2020
Association of Undernutrition and Neonatal, Infant and Under-5 Mortality: Evidence from 62 Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries
Ssentongo P, Lewcun J, Ssentongo A, Ba D, Fronterre C, Ericson J, Gernand A, Wang M, Du P, Chinchilli V, Schiff S. Association of Undernutrition and Neonatal, Infant and Under-5 Mortality: Evidence from 62 Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries. Current Developments In Nutrition 2020, 4: nzaa053_116. PMCID: PMC7258382, DOI: 10.1093/cdn/nzaa053_116.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchNeonatal mortalityRelative riskMiddle-income countriesChild mortalityInfant mortalityRepresentative cross-sectional surveyAssociation of undernutritionMultivariate Poisson regression modelEarly childhood undernutritionCross-sectional surveyUnder-5 MortalityPoisson regression modelsMean durationLive birthsMortality incidenceMillennium Development Goals eraMortality rateResults OverallMDG 4Country-level prevalenceChildhood undernutritionInfantsMortalityBreastfeedingNational Institute
2019
The Incidence of Postoperative Seizures Following Treatment of Postinfectious Hydrocephalus in Ugandan Infants: A Post Hoc Comparison of Endoscopic Treatment vs Shunt Placement in a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Punchak M, Mbabazi Kabachelor E, Ogwal M, Nalule E, Nalwoga J, Ssenyonga P, Mugamba J, Rattani A, Dewan M, Kulkarni A, Schiff S, Warf B. The Incidence of Postoperative Seizures Following Treatment of Postinfectious Hydrocephalus in Ugandan Infants: A Post Hoc Comparison of Endoscopic Treatment vs Shunt Placement in a Randomized Controlled Trial. Neurosurgery 2019, 85: e714-e721. PMID: 31086941, PMCID: PMC7534394, DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyz122.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChoroid plexus cauterizationETV/CPCPostoperative seizure incidencePostinfectious hydrocephalusSeizure incidenceEndoscopic third ventriculostomyUgandan infantsShunt placementMantel-Haenszel hazard ratiosKaplan-Meier methodVentriculoperitoneal shunt placementPostoperative epilepsyPostoperative seizuresPreoperative symptomsEpilepsy incidenceFirst seizureHazard ratioControlled TrialsEndoscopic treatmentThird ventriculostomyTreatment modalitiesSeizure riskHead circumferenceRelative riskSeizure onset