Submissions from 2013
Adult-onset manifestation of idiopathic T-cell lymphopenia due to a heterozygous RAG1 mutation, Roshini S. Abraham, Mike Recher, Silvia Giliani, Jolan E. Walter, Yu Nee Lee, Francesco Frugoni, Daniel E. Maddox, Salman Kirmani, and Luigi D. Notarangelo
Transient pseudo-hypertriglyceridemia: a useful biochemical marker of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase deficiency, Bushra Afroze, Zabedah Yunus, Beat Steinmann, and Rene Santer
Oesophageal duplication cyst presenting as haemoptysis, Noureen Afzal, Syeda Ezz-e-Rukhshan Adil, Ammara Mushtaq, Arshalooz Rahman, and Muneer Amanullah
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation in cryptogenic liver cirrhosis, Noureen Afzal, Saleem Akhtar, Shakeel Ahmed, and Mehnaz Atiq
Treatment of Burn Wound Infection Using Ultraviolet Light: A Case Report, Numra Abdul Aleem, Moaz Aslam, Mohammad Faizan Zahid, Arshalooz Jamila Rahman, and Fazl Ur Rehman
Role of human metapneumovirus, influenza a virus and respiratory syncytial virus in causing WHO-defined severe pneumonia in children in a developing country, Asad Ali, Asif Raza Khowaja, Maaman Zahoor Bashir, Fatima Aziz, Sultan Mustafa, and Anita Zaidi
Salmonella Cholecystitis: Atypical Presentation of a Typical Condition, Rehan Ali, Shakeel Ahmed, Maqbool Qadir, Huba Atiq, and Muhammad Hamid
Pneumothoraces in a neonatal tertiary care unit: case series, Rehan Ali, Shakeel Ahmed, Maqbool Qadir, Prem Maheshwari, and Rehan Khan
Pandemic influenza A(H1N1)pdm09: An unrecognized cause of mortality in children in Pakistan, Syed Asad Ali, Fatima Aziz, Nida Akhtar, Shahida Qureshi, Kathryn Edwards, and Anita Zaidi
Disease patterns and outcomes of neonatal admissions at a secondary care hospital in pakistan, Syed R. Ali, Shakeel Ahmed, and Heeramani Lohana
Trends of empiric antibiotic usage in a secondary care hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, Syed Rehan Ali, Shakeel Ahmed, and Heeramani Lohana
A distal forearm fracture in childhood is associated with an increased risk for future fragility fractures in adult men, but not women, Shreyasee Amin, L Joseph Melton 3rd, Sara J. Achenbach, Elizabeth J. Atkinson, Mark B. Dekutoski, Salman Kirmani, Philip R. Fischer, and Sundeep Khosla
"Ocular moyamoya" syndrome in a patient with features of microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II, Genie M. Bang, Salman Kirmani, Alice Patton, Jose S. Pulido, and Michael C. Brodsky
Standardisation of neonatal clinical practice, Z A. Bhutta, F Giuliani, A Haroon, H E. Knight, E Albernaz, M Batra, B Bhat, E Bertino, K McCormick, and R Ochieng
Early nutrition and adult outcomes: pieces of the puzzle, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Global maternal, newborn, and child health--so near and yet so far, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Robert E. Black
Evidence-based interventions for improvement of maternal and child nutrition: what can be done and at what cost?, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Jai K. Das, Arjumand Rizvi, Michelle F. Gaffey, Neff Walker, Susan Horton, Patrick Webb, Anna Lartey, and Robert E. Black
Global burden of childhood diarrhea and pneumonia: what can and should be done?, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Jai Kumar Das
Interventions to address deaths from childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea equitably: what works and at what cost?, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Jai K. Das, Neff Walker, Arjumand Rizvi, Harry Campbell, Igor Rudan, and Robert E. Black
Reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health in Pakistan: challenges and opportunities, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Assad Hafeez, Arjumand Rizvi, Nabeela Ali, Amanullah Khan, Faatehuddin Ahmad, Shereen Bhutta, Tabish Hazir, Anita Zaidi, and Sadequa N. Jafarey
Global Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Robert E. Black
Scientific declaration on polio eradication, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Walter A. Orenstein
Meeting the challenges of micronutrient malnutrition in the developing world, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Rehana A. Salam, and Jai K. Das
Setting priorities for development of emerging interventions against childhood diarrhoea, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Alvin Zipursky, Kerri Wazny, Myron M. Levine, Robert E. Black, Diego G. Bassani, Mathuram Shantosham, Stephen B. Freedman, Adenike Grange, and Margaret Kosek
Surgical outcomes of pediatric patients with ventricular septal defects in a tertiary referral center in Pakistan: a retrospective cohort study, Omair Bushra, Muneer Amanullah, and Atiq Mehnaz
Systematic review of zinc fortification trials, Jai K. Das, Rohail Kumar, Rehana A. Salam, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Micronutrient fortification of food and its impact on woman and child health: A systematic review, Jai K. Das, Rehana A. Salam, Rohail Kumar, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Setting research priorities for preconception care in low- and middle-income countries: Aiming to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity, Sohni Dean, Igor Rudan, Fernando Althabe, Aimee Webb Girard, Christopher Howson, Ana Langer, Joy Lawn, Mary-Elizabeth Reeve, Katherine C. Teela, and Mireille Toledano
Importance of intervening in the preconception period to impact pregnancy outcomes, Sohni V. Dean, Ayesha M. Imam, Zohra S. Lassi, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
An unbalanced 5;12 translocation in a patient with septo-optic-dysplasia, Radhika Dhamija, Lindsey Waltman, Nicole Hoppman, and Salman Kirmani
Septo-optic dysplasia in a patient with an unbalanced 5;12 translocation, Radhika Dhamija, Lindsey Waltman, Nicole Hoppman, and Salman Kirmani
Novel SCN2A mutation in a proband with migrating focal seizures of infancy, Radhika Dhamija, E Wirrell, G Falcao, Salman Kirmani, and L C. Wong-Kisiel
Novel de novo SCN2A mutation in a child with migrating focal seizures of infancy, Radhika Dhamija, Elaine Wirrell, Germano Falcao, Salman Kirmani, and Lily C. Wong-Kisiel
P-0071 Reasons for early abondonment of treatment in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in a low middle income country, Zehra Fadoo, Asim Belgaumi, S. Ashraf, A. Naqvi, and Muhammad Imran Nisar
New developments in the management of congenital Factor XIII deficiency, Zehra Fadoo, Quratulain Merchant, and Karim Abdur Rehman
Body composition and physical activity during childhood and adolescence: Relations to biomechanical bone strength, Joshua Farr, Shreyasee Amin, Joseph Melton, Salman Kirmani, Louise McCready, Elizabeth Atkinso, and Sundeep Khosla
Implications of mild vs moderate trauma childhood distal forearm fractures for peak bone mass acquisition: The two faces of growth, Joshua Farr, Sundeep Khosla, Joseph Melton, Elizabeth Atkinson, Salman Kirmani, Louise McCready, and Shreyasee Amin
Isolation and characterization of human osteoblasts from needle biopsies without in vitro culture, Koji Fujita, Matthew Roforth, James Peterson, Salman Kirmani, Matthew Drake, Louise McCready, David Monroe, and Sundeep Khosla
A study to evaluate the acceptability, feasibility and impact of packaged interventions (“Diarrhea Pack”) for prevention and treatment of childhood diarrhea in rural Pakistan, Atif Habib, Sajid Soofi, Kamran Sadiq, Tariq Samejo, Musawar Hussain, Mushtaq Mirani, Asmatullah Rehmatullah, Imran Ahmed, and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
A study evaluating poliovirus antibodies and risk factors associated with polio seropositivity in low socioeconomic areas of Pakistan, Atif Habib, S. Soofi, N. Ali, R.W. Sutter, M. Palansch, H. Qureshi, T. Akhtar, N.A. Molodecky, H. Okayasu, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Response to Cobben et al. "Array CGH on unstimulated blood does not detect all cases of Pallister-Killian syndrome: buccal smear analysis should remain the diagnostic procedure of first choice", Jennelle C. Hodge and Salman Kirmani
Prevalence of early childhood disability in a rural district of Sind, Pakistan, Shahnaz Ibrahim and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Risk of hearing loss in children exposed to gentamicin for the treatment of sepsis in young infancy: A community based cohort study in Pakistan, Urooj Iftikhar, Syed Asad Ali, Shiyam Sunder Tikmani, Iqbal Azam, Sarah Saleem, and Anita Kaniz Zaidi
Nutritional management of the low birth weight/preterm infant in community settings: a perspective from the developing world, Aamer Imdad and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Global epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease, Rabab Z. Jafri, Syed Asad Ali, Nancy E. Messonnier, Carol Tevi-Benissan, David Durrheim, Juhani Eskola, Florence Fermon, Keith P. Klugman, Mary Ramsay, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Pseudohypoaldosteronism presenting with thrombocytosis and bilateral pneumothoraces in an infant, Asma Javed, Jennifer M. Leonard, Carl Cramer, Seema Kumar, Salman Kirmani, and Chad K. Brands
A double blind community-based randomized trial of Amoxicillin Versus Placebo for fast breathing Pneumonia in children aged 2-59 months in Karachi, Pakistan (RETAPP), Fyezah Jehan, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Salima Kerai, Nick Brown, Benazir Balouch, Zulfiqar Hyder, Gwen Ambler, Amy Sarah Ginsburg, and Anita K. M. Zaidi
Botulism in children: a diagnostic dilemma in developing countries, Muhammad Rehan Khan, Prem Kumar, Shahnaz Shahid, and Anwarul Haque
Thrombotic microangiopathic syndrome: a novel complication of diabetic ketoacidosis, Muhammad Rehan Khan, Prem Kumar Maheshwari, and Anwarul Haque
Mortality and neurodevelopmental outcomes of acute bacterial meningitis in children aged <5 years in>Pakistan, Asif Raza Khowaja, Syed Mohiuddin, Adam L. Cohen, Ahmed Khalid, Usma Mehmood, Farnaz Naqvi, Nargis Asad, Khatidja Pardhan, Kim Mulholland, Rana Hajjeh, Anita K.M. Zaidi, and Saad Shafqat
Effectiveness of Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine on radiologically-confirmed pneumonia in young children in Pakistan, Asif Raza Khowaja, Syed Mohiuddin, Adam L. Cohen, Waseem Mirza, Naila Nadeem, Talha Zuberi, Basit Salam, Fatima Mubarak, Bano Rizvi, and Yousuf Husen
Similarity of geleophysic dysplasia and Weill-Marchesani syndrome, Aaina Kochhar, Salman Kirmani, Frank Cetta, Brian Younge, James C. Hyland, and Virginia Michels
Quality of care provided by mid-level health workers: systematic review and meta-analysis, Zohra S. Lassi, Giorgio Cometto, Luis Huicho, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
The interconnections between maternal and newborn health--evidence and implications for policy, Zohra S. Lassi, Amara Majeed, Shafia Rashid, Mohammad Yawar Yakoob, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Folic acid supplementation during pregnancy for maternal health and pregnancy outcomes, Zohra S. Lassi, Rehana A. Salam, Batool A. Haider, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Rare exonic deletions implicate the synaptic organizer Gephyrin (GPHN) in risk for autism, schizophrenia and seizures, Anath C. Lionel, Andrea K. Vaags, Daisuke Sato, Matthew J. Gazzellone, Elyse B. Mitchell, Hong Yang Chen, Gregory Costain, Susan Walker, Gerald Egger, and Salman Kirmani
A cross sectional survey of newborn care practices in rural Sindh, Pakistan: implications for research and policy, Zahid Memon, M. Imran Khan, Sajid Bashir Soofi, S Muhammad, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Madurella mycetomatis as an agent of brain abscess: case report and review of literature, Fatima Mir, Sadia Shakoor, Mumtaz Jamshed Khan, Khurram Minhas, Afia Zafar, and Anita Zaidi
Midterm results of bovine jugular vein conduit for right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction, Shazia Samad Mohsin, Maria Tariq Siddiqui, Abdul Sattar Shaikh, Mehnaz Atiq, and Muneer Amanullah
Childhood acute iymphoblastic leukaemia: Experience from a single tertiary care facility of Pakistan, Naureen Mushtaq, Zehra Fadoo, and Ahmed Naqvi
Pakistan's expanded programme on immunization: an overview in the context of polio eradication and strategies for improving coverage, Aatekah Owais, Asif Raza Khowaja, Syed Asad Ali, and Anita K M Zaidi
Formative research and development of an evidence-based communication strategy: the introduction of Vi typhoid fever vaccine among school-aged children in Karachi, Pakistan, Alfred Pach, Ghurnata Tabbusam, M. Imran Khan, Zamir Suhag, Imtiaz Hussain, Ejaz Hussain, Uzma Mumtaz, Inam ul Haq, Rehman Tahir, Amjad Miran, Aisha Yousafzai, Sushant Sahastrabuddhe, R Leon Ochiai, Sajid Soofi, John D. Clemens, Michael O. Favorov, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Comparison of clinical and CSF profiles in children with tuberculous and pyogenic meningitis; role of CSF protein: Glucose ratio as diagnostic marker of tuberculous meningitis, Farah Naz Qamar, Arshalooz Jamila Rahman, Sania Iqbal, and Khadija Humayun
Community-based management and outcome of omphalitis in newborns in Karachi, Pakistan, Farah Naz Qamar, Shiyam Sundar Tikmani, Fatima Mir, and Anita Kazmi Mehdi Zaidi
Health care use patterns for diarrhea in children in low-income periurban communities of Karachi, Pakistan, Farheen Quadri, Dilruba Nasrin, Asia Khan, Tabassum Bokhari, Shiyam Sunder Tikmani, Muhammad Imran Nisar, Zaid Bhatti, Karen Kotloff, Myron M. Levine, and Anita K M Zaidi
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) in two patients with 16p11.2 microdeletion syndrome, Gordana Raca, Becky S. Baas, Salman Kirmani, Jennifer J. Laffin, Craig A. Jackson, Edythe A. Strand, Kathy J. Jakielski, and Lawrence D. Shriberg
Prevalence of hypertension in healthy school children in Pakistan and its relationship with body mass index, proteinuria and hematuria, Arshalooz Jamila Rahman, Farah Naz Qamar, Sohail Ashraf, Zubair Ali Khowaja, Shafaq Binte Tariq, and Hira Naeem
Estrogen reduces bone sost mRNA and circulating sclerostin levels in postmenopausal women, Matthew Roforth, Koji Fujita, Susan Demaray, Ulrike McGregor, Salman Kirmani, Louise McCready, James Peterson, Matthew Drake, David Monroe, and Sundeep Khosla
Effects of age on molecular pathways regulating bone formation in humans: A key role for notch and Rorβ signaling, Matthew Roforth, Koji Fujita, Ulrike McGregor, Salman Kirmani, Louise McCready, James Peterson, Matthew Drake, David Monroe, and Sundeep Khosla
Severe combined immune deficiency syndrome, Ali Faisal Saleem, Ranish Deedar Ali Khawaja, Abdul Sattar Shaikh, Syed Asad Ali, and Anita Kaniz Mehdi Zaidi
Trends in antibiotic susceptibility and incidence of late-onset Klebsiella pneumoniae neonatal sepsis over a six-year period in a neonatal intensive care unit in Karachi, Pakistan, Ali Faisal Saleem, Farah Naz Qamar, Hira Shahzad, Maqbool Qadir, and Anita K.M. Zaidi
Community-based versus health facility-based management of acute malnutrition for reducing the prevalence of severe acute malnutrition in children 6 to 59 months of age in low- and middle-income countries, Yasir Shafiq, Ali Saleem, Zohra S. Lassi, and Anita KM Zaidi
Anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity: prospective cohort study from Pakistan, Abdul Sattar Shaikh, Ali Faisal Saleem, Shazia Samad Mohsin, Muhammad Matloob Alam, and Mehnaz Atiq Ahmed
Clinical characteristics, factors affecting sepsis outcome, Pakistan, Shahla Siddiqui, Bushra Jamil, Nosheen Nasir, Najeeha Talat Iqbal, Fauzia Anis Khan, Phillippe Fossard, and Rabia Hussain
Effect of provision of daily zinc and iron with several micronutrients on growth and morbidity among young children in Pakistan: a cluster-randomised trial, Sajid Soofi, Simon Cousens, Saleem P. Iqbal, Tauseef Akhund, Javed Khan, Imran Ahmed, Anita K. Zaidi, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Improved accessibility of emergency obstetrics and newborn care (EmONC) services for maternal and newborn health: a community based project, Ali Turab, Shabina Ariff, Atif Habib, Imran Ahmed, Masawar Hussain, Akhtar Rashid, Zahid Memon, M. Imran Khan, Sajid Soofi, and Zulfiqar A Bhutta
Annual Research Review: Improved nutrition--pathway to resilience, Aisha K. Yousafzai, Muneera A. Rasheed, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Scientific rationale for study design of community-based simplified antibiotic therapy trials in newborns and young infants with clinically diagnosed severe infections or fast breathing in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, Anita K M Zaidi, Abdullah H. Baqui, Shamim Ahmad Qazi, Rajiv Bahl, Samir Saha, Adejumoke I. Ayede, Ebunoluwa A. Adejuyigbe, Cyril Engmann, Fabian Esamai, and Antoinette Kitoto Tshefu
Simplified antibiotic regimens for the management of clinically diagnosed severe infections in newborns and young infants in first-level facilities in Karachi, Pakistan: study design for an outpatient randomized controlled equivalence trial, Anita K M Zaidi, Shiyam Sundar Tikmani, Shazia Sultana, Benazir Baloch, Momin Kazi, Hamidur Rehman, Khairunnissa Karimi, Fyezah Jehan, Imran Ahmed, and Simon Cousens
Nutrition political economy, Pakistan. Province Report:Sindh, Shehla Zaidi, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Rozina Mistry, Gul Nawaz, Noorya Hayat, Shandana Khan Mohmand, and Andres Mejia Acosta
The political economy of undernutrition. National Report, Pakistan, Shehla Zaidi, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Shandana Khan Mohmand, and Andres Mejia Acosta
Nutrition political economy, Pakistan. Provincial Report: Balochistan., Shehla Zaidi, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Suleman Qazi, Gul Nawaz, Noorya Hayat, Shandana Khan Mohmand, and Andres Mejia Acosta
Nutrition political economy, Pakistan. Province Report: Punjab, Shehla Zaidi, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Akhtar Rashid, Gul Nawaz, Noorya Hayat, Shandara Khan Mohmand, and Andres Mejia Acosta
Nutrition political economy, Pakistan. Province Report: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Shehla Zaidi, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Abdul Wajid, Gul Nawaz, Kashif Nazeer, Shandana Khan Mohmand, and Andres Mejia Acosta
Nutrition policy in the post-devolution context in Pakistan: an analysis of provincial opportunities and barriers, Shehla Zaidi, Shandana Khan Mohmand, Noorya Hayat, Andres Mejia Acosta, and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutta
Submissions from 2012
Idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis presenting as severe iron deficiency anaemia--a case from Pakistan, Noureen Afzal, Ammara Mushtaq, Arshalooz Rahman, and Sonia Qureshi
Urinary tract infection presenting as jaundice in neonates, Noureen Afzal, Maqbool Qadir, Sonia Qureshi, Rehan Ali, Shakeel Ahmed, and Khalil Ahmad
Pseudomonas necrotizing fasciitis in an otherwise healthy infant, Shakeel Ahmed, Syed Rehan Ali, and Zahra Aziz Samani
Cardiac involvement in kawasaki disease in Pakistani children, Saleem Akhtar, Muhammad Matloob Alam, and Mehnaz Atiq Ahmed
Icterus Neonatorum in Near-Term and Term Infants: An overview., Rehan Ali, Shakeel Ahmed, Maqbool Qadir, and Khalil Ahmad
Sample size calculation and sampling techniques, Syed Asad Ali
Each day outdoor play!, Shelina Bhamani
Parwarish Markaz: Integrated services for the optimal development of children ages 0-3, Shelina Bhamani
Urban fathers’ involvement in early childhood development: A case study from Pakistan, Shelina Bhamani
Conduct problems in children attending pre-primary schools in rural areas of Pakistan, Shelina Bhamani and Nadia Ayub
The Countdown for 2015: what lies ahead?, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Mickey Chopra
The Ignominy of Low birth Weight in South Asia, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Household food access and child malnutrition: Results from the eight-country MAL-ED study, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, MALED Network Investigators, Anita K. M. Zaidi, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Ali Turab, Didar Alam, Shahida Qureshi, Aisha Khizar Yousafzai, Syed Asad Ali, Imran Ahmed, Sajad Memon, and Muneera Rasheed
Global nutrition epidemiology and trends, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Rehana A. Salam