Access to comprehensive contraceptive services for youth is essential to improving sexual and reproductive health. However, youth in many countries still face substantial obstacles to contraceptive access and use. The purpose of this study is to compare the contraceptive access experiences and perspectives of pregnant and parenting Mexican-origin y...
Published in International urology and nephrology
To evaluate the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients who visited our transitional urology (TU) outpatient clinic formed by pediatric urologists with urology background within the first year upon its establishment. Files of 130 consecutive patients who visited our TU outpatient clinic, which was established in 01 March 2021, between ...
Published in Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
Pediatric populations represent a major fraction of rare diseases and compound the intrinsic challenges of pediatric drug development and drug development for rare diseases. The intertwined complexities of pediatric and rare disease populations impose unique challenges to clinical pharmacologists and require integration of novel clinical pharmacolo...
Published in Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice
This study aims to investigate how healthcare providers (HCPs) promote physical activity (PA) to child and adolescent cancer survivors. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with HCPs (n = 16; women n = 12; men n = 4) who provide care for cancer survivor youth (age 3 to 18). Participants represented 7 professions, including child life specialis...
Published in Hepatology international
The meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the safety and feasibility of pure laparoscopic left lateral hepatectomy in comparison with open approach for pediatric living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). A systemic literature survey was performed by searching the PubMed, EMBASE and Cochrane Library databases for articles that compared pure lapar...
Published in Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
There is little data on patient and caregiver perceptions of spine surgery in children and youth. This study aims to characterize the personal experiences of patients, caregivers, and family members surrounding pediatric spine surgery through a qualitative and quantitative social media analysis. The Twitter application programming interface was sea...
Published in Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
The surgical management of third ventricular lesions poses unique challenges, requiring careful consideration of various approaches and techniques. This study focuses on the transventricular transforaminal endoscopic approach and aims to provide insights into its indications, limitations, technical nuances, and potential complications in pediatric ...
Published in Journal of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
Dose selection is an integral part of a molecule's journey to become medicine. On top of typical challenges faced in dose selection for more common diseases, pediatric rare disease has additional unique challenges due to the combination of 'rare' and 'pediatric' populations. Using the central theme of maximizing 'relevant' information to overcome i...
Early childhood is characterized by robust developmental changes in cognitive control. However, our understanding of intra-individual change in neural indices of cognitive control during this period remains limited. Here, we examined developmental changes in event-related potential (ERP) indices of cognitive control from preschool through first gra...
To describe the characteristics and surgical outcomes of idiopathic epiretinal membrane (iERM) in children and to determine the factors associated with postoperative visual acuity (VA). We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 17 patients with iERM (age,
