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Paediatric tuberculosis
Tuberculosis continues to cause an unacceptably high toll of disease and death among children worldwide, particularly in the wake of the HIV epidemic. Increased international travel and immigration have led to a rise in childhood tuberculosis rates even in traditionally low burden, industrialised settings, and threaten to promote the emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant strains. Where…
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Zinc supplementation in children with asthma exacerbation
Zinc deficiency has demonstrated an association with the risk of asthma. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of zinc supplementation in reducing the severity of childhood asthma exacerbation. A number of 42 children with asthma exacerbation admitted to the hospital were randomized to receive either zinc bis-glycinate (30 mg elemental zinc/day) or a placebo in adjuvant to the standard tre…
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Serum copper and zinc levels of children with asthma
Zinc is as an essential micronutrient for normal growth and health that have important effects on biologic actions including enzyme activity, and release of insulin, homeostasis, cardiovascular, immune function and DNA construction. Childhood asthma is a respiratory disease with increased airway inflammation and airway obstruction was associated with infiltration and accumulation of neutrophil…
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SERUM LEAD, COPPER AND ZINC IN CHILDREN WITH BRONCHIAL ASTHMA
Bronchial asthma is chronic inflammatory of the lung airways resulting in episodic airflow obstruction. Lead exposure results in alteration of immune system function resulting in asthma. Zinc, copper are component of antioxidant system and alteration of their level affect increase risk of asthma
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Left main bronchus foreign body masquerading as diaphragmatic hernia in an ad…
Foreign body aspiration is quite uncommon in the adults. It can be a life-threatening situation and it often requires a high index of suspicion, because the diagnosis can be obscure
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Migrating foreign body in an adult bronchus: An aspirated denture
As a safety measure, dentures are routinely removed before surgery. Aspiration of a denture could be catastrophic, with medicolegal implications. Foreign body aspiration is uncommon in adults; however, aspirations may remain asymptomatic and undiagnosed for long periods of time. We report an adult male who presented with a cough for more than 6 months. On radiography, a foreign body was foun…
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Nasal High‑flow Therapy in Infants and Children
This review highlights and summarizes the current evidence and knowledge of nasal high flow therapy management in infants and children. This review outlines the distinct differences in the use of NHF therapy between children and adults. A comprehensive literature review has been performed reviewing the relevant physiological studies and current evidence of support measures in these children.…
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Destroyed lung complicated with empyema
An obliterated lung is characterized as an aggregate demolition of the lung auxiliary to repetitive or ceaseless lung contaminations. The most widely recognized cause is tuberculous. Other conceivable causes incorporate last fase bronchiectasis and sequelae of necrotizing pneumonia.
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A Challenging Diagnosis of Ascites: A Case Report of Peritoneal Tuberculosis
Approximately 2 billion people, which is about one third of the world’s population, are infected with tuberculosis (TB). Around 10% of infected people will develop active TB at one point in their lifetime. We present a rare case of a 68-year-old male who presented to the emergency department with a 2-week progressive dyspnea. In addition, the patient complained of generalized weakness, sub…
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Intestinal and peritoneal tuberculosis: changing trends over 10 years and a r…
To establish the efficiency of minimally invasive procedures in the diagnosis and management of abdominal (intestinal and peritoneal) tuberculosis (AT), I retrospectively and then prospectively evaluated clinical, physical and laboratory findings in patients with AT at a university general-surgery clinic. Diagnostic and therapeutic options were also considered.
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