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Arch Pediatr ; 21(1): 13-9, 2014 Jan.
Article in French | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24309200

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION: The diagnosis of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis remains a challenge. The effectiveness of the Keith Edwards scoring system used to diagnose tuberculosis is controversial. We evaluated this scoring system in the present study. METHODS: A prospective randomized study was conducted between March 2008 and December 2011 at the Kimpese General Evangelical Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The results of the Keith Edwards score were considered for the 161 children (100 pulmonary tuberculosis and 61 case controls) who were enrolled in the study. The association between different parameters and the score and between these parameters and pulmonary tuberculosis were statistically analyzed using univariate and multivariate tests. RESULTS: Eighty-five (85%) out of the 100 children diagnosed as having pulmonary tuberculosis and 20 (32.8%) of the case controls had a positive score. The age of the patient, duration of the disease, nutritional status, tuberculosis contact, positive tuberculin skin test, and lymph node enlargement showed a significant statistical association with the score and pulmonary tuberculosis (P<0.05). The score's sensitivity and specificity were 85% and 67.2%, respectively. The positive predictive value and negative predictive value were found to be 80.9% and 73.2%, respectively. The positive likelihood ratio was 2.57, the negative likelihood ratio was 0.22, and overall agreement was 76.1%. CONCLUSION: The Keith Edwards score could be good tool for public health purposes, but it might be less effective for individual diagnosis of childhood pulmonary tuberculosis because of low specificity. Further studies are required to evaluate and validate the diagnostic value of clinical and radiological symptoms in childhood pulmonary tuberculosis.


Subject(s)
Decision Support Techniques , Developing Countries , Diagnostic Techniques, Respiratory System/statistics & numerical data , Mass Screening/statistics & numerical data , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/diagnosis , Child , Child, Preschool , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Predictive Value of Tests , Probability , Prospective Studies , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/epidemiology
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Ann. afr. méd. (En ligne) ; 6(4): 1-14, 2014.
Article in French | AIM (Africa) | ID: biblio-1259182

ABSTRACT

Contexte. La tuberculose pulmonaire pediatrique comporte des particularites epidemiocliniques; cause parfois de delai du diagnostic.Objectif et Methodes. Etude prospective d'un echantillon randomise de 161 sujets (0 a 12 ans); dans le service de Pediatrie// Hopital de IME-Kimpese. Comparaison des donnees cliniques; epidemiologiques; biologiques et bacteriologiques entre un groupe de 100 patients avec diagnostic de tuberculose pulmonaire et 61 temoins; dans le but d'identifier quelques marqueurs de discrimination de la tuberculose pulmonaire pediatrique (TPP). Resultats. Le sexe masculin etait majoritaire (55;9) et 57;1 des sujets etaient ages de moins de 60 mois. La TPP est apparue significativement associee : au statut socio-economique; au mauvais etat nutritionnel; a la notion de contage tuberculeux; a certaines manifestations cliniques; et de la radiographie thoracique. La culture sur milieu de Lowenstein-Jensen etait positive dans 24 des cas; et la PCR; seulement dans 17. La frequence des resultats positifs augmentait avec l'age des enfants (? 0;005). La severite des lesions radiologiques semble correlee au mauvais etat nutritionnel; a l'absence de cicatrice vaccinale de BCG; et a l'importance du diametre de l'intradermoreaction tuberculinique. Conclusion. La TPP est un challenge diagnostique necessitant validation de quelques marqueurs usuels cliniques et paracliniques par des etudes longitudinales des series plus larges


Subject(s)
Pediatrics , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/epidemiology , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/therapy
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Eur J Paediatr Neurol ; 12(3): 257-61, 2008 May.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17884642

ABSTRACT

We describe an infant girl with psychomotor retardation, growth retardation, mild facial dysmorphy, evidence of liver involvement and a type 2 pattern of serum sialotransferrins. Serum transferrin glycan analysis with MALDI-TOF showed an extremely altered N-glycan pattern with a large number of truncated asialoglycans pointing to a severely defective N-glycan processing. The basic defect in this patient with CDG-IIx has not yet been identified.


Subject(s)
Carbohydrate Metabolism, Inborn Errors/physiopathology , Polysaccharides/metabolism , Transferrin/analysis , Apolipoprotein C-III/blood , Carbohydrate Metabolism, Inborn Errors/blood , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Female , Glycosylation , Humans , Infant , Isoelectric Focusing , Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
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Congo méd ; 2(1): 27-29, 1997.
Article in French | AIM (Africa) | ID: biblio-1260705

ABSTRACT

De 1989 a 1995; 29 enfants ont presente une encephalopathie liee a l'infection a VIH et leur moyenne d'age est de 5 ans (extremes 9 mois et 13 ans). La transmission est materno-foetale dans 23 cas; secondaire a une transfusion dans 2 cas et le mode de contamination est non etabli chez 4 malades. Les manifestations en sont principalement les troubles du tonus (50 pour cent de cas); les troubles du comportement 30 pour cent) et l'alteration de la conscience. L'encephalopatie observee est statique et elle est irreversible


Subject(s)
AIDS Dementia Complex , AIDS Dementia Complex/diagnosis , AIDS Dementia Complex/etiology
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Congo méd ; 2(2-3): 111-112, 1997.
Article in French | AIM (Africa) | ID: biblio-1260721

ABSTRACT

L'article porte sur le diagnostic sous-dural idiopathique chez 6 nourrissons dans un centre de 1990 a 1995 apres exclusion de toute cause connue. L'analyse d'elements cliniques et paracliniques a permis de faire les constatations suivantes: les antecedents d'epanchement sous-dural ont ete retrouves dans la fratrie; le perimetre cranien n'a pas excede les valeurs moyennes pour l'age et le sexe; l'echographie transfontanellaire a ete l'examen le plus precis; Ces collections liquidiennes souvent bilaterales etaient susceptibles de se reconstituer meme apres un traitement chirurgical et enfin; un retard psycho-moteur a ete releve au cours de l'evolution chez un enfant. La survenue possible des complications et sequelles peut faire reconsiderer le caractere benin de cette pathologie


Subject(s)
Infant , Subdural Effusion/diagnosis
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Congo méd ; 2(2-3): 113-115, 1997.
Article in French | AIM (Africa) | ID: biblio-1260722

ABSTRACT

Cette etude effectuee de juin 1994 a decembre 1995 montre que des 148 enfants admis dans le Departement de Pediatrie des Cliniques universitaires de Kinshasa pour diarrhee sanguinolente; 26 etaient suspects de dysenterie bacillaire. Huit cas ont ete confirmes par la coproculture. Les germes les plus rencontres sont les shigellas dysenteriae et le shigella flexneri. Pour le traitement; l'acide nalidixique et la norfloxaxine sont des antibiotiques de choix


Subject(s)
Child , Drug Therapy , Dysentery , Dysentery, Bacillary , Infant
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Congo méd ; : 504-505, 1993.
Article in French | AIM (Africa) | ID: biblio-1260606

ABSTRACT

Les traumatismes craniocerebraux de l'enfant; generalement benins; sont frequents et peuvent conduire a des troubles neurologiques graves. La presence ou non de ces signes donne lieu a des tableaux cliniques varies correspondant a des mecanismes et/ou des lesions diverses comme les hemorragies intracraniennes. Le plus souvent de siege sous-dural; ces hematomes se forment aussi au niveau sous-arachnoidien; extra-dural et intracerebral necessitant une approche diagnostique et therapeutique differente. L'observation que les auteurs rapportent; decrit le cas d'un enfant suivi pour hematome sous-dural post-traumatique


Subject(s)
Hematoma , Hematoma/diagnosis , Hematoma/therapy , Infant , Skull/injuries
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Pediatrie ; 46(10): 691-6, 1991.
Article in French | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1662357

ABSTRACT

292 Salmonella strains were isolated between 1986-1988 in the bacteriological unit of the Cliniques Universitaires de Kinshasa (Zaïre). One hundred of these strains were isolated from pediatric samples. The most frequent strains were S typhi, S enteritidis and S typhimurium. S typhi strains were sensitive to all antibiotics tested. The other salmonella serotypes had an increasing resistance to several antibiotics especially ampicillin, streptomycin, tetracyclin and kanamycin. A significant decline was observed with chloramphenicol and sulfamethoxazol-trimetoprim. Stool-isolated strains from children were found to be resistant to all antibiotics in common use in 5/6 cases. In systemic Salmonella infection, treatment with chloramphenicol or sulfamethoxazole-trimetoprim plus gentamycin is probably preferable to any other antibiotic recommended for Salmonella infection.


Subject(s)
Drug Resistance, Microbial , Salmonella Infections/microbiology , Salmonella/drug effects , Child , Democratic Republic of the Congo , Humans , Microbial Sensitivity Tests , Salmonella/classification , Salmonella Infections/epidemiology , Serotyping
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