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Indian Academy of Pediatrics Consensus Guidelines on Preconception Care
The preconception period is the earliest window of opportunity to ensure optimal human development. Pregnancy and childbirth outcomes can be improved by interventions offered to support the health and well-bei...
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Unusual Combination of Anomalous Connection of the Left Pulmonary Veins and Aortic Arch Anomaly Presenting as Abnormal Three Vessel View in the 2nd Trimester US Scan
Partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage is often missed antenatally unless a complex congenital heart defect is associated. Likewise, isolated fetal coarctation of aorta has only a 60–70% chance to be diag...
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Open AccessProposed method for evaluation and categorization of functional capacity of children, adolescents, and adults with cardiac diseases to bring them in existing social justice system by creating the cardiac disability criteria
Emerging epidemiological trends in India indicate the rising burden of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) demanding a need of a social support system. Yet, the list of 21 benchmark disabilities notified by the Dep...
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Indian Guidelines for Indications and Timing of Intervention for Common Congenital Heart Diseases: Revised and Updated Consensus Statement of the Working Group on Management of Congenital Heart Diseases. Abridged Secondary Publication
A number of guidelines are available for management of congenital heart diseases from infancy to adult life. However, these guidelines are for patients living in high income countries. Separate guidelines, app...
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Biventricular conversion for Fontan failure
Certain cardiac malformations may pose difficulties in achieving a biventricular repair, and univentricular repair may be selected for them if the Fontan criteria are satisfied. However, univentricular palliat...
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Cardiac and Non-Cardiac Abnormalities in Heterotaxy Syndrome
Thoraco-abdominal viscera have unique morphological asymmetry, unlike the body’s external organs. Heterotaxy syndrome is a disorder in which there is a loss of normal left to right asymmetry of thoraco-abdomin...
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Ethnobotanical flora used by four major tribes of Koraput, Odisha, India
The aim of this study is to chronicle the utilization pattern of a number of plant species by four major tribes inhabiting in Koraput district of Odisha, India. Fifteen villages dominated by tribal communities...
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Spectrum of Kawasaki Disease
The authors report 22 patients of Kawasaki disease, diagnosed and treated over a period of 3 years at a tertiary care centre in New Delhi. Ten cases fullfiled the criteria of a “classical” case while 12 cases ...
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Coinoculation of Bacillus thuringeinsis-KR1 with Rhizobium leguminosarum enhances plant growth and nodulation of pea (Pisum sativum L.) and lentil (Lens culinaris L.)
Nodulation and the subsequent nitrogen fixation are important factors that determine the productivity of legumes. The beneficial effects of nodulation can be enhanced when rhizobial inoculation is combined wit...
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Characterisation of a psychrotolerant plant growth promotingPseudomonas sp. strain PGERs17 (MTCC 9000) isolated from North Western Indian Himalayas
A psychrotolerant, Gram negative, rod shaped, plant growth promoting bacterium (PGPB) was isolated from high altitude of North Western Indian Himalayas. The identity of the bacterium was confirmed by morpholog...
