Publications by authors named "I Maaloul"
Article Synopsis
- This study focuses on chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) in children, reporting on epidemiological data and clinical management from a pediatric department in southern Tunisia over 13 years.
- Out of 72 newly diagnosed ITP cases, 11 evolved into chronic ITP, with a mix of symptoms and complications, including two patients who experienced severe cases requiring advanced treatment.
- The findings highlight the difficulties pediatricians face in managing chronic ITP, emphasizing the importance of existing guidelines to assist in treatment strategies for severe cases.
Many inherited conditions cause hepatocellular cholestasis in infancy, including progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC), a heterogeneous group of diseases with highly overlapping symptoms. In our study, six unrelated Tunisian infants with PFIC suspicion were the subject of a panel-target sequencing followed by an exhaustive bioinformatic and modeling investigations. Results revealed five disease-causative variants including known ones: (the p.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAirway management in a rare case of congenital palate teratoma with a cleft palate: A case report.
SAGE Open Med Case Rep
November 2023
Airway management in neonates is difficult because of the risk of rapid hypoxia. It presents a challenge even for an experienced anesthesiologist. Oral tumors in neonates can obstruct the airway or feeding problems in the newborn.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Rheumatic cardiopathies and its risk factors: about 50 cases].
Ann Cardiol Angeiol (Paris)
February 2024
Introduction: Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is a multi-systemic disease, in which cardiac involvement is the most serious major manifestation of disease. The aim of this study was to analyse cardiac involvement in children with ARF and his risk factors.
Materials And Methods: It were a retrospective study including all children under the age of 14 years who were hospitalized for ARF in the pediatric department of the CHU Hédi Chaker of Sfax, during a period of twelve years (2010-2022).
Background: Moyamoya angiopathy is a rare cerebral vasculopathy and an underdiagnosed cause of arterial ischemic stroke in children. We aim to report the clinical and radiological presentations in a Tunisian pediatric cohort.
Methods: We identified moyamoya angiopathy in pediatric patients managed at the Child Neurology Department of Hedi Chaker Sfax University Hospital between 2008 and 2020 and reviewed their clinical and radiological data as well as their evolutionary profile.