Clinical score to detect congenital heart defects: Concept of second screening.

Introduction: Neonatal screening for congenital heart defects at birth can miss some heart defects, sometimes few critical ones, and the scenario is even worse in those neonates who had never undergone a neonatal checkup (home deliveries). Immunization clinic can serve as a unique opportunity as the second checkpoint for the screening of the children. A history- and examination-based test can serve as an effective tool to screen out children with heart defects.

Addition of a Short Course of Prednisolone to a Gluten-Free Diet vs. Gluten-Free Diet Alone in Recovery of Celiac Disease: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background A gluten-free diet (GFD) is the standard of care in the management of patients with celiac disease, but clinical and histological recovery are often delayed. In newly diagnosed patients, strict compliance to GFD is difficult to achieve; this is especially true in developing countries where gluten-free food is often difficult to obtain. Steroids, when used alone, can be effective in inducing recovery in patients with celiac disease.

Profile and risk factors for congenital heart defects: A study in a tertiary care hospital.

Introduction: Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are an important cause of mortality and morbidity in children representing a major global health burden. It is thus important to determine their prevalence and spectrum and identify risk factors associated with the development of heart defects.

Materials And Methods: A case-control study was carried out in the Department of Pediatrics and Center of Cardiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, from February 2014 to August 2015.

Spontaneous ventral spinal epidural hematoma in an infant: an unusual presentation.

Spontaneous ventral spinal epidural hematomas are extremely rare in children and clinically recognized by the appearance of acute asymmetric focal motor and sensory involvement. In infants, the initial presenting symptoms are very non-specific and irritability is often the only initial manifestation. Appearance of other neurological signs may be delayed up to hours or even days later.

Evaluation of salivary anti-Salmonella typhi lipopolysaccharide IgA ELISA for serodiagnosis of typhoid fever in children.

This observational study was conducted to determine the diagnostic accuracy of ELISA for the detection of anti-Salmonella typhi lipopolysaccharide (LPS) salivary immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies in 37 children with culture confirmed typhoid, 30 febrile controls with an alternative diagnosis and 30 healthy controls. The test was positive in 33/37 (89.2%) cases of typhoid, but negative in all patients in the two control groups.

Frequency of HIV infection amongst children with disseminated tuberculosis and tuberculous meningitis in Aligarh (North India) - a low HIV prevalence area.

Objective: To determine frequency of HIV in children with disseminated tuberculosis and tuberculous meningitis in a low HIV prevalence area, and to study clinical profile of those found HIV positive.

Study Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India from February 2005 to January 2008.

Age-specific prevalence of hepatitis B surface antigen in pediatric population of Aligarh, North India.

Objective: To estimate the age-specific seroprevalence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) in children upto 14 years of age.

Methods: Equal number (115 each) of apparently healthy children of both sexes of different age groups i.e.