Publications by authors named "Yajaira Mrsic"
Background: This study aims to describe the predictive factors of severe obesity in children followed in French Guiana.
Methods: In this observational study, the patients from the French Guianese Childhood Obesity Group database were prospectively included, after giving a statement of patient's non opposition.
Results: Our group classifications revealed that 36 of 150 (24%) participants were classified as being metabolically abnormal obesity" (MAO), while 114 of 150 (76%) were categorized as metabolically normal obesity" (MNO).
Article Synopsis
- A 10-year-old boy from Brazil developed eosinophilic meningitis and transverse myelitis after traveling to Suriname, linked to the parasitic infection Angiostrongylus cantonensis.
- Diagnosis was confirmed through serological tests and real-time PCR analysis of his cerebrospinal fluid.
- It's crucial for the medical community to recognize angiostrongyliasis as a potential health concern in the Guiana Shield region.*
Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiology of infantile Pompe disease (IPD) in French Guiana, a French overseas territory, by combining a retrospective case records study and a prospective anonymous genotyping in a sample of mothers followed in the two major maternity units of French Guiana.
Methods: We identified 19 newborns with IPD born within a 13-year-period in French Guiana, corresponding to 1/4528 births. All children were born within the African-American Maroon (Bushinengue) community originating from slaves who settled along the Maroni river in the 19th century.
Rationale: The pathway of Nontyphoid Salmonella meningitis, especially in exclusive breastfeeding infants, has not been well characterized.
Patient Concerns: We analyzed data related to nontyphoid Salmonella meningitis in 4 infants.
Diagnoses: No diarrhea was observed and the coproculture was negative for all patients.
Background: Fever in infants younger than 3 months is generally a cause for concern because of the risk for a serious bacterial infection. The aim of this study was to describe clinical and biologic features of Chikungunya infection in infants <3 months of age hospitalized in Cayenne Hospital during the 2014-2015 outbreak.
Methods: We performed a preliminary retrospective study followed by a prospective study from March 2014 to February 2015.