Corrigendum to "POS-074 SERUM NEUTROPHIL GELATINASE ASSOCIATED LIPOCALIN, EARLY BIOMARKER OF ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY IN ASPHYXIATED TERM NEONATES AT LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL" [ Volume 7, Issue 2, Supplement, February 2022, Page S31].

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.

Rhythm abnormalities among hospitalised children in Lagos: a case series.

Arrhythmias refer to disturbances in heart rate or rhythm which leads to heart rates that are abnormally fast, slow or irregular. Rhythm abnormalities may be common among Nigerian children but there are only a few reports. The current write up is a clinical review of eight patients in various age groups including neonates, infants and older children.

Assessment of humoral immunity and nutritionally essential trace elements in steady-state sickle cell disease Nigerian children before and after pneumococcal vaccination.

Unlabelled: Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) are particularly prone to pneumococcal infection and administration of 13 pneumococcal vaccine in Nigerian children with SCD is yet to be wide spread. This call for the need to study humoral immune responses stimulated by pneumococcal vaccine in SCD children to confirm the benefit or otherwise for the use of pneumococcal vaccine.

Method: The levels of humoral (innate and adaptive) immune factors and associated nutritionally essential trace elements were determined following pneumococcal vaccination of 23 Nigerian children with SCD.

Clinical Summary and Reasoning Format: Cognition Levels and Proposal of a Grading System.

The Clinical Summary and Reasoning Format (CSRF) was designed by the Faculties of Paediatrics of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria and the West African College of Physicians. The form is recommended for routine use in clinical practice as well as for training and examination purposes. The form has sections for documenting information derived from interacting with an index patient and sections for documenting sequential deductions on the way to various levels of diagnosis.

Clinical Summary and Reasoning Format: A Tool for Clinical Practice and Medical Training.

Patients' records are often bulky and unwieldy, necessitating the creation of summaries. A structured summary format adds the advantage of improved organization and easier retrieval of information. However, typical clinical summary formats do not document intermediate deductions linking symptomatology to diagnosis and to that extent fall short of tracking the cognition process of the clinician.

Clinical Summary and Reasoning Format: A Tool for Clinical Practice and Medical Training.

Patients' records are often bulky and unwieldy, necessitating the creation of summaries. A structured summary format adds the advantage of improved organization and easier retrieval of information. However, typical clinical summary formats do not document intermediate deductions linking symptomatology to diagnosis and to that extent fall short of tracking the cognition process of the clinician.

The Paediatric Long Case Examination in the West African College of Physicians - Past, Present and Future.

The Faculty of Paediatrics of the West African College of Physicians has been using the long case as a major clinical examination for Membership candidates since the early 1980s. Many training institutions also retain the long case examination. Over the years, the Faculty made far-reaching changes in this method of examination geared towards the improvement of its performance indices of reliability, validity and fairness.

Antenatal Dexamethasone for Early Preterm Birth in Low-Resource Countries.

Background: The safety and efficacy of antenatal glucocorticoids in women in low-resource countries who are at risk for preterm birth are uncertain.

Methods: We conducted a multicountry, randomized trial involving pregnant women between 26 weeks 0 days and 33 weeks 6 days of gestation who were at risk for preterm birth. The participants were assigned to intramuscular dexamethasone or identical placebo.

The Role of Multimicronutrient Supplementation in Pediatric HIV Management in Nigeria: A Randomized Controlled Study.

Background: We aimed to compare the immunologic and hematologic effects of 3 multimicronutrient supplements in human immunodeficiency virus-positive children in Lagos, Nigeria.

Methods: This double-blind, randomized controlled study included 190 children, aged 5-12 years, in Lagos, Nigeria. Sixty-four, 63, and 63 participants were assigned to multimicronutrient group A, B, or C, respectively, for 6 months.

Congenital pulmonary airway malformation: A case report of a rare cause of neonatal respiratory distress and review of the literature.

Congenital pulmonary airway malformation (CPAM), formerly known as congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM), is a rare developmental dysplastic lesion of the fetal tracheobronchial tree. CPAM is a rare cause of neonatal respiratory distress; however, its presence may span fetal to adult period. In two previous case-reports from Nigeria, CPAM was present in post-neonatal infants.

Skinfold Thickness Measurement in Term Nigerian Neonates: Establishing Reference Values.

Skin fold thickness (SFT) measurement is a reliable, cheap, simple, noninvasive method of body fat estimation at all ages including the neonatal period. . To determine reference values of biceps, triceps, subscapular, and suprailiac skinfold thickness measurements in term Nigerian newborns.

Three cases of prune belly syndrome at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.

Prune belly syndrome (PBS) is a rare congenital disorder affecting 2.5 to 3.8/100,000 live births worldwide.

Maternal serum vitamin D levels and pregnancy outcomes: from Lagos, Nigeria.

In an attempt to investigate the effect of vitamin D deficiency on pregnancy complications including caesarean section and foetal outcome in our population, blood samples of 461 pregnant women who attended antenatal booking clinic between 10 and 28 weeks of pregnancy were taken for vitamin D estimation and followed up. Details concerning pregnancy complications, labour and foetal outcome were obtained after delivery. They were divided into three groups according to the serum vitamin D level: group 1 (0-20)ng/ml (deficiency), group 2 (21-30)ng/ml (insufficiency), and group 3 (more than 30 mg/ml) normal.

Iron deficiency anaemia among apparently healthy pre-school children in Lagos, Nigeria.

Background: Iron deficiency, and specifically iron deficiency anaemia, remains one of the most severe and important nutritional deficiencies in the world today.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence and associated factors for iron deficiency anaemia among pre-school children in Lagos.

Methodology: The study was conducted from December 2009 to February 2010 at the outpatient clinics of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Lagos.

Pneumococcal-specific IgG levels after 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in Nigerian children with sickle cell disease.

Background: Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) are particularly susceptible to pneumococcal infection. Administration of the 13-valent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine which is now available in Nigeria may help to reduce the incidence.

Objectives: To determine the serum level of pneumococcal-specific IgG (PIgG) in a cohort of patients with SCD after administration of a single-dose of a 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.

National neonatal resuscitation training program in Nigeria (2008-2012): a preliminary report.

Background: Routine institutional training of doctors and nurses on newborn resuscitation have commenced, to improve the quality of resuscitation available to high-risk babies, in Nigeria, as a means of reducing newborn deaths in the country. Perinatal asphyxia contributes to 26% of newborn deaths in Nigeria. Perinatal asphyxia results when babies have difficulty establishing spontaneous respiration after birth.

Current pattern of Ponderal Indices of term small-for-gestational age in a population of Nigerian babies.

Background: Small-for-gestational age (SGA) newborns constitute a special group of neonates who may have suffered varying degrees of intrauterine insults and deprivation. Variations in birth weight, length and Ponderal Index (PI) depend on the type and degree of intrauterine insults the babies were exposed to. The objective of the study was to determine the current prevalence of term SGA births in a Nigerian Tertiary Hospital and the current pattern of Ponderal Indices among term SGA in a population of Nigerian babies.

Attitude to organ donation among healthcare workers in Nigeria.

Introduction: As transplantation services are scaled up in Nigeria so will the need for organ donation. Crucial to the success of organ donation is the attitude of healthcare workers (HCW); this was determined in the present study.

Methods: HCW participating in three workshops were requested to complete a pretested questionnaire structured to elicit their attitude to organ donation.

Diagnosing renal failure due to diethylene glycol in children in a resource-constrained setting.

Background: In 2008, several Nigerian children developed acute kidney injury (AKI) after ingesting teething syrup contaminated with diethylene glycol (DEG). Because there are limited diagnostic facilities in resource-constrained countries, this study investigated whether AKI associated with DEG could be identified by other means.

Methods: This was a multicenter study.

Delayed diagnosis of intersex state: surgical outcome of cases seen and review of current concepts.

Background: Sexual ambiguity is said to occur when the gender of the baby cannot be determined at birth. The gender of an individual is in question because the genitals do not appear clearly as that of male or female. It is traumatizing to the family.

Relationship between vitamin D levels and outcome of pneumonia in children.

Background: Pneumonia, a common childhood infection in Nigerian children with a number of debilitating complications such as empyema thoracis, has been linked to vitamin D deficiency due to its ability to modulate the T lymphocyte of the immune system .

Objective: To determine the relationship between vitamin D and outcome of pneumonia in children.

Methods: This was a case-control study involving 24 children, admitted for pneumonia as subjects and 10 children without pneumonia as controls.

A comparison of kangaroo mother care and conventional incubator care for thermal regulation of infants < 2000 g in Nigeria using continuous ambulatory temperature monitoring.

Although skin-to-skin contact (or kangaroo mother care, KMC) for preterm infants is a practical alternative to incubator care, no studies have compared these methods using continuous ambulatory temperature monitoring. To compare thermal regulation in low birthweight infants (< 2000 g) managed by KMC alternating with conventional care (CC) and to determine the acceptability to mothers of KMC, an experimental study with a crossover design with observational and qualitative data collected on temperature patterns and mothers attitudes to skin-to-skin care was conducted in the neonatal wards of three hospitals in Lagos, Nigeria. Thirteen eligible infants were nursed by their mothers or surrogates in 38 4-hour sessions of KMC and the results compared with 38 sessions of incubator care.