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- Clinical Pediatrics | Pediatrics Allergy and Infections | Pediatric Surgery | Pediatric Cardiology
Location: Waterfront 1+ Waterfront 2
Chair
Robert P Foglia
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Co-Chair
Asif Hasan
Aligarh Muslim University, India
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Dawn S Hartfield
University of Alberta, Canada
Title: Iron deficiency and neurological consequences for children
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Julide Sisman
UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Title: New perspectives on lenticulostriate vasculopathy in neonates
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Syed Zafar Mehdi
Baqai Medical University, Pakistan
Title: Frequency and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of microorganisms isolated from hospitalized infantile burn cases in a tertiary care hospital
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Sukhotnik Igor
The Bruce Rappaport, Israel
Title: Notch signaling promotes differentiation to the absorptive cell lineage after massive small bowel resection in a rat model
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Tinuk Agung Meilany
Indonesia University School of Medicine, Indonesia
Title: GSTP1 I105V Polymorphism as a risk factor of wound dehischence in pediatric major abdominal surgery
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Benslimane Hammou
Children hospital of ORAN , Algeria
Title: Video-assisted surgery in child
Time : 16:10-16:40
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Robert P Foglia
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Title: Pediatric complex, complicated appendicitis: Is non-operative management appropriate?
Time : 16:40-17:10
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- Neonatology | Pediatric Endocrine Surgery | Pediatrics Oncology and Haematology
Location: Waterfront 1+ Waterfront 2
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Andrew J A Holland
The University of Sydney, Australia
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Ulf Schubert
Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
- Neonatology | Pediatric Endocrine Surgery | Pediatrics Oncology and Haematology
Location: Waterfront 1+ Waterfront 2
Chair
Andrew J A Holland
The University of Sydney, Australia
Co-Chair
Ulf Schubert
Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
Session Introduction
Chrysoula Papachristou,
General Hospital of Trikala, Greece
Title: Breastfeeding in infants born in the maternity clinic hospital of Trikala Greece in 2015-2016
Time : 12:20-12:50
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Ingegerd Ivanov Ofverholm,
Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
Title: Overexpression of tyrosine kinase and chromatin remodeling genes in the iAMP21 subtype of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia
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Ulf Schubert
Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
Title: Early detection of cardiac dysfunction after preterm birth by speckle-tracking echocardiography
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Toshio Chiba
Kairos Corporation, Japan
Title: 8K Ultra-high Definition (UHD) Endoscope: A probable game-changing eye for pediatric surgery
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Kakali Roy
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Title: Blood lead level in children of Kolkata
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Biniam Ayele
Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia
Title: Double intussusception (ileocolocolic) with mobile cecum and ascending colon
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- Clinical Pediatrics | Pediatrics Critical Care and Emergency Medicine | Pediatrics Nutrition and Breast Feeding
Location: Kingsley
Chair
Hamed Ali Alghamdi
Al-Hada Armed Forces Hospitals, Saudi Arabia
Co-Chair
Ida Fidelis Denosta
East Avenue Medical Center, Philippines
Session Introduction
Jong-Hau Hsu
Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Taiwan
Title: Early elevated B-Type natriuretic peptide levels are associated with cardiac dysfunction and poor clinical outcome in pediatric septic patients
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Hamed Ali Alghamdi
Al-Hada Armed Forces Hospitals, Saudi Arabia
Title: Different approaches of vitamin D replacement in vitamin D insufficient children and adolescents
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Ida Fidelis Denosta
East Avenue Medical Center, Philippines
Title: Maternal risk factors associated with retinopathy of prematurity among patients in east avenue medical centre from 2010 to 2015
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Abdullah Almutairi
King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciencese, Saudi Arabia
Title: The level of comfort of emergency medical services personnel in pediatric patients care
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Monica Teresa
Yorkshire Dioceses, UK
Title: Early infant male circumcision: systematic review, risk-benefit analysis, and progress in policy
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Monica Teresa was born in the year 1979, She completed her junior studies at California public school from 1982-1984. And also she continued with studies in a secondary school where she attained a certificate in nursing studies in 1989-2003. She was posted at Yorkshire Nursing Academy and she obtained a Diploma in Education Nursing. That’s where she is currently working as Nun and a volunteer. She holds a Diploma in Education Nursing. She was currently a Dioceses Senior Nursing Educationist.
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AIM: To determine whether recent evidence-based Uganda policies on male circumcision (MC) apply to comparable African countries.
METHODS: Articles in 2005 through 2015 were retrieved from PubMed using the keyword “circumcision” together with 36 relevant subtopics. A further PubMed search was performed for articles published in 2016. Searches of the EMBASE and Cochrane databases did not yield additional citable articles. Articles were assessed for quality and those rated 2+ and above according to the Scottish Intercollegiate Grading System were studied further. The most relevant and representative of the topic were included. Bibliographies were examined to retrieve further key references. Randomized controlled trials, recent high quality systematic reviews or meta-analyses (level 1++ or 1+ evidence) were prioritized for inclusion. A risk-benefit analysis of articles rated for quality was performed. For efficiency and reliability, recent randomized controlled trials, meta-analyses, high quality systematic reviews and large well-designed studies were used if available. Internet searches were conducted for other relevant information, including policies and African data on claims under Medicare for MC.
RESULTS: Evidence-based policy statements by the African Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) support infant and later age male circumcision (MC) as a desirable public health measure. Our systematic review of relevant literature over the past decade yielded 140 journal articles that met our inclusion criteria. Together, these showed that early infant MC confers immediate and lifelong benefits by protecting against urinary tract infections having potential adverse long-term renal effects, phimosis that causes difficult and painful erections and “ballooning” during urination, inflammatory skin conditions, inferior penile hygiene, candidiasis, various sexually transmissible infections in both sexes, genital ulcers, and penile, prostate and cervical cancer. Our risk-benefit analysis showed that benefits exceeded procedural risks, which are predominantly minor, by up to 200 to 1. We estimated that more than 1 in 2 uncircumcised males will experience an adverse foreskin-related medical condition over their lifetime. Wide-ranging evidence from surveys, physiological measurements, and the anatomical location of penile sensory receptors responsible for sexual sensation strongly and consistently suggested that MC has no detrimental effect on sexual function, sensitivity or pleasure. United States studies showed that early infant MC is cost saving. The evidence supporting early infant MC has further strengthened since the positive AAP and CDC reviews.
CONCLUSION: Affirmative MC policies are needed in Africa. Routine provision of accurate, unbiased education, and access in public hospitals, will maximize health and financial benefits.
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Angeila Goretti was born in the year 1968 June-8th. She is a PhD holder in child Education and a Science lecturer Analyst. She currently retired as a Lecturer and involving Voluntary work at Yorkshire Dioceses. However more often she consulted her Universities in different aspects
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Background: The adverse effects of alcohol on the developing human represent a spectrum of structural anomalies and behavioral and neurocognitive disabilities, most accurately termed fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). The first descriptions in the modern medical literature of a distinctly recognizable pattern of malformations associated with maternal alcohol abuse were reported in 1968 and 1973. Since that time, substantial progress has been made in developing specific criteria for defining and diagnosing this condition. Two sets of diagnostic criteria are now used most widely for evaluation of children with potential diagnoses in the FASD continuum, ie, the 1996 Institute of Medicine (IOM) criteria and the Washington criteria. Although both approaches have improved the clinical delineation of FASD, both suffer from significant drawbacks in their practical application in pediatric practice.
Objective: The purpose of this report is to present specific clarifications of the 1996 IOM criteria for the diagnosis of FASD, to facilitate their practical application in clinical pediatric practice.
Methods: A large cohort of children who were prenatally exposed to alcohol were identified, through active case-ascertainment methods, in 6 Native American communities in the United States and 1 community in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The children and their families underwent standardized multidisciplinary evaluations, including a dysmorphology examination, developmental and neuropsychological testing, and a structured maternal interview, which gathered data about prenatal drinking practices and other demographic and family information. Data for these subjects were analyzed, and revisions and clarifications of the existing IOM FASD diagnostic categories were formulated on the basis of the results.
Results: The revised IOM method defined accurately and completely the spectrum of disabilities among the children in our study. On the basis of this experience, we propose specific diagnostic criteria for fetal alcohol syndrome and partial fetal alcohol syndrome. We also define alcohol-related birth defects and alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder from a practical standpoint.
Conclusions. The 1996 IOM criteria remain the most appropriate diagnostic approach for children prenatally exposed to alcohol. The proposed revisions presented here make these criteria applicable in clinical pediatric practice.
Abigail Jenner
Yorkshire Dioceses, UK
Title: Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalized children
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Abigail was studied from Austria. She studied Business Education and graduated with a First class Degree. She worked at Austria School of Education from 1984-1989 and she currently working as nun in Kikandwa-Education Academy in Uganda.
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Objectives: The precise epidemiology of childhood pneumonia remains poorly defined. Accurate and prompt etiologic diagnosis is limited by inadequate clinical, radiologic, and laboratory diagnostic methods. The objective of this study was to determine as precisely as possible the epidemiology and morbidity of community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalized children.
Methods: Consecutive immunocompetent children hospitalized with radiographically confirmed lower respiratory infections (LRIs) were evaluated prospectively from January 1999 through March 2000. Positive blood or pleural fluid cultures or pneumolysin-based polymerase chain reaction assays, viral direct fluorescent antibody tests, or viral, mycoplasmal, or chlamydial serologic tests were considered indicative of infection by those organisms. Methods for diagnosis of pneumococcal pneumonia among study subjects were published by us previously. Selected clinical characteristics, indices of inflammation (white blood cell and differential counts and procalcitonin values), and clinical outcome measures (time to defervescence and duration of oxygen supplementation and hospitalization) were compared among groups of children.
Results: One hundred fifty-four hospitalized children with LRIs were enrolled. Median age was 33 months (range: 2 months to 17 years). A pathogen was identified in 79% of children. Typical respiratory bacteria were identified in 60% (of which 73% were Streptococcus pneumoniae), viruses in 45%, Mycoplasma pneumoniae in 14%, Chlamydia pneumoniae in 9%, and mixed bacterial/viral infections in 23%. Preschool-aged children had as many episodes of atypical bacterial LRIs as older children. Children with typical bacterial or mixed bacterial/viral infections had the greatest inflammation and disease severity. Multivariate logistic-regression analyses revealed that high temperature (≥38.4°C) within 72 hours after admission (odds ratio: 2.2; 95% confidence interval: 1.4–3.5) and the presence of pleural effusion (odds ratio: 6.6; 95% confidence interval: 2.1–21.2) were significantly associated with bacterial pneumonia.
Conclusions: This study used an expanded diagnostic armamentarium to define the broad spectrum of pathogens that cause pneumonia in hospitalized children. The data confirm the importance of S pneumoniae and the frequent occurrence of bacterial and viral coinfections in children with pneumonia. These findings will facilitate age-appropriate antibiotic selection and future evaluation of the clinical effectiveness of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine as well as other candidate vaccines.
Ann Scovia
Yorkshire Dioceses, UK
Title: The development of a minimally invasive surgical (MIS) research & training facility: Review 2007-2015
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Ann Scovia was Born in York lane, London. Currently she is working as nun at Yorkshire Dioceses. However more often am consulted my Universities in different aspects
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MIS is becoming increasingly main stream in paediatric Surgery. However, as a specialty we have the disadvantage of limited patient numbers particularly in neonatal surgical condition. This makes it all the more important that simulation is available to develop and maintain our MIS skills. There is extensive literature to support simulation as an effective means to developing MIS skills prior to clinical applications. A MIS animal training facility commenced at the Children’s Hospital, Westmead in 2005, training workshops are arranged twice a year without cost to the participants. The protocol is approve by the Western Sydney Local Health District Animal Ethics Committee ( protocol number 3013.03.15) The training is consultant led and is funded by Convidien ( Medtronic & Covidien) from 2004 and also from 2012. The program is graded to suit the level of experience; the more the experienced surgeons train on a wide range of specific, live anaesthetized porcine models which realistically simulate a variety of clinical conditions in neonates and older children. The less experienced use the box trainers/lap simulator to develop suturing and knot tying expertise prior to progression to the live anaesthetized animal models. Over the last 8 years 297 participants have attended the workshops with an overall satisfsction rate of 75%. It is hoped that the data presented will encourage further discussion about the need for simulation based MIS training and skill maintenance in paediatric Surgery.
Susan Smith
Yorkshire Dioceses, UK
Title: Assessment of state of convulsive child in Hospital National Children Albert Royer, Dakar
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Susan Smith from Yorkshire, UK. She currently working as a nun in Yorkshire Diocesses.
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Introduction: The state of epilepticus in children is considered as a medical emergency which involves the vital and functional prognosis of the patient. The difficulties of this support in our country are linked to the lack of pediatric intensive care unit. The aim of our study is to evaluate the clinical, therapeutic, scalable and etiological states of epilepticus in children at national Refferal Hospital of Mulago in Uganda National Children, Uganda.
Method: This is a prospective study which includes all patients aged between 2 months and 16 years who were hospitalized between 1 January 2001 and 31 June, 2015 for a prolonged convulsion over 5 minutes and/ or with atleast 3 episodes of successive convulsions. We have not included the newborns and non-convulsive state epilepticus patients. The treatment protocol consists of the use of diazepam as first line, after 60 minutes if the crisis persists; diazepam Phenobarbital was associated with the second line.
Results: We collected 60 cases of state epilepticus (31 boys and 29 girls), which turned out to be a hospital incidence 0f 2.4%. The mean age was 48.5 months. Three quarters of our patients (n=40) were received emergency beyond 30 minutes after the onset of convulsions where the generalized seizures (n=42) were more than partial seizures (n=11). The convulsions occurred in the context of fever in 38 patients. The metabolic balance was in favor of hyponetremia in 13 cases. Twenty-four patients (45.3%) have received only Phenobarbital diazepam combination within 60 minutes after the onset of seizures. Conclusions: The state epilepticus cases are frequent in the hospital emergency department especially the infants from 2 months to 3 years. It was observed that the patients unfortunately received emergency in late beyond 30 minutes after the onset of convulsions.