, 2023; 69 (2)
Lay Summary Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) created a global pandemic in early March 2020. There are very few studies des......
期刊: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS, 2023; 69 (6)
The primary objective was to compare serum interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA) levels in cases of community acquired pneumonia (CAP) and health......
期刊: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS, 2023; 69 (2)
Background Sickle cell disease causes microvascular occlusion in different vascular beds. In kidneys, it leads to occult glomerular dysfunction causin......
期刊: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS, 2023; 69 (3)
Various factors (e.g., infections) have been postulated to trigger Kawasaki disease (KD) in genetically predisposed individuals. Whether neoplasms can......
期刊: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS, 2023; 69 (4)
Background: The Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine is generally used to prevent tuberculosis, particularly meningeal and miliary types, in childho......
期刊: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS, 2023; 70 (1)
Objectives: TNF-alpha is a pro-inflammatory cytokine that has been implicated in many inflammatory diseases, but its association with idiopathic nephr......
期刊: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS, 2023; 69 (2)
Background The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of lung ultrasound in the diagnosis of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (NRD......
期刊: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS, 2023; 69 (2)
The present study aimed to analyze the prevalence of childhood obesity in Brazil and compare it between boys and girls. This systematic review was con......
期刊: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS, 2023; 69 (2)
Lay Summary Skin-to-skin contact (SSC) helps in maintaining optimum temperature of low birth weight (LBW) newborns. It is an important component of Ka......
期刊: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS, 2023; 69 (5)
Introduction: Congenital Zika syndrome (CZS) is a recently described disease. Our main objective was to evaluate and monitor, over 3 years, the ophtha......
期刊: JOURNAL OF TROPICAL PEDIATRICS, 2023; 69 (2)
Objective Feeding intolerance (FI) is a common condition in preterm infants because they have an immature gastrointestinal tract. There are studies on......