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Atypical Kawasaki Disease in Two Infants Younger Than 6 Months
Two infants, a boy and a girl aged 2.5 and 5 months, respectively, were admitted to Tehran's Children Hospital, for fever of unknown origin lasting for about two weeks. The boy presented with abdominal distention, diarrhea, irritability, pyuria, anemia, leukocytosis, thrombocytosis and raised titer of acute phase reactants. The girl presented with irritability, diarrhea and abdominal distention, Leukocytosis, thrombocytosis, anemia and elevated titer of acute phase reactants. All bacterial cultures and serological tests were negative. Cardiac echocardiography showed coronary artery aneurysm in both patients and confirmed the diagnosis of Kawasaki disease. These cases showed that atypical Kawasaki disease was often a late diagnosis and therefore should be quickly suspected in febrile young infants with abnormal inflammatory laboratory results without infection. Echocardiography is an important tool for diagnosis of atypical Kawasaki disease. Key words: Kawasaki disease, Infant, Coronary arter
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Background: Birth is probably considered as the most highly dangerous
event in every one’s life. Although a few percent of newborns may
require resuscitation in this stage, wrong methods or failures would
lead to death or leave some irreversible complications. That is why it
is of great importance to learn the proper methods and become skilful
in resuscitation. This study was conducted to compare the effectiveness
of conventional and recommended methods of teaching resuscitation to
nursery students.Methods: The research is an interventional–semi
experimental study. The samples were 46 nursery students of the third
semester who were divided into two groups of 23 according to their
place of residence. The resuscitation was taught through the
conventional and recommended methods. The conventional method consists
of teaching all the theoretical subjects by different instructors and
performing the related team work. In recommended method the time
specified to theoretical subjects is less, and most of the subjects are
somehow included in practical work. A pretest was given in the two
groups and after the training a final theoretical and practical test
was held through the OSCE methods. The findings were analysed by using
the SPSS software and some statistical tests as: Mann Whitney U-test,
Independent sample t-test, Pearson correlation, paired t-test.Findings:
The findings of this study show that there is no significant difference
between the primary knowledge of the students in the two groups. The
post-test scores are higher in both groups and the difference is
significant which suggests that training has been efficient in both
groups. Comparing the post-test scores (practical and theoretical)
shows no significant difference. There is no significant difference
between the increase in practical and theoretical scores of both groups
either. Conclusions: considering less time (1/2) and lower costs (1/4)
spent on training in the recommended method, there was no change in
efficiency
Characteristics of Tuberculosis among Children and Adolescents at a Referral TB’s Hospital, 2006 - 2011
Consequences of varying dietary calcium and phosphorus levels on lipid profile, antioxidant and immunity parameters of growing Egyptian geese
Myocardial Layers Specific Strain Analysis for the Acute Phase of Infant Kawasaki Disease
Nutritional rickets in Denmark: a retrospective review of children’s medical records from 1985 to 2005
Does serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D influence muscle development during puberty in girls? - A 7-year longitudinal study
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