January 2022; Volume 89 : Number 1

 

 CONTENTS

EDITORIAL COMMENTARIES

Acute Severe Hypertension in Children: An Ongoing Search for Therapeutic Agent of Choice

Nitin Dhochak and Rakesh Lodha 1

Dosing Frequency of Inhaled Corticosteroids for Asthma Control: Is Once-Daily

Administration Effective?

Jagdish P. Goyal and Prawin Kumar 3

Gavage-Feeding Assist Device to Improve Nursing Efficiency in a Resource-Limited Setup

Deepak Chawla 5

 ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Efficacy and Safety of Intravenous Labetalol in Acute Hypertensive Crisis in Children

Sheetal Lad, Manisha Patil, Muralidharan Jayashree, Arun Bansal, Arun Baranwal,

Karthi Nallasamy and Suresh Kumar Angurana 7

Once-Daily vs. Twice-Daily Administration of Inhaled Budesonide for Mild

and Moderate Well-Controlled Childhood Asthma: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

Megha Goyal, Vishal Guglani, Pankaj Kumar and Shivani Randev 13

Comparison of Time Taken for Feeding Stable Preterm Babies Between Regular Nurse

Feeding and Feeding with Feed Rail—A Randomized, Controlled Study

Deepti Thandaveshwara, Sushma Krishnegowda, Aditya Batra

and Srinivasa Murthy Doreswamy 19

Early Total Versus Gradually Advanced Enteral Nutrition in Stable Very-Low-Birth-Weight

Preterm Neonates: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

Mamta Jajoo, Amitabh Singh, Neha Arora, Vikram Bhaskar and Anirban Mandal 25

Association of Symptoms of Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders with Asthma Control

in Indian Children

Prawin Kumar, Jagdish Prasad Goyal and Kuldeep Singh 31

Effectiveness and Safety of Nitrazepam in Children with Resistant West Syndrome

Sayeeda Zahan, Jitendra Kumar Sahu, Priyanka Madaan, Renu Suthar, Smita Pattanaik,

Arushi Gahlot Saini, Lokesh Saini, Amit Kumar and Naveen Sankhyan 37

Clinical Profile of COVID-19 Illness in Children—Experience from a Tertiary Care Hospital

Preeti Singh, Karanvir Attri, Deonath Mahto, Virendra Kumar, Dipti Kapoor, Anju Seth,

Varinder Singh, Harish Pemde, Praveen Kumar, Ravitanaya Sodani and Ankita Goel 45

Usefulness of Controlled Attenuation Parameter for Identification and Grading

of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Adolescents with Obesity

Abhinav Anand, Shalimar, Manisha Jana, Devasenathipathy Kandasamy, Brijesh Kumar,

Gajendra Singh and Vandana Jain 52

Propensity-Matched Comparison of Very Preterm Small- and

Appropriate-for-Gestational-Age Neonates

Rajendra Prasad Anne, Venkateshwarulu Vardhelli, Tejo Pratap Oleti, Srinivas Murki,

Gopireddy Murali Mohan Reddy, Saikiran Deshabhotla, Venkat Reddy Kallem

and Pravin Rao Vadije 59

CLINICAL BRIEFS

Outcome of Urinary Bladder Dysfunction in Children

Sherif M. El-Desoky, Mai Banakhar, Khalid Khashoggi, Zaher Faisal Zaher, Amr S. Albanna

and Jameela A. Kari 67

Vitamin D Status of School-Age Children in North India

Kriti Joshi, Eshita Bhowmik, Nirupama Singh and Vijayalakshmi Bhatia 71

Translation and Psychometric Validation of Belief about Medication Questionnaire

in Parents of Children with Difficult-to-Treat Nephrotic Syndrome

Sandeep Kumar, Viswas Chhapola and Meha Verma 74

IBI Score to Improve Clinical Practice in Newborns and Infants .60 Days with Fever

in the Emergency Department

Antonio Gatto, Alessandro Gambacorta, Serena Ferretti, Giulia Coretti, Antonietta Curatola,

Marcello Covino and Antonio Chiaretti 77

Breast Milk Protein Percentiles According to Gestational and Postnatal Age:

Could It Be Used as a New Alternative in Guided Fortification?

Kamile Arikan, Canan Türkyilmaz, Canan Yilmaz, Esra Onal, Ebru Ergenekon,

Ibrahim Murat Hirfanoglu and Esin Koc 80

PICTURES OF THE MONTH

Genetic Epilepsy Syndrome with Classic Dysmorphism

Deepti Kewalramani and Ranjith Kumar Manokaran 83

Snake Bite: Soft Pointers for Early Diagnosis

Pawan Kumar and Sudha Sharma 85

Perineal Erythema in Kawasaki Disease and MIS-C

María Teresita Sánchez-Alarcón, Itzel Estefani Ríos-Olivares, Alonso Gutiérrez-Hernández,

Selma Scheffler-Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Gutiérrez-Torpey

and Marco Antonio Yamazaki-Nakashimada 87

CORRESPONDENCE

Fabricated Diabetes Mellitus: A Rare Presentation of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy

Priyanka Gupta, Renjitha Pulikkaparambil and Vandana Jain 88

Severe Lead Toxicity Due to Ayurvedic Medicine in a Child with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus

Kakali Roy, Rajni Sharma, Priyanka Gupta and Vandana Jain 89

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Presenting as Subacute

Intestinal Obstruction

Sunil Joghee, Neminathan Kanthasamy and Senthil Kumar Lakshmanan 91

TG/HDL-C Ratio Independent of Obesity Associates with Airflow Obstruction

in Children with Asthma

Pakvirin Nanakorn Chanachon, Wanlapa Jotikasthira, Potjanee Kiewngam,

Adithep Sawatchai, Watcharoot Kanchongkittiphon and Wiparat Manuyakorn 92

Gastric Perforation and Necrotizing Enterocolitis Associated with COVID Antibodies

Kashish Gupta, Anup Thakur, Neelam Kler and Pankaj Garg 93

Persistent Viral Shedding after SARS-CoV-2 Infection in an Infant with Severe

Combined Immunodeficiency

Sankar Vaikom Hariharan, Sahana Muthusamy and Santhosh Kumar Asokan 94

CONTENTS

  • Never Miss Sleep Disorder in Children with Drop Attacks
  • Madhan Kumar, Sangeetha Yoganathan, Murugan T. P and Maya Mary Thomas 95
  • Recurrent Muscle Cramps in a Boy
  • Adarsh Kancharla and Ranjith Kumar Manokaran 96
  • Nonepileptic Paroxysmal Events (NEPE) in Children
  • Ranga Chetana, Vykuntaraju K. Gowda and Sanjay K. Shivappa 97
  • An Inherited Cause of Stroke Mimic in a Toddler
  • Sangeetha Yoganathan, Madhan Kumar, Lenka Sushma, Sumita Danda and Maya Thomas 98
  • Newborn with Nonimmune Hydrops Secondary to Fetal COVID-19 Myocarditis
  • Chintan Gubbari, Varun Govindarajan, Chikkanarasa Reddy, Priyanka Raman
  • and Manne Supriya 99
  • Heterotopic Ossification in a Neonate with DiGeorge Syndrome
  • Rajeev Gupta, Shalini Tripathi and Mala Kumar 100
  • Infantile Tremor Syndrome Presenting as Stroke
  • Vykuntaraju K. Gowda, Navya K. Umesh, Varunvenkat M. Srinivasan and Maya Bhat 102
  • Post-COVID Reactive Arthritis
  • Sayantan Dutta, Subrata Dey, Avishek Poddar and Priyankar Pal 103
  • BOOK REVIEW
  • CHARGE Syndrome: Timothy S. Hartshorne, Margaret A. Hefner and Kim D. Blake (eds)
  • Neerja Gupta 104

CORRECTION

Correction to: Changing Pattern of Congenital Heart Disease Care

During COVID-19 Pandemic

Sakshi Sachdeva, Anita Saxena, Samir Shakya, Sivasubramanian Ramakrishnan,

Saurabh K. Gupta, and Shyam S. Kothari 105