Prevalence of undernutrition and associated factors in young children in Malaysia: A nationwide survey.

Introduction: Undernutrition in young children is a significant public health problem globally. We determined the prevalence of and factors predisposing to stunting and underweight in children aged 1 to 5 years in Malaysia.

Materials And Methods: Data were extracted from a cross-sectional nationwide campaign involving healthy children aged 1-5 years conducted over a 4-month period in 2019.

Call for Caution: Neonatal Portal Vein Thrombosis following Enbucrilate Embolization of Placental Chorioangioma.

We illustrate a case of giant placental chorioangioma presenting at 20 weeks of gestation. Subsequent monitoring revealed enlargement of the lesion, associated with fetal anemia and cardiac failure, prompting in utero intervention. Amnioreduction followed by percutaneous embolization of the tumour with enbucrilate:Lipiodol Ultra-Fluid™ at a dilution of 1:5 was successfully performed.

Relationship between Intracellular Magnesium Level, Lung Function, and Level of Asthma Control in Children with Chronic Bronchial Asthma.

Background: This study aimed to determine the intracellular (red blood cell (RBC)) magnesium levels in children with chronic bronchial asthma and to determine the relationship between the magnesium level and peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR), type of asthma treatment, and level of asthma control.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at the Paediatric Clinic, Sarawak General Hospital. A total of 100 children, aged 6-12 years with chronic bronchial asthma, were recruited according to the study criteria.

Thalassemia intermedia in HbH-CS disease with compound heterozygosity for beta-thalassemia: challenges in hemoglobin analysis and clinical diagnosis.

Co-inheritance of alpha-thalassemia with homozygosity or compound heterozygosity for beta-thalassemia may ameliorate beta-thalassemia major. A wide range of clinical phenotypes is produced depending on the number of alpha-thalassemia alleles (-alpha/alphaalpha --/alphaalpha, --/-alpha). The co-inheritance of beta-thalassemia with alpha-thalassemia with a single gene deletion (-alpha/alphaalpha) is usually associated with thalassemia major.

Mild beta-thalassemia intermedia caused by compound heterozygosity for (G)gamma((A)gammadeltabeta)(o)/beta-thalassemia and molecular characterization of the defect in four Chinese families.

Molecular characterization of the compound heterozygous condition - (G)gamma((A)gammadeltabeta)(o)/beta-thalassemia - in four families showing mild beta-thalassemia intermedia was carried out using DNA amplification techniques. Using the Amplification Refractory Mutation System (ARMS) to confirm the beta-mutations and DNA amplification to detect the 100-kb Chinese-specific (G)gamma((A)gammadeltabeta)(o)-deletion, ()two families were confirmed to possess (G)gamma((A)gammadeltabeta)(o)/beta-thalassemia with the IVSII No. 654 beta(+)-allele.