Case Of Childhood Research Articles

Modeling of Risk Factors of Childhood Stunting Cases in Malang Regency using Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR)

Background: Stunting is one of the fundamental problems in Indonesia's human development, with complex risk factors such as inadequate environmental sanitation. Objective: This study aims to conduct an analysis and mapping of spatially correlated sanitation risks on the prevalence of stunting among toddlers in Malang Regency, Indonesia. Methods: The field observations were conducted in 390 villages of urban and rural areas in Malang Regency. The secondary data of weighing toddlers in 2020 were collected from Malang Regency Health Office. The data included the identity of the residents and the history of the toddlers, while data from monthly program reports were collected from the Central Bureau of Statistics of Malang Regency. Furthermore, the study applied one and eight variables of Y and X. The Y variable was the number of stunting case toddlers, while X included the percentage of access to safe drinking water, percentage of access to permanent hygienic latrines, the topography of the region, percentage of Integrated Healthy Centre access, percentage of Exclusive Breastfeeding, Population density, ODF (Open Defecation Free) village and percentage of Integrated Healthy Centre Empowerment. Modeling the case of childhood stunting with the spatial regression method using Geographically Weighted Regression can be considered a sound approach. Results: The result showed that the distribution model of risk factors causing toddler stunting showed a spatial autocorrelation tendency with a clustered pattern in the area. The risk factors that were found to be spatially correlated with the incidence of stunting in children under five years of age in Malang district included access to proper drinking water (X1), access to latrines (X2), access to integrated health services (X3), exclusive breastfeeding coverage (X4), regional topography (X5), population density (X6), and empowerment of integrated health services (X8). However, the ODF (X7) did not show any correlation with stunting cases in the area. Conclusion: Spatial diversity and geographic variation affect the distribution pattern of risk factors causing stunting in Malang Regency. Therefore, stunting control with specific and sensitive interventions should be based on regional and local characteristics.

A case of childhood Sjögren’s syndrome diagnosed due to bilateral plunging ranula

A case of childhood Sjögren’s syndrome diagnosed due to bilateral plunging ranula

The moral relevance of social categories: Analysing the case of childhood

AbstractWhat makes the categorisation of a human collective morally relevant? How does the categorisation of individuals into groups affect their social status and treatment? This article provides an account of the moral relevance of social categories and assesses the status of “childhood” within this framework. It distinguishes morally relevant social categories (labelled as social groups) through three conditions: first, individuals are externally ascribed to the social category; second, the properties of the social category are reified through the social construction of its definition; and, third, the social category predetermines the normative treatment owed to the individuals ascribed. The existence of these three characteristics in the construction of a social category entails that the individuals ascribed may be affected by unjust constraints and restrictions on their lives and choices, thus, requiring a re‐evaluation of how their social grouping frames their status and treatment. The article claims that the “childhood” social category complies with the three conditions (ascription, reification, and normativisation). This implies that individuals categorised as “children” may suffer from unjust constraints and restrictions based on their social categorisation.

The Young Victoria, by Deirdre Murphy

Reviewed by: The Young Victoria by Deirdre Murphy Miles Taylor (bio) The Young Victoria, by Deirdre Murphy; pp. 224. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019, $45.00, £35.00. This sumptuously illustrated volume is one of the more original studies to appear at the bicentenary of Queen Victoria's birth. Although not entirely neglected, the first two decades of Victoria's life are usually skipped over quickly by historians, keen to get to the coronation and usher Prince Albert into her life. Monica Charlot's 1991 biographical account, subtitled "The Young Queen," was just that: a political history of the early years of her reign. Kate Williams's Becoming Queen (2008), although well researched, was too racy a romp to be taken seriously within the field of royal studies. Only Lynn Vallone's Becoming Victoria (2001), also published by Yale some twenty years ago, stands out as a sophisticated and erudite reconstruction of Victoria's childhood and adolescence in her own words, and most revealing of all, through her schoolbooks and juvenile drawings and paintings. Now The Young Victoria looks set to become a fine companion to Vallone's pioneering work. As a curator at Kensington Palace (Victoria's childhood home and now a museum), the author, the late Deirdre Murphy, was able to assemble a huge range of artefacts—clothing and jewelry, furniture and other household items, sculpture, paintings and sketches, cartoons and journals—that brilliantly recreate the young princess's world. While some of the more formal royal portraits reproduced in the book will be familiar, there is so much here that is not. The bulk of it comes from the Royal Collections and the prints and drawings division of the British Museum, but Murphy also scoured provincial and overseas art galleries, the National Archives (for architectural plans), and the National Trust. Among the hundreds of items featured in the book, three stand out as especially eye-catching: William Behnes's eerily life-like wax bust of the nine-year-old Victoria, with painted features and real hair; George Morley's oil painting of her pet Shetland ponies, complete with jewel-encrusted bridles; and a chromolithograph pop-up card, entitled "The Crown Imperial, or Victoria Lily," in which the moveable head of the new queen could be maneuvered upwards from the stem of the flower. The gradual emergence of Victoria from her secluded early years is the main theme of this book, which is much more than a commentary or guide to the art on display. Murphy seeks to reevaluate Victoria's melancholy childhood, a "personal mythology" which she clung to throughout her life, and particularly after the death of her mother, the Duchess of Kent, in the spring of 1861, some nine months before she lost Albert as well (13). On the face of it, her childhood was not so much morose as muddled. Her father, the Duke of Kent, died before her first birthday, leaving hefty debts and his German widow and the baby princess more or less in the hands of his equerry, John Conroy. Where Victoria sat in the line of succession to the British crown was unclear for much of her childhood. Other heirs to the throne came and went, but right up to Victoria's accession it was assumed that there would be another regency due to her youth. And although she was close to the throne in theory, she was far removed in practice. As Murphy emphasizes, Conroy and the Duchess kept the princess away from the increasingly awful George IV, while his successor, William IV, went out of his way to ostracize her. Yet, despite the fog of confusion that surrounded her future, the young Victoria was groomed for rule. At the heart of Murphy's book is a thorough reconsideration of the Kensington system whereby she was schooled and controlled behind closed doors [End Page 604] by her mother and Conroy (a character likened to Mephistopheles by Prince Leopold, Victoria's uncle and mentor). Her later so-called melancholy stems from memories of this lonely and over-policed upbringing. But as Murphy shows in a revealing coda to her study, this was a classic case of childhood...

PRIMARY EWING'S SARCOMA OF SPHENOID BONE EXTENDING TO BRAINSTEM; AN ORDINARY TUMOUR AT AN EXTRAORDINARY LOCATION AND INVOLVEMENT

Ewing's sarcoma (ES) is the 2nd primary bone tumor of childhood, mostly located in the lower extremities. The incidence of primary cranial ES is <1%. Our patient is 9 years old female who has intracranial primary ES extending from the sphenoid bone corpus to the clivus border. This is a rare case of childhood that's originating from the sphenoid bone and spreading to such a very large intracranial area. Our aim is to provide data on the clinical and therapeutic course of a rare case.

The management of childhood drowning in a tertiary hospital in Indonesia: a case report

The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that drowning becomes the third leading cause of death from unintentional injury. Furthermore it was reported more than 372,000 cases of death annually among children due to drowning accident. Inappropriate of resuscitation attempt, delay in early management, inappropriate monitoring and evaluation lead to drowning complications riks even death. However, studies concerning the management of childhood drowning in Indonesia is limited. Here, we reported a case of childhood drowning in Sanglah General Hospital in Denpasar, Bali. An 8 years old girl arrived at the hospital with deterioration of consciousness after found drowning in the swimming pool. The management of the case was performed according to the recent literature guidelines. The first attempt was performed by resuscitation, followed by pharmacological interventions using corticosteroids, non-invasive ventilation and series of laboratory examination. With regular follow up, patient showed good recovery and prognosis.

Childhood Seeligmüller Strümpell Philip Disease: The First Case in Iraq and a Review of the Early Historic Documentation of the Disease in the Literature

Seeligmüller Strümpell Philip disease is characterized by familial progressive spastic paraplegia or paraparesis associated with a progressive deterioration of gait. The disorder is genetically heterogeneous and can be inherited in an autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive or X-linked recessive manner. The mode of inheritance involved has a direct impact on the chances of inheriting the disorder. The cornerstone of treatment is the use of various muscle relaxants. The disorder has not been reported or documented in Iraq. This paper aims to report the first case of childhood Seeligmüller Strümpell Philip disease in an Iraqi girl. Patients and Methods: A thirteen-year girl with childhood Seeligmüller Strümpell Philip disease who developed systemic lupus erythematosus is described and the early historic documentation of Seeligmüller Strümpell Philip disease in the medical literature is briefly updated. Results: The diagnosis of Seeligmüller Strümpell Philip disease in this girl was based on clinical findings and supported by electromyography and nerve conduction studies. Brain MRI showed normal findings. Few weeks before the patient was seen, they took her outside Iraq to Medipol Mega complex of Hospitals for treatment. They performed tenotomy and tenoplasty of the hip adductors, achilloplasty, and posterior capsule relaxation. When the girl was first seen at the Children Teaching Hospital of Baghdad Medical City, the parents regretted taking her outside Iraq for treatment as she didn’t show any improvement, and was still using the wheelchair. Conclusion: Unfortunately, the girl was seen too late, and despite consulting many doctors in Iraq and outside Iraq, she didn’t receive appropriate evidence based treatment and was treated unsatisfactorily surgically.

IVIG in childhood primary angiitis of the central nervous system: A case report

Aggressive immunosuppressive therapies have been proposed to treat primary angiitis of the central nervous system (PACNS). Here, we report the first successfully stabilized case of childhood, small-vessel PACNS with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) therapy.A 12-year-old boy was admitted to our hospital complaining of recurrent headaches and upper-left homonymous quadrantanopia, since the age of 11 years. Brain computed tomography scans revealed fine calcification in the right temporal and occipital lobes. Brain magnetic resonance imaging scans revealed white matter lesions, with gadolinium enhancement, which waxed, waned, and migrated for 1 year, without immunomodulatory therapies. A cerebrospinal fluid study showed pleocytosis (12 cells per µl). No clinical or serological findings suggested systemic inflammation or vasculitis. Brain angiography was unremarkable. Brain biopsy revealed thickened and hyalinized small vessels, with intramural infiltration of inflammatory cells, which confirmed the diagnosis of small-vessel PACNS. Because the patient developed surgical site infection following biopsy, the administration of monthly IVIG (2 g/kg) was prescribed, instead of immunosuppressive agents. After IVIG therapy, the patient remained stable, except for a single episode of mild radiological exacerbation at 16 months, which occurred when the IVIG interval was expanded. Oral prednisone was added and gradually tapered. At 50 months, his intellectual abilities and motor functions were normal, although he showed residual upper-left homonymous quadrantanopia and post-exercise headache. A temporary headache, associated with the immunoglobulin infusion, was resolved by slowing the infusion rate. PACNS should be treated aggressively to improve prognosis. However, when immunosuppressants are contraindicated, IVIG may be an alternative therapeutic option.

Recent Aspects of Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery.

Surgery has been and is now a well-established treatment indicated for adults and children with drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). The surgical landscape for children with DRE appears to be expanding, and surgical cases of pediatric epilepsy have increased significantly in the past decade, contrary to adult epilepsy. Several fundamental changes have led to the widespread surgical treatment for DRE in children, based on a risk-benefit analysis of pediatric epilepsy surgery, and a change in our overall approach to evaluation. There are unique and age-related differences associated with pediatric epilepsy surgery, characterized by different types of etiologies, concerns for developmental progress, and safety issues. Indications for “pediatric epilepsy surgery” have been broadened to include a wide spectrum of etiologies without excluding children with “generalized” seizures, “generalized or multifocal eletroencephlography”, or patients with contra-lateral epileptiform activity or magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities. Furthermore, epilepsy surgery is increasingly considered in infancy and early childhood, which has similar surgical outcomes as the case of late childhood, in an effort to improve the eventual development outcome. Seizure freedom, or at least seizure reduction, is an excellent result with resolution of the associated epileptic encephalopathy, normalization of the EEG, and decrease in the total epileptic burden in the pediatric field.

Propuesta inicial de traducción del código de infancia y adolescencia colombiano a lengua de señas

The population with hearing impairment in Colombia is continually forced to find translation and interpretation mechanisms that allow access to legal information in Spanish, to which any citizen is entitled. This means that those texts that are not translated and interpreted are inaccessible to these special protection subjects. At the moment, in this matter the advances are few and in the specific case of childhood, although it is protected by the constitutionality block, when it has the status of deaf, it loses any opportunity to be recognized in the legal landscape that it surrounds it since this one has not been translated for its understanding; being then double jeopardized. Consequently, the following research question arose: How to take the Code of Childhood and Adolescence to sign language in Colombia? Attending to the answer, just this work seeks to develop an initial proposal for the translation of the Code of Childhood and Adolescence to Sign Language.

Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire. By Nazan Maksudyan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014. Pp. xviii + 232. $39.95 (hardcover).

<i>Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire</i>. By Nazan Maksudyan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2014. Pp. xviii + 232. $39.95 (hardcover).

A case of childhood primary systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma initially manifested as a neck mass

A case of childhood primary systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma initially manifested as a neck mass

La pedagogia di Leopardi. Le fonti e l’influenza rousseauiana.

Leopardi’s pedagogy contains other authors’ influences, it is therefore necessary to deal with the problem of sources. Rousseau’s works (Emil in particular) are very relevant to this kind of study. Leopardi and Rousseau consider some pedagogical questions from a similar point of view. It’s the case of childhood, of educator, of experience, of criticism against official educative theories.

A Case of Childhood Relapsing.remitting Multiple Sclerosis Treated with Interferon Beta

다발성 경화증은 젊은 성인에 주로 발생하는 면역 매개성 탈수초 중추신경계 질환으로 10세 이하에서 발병하는 경우는 드물다. 본 증례는 34개월 남아로 H1N1 독감 예방 접종하고 일주일 후 발생한 발작, 좌측 상하지의 근력 저하, 좌측 상지의 의도 진전을 주소로 내원 하였다. 뇌 자기공명영상 T2 강조영상에서 좌측 시상, 양측 중간뇌, 교뇌, 숨뇌,...

Protracted dormancy of pre-leukemic stem cells.

Cancer stem cells can escape therapeutic killing by adopting a quiescent or dormant state. The reversibility of this condition provides the potential for later recurrence or relapse, potentially many years later. We describe the genomics of a rare case of childhood BCR-ABL1-positive, B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia that relapsed, with an acute myeloblastic leukemia immunophenotype, 22 years after the initial diagnosis, sustained remission and presumed cure. The primary and relapsed leukemias shared the identical BCR-ABL1 fusion genomic sequence and two identical immunoglobulin gene rearrangements, indicating that the relapse was a derivative of the founding clone. All other mutational changes (single-nucleotide variant and copy number alterations) were distinct in diagnostic or relapse samples. These data provide unambiguous evidence that leukemia-propagating cells, most probably pre-leukemic stem cells, can remain covert and silent but potentially reactivatable for more than two decades.

The cultural construction of global social policy: Theorizing formations and transformations

Thinking about global social policy can take many paths, ranging from empirical studies to theoretical reflections, from in-depth investigations to conceptual clarifications. This article provides a cultural and constructivist perspective to the debate on how to theorize global social policy. The main argument of this article is that a combination of world society theory and discourse analysis can provide a new and fruitful angle for global social policy research. Such theorizing involves clarifying definitions and conceptualizations, and the development of analytical strategies. The article first points out parallels in the definition of the ‘global’ in global social policy and world society research. Based on these shared understandings, it then introduces the core concepts and assumption of neo-institutionalist world society theory and discusses their implications for global social policy research, with a specific focus on the conceptualization of actors and the debate on homogeneity. Next, it discusses the newly emerging discourse analytical perspective on globalization processes within world society research and its corresponding analytical strategies. The article uses the case of early childhood to exemplify how the formation and transformation of global social policy can be analysed from such a discourse theoretical world society perspective, focusing on the conditions for the formation of statements, the formation of objects and concepts, and the formation of strategies. It concludes by summarizing the theoretical and analytical consequences of this perspective for global social policy research.

貧血を契機に発見され肝硬変に至っていた小児自己免疫性肝炎の1例

貧血を契機に発見され肝硬変に至っていた小児自己免疫性肝炎の1例

A case of childhood T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia with a complex t(9;9) and homozygous deletion of CDKN2A gene associated with a Philadelphia-positive minor subclone

A case of childhood T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia with a complex t(9;9) and homozygous deletion of CDKN2A gene associated with a Philadelphia-positive minor subclone

小腸過形成性ポリープにより発症した小児期腸重積の1例

小腸過形成性ポリープにより発症した小児期腸重積の1例

A case of childhood relapsing/remitting multiple sclerosis and interferon β-1b treatment in a Korean patient

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disorder that affects discrete areas of the CNS, including the optic nerves, in a quite variable relapsing-remitting fashion over a prolonged period of time. Although MS is usually considered to be a disease that affects peoples in early to middle adulthood, children do develop multiple sclerosis. The frequency of MS onset before the age of 15 years is 2.7-5% of all cases, while MS onset during infancy and early childhood was observed to be 0.2- 0.7% of all cases. We report here on a Korean case of a relapsing-remitting MS female child who was treated with four rounds of intravenous methylpredinsolone pulse therapy and preventive Interferon-β-1b (Betaferon®).