Epidemiology of non-fatal injuries among Egyptian children: a community-based cross-sectional survey.

Background: Injuries are a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide. We aimed to determine the magnitude and characteristics of child injuries in Egypt and to identify the associated risk factors.

Methods: A community-based, cross-sectional survey was conducted over 27 Egyptian governorates from June to October, 2011.

Pneumococcal infection among hospitalized Egyptian children.

Aim: We aimed to describe the detection rate spectrum of clinical manifestations, and outcome of pneumococcal disease in children younger than 5 years admitted to the largest referral pediatric hospital in Egypt.

Materials And Methods: This was a hospital-based study to detect laboratory-confirmed Streptococcus pneumoniae cases among children younger than 5 years. Data on demographic characteristics, clinical diagnosis, comorbidities, diagnostic tests, antibiotic resistance, and clinical outcome were collected during the study years from 2008 to 2011.

Predictors of Outcome of Convulsive Status Epilepticus Among an Egyptian Pediatric Tertiary Hospital.

Convulsive status epilepticus is a common neurologic emergency in pediatrics. We aimed to study the etiology, clinical features, and prognostic factors among pediatric patients with convulsive status epilepticus. Seventy patients were included in this cohort study from pediatric emergency department of the specialized Children Hospital of Cairo University.

Iron deficiency anemia in an Egyptian pediatric population: a cross-sectional study.

Objective: The aim of this study is to assess the frequency of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and associated sociodemographic factors among children between 6 months and 12 years of age.

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional study enrolled 300 children from June 2011 to June 2012 visiting the pediatric outpatient clinics of Al-Fayoum University Hospital. Data were collected using a structured interview questionnaire.

Natural history and response to treatment of HCV infection among Egyptian survivors of childhood malignancy.

Background: Children with cancer are at a high risk for hepatitis C virus infection due to immunosuppression secondry to chemotherapy and multiple transfusions of blood products. We aim to evaluate the presence of HCV infection in children with malignant diseases, risk factors, clinical course, laboratory, histopathological findings, and response to HCV treatment.

Method: We described 31 patients referred to the pediatric hepatology clinic at Cairo University pediatric hospital and presenting with postmalignant virus C infection.

Pattern and predictors of interpersonal violence among adolescent female students in Egypt.

Violence among female adolescents is a major public health problem. The objective of this study is to detect the pattern and predicting factors of interpersonal violence among adolescent female students in a nursing high school in Cairo. A cross-sectional study was conducted during the academic year 2011-2012 and included a total of 220 students using a self-administered questionnaire.

Household costs of seeking outpatient care in Egyptian children with diarrhea: a cross-sectional study.

Introduction: Addressing difficulties of seeking and getting health care would lower the burden of diarrhea among ill children from developing countries as Egypt. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the economic burden of diarrhea associated with outpatient visits of children in Egypt by identifying the different types of related costs.

Methods: This cross-sectional clinic-based survey was done by interviewing parents of 763 children presenting with diarrhea to the outpatient clinics of Pediatric Hospital of Cairo University.

Saliva and sera IgA and IgG in Egyptian Giardia-infected children.

Giardiasis is a gastrointestinal infection of wide distribution that is more prevalent in childhood. Easy and rapid diagnosis of giardiasis is essential for reduction of this infection. This cross-sectional study included 62 children in which collection of saliva, stool and serum samples was performed.

Guillain-Barré syndrome as a prominent cause of childhood acute flaccid paralysis in post polio eradication era in Egypt.

Guillain-Barré syndrome often follows an antecedent gastrointestinal or respiratory illness but, in rare cases, follows vaccination. This study was conducted to identify preceding events, demographic, clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of childhood Guillain-Barré syndrome after post-poliomyelitis eradication era in Egypt. This is a prospective study of all children with GBS (no = 50) admitted to pediatric Cairo University Hospital between January 2006 and June 2007 (70.

Nontraumatic coma in a tertiary pediatric emergency department in egypt: etiology and outcome.

Nontraumatic coma in childhood is an important pediatric emergency with a wide range of primary etiologies. This prospective descriptive study of 100 consecutive pediatric nontraumatic coma cases was done to identify etiology, clinical profile, and predictive outcome in a pediatric emergency department at a tertiary care university hospital. Most frequent etiologies were metabolic (33%), central nervous system infections (28%), and intracranial hemorrhage (13%).