Publications by authors named "Mats Steffi Jennifer"
Pearson marrow-pancreas syndrome with cardiac conduction abnormality necessitating prophylactic pacemaker implantation.
Ann Noninvasive Electrocardiol
January 2020
Pearson marrow-pancreas syndrome (PS), an exceedingly rare mitochondrial disorder, involves multiple systems including hematologic system and pancreas. Other mitochondrial disorders have been associated with progressive infrahisian block but this has not yet been described as a major feature of PS. We report a 7-year-old girl with classical features of PS and cardiac conduction defect.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Globally, 5.82 million deaths occurred among children under the age of five years in 2015 and injury specific mortality rate was 73 per 100,000 population. In India, injury specific mortality rate is around 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA Comparison of Diarrheal Severity Scores in the MAL-ED Multisite Community-Based Cohort Study.
Gwenyth O Lee Stephanie A Richard Gagandeep Kang Eric R Houpt Jessica C Seidman Mats Steffi Jennifer
J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr
November 2016
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to evaluate different scoring systems for measuring the severity of diarrhea in children, focusing on how well these scores predict hospitalization.
- It utilized data from a large cohort of children with diarrhea, analyzing symptoms reported by mothers and fieldworkers during the first week of illness to establish a correlation with hospitalization risk.
- The findings indicated that community-based severity scores effectively predict health outcomes, highlighting the need for such tools in assessing diarrhea's impact and improving healthcare responses in low- and middle-income countries.