Nodding syndrome
Nodding Episodes and High Anion Gap in a 13 Year Old Child with Nodding Syndrome: A Case Report David Lagoro Kitara 1* , Suzanne Gazda 2, Eger Ambrose3 , Okot Ambrose 4 Collines Angwech 5, Valerie Palmer6 and Peter Spencer 6
... probable Nodding syndrome was referred to Gulu Regional Referral Hospital with pyomyositis of abdominal wall muscle and head nodding which was not responding to ...
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IS THERE A LINE BETWEEN INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL AND DIETARY FACTORS IN THE ONSET OF NODDING SYNDROME IN NORTHERN UGANDA? A CLINICAL OBSERVATIONAL STUDY DESIGN
... approach from the main IDP camps to the satellite camps near their villages. [15,20,21] Eventually the communities were returned to their original homes after the Government undertook an extensive demining process in the ...
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An exploration of caregiver burden for children with nodding syndrome (lucluc) in Northern Uganda
... As individuals age, they increasingly have to depend on younger people for their mobility and other activities of daily living. The caregivers of children with nodding syndrome are deprived of the ...
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Contextualization of psychological treatments for government health systems in low-resource settings: group interpersonal psychotherapy for caregivers of children with nodding syndrome in Uganda
... Results: During the pre-condition component of REP, we selected group interpersonal therapy (IPT-G) because of its feasibility, acceptability, effectiveness in the local setting, and availability of locally developed ...
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NODDING SYNDROME IN NORTHERN UGANDA; TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION OUTCOMES: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY DESIGN
... Background: Nodding Syndrome (NS) is an emerging neurological disorder in East Africa that affects children that are subject to civil disruption, internal displacement, food insecurity, malnutrition and ...
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Is nodding syndrome in northern Uganda linked to consumption of mycotoxin contaminated food grains?
... Nodding syndrome (NS) is an epileptic disorder occur- ring among certain rural African populations in oncho- cerciasis endemic ...first nodding seizures occur in pre- viously healthy children between ...
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Doxycycline for the treatment of nodding syndrome (DONS); the study protocol of a phase II randomised controlled trial
... Methods: This will be a two-arm, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised phase II trial of doxycycline 100 mg daily for six weeks in 230 participants. Participants will be patients ’ ages ≥ 8 years with ...
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High Anion Gap Metabolic Acidosis among Children with Nodding Syndrome (NS) in Northern Uganda: Case Series
... The majority of the children suffering from Nodding syndrome have exhibited growth failure, growth retardation and stunting [13,14]. We suspected that the chronic lack of adequate food and balanced ...
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Nodding syndrome and epilepsy in onchocerciasis endemic regions: comparing preliminary observations from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo with data from Uganda
... Nodding syndrome (NS) is an epilepsy disorder occur- ring in children in onchocerciasis endemic regions of South Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania ...head nodding, a form of atonic epi- leptic seizure ...
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Financing and collaboration on research and development for nodding syndrome
... ‘nodding syndrome’ or ‘nodding disease’ (n = ...ding syndrome’ was performed on May 5, 2015, with many more results (n = 176), including news items, cita- tions, conference announcements as ...
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Doxycycline for the treatment of nodding syndrome (DONS); the study protocol of a phase II randomised controlled trial
... Methods: This will be a two-arm, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised phase II trial of doxycycline 100 mg daily for six weeks in 230 participants. Participants will be patients ’ ages ≥ 8 years with ...
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Nodding syndrome: recent insights into etiology, pathophysiology, and treatment
... Abstract: Nodding syndrome is an enigmatic neuropsychiatric and epileptiform disorder associated with psychomotor, mental, and physical growth ...child. Nodding syndrome has been described in ...
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Nodding Syndrome (NS) in Northern Uganda: A Probable Metabolic Disorder
... with Nodding Syndrome and it is at these observed findings that these authors present a case for a possibility of a mitochondrial disease in these NS ...
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Catatonia in Ugandan children with nodding syndrome and effects of treatment with lorazepam: a pilot study
... Head nodding is considered the hallmark of ...head nodding, decreas- ing social interaction & communication skills, and decline in intelligence & daily activities, similar as in late- onset ...
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Qualitative evaluation of the outcomes of care and treatment for children and adolescents with nodding syndrome and other epilepsies in Uganda
... ovary syndrome, and hyper-androgenism [35], whilst in males a degree of sexual dysfunction has been reported but this may be associated with focal-onset [35] temporo-limbic seizures rather than with the medication ...
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Report of the first international workshop on onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy
... a nodding syndrome epidemic was reported in South Sudan [7] and northern Uganda ...between nodding syndrome and ...this syndrome. Moreover, nodding syndrome was thought to ...
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The Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome
... For multiplex families, the severity of the phenotype in that family is the best guide to the likely severity of future affected offspring in that family. That is because the intra- familial variability is less than the ...
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An Overview of Hutchinson Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS)
... Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) is a rare genetic ...Progeria Syndrome and its ...The syndrome is characterized by specific radiological and histological ...
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Novel and de novo mutations in pediatric refractory epilepsy
... Dravet syndrome is closely related to the SCN1A gene, which was the most frequently-appearing gene show- ing variants in our ...Ohtahara syndrome, West syndrome, Doose syndrome and tuberous ...
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Masculinity and alcohol in postfeminist popular culture : teenage boys consume music videos : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University, Wellington, NZ
... Mid CU female lead looking at him smiling anticiapating Ferrari ride having so much fun nodding in agreement to go for Ferrari ride Long shot from behind Ferrari them running to Ferrari [r] ...
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