Acw Lee

Perceptions of Traditional Postpartum Practices With Hmong Women in the United States

Rachael M. Koch, Acw Lee, Celena Ho, Kajua B. Lor

INTRODUCTION: Postpartum care varies widely across cultures, yet research on ethnic minorities, especially Asian American Pacific Islanders subgroups, often masks meaningful differences among ethnic subpopulations. The Hmong, an ethnic minority originating from Southeast Asia, faces cultural shifts since immigrating to the United …

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DETECTION OF EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS AND OTHER BACTERIAL AGENTS IN OCULAR ADNEXA MUCOSA-ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA IN CHINESE

Jingna He, Yan Tong, Wai Kit Chu, Acw Lee et autres

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The Use of Single Dose of Rasburicase for the Prophylaxis and Treatment of Tumor Lysis Syndrome in Pediatric Patients: A Narrative Review

Acw Lee

Background/Objectives: Rasburicase is licensed for the management of tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) at a daily dose of 0.2 mg/kg intravenously for five days. The use of a single-dose treatment is popular in adult oncology but information in pediatric use is limited. Methods: …

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Clinical Utility of Amino Acid PET-MRI in Children with CNS Neoplasms: A Territory-Wide Study from Hong Kong

Evelyn R. Lu, P. Cheng, Sherman S. M. Lo, Chloe W. Y. Siu et autres

Background: Amino acid tracer positron emission tomography–magnetic resonance imaging (PET-MRI) was shown to be superior to MRI alone for evaluating central nervous system (CNS) tumours in adults. This study aimed to investigate the utility of amino acid PET-MRI in children with CNS …

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Autologous Cord Blood Transplantation for Idiopathic Severe Aplastic Anemia

Acw Lee

Cord blood units are seldom used for autologous transplantation and selection criteria have not been defined. A 6-year-old male with severe aplastic anemia received an autologous cord blood transplantation containing total nucleated cells (TNC) 2.0×107/kg and CD34+0.32×105/kg. However, he lost the graft …

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The Use of Single-Dose Rasburicase for the Prevention and Treatment Tumor Lysis Syndrome in Pediatric Patients: A Narrative Review

Acw Lee

Rasburicase is licensed for the management of tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) at a daily dose of 0.2 mg/kg for five days. The use of a single-dose treatment is popular in adult oncology but information in pediatric use is limited. From a literature …

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Infantile visceral leishmaniasis disguised as Kawasaki disease

Acw Lee, Pei Ling Ooi, Mas Suhaila Isa, James Heng Chiak Sim et autres

Dear Sir, We report the first paediatric case of visceral leishmaniasis in an 8-month-old boy from Singapore. He presented with pyrexia of unknown origin and was initially managed as atypical Kawasaki disease with coronary artery dilatation. When secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) was …

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The Prevalence of Peripheral Erythrophagocytosis in Pediatric Immune-Mediated Hemolytic Anemia

Acw Lee

Background: Peripheral erythrophagocytosis appears to be a unique sign of acquired immune-mediated hemolytic anemia. It is said to be rare but its prevalence among patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia has not been studied. Methods: In this retrospective study from July 2014 to …

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Comment on: Severe β‐thalassemia (Hb Zunyi) mimicking congenital dyserythropoietic anemia—The deceivingly normal mean corpuscular volume and hemoglobin electrophoresis in dominantly inherited β‐thalassemia: Hb Little Venice

Acw Lee, Hai Yang Law

To the Editor, Classical thalassemia syndromes are often recognized with the triad of microcytic anemia with low mean corpuscular volume (MCV), abnormal hemoglobin electrophoresis, and affected parents as carriers.1 The case of severe β-thalassemia (Hb Zunyi) reported by Nagahama et al.2 has …

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Targeted Gene Sanger Sequencing Should Remain the First-Tier Genetic Test for Children Suspected to Have the Five Common X-Linked Inborn Errors of Immunity

Koon-Wing Chan, Chung-Yin Wong, Daniel Leung, Xingtian Yang et autres

To address inborn errors of immunity (IEI) which were underdiagnosed in resource-limited regions, our centre developed and offered free genetic testing for the most common IEI by Sanger sequencing (SS) since 2001. With the establishment of The Asian Primary Immunodeficiency (APID) Network …

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Treatment of Ewing sarcoma in children: Results from a single centre

Acw Lee, Saminathan Suresh Nathan, Chan Hon Chui, Kim Shang Lee

Dear Editor, Ewing sarcoma is a malignant mesenchymal tumour that presents as a bone or soft-tissue sarcoma. Translocations involving the EWS gene on chromosome 22q12 are unique molecular signatures.1,2 Compared with the West where the annual incidence is 1–3 per million, incidence …

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Leukoerythroblastic reaction: Physiologic causes

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