Publications by authors named "Elmira Hajiesmaeil Memar"
Article Synopsis
- The study highlights the importance of vaccinations for children during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on factors affecting parents' decisions in an urban setting.
- A cross-sectional study in Tehran surveyed 226 children aged 5 to 18, revealing that only 22.1% had received vaccinations and showing correlations between parental vaccinations and child vaccination rates.
- Motivations for vaccination were primarily safety and illness prevention, while hesitancy stemmed from concerns over harm, lack of trust, and uncertainty about efficacy; addressing these issues through education and public health outreach is essential for improving vaccination rates.
Background: On December 2019, a novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread worldwide and became a pandemic. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) due to cytokine release syndrome following COVID-19 presents with various manifestations. We hypothesize that one of the rare manifestations is acute abdomen.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The aim of this study is to investigate the accuracy of utilizing neural fiber trunk diameter in accurately diagnosing the length of the aganglionic segment in patients definitively diagnosed with Hirschsprung's disease.
Results: In this study, 40 patients (19 males, 21 females; mean age 2.5 ± 2.