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Rapid Point-of-Care First-Line Screening Tests for Hepatitis B Infection: A Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy (1980-2010).

Am J Gastroenterol. 2012 Sep;107(9):1306-13. doi: 10.1038/ajg.2012.141. Epub 2012 May 29.

Rapid Point-of-Care First-Line Screening Tests for Hepatitis B Infection: A Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy (1980-2010).

Shivkumar S, Peeling R, Jafari Y, Joseph L, Pai NP.

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1] Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University and Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [2] Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Sep-2012
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Profile of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in children in a tertiary care hospital in India.

Indian Pediatr. 2011 Jan;48(1):31-5. Epub 2010 Aug 1.
Profile of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in children in a tertiary care hospital in India.
Ramachandran B, Balasubramanian S, Abhishek N, Ravikumar KG, Ramanan AV.
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Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital, Nungambakkam, Chennai 600 034, India.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To describe the epidemiology, clinical features, laboratory findings, outcome and the difficulties in diagnosis and management of children with Hemo-phagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) in a tertiary children's hospital in India.

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of case records of all the children with a diagnosis of HLH from December 2006 to December 2008.

SETTING:Tertiary care children's teaching hospital in Chennai, India.

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Sep-2012
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Gaucher’s disease – A case accidentally diagnosed at five years of age

Tanmay was born in November 2002. Parents reported a healthy childhood till the age of five. Family was living a happy normal life till then residing in the Mumbai suburbs.

In 2007, Tanmay got fever which was diagnosed as a case of chronic malaria, he was hospitalized for 15 days at a local hospital. Fever relapsed, he was brought to Lokmanya Tilak Hospital, Sion, where he was hospitalized and treated for malaria. One of the signs of malaria is the increase in size of liver and spleen which usually reverts back to normal after treatment. But it did not happen in Tanmay’s case, his liver and spleen remained enlarged. His parents resorted to alternate system of medicines for treatment.
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Acute myeloid leukemia presenting as obstructive jaundice

Indian Pediatr. 2012 May 8;49(5):414-6.

Acute myeloid leukemia presenting as obstructive jaundice.
Rajeswari B, Ninan A, Prasannakumari SN, Parukuttyamma K.
Division of Pediatric Oncology and * Division of Pathology, Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum, India. Correspondence to: Binitha Rajeswari, Lecturer, Division of Pediatric Oncology, Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum, India. rbinitha@yahoo.co.in.

Abstract
Jaundice as a presenting feature of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia is rare. We report two cases of AML who presented with obstructive jaundice, one with a malignant stricture at the common bile duct and other with a granulocytic sarcoma obstructing the bile duct. The prognosis is poor in these patients.

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Pediatric obesity and gallstone disease

J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2012 Sep;55(3):328-33.

Pediatric obesity and gallstone disease.

Koebnick C, Smith N, Black MH, Porter AH, Richie BA, Hudson S, Gililland D, Jacobsen SJ, Longstreth GF.
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*Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena †Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center, Baldwin Park ‡Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center, Riverside §Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center, Fontana, CA.
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Glycogen Storage Disease 1a with Piebaldism

http://www.indianpediatrics.net/mar2012/mar-235-145.htm

Glycogen Storage Disease 1a with Piebaldism
Bhaswati Ghoshal, Nirmalya Sarkar, Mala Bhattacharjee and Rabindra Bhattacharjee
From the Departments of Pediatrics and Cardiology, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata, India.
Correspondence to: Bhaswati Ghoshal, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatric Medicine, Calcutta National Medical College Hospital, Kolkata, India.
Email: bhaswatighoshalmailme@yahoo.com
Received: March 09, 2010;
Initial review: May 10, 2010;
Accepted: November 03, 2010.

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Mar-2012
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Investigative MR Cholangiopancreatography for Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis-type Lesions in Children With IBD

J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2012 Sep;55(3):308-13.

Investigative MR Cholangiopancreatography for Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis-type Lesions in Children With IBD.

Alexopoulou E, Xenophontos PE, Economopoulos N, Spyridopoulos TN, Papakonstantinou O, Panayotou I, Dimakou K, Roma E, Kelekis NL.
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*Second Department of Radiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, General University Hospital "Attikon," †Gastroenterology Unit of the First Department of Pediatrics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Aghia Sofia Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece.
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Clofibrate for Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia in Neonates

http://www.indianpediatrics.net/jan2012/35.pdf

Clofibrate for Unconjugated Hyperbilirubinemia in Neonates.

A Systematic Review
TAO XIONG, DAPENG CHEN, ZHOUJIN DUAN, YI QU AND DEZHI MU*
From the Department of Pediatrics, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China and *Department of Neurology and Pediatrics, Newborn Brain Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA.
Correspondence to: Dezhi Mu, Department of Pediatrics, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, China.
dezhi.mu@ucsf.edu

Objective: To evaluate the effect of clofibrate for unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia in neonates.

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Jan-2012
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