[PDF] Top 20 STUDY OF ADRENAL FUNCTION IN CHILDREN WITH MENINGITIS

... to moderately elevated values... Concentration of cortisol in plasma of patients with meningitis. The shaded area represents the. range of normal variations.[r] ... See full document

... Background: Meningitis in children constitutes a formidable illness worldwide due to its high morbidity and ...observational study was conducted in Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, India to ... See full document

... In children, the P1, the N2 and the P3a are the typical components observed in an auditory novelty oddball ...in children are the N1 [24], the P2 [25], the P3a [26] and the Nc [27,28] at midline electrodes ... See full document

... a study from India, ...our study, second-line antibiotics were added to 23 (38.3%) children during treatment, the majority of which were clinically modified prior to antibiotic culture results and ... See full document

... of children aged 1-month to 15 years admitted and managed for bacterial meningitis over a 3-year study period (January 2011 to December, 2013) were ...Bacterial meningitis was defined in this ... See full document

... aseptic meningitis with which they ...In children with aseptic meningitis who do not have EM, the following are key points to consider: (1) cranial neuropathy, especially periph- eral seventh nerve ... See full document

... concomitant meningitis in infants with UTI, but these studies have been limited by small sample sizes 9 or have excluded the youngest ...young children with UTI should always have a lumbar puncture to rule ... See full document

... causing meningitis and contribute to childhood malnutrition, which was associ- ated with worse prognosis in our risk factor ...A study from Malawi found a higher rate of mortality and recurrent disease in ... See full document

... sectional study had done upon 86 meningitis children ...suspected meningitis and examined for the presence of invading pathogens, changes in CSF with blood cell counts and protein and/or ... See full document

... case-control study, performed over a 9 months’ period (October 2015 to July ...recorded children affected with CAH in the national registry and followed in the single service of pediatric endo- crinology of ... See full document

... of adrenal suppression was assessed in the study sample by the low dose short Synacthen ...the function of HPA ...of adrenal suppression to the dose of ICS was analyzed with the age specific ... See full document

... Medical history was obtained at screening. Physical examination and clinical laboratory testing (8 mL samples for hematological testing, serum chemistry analysis, and urinalysis) were conducted at screening and at each ... See full document

... The chemical nature of the 11-desoxy steroid metabolites makes it likely that this alteration in adrenal function reflects the selective diminution in secretion of an "adrenal androgen."[r] ... See full document

... liver function test and renal function test should be done which may show hypernatraemia due to development of the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH) in about 45% ... See full document

... prospective study was conducted in the emergency room of the Department of Pediatrics, Benha University Hospital in Benha, Egypt, from November 2011 to May ...this study, 63 children with acute ... See full document

... Immediately before their deaths, 13 patients suffered from a high fever along with vomiting (n = 4), convul- sions (n = 4), gastroenteritis with diarrhoea (n = 2), dys- pnoea and/or upper respiratory tract infection (n = ... See full document

... Blizzard, Liddle, Migeon, and Wilkins 27, in a comprehensive study of normal children and children with salt-losing and simple virilizing adrenal hyperplasia, found that when salt was re[r] ... See full document

... whom no organism could be identified on initial smear were placed in the "unknown" group; if they were responding well when an organism was later identified by [r] ... See full document

... From this point of view the new- born adrenal gland becomes enormously large, and the plasma concentrations of steroids are either very “high,” as with the 17-ketosteroids, or very “low,[r] ... See full document

... in children treated with dexamethasone (double-blind studies), especially in children with ...purulent meningitis, has been noted; there is probably a similar effect for pneumococcal ... See full document