Severe Malnutrition
Misdiagnosed Food Allergy Resulting in Severe Malnutrition in an Infant
... and potentially life-threatening sequelae. Overdiagnosis of food allergy may also lead to unnecessary avoidance of food, resulting in an impaired quality of life and, as this report shows, potentially fatal disease ...
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Intellectual Development After Severe Malnutrition in Infancy
... We have not investigated the intellectual status of our patients who were malnourished after the first six months of life, although recent work shows that five sixths of the human brain [r] ...
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Effect of Malnutrition on K+ Current in T Lymphocytes
... activation of the K ⫹ current presents a slower temporary course. Therefore, voltage-clamp pulses of 2,000 ms are ap- plied for obtaining the K ⫹ current in the steady state. The outward current is fundamentally of K ⫹ . ...
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Challenges in the management of HIV infected malnourished children in Sub Saharan Africa
... both severe malnutrition and HIV, diagnostic testing becomes even more difficult and, ultimately, also that much more important ...and severe malnutrition, which blunt the type IV ...
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Dendritic Spine Pathology in Infants With Severe Protein-Calorie Malnutrition
... tal malnutrition. Severe malnutrition during early post- natal life in humans is known to produce similar neu- rointegrative disorders as well as mental retardation, but there are very few studies ...
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Thyroid hormone status in children with protein energy malnutrition a hospital based case control study
... energy malnutrition continues to be a major health burden in developing ...and severe malnutrition and the correlation of thyroid hormone with serum total protein and ...
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Outcome of Standardized Case Management of Under-5 Children with Severe Acute Malnutrition in Three Hospitals of Dhaka City in Bangladesh
... of severe malnutrition had given emphasis on the ten steps to recovery describing initial phase of stabilization followed by rehabilitation phase and follow up ...
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A study of myocardial dysfunction in children with severe acute malnutrition.
... Hormonal changes mediate the metabolic adaptation to starvation. Pancreatic atrophy is seen in malnutrition. In severe malnutrition decreased insulin level leads to diminished insulin response to ...
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The assessment and treatment of severe adult malnutrition
... of severe malnutrition on ...moderate malnutrition present in professional fasters, (Benedict 1907; Benedict et ...from severe acute malnutrition (see ...
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Pediatrics Digest
... Children with severe malnutrition are at increased risk of bacterial infections and early markers for the diagnosis of infection in these children are needed.. Despite elevated values in[r] ...
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Perioperative Nutritional Status Changes in Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients
... status. Malnutrition is one of the major factors affecting the postoperative ...postoperative severe malnutrition in the GI cancer ...postoperative severe malnourishment in- creased ...
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Prevalence of Severe Acute Malnutrition in Children Aged 6 -60 Months Admitted at Mother of Christ Specialist Hospital Ogui, Enugu, Nigeria
... of Severe acute malnutrition occurs mainly in families that have limited access to nutritious food and are living in unhygienic conditions, which increase the risk of repeated ...from severe acute ...
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Efficacy of artemether-lumefantrine in relation to drug exposure in children with and without severe acute malnutrition: an open comparative intervention study in Mali and Niger
... We performed an open comparative intervention study to assess the efficacy of AL and the capillary blood concentrations of lumefantrine in uncomplicated SAM and non-SAM children. The study protocol and proce- dures have ...
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Pagali
... Weight has been taken as the main anthropometric measure, as an improvement in weight of severe malnourished children has the most significant effect in reducing the mortality among them. The study findings reveal ...
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Prevalence of hypoglycemia in diarrheal dehydration at hospitalization in severe acute malnutrition
... and severe dehydration ...in severe dehydration and not taking ...in severe dehydration and those who were not taking ORS at the time of hospitalization (p = ...In severe dehydration 25% of ...
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Increased Incidence of Severe Breastfeeding Malnutrition and Hypernatremia in a Metropolitan Area
... Prompted by interest in the index cases, a retrospective review of the hospital’s medical records computer was conducted to identify infants, < 6 weeks of age, admitted between 1990 a[r] ...
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VITAMIN D LEVELS AMONG CHILDREN WITH SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION
... with malnutrition may have co-existing vitamin D deficiency (VDD), which may be ...with severe acute ...with severe acute malnutrition of age between 6 months to 60 ...
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INTRACELLULAR COMPOSITION AND HOMEOSTATIC MECHANISMS IN SEVERE CHRONIC INFANTILE MALNUTRITION
... concentration of potassium in muscle, as a starting point, and the assumption that potas- sium exists at a similar concentration in the water of the cells of both skin and muscle.16.. Ba[r] ...
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INTRACELLULAR COMPOSITION AND HOMEOSTATIC MECHANISMS IN SEVERE CHRONIC INFANTILE MALNUTRITION
... Water and electrolyte imbalances occurring in malnourished in- fants, such as attend superimposed diar- rheal dehydration, usually are evaluated ac- cording to concepts derived from stud[r] ...
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INTRACELLULAR COMPOSITION AND HOMEOSTATIC MECHANISMS IN SEVERE CHRONIC INFANTILE MALNUTRITION
... Intracellular +extracellularvolume... Infant dying with malnutrition and infection. Ordinate is also applicable to extracelhular concentration of sodium. Note the striking contraction of[r] ...
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