Indian Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 90—Sep, 2023

CONTENTS

 EDITORIAL COMMENTARIES

Indoor Air Pollution- Not the Lesser Evil!

 

Anshula Tayal and S. K. Kabra 849

Evidence-Based Treatment of Infantile Tremor Syndrome

Mahesh Kamate 851

Brewing Evidence for Pharmacotherapy in Dyskinetic Cerebral Palsy: A Step in the Right Direction

Aakash M and Biswaroop Chakrabarty                         853

Lack of Benefit of Propranolol Prophylaxis in Children with Migraine without Aura

Manya Prasad and Jitendra Kumar Sahu                       855

Post-Cooling Era: Role of Magnesium Sulphate as an Adjunct Therapy

Deena Thomas and Anu Thukral                               856

Sedative for Sleep Electroencephalogram Records – A Debate of Ideal vs. Practical

Ashna Kumar and Lokesh Saini                                858

 

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Quantification of Indoor Respirable Suspended Particulate Matters (RSPM) and Asthma in Rural Children of Delhi-NCR

Kamal Singh, Anil Kumar Mavi, Jitendra Kumar Nagar, Manoj Kumar, Sonam Spalgais,

Ravishankar Nagaraja and Raj Kumar  860

 

A Randomized, Controlled, Noninferiority Trial Comparing Vitamin B12 Monotherapy Versus Combination Multinutrient Therapy with Vitamin B12 for Efficacy

in Treatment of Infantile Tremor Syndrome

Shivan Kesavan, Naveen Sankhyan, Savita Verma, Prateek Bhatia, Prahbhjot Malhi,

Lokesh Saini, Arushi Gahlot Saini, Renu Suthar and Jitendra Kumar Sahu 867

 

Gabapentin as Add-on Therapy to Trihexyphenidyl in Children with Dyskinetic Cerebral Palsy: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

Sonu Kumar, Jaya Shankar Kaushik, Savita Verma and Surekha Dabla 873

 

Effect of Propranolol Prophylaxis on Headache Frequency in Children with Migraine Without Aura: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

D. Keerthana, Devendra Mishra, Meenakshi Kanwar Chauhan and Monica Juneja 880

 

Magnesium Sulfate as an Adjunct to Therapeutic Hypothermia in the Management of Term Infants with Hypoxic–Ischemic Encephalopathy: A Randomized,

Parallel-Group, Controlled Trial

Chanchal Kumar, Bethou Adhisivam, Zachariah Bobby and B. Vishnu Bhat   886

 

Melatonin and Triclofos Sodium to Execute Sleep Electroencephalography in Pediatric Patients: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Alongside a Randomized Controlled Trial

Harsimran Kaur, Kavita Srivastava, Suparna Karmakar, Nirmala Dhumak,

Siddhant Lalwani and Bijoy Kumar Pand 893

 

 

 Hypertonic Saline vs. Mannitol in Management of Elevated Intracranial Pressure in Children: A Meta-Analysis

Nihar Ranjan Mishra, Amit Agrawal and Rashmi Ranjan Das 899

 

SYMPOSIUM ON ADVANCES IN PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY-III

Guest Editor: Joseph L. Mathe

Define, Determine, Deliberate, Debate, Discuss, Decide, and Deliver Evidence-informed Pediatric Pulmonology Care

Joseph L. Mathew 907

Debate 1: Is the Management of Childhood Empyema Primarily Medical, or Surgical?

Aravindhan Manoharan and Rakesh Lodha 910

Debate 2: Is the Management of Childhood Empyema Primarily Medical, or Surgical?

Prema Menon 915

Chronic Suppurative Lung Disease in Children: A Case Based Approach

Kamal Kumar Singhal and Robin Singh 920

Introduction to Pediatric Sleep Medicine

Mahesh Babu Ramamurthy and Sindoora Jayaprakash 927

CLINICAL BRIEFS

Coronavirus-19 and its Epidemiology in Children − An Ambispective Observational Study from Central India

Samsani Veena Sudeepthi, Abinaya Kannan, Atul Jindal and Anudita Bhargava 934

Oral Propranolol Therapy for Infantile Hemangioma: Long-term Follow-up

Vamsi K. Yenamandra, Prakash Khute, Deepika Yadav, Arunachalam Narayanan,

Sindhuja Tekumalla, Sreenivas V, Sushil K. Kabra, Vinod K. Sharma and Gomathy Sethuraman 937

PICTURE OF THE MONTH

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Clinically Mild Encephalitis/Encephalopathy with Reversible Splenial Lesion

Kazu Ishikawa, Itaru Hayakawa, Hiroshi Masuda, Mitsuru Kubota and Akira Ishiguro 940

SCIENTIFIC LETTERS

Pan-dysautonomia Manifesting as Hypertensive Encephalopathy in Children

Mahesh Kamate and Thanuja Basavanagowda 942

Parents of Indian Children with Down Syndrome: Stigma and Health Related Quality of Life

Suchit Jogu, Rajni Sharma, Shifali Gupta, Ruchita Shah, Inusha Panigrahi and Anupriya Kaur 943

Neonatal Chikungunya – An Emerging Tale of Neonatal Encephalopathy

Ashwini KR, Prathik Bandiya and Niranjan HS 944

Acute Pancreatitis: An Unaddressed Complication in DRESS

Lubana Thasneem, Prashanth Kumar Bontha, Akhil Modrecha, Madhusudan Samprathi,

Deepthi Konda and Abhishek Jagdishchander Arora 945

Candida auris as the Predominant Species Causing Invasive Candidiasis in Neonates and Children

Tanu Singhal, Sweta Shah, Pooja Thakkar and Shweta Ladi 946

CORRESPONDENCE

Acute Fulminant Cerebral Edema Presenting as Refractory Status Epilepticus

in a SARS-CoV-2 PCR-Positive Child Without Pulmonary Involvement: Correspondence

Josef Finsterer                                                       947

Acute Fulminant Cerebral Edema Presenting as Refractory Status Epilepticus

in a SARS-CoV-2 PCR-Positive Child Without Pulmonary Involvement: Authors’ Reply

Abhijeet Botre and Madhumati Otiv                           948

Dengue Shock Syndrome with Acute Liver Failure- A Stormy Presentation of Congenital Dengue

P. Subashri, Bhoojata G. and P. V. Rama Rao                949

Burden of Sickle Cell Disease in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Southern Rajasthan

Ritvika Jyani, Lakhan Poswal, Priya Sharma, Nishant Dangi and Shuchi Goyal                                                                           950

Human Metapneumovirus Infection and Multisystemic Disease in an Infant

Shankar Prasad, Disha N, Subhabrata Sarkar, Ishani Bora, Radha Kant Ratho

and Suresh Kumar Angurana                                               951

Propranolol in Congenital Hepatic Arteriovenous Malformation

Santosh Kumar Panda, Gannavarapu Phanisri Nikhila and Palnati Sai Kavya 952

BOOK REVIEW

Practical Approach to Pediatric and Adolescent Endocrinology: IPS Kochar (Ed), Smita Ramachandran (Co-Ed) and Aashish Sethi (Co-Ed) Ishwar Verma                                            953