Browsing School of Medicine (Sch. of Med.) Collections by Subject "Paediatric"

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Methods to estimate baseline creatinine and define acute kidney injury in lean Ugandan children with severe malaria: A prospective cohort study

Batte, Anthony; Starr, Michelle C.; Schwaderer, Andrew L.; Opoka, Robert O.; Namazzi, Ruth; Nishiguchi, Erika S. Phelps; Ssenkusu, John M.; John, Chandy C.; Conroy, Andrea L. (BMC, 2020)

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is increasingly recognized as a consequential clinical complication in children with severe malaria. However, approaches to estimate baseline creatinine (bSCr) are not standardized in ...
A survey of paediatric computed tomography radiation doses in two selected hospitals in Kampala, Uganda, a radiation protection concern

Shalini, Cynthia Samson (Makerere University, 2013)

Background Optimization of radiation doses during medical exposures especially in paediatrics is a basic safety requirement. Computed Tomography (CT) scan used in paediatrics is a major radiation protection concern ...
Utilization and factors associated with family-based index case testing for paediatric and adolescent HIV diagnosis in Mukono General Hospital

Nabbale, Florence (Makerere University, 2024)

Introduction: Children in resource-limited settings remain undiagnosed and at substantial risk for HIV/AIDS-related mortality and morbidity. Identification of HIV-positive children is critical to their survival. Family-based ...