Paediatrics Publications
Research in The Department of Paediatrics at Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry is divided into eighteen areas of focus. These areas include cardiology, child development, critical care medicine, endocrinology/diabetes, genetics/metabolics, infectious disease, and neurology.
Submissions from 2020
Neuroinflammatory and demyelinating disorders of childhood, Maryam Nabavi Nouri and E. Ann Yeh
Synergistic stabilization by nitrosoglutathione-induced thiol modifications in the stromal interaction molecule-2 luminal domain suppresses basal and store operated calcium entry, Matthew J. Novello, Jinhui Zhu, Meng Qi Zhang, Qingping Feng, and Peter B. Stathopulos
Recommendations from the Canadian Association of Head and Neck Surgical Oncology for the Management of Head and Neck Cancers during the COVID-19 pandemic., Daniel A O'Connell, Hadi Seikaly, Andre Isaac, Justin Pyne, Robert D Hart, David Goldstein, and John Yoo
Optimization of percutaneous biopsy for diagnosis and pretreatment risk assessment of neuroblastoma, Richard E. Overman, Tanvi T. Kartal, Aaron J. Cunningham, Elizabeth A. Fialkowski, Bindi J. Naik-Mathuria, Sanjeev A. Vasudevan, Marcus M. Malek, Ranjeet Kalsi, Hau D. Le, Linda Cherney Stafford, Timothy B. Lautz, Benjamin T. Many, Rachel E. Jones, Andreana Bütter, Jacob Davidson, Andrew Williams, Roshni Dasgupta, Jana Lewis, Misty Troutt, Jennifer H. Aldrink, Sara A. Mansfield, Dave R. Lal, Jerry Xiao, Rebecka L. Meyers, Scott S. Short, and Erika A. Newman
Blau Syndrome and Early-Onset Sarcoidosis: A Six Case Series and Review of the Literature., Ayşenur PaÇ Kisaarslan, Betül SÖzerİ, Nihal Şahİn, Sümeyra Özdemİr ÇİÇek, Zübeyde GÜndÜz, Erkan Demİrkaya, Afig Berdelİ, Serdal Sadet Özcan, Hakan PorazoĞlu, and Ruhan DÜŞÜnsel
An unusual scalp lesion in a premature infant., Renee Xin-Wei Pang, Anita Cheng, and Javed Ayoub Mohammed
Assessment of shoulder function following scapular free flap., Krupal B Patel, Tsu-Hui Hubert Low, Allison Partridge, Anthony C Nichols, S Danielle MacNeil, John Yoo, and Kevin Fung
Adding team-based financial incentives to the Carrot Rewards physical activity app increases daily step count on a population scale: a 24-week matched case control study, Emma Pearson, Harry Prapavessis, Christopher Higgins, Robert Petrella, Lauren White, and Marc Mitchell
Differential brain region-specific expression of MeCP2 and BDNF in Rett Syndrome patients: a distinct grey-white matter variation., S Pejhan, V M Siu, L C Ang, M R Del Bigio, and M Rastegar
BEAVR: A browser-based tool for the exploration and visualization of RNA-seq data, Pirunthan Perampalam and Frederick A. Dick
Summer Season and Recommended Vitamin D Intake Support Adequate Vitamin D Status throughout Pregnancy in Healthy Canadian Women and Their Newborns, Maude Perreault, Stephanie A. Atkinson, David Meyre, Gerhard Fusch, and Michelle F. Mottola
Hyperammonemic encephalopathy as a manifestation of Reye syndrome in a previously-healthy 14-year-old girl: A case report, Dara Petel, Chitra Prasad, Tony Rupar, Simon Levin, Andréanne N. Zizzo, Ajay P. Sharma, and Janice A. Tijssen
Preventing Complications in Pregnant Women With Cardiac Disease, Birgit Pfaller, Gnalini Sathananthan, Jasmine Grewal, Jennifer Mason, Rohan D'Souza, Danna Spears, Marla Kiess, Samuel C. Siu, and Candice K. Silversides
A Conceptual Model of Rural Household Food Insecurity: A Qualitative Systematic Review and Content Analysis, Angela Piaskoski, Kristen Reilly, and Jason Gilliland
Adaptive randomised controlled non-inferiority multicentre trial (the Ketodex Trial) on intranasal dexmedetomidine plus ketamine for procedural sedation in children: Study protocol, Naveen Poonai, Kamary Coriolano, Terry Klassen, Anna Heath, Maryna Yaskina, Darcy Beer, Scott Sawyer, Maala Bhatt, April Kam, Quynh Doan, Vikram Sabhaney, Martin Offringa, Petros Pechlivanoglou, Serena Hickes, and Samina Ali
Adaptive randomised controlled non-inferiority multicentre trial (the Ketodex Trial) on intranasal dexmedetomidine plus ketamine for procedural sedation in children: Study protocol, Naveen Poonai, Kamary Coriolano, Terry Klassen, Anna Heath, Maryna Yaskina, Darcy Beer, Scott Sawyer, Maala Bhatt, April Kam, Quynh Doan, Vikram Sabhaney, Martin Offringa, Petros Pechlivanoglou, Serena Hickes, and Samina Ali
Hyoscine butylbromide versus acetaminophen for nonspecific colicky abdominal pain in children: a randomized controlled trial., Naveen Poonai, Kriti Kumar, Kamary Coriolano, Graham Thompson, Shaily Brahmbhatt, Emily Dzongowski, Holly Stevens, Priti Gupta, Michael Miller, Sharlene Elsie, Dhandapani Ashok, Gary Joubert, Rod Lim, Andreana Bütter, and Samina Ali
Intranasal Dexmedetomidine for Procedural Distress in Children: A Systematic Review., Naveen Poonai, Joseph Spohn, Ben Vandermeer, Samina Ali, Maala Bhatt, Shawn Hendrikx, Evelyne D Trottier, Vikram Sabhaney, Amit Shah, Gary Joubert, and Lisa Hartling
BCL11B-related disorder in two canadian children: Expanding the clinical phenotype., M Prasad, T B Balci, C Prasad, J D Andrews, R Lee, M T Jurkiewicz, M P Napier, S Colaiacovo, M J Guillen Sacoto, and N Karp
Competency-Based Assessment Tool for Pediatric Tracheotomy: International Modified Delphi Consensus, Evan J. Propst, Nikolaus E. Wolter, Stacey L. Ishman, Karthik Balakrishnan, Ashley R. Deonarain, Deepak Mehta, George Zalzal, and Seth M. Pransky
Outcomes in pediatric studies of medium-chain acyl-coA dehydrogenase (MCAD) deficiency and phenylketonuria (PKU): a review., Michael Pugliese, Kylie Tingley, Andrea Chow, Nicole Pallone, Maureen Smith, Alvi Rahman, Pranesh Chakraborty, Michael T Geraghty, Julie Irwin, Laure Tessier, Stuart G Nicholls, Martin Offringa, Nancy J Butcher, Ryan Iverson, Tammy J Clifford, Sylvia Stockler, Brian Hutton, Karen Paik, Jessica Tao, Becky Skidmore, Doug Coyle, Kathleen Duddy, Sarah Dyack, Cheryl R Greenberg, Shailly Jain Ghai, Natalya Karp, Lawrence Korngut, Jonathan Kronick, Alex MacKenzie, Jennifer MacKenzie, Bruno Maranda, John J Mitchell, Murray Potter, Chitra Prasad, Andreas Schulze, Rebecca Sparkes, Monica Taljaard, Yannis Trakadis, Jagdeep Walia, and Beth K Potter
A live-online mindfulness-based intervention for children living with epilepsy and their families: protocol for a randomized controlled trial of Making Mindfulness Matter©., Klajdi Puka, Karen Bax, Andrea Andrade, Margo Devries-Rizzo, Hema Gangam, Simon Levin, Maryam N Nouri, Asuri N Prasad, Mary Secco, Guangyong Zou, and Kathy N Speechley
Trajectories of quality of life 10 years following a diagnosis of epilepsy in childhood., Klajdi Puka, Mark A Ferro, Carol S Camfield, Simon Levin, Mary Lou Smith, Samuel Wiebe, Guangyong Zou, Kelly K Anderson, and Kathy N Speechley
Self-reported quality of life and degree of youth-parent agreement: A long-term follow-up of childhood-onset epilepsy., Klajdi Puka, Mark A Ferro, Carol S Camfield, Simon Levin, Mary Lou Smith, Samuel Wiebe, Guangyong Zou, and Kathy N Speechley
Validation of the Quality of Life in Childhood Epilepsy Questionnaire (QOLCE-55 and QOLCE-16) for use by parents of young adults with childhood-onset epilepsy., Klajdi Puka, Shane W Goodwin, Mark A Ferro, Mary Lou Smith, Elysa Widjaja, Kelly K Anderson, and Kathy N Speechley