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Richard Idro's Degrees
- Bachelors Medicine Makerere University
- Masters Pediatrics and Child Health Makerere University
- PhD Medicine University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Iwa Idro is a Ugandan pediatric neurologist, researcher and academic, who serves as an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at Makerere University College of Health Sciences.
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- Pathogenesis, clinical features, and neurological outcome of cerebral malaria (2005) (495)
- Cerebral Malaria: Mechanisms of Brain Injury and Strategies for Improved Neurocognitive Outcome (2010) (392)
- Cerebral Malaria in Children Is Associated With Long-term Cognitive Impairment (2008) (281)
- Cognitive Impairment After Cerebral Malaria in Children: A Prospective Study (2007) (262)
- Burden, features, and outcome of neurological involvement in acute falciparum malaria in Kenyan children. (2007) (156)
- Age patterns of severe paediatric malaria and their relationship to Plasmodium falciparum transmission intensity (2009) (150)
- Cerebrospinal fluid cytokine levels and cognitive impairment in cerebral malaria. (2008) (140)
- Severe neurological sequelae and behaviour problems after cerebral malaria in Ugandan children (2010) (136)
- Low levels of RANTES are associated with mortality in children with cerebral malaria. (2006) (126)
- Risk factors for persisting neurological and cognitive impairments following cerebral malaria (2005) (124)
- Incidence and outcome of convulsive status epilepticus in Kenyan children: a cohort study (2008) (115)
- The incidence, aetiology and outcome of acute seizures in children admitted to a rural Kenyan district hospital (2008) (113)
- High levels of erythropoietin are associated with protection against neurological sequelae in African children with cerebral malaria (2008) (108)
- Volume Expansion with Albumin Compared to Gelofusine in Children with Severe Malaria: Results of a Controlled Trial (2006) (101)
- Severe malarial anemia is associated with long-term neurocognitive impairment. (2014) (100)
- Severe malaria in children in areas with low, moderate and high transmission intensity in Uganda (2006) (93)
- Socioeconomic Predictors of Cognition in Ugandan Children: Implications for Community Interventions (2009) (87)
- Nodding syndrome in Ugandan children—clinical features, brain imaging and complications: a case series (2013) (82)
- Cerebral malaria is associated with long-term mental health disorders: a cross sectional survey of a long-term cohort (2016) (67)
- Is nodding syndrome an Onchocerca volvulus-induced neuroinflammatory disorder? Uganda's story of research in understanding the disease. (2016) (57)
- Proposed guidelines for the management of nodding syndrome. (2013) (56)
- Immediate outcome and prognostic factors for cerebral malaria among children admitted to Mulago Hospital, Uganda (2004) (53)
- Patients with nodding syndrome in Uganda improve with symptomatic treatment: a cross-sectional study (2014) (51)
- Acute kidney injury is associated with impaired cognition and chronic kidney disease in a prospective cohort of children with severe malaria (2019) (50)
- Decorticate, decerebrate and opisthotonic posturing and seizures in Kenyan children with cerebral malaria (2005) (48)
- Can erythropoietin be used to prevent brain damage in cerebral malaria? (2009) (47)
- Axonal and astrocyte injury markers in the cerebrospinal fluid of Kenyan children with severe malaria (2007) (47)
- Onchocerciasis‐associated epilepsy: From recent epidemiological and clinical findings to policy implications (2017) (46)
- Impaired everyday memory associated with encephalopathy of severe malaria: the role of seizures and hippocampal damage (2009) (46)
- Rehabilitation for cognitive impairments after cerebral malaria in African children: strategies and limitations (2006) (45)
- The tympanic membrane displacement analyser for monitoring intracranial pressure in children (2013) (45)
- Acute seizures attributable to falciparum malaria in an endemic area on the Kenyan coast (2011) (44)
- Continuous EEG monitoring in Kenyan children with non-traumatic coma (2012) (42)
- Neonatal seizures in a rural Kenyan District Hospital: aetiology, Incidence and outcome of hospitalization (2010) (42)
- Survival and haematological recovery of children with severe malaria transfused in accordance to WHO guidelines in Kilifi, Kenya (2008) (42)
- Neuroinflammation and Not Tauopathy Is a Predominant Pathological Signature of Nodding Syndrome (2019) (40)
- Clinical manifestations of severe malaria in the highlands of southwestern Uganda. (2005) (39)
- Neurocognitive domains affected by cerebral malaria and severe malarial anemia in children. (2016) (38)
- Iron Deficiency and Acute Seizures: Results from Children Living in Rural Kenya and a Meta-Analysis (2010) (38)
- Manifestations, quality of emergency care and outcome of severe malaria in Mulago Hospital, Uganda. (2004) (34)
- Prevalence and incidence of nodding syndrome and other forms of epilepsy in onchocerciasis-endemic areas in northern Uganda after the implementation of onchocerciasis control measures (2020) (34)
- Foetal haemoglobin and disease severity in sickle cell anaemia patients in Kampala, Uganda (2012) (31)
- Long-term Behavioral Problems in Children With Severe Malaria (2016) (31)
- Report of the first international workshop on onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy (2018) (28)
- Endothelial Activation, Acute Kidney Injury, and Cognitive Impairment in Pediatric Severe Malaria (2020) (27)
- Elevated cerebrospinal fluid tumour necrosis factor is associated with acute and long‐term neurocognitive impairment in cerebral malaria (2017) (27)
- Child Neurology Practice and Neurological Disorders in East Africa (2010) (27)
- Novel Orthobunyavirus Identified in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of a Ugandan Child With Severe Encephalopathy (2018) (27)
- Cerebrospinal fluid kynurenine and kynurenic acid concentrations are associated with coma duration and long-term neurocognitive impairment in Ugandan children with cerebral malaria (2017) (26)
- Malaria Chemoprevention in the Postdischarge Management of Severe Anemia. (2020) (25)
- The role for osmotic agents in children with acute encephalopathies: a systematic review (2010) (25)
- Community Knowledge, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Practices towards Children with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus in Uganda (2015) (25)
- Parental stress and support of parents of children with spina bifida in Uganda (2016) (24)
- Research priorities in the management of severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria in children (2006) (23)
- The natural history of nodding syndrome. (2018) (22)
- Physical growth, puberty and hormones in adolescents with Nodding Syndrome; a pilot study (2014) (21)
- Stereotypes on Nodding syndrome: responses of health workers in the affected region of northern Uganda. (2014) (20)
- Autoantibody levels are associated with acute kidney injury, anemia and post-discharge morbidity and mortality in Ugandan children with severe malaria (2019) (20)
- Stroke Prevalence in Children With Sickle Cell Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (2018) (19)
- Elevated cerebrospinal fluid tau protein concentrations on admission are associated with long-term neurologic and cognitive impairment in Ugandan children with cerebral malaria. (2019) (19)
- Severe anaemia in childhood cerebral malaria is associated with profound coma. (2003) (19)
- High Postdischarge Morbidity in Ugandan Children With Severe Malarial Anemia or Cerebral Malaria (2016) (18)
- Prevalence and factors associated with sleep disorders among children with cerebral palsy in Uganda; a cross-sectional study (2018) (18)
- Multiple anti-epileptic drug use in children with epilepsy in Mulago hospital, Uganda: a cross sectional study (2016) (17)
- Changing trends in incidence and aetiology of childhood acute non-traumatic coma over a period of changing malaria transmission in rural coastal Kenya: a retrospective analysis (2012) (16)
- Neurological manifestations in Onchocerca volvulus infection: A review (2019) (15)
- Catatonia in Ugandan children with nodding syndrome and effects of treatment with lorazepam: a pilot study (2015) (15)
- Admission EEG findings in diverse paediatric cerebral malaria populations predict outcomes (2018) (15)
- Childhood acute non-traumatic coma: aetiology and challenges in management in resource-poor countries of Africa and Asia (2013) (15)
- Fosphenytoin for seizure prevention in childhood coma in Africa: A randomized clinical trial☆☆☆★★★ (2013) (15)
- Is the glass half full or half empty? A qualitative exploration on treatment practices and perceived barriers to biomedical care for patients with nodding syndrome in post-conflict northern Uganda (2015) (14)
- High plasma erythropoietin levels are associated with prolonged coma duration and increased mortality in children with cerebral malaria. (2015) (14)
- Comprehensive management of epilepsy in onchocerciasis-endemic areas: lessons learnt from community-based surveys (2019) (14)
- Acute kidney injury in Ugandan children with severe malaria is associated with long-term behavioral problems (2019) (14)
- Malaria chemoprevention with monthly dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for the post-discharge management of severe anaemia in children aged less than 5 years in Uganda and Kenya: study protocol for a multi-centre, two-arm, randomised, placebo-controlled, superiority trial (2018) (13)
- The 2015-2016 malaria epidemic in Northern Uganda; What are the implications for malaria control interventions? (2018) (13)
- Setting up a clinical trial for a novel disease: a case study of the Doxycycline for the Treatment of Nodding Syndrome Trial – challenges, enablers and lessons learned (2018) (13)
- Patterns of traumatic brain injury and six-month neuropsychological outcomes in Uganda (2019) (13)
- Doxycycline for the treatment of nodding syndrome (DONS); the study protocol of a phase II randomised controlled trial (2019) (12)
- “I Like to Play with My Friends”: Children with Spina Bifida and Belonging in Uganda (2016) (11)
- Analysis of the indications for routine lumbar puncture and results of cerebrospinal fluid examination in children admitted to the paediatric wards of two hospitals in East Africa. (2006) (11)
- "Those who died are the ones that are cured". Walking the political tightrope of Nodding Syndrome in northern Uganda: Emerging challenges for research and policy (2019) (10)
- Qualitative evaluation of the outcomes of care and treatment for children and adolescents with nodding syndrome and other epilepsies in Uganda (2019) (10)
- Dried blood microsampling-based therapeutic drug monitoring of anti-epileptic drugs in children with nodding syndrome and epilepsy in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (2019) (8)
- Risk factors for recurrent severe anemia among previously transfused children in Uganda: an age-matched case-control study (2019) (8)
- Lack of mortality in 22 children with sickle cell anemia and severe malarial anemia (2018) (8)
- Congenital lobar emphysema: a diagnostic challenge and cause of progressive respiratory distress in a 2 month-old infant. (2002) (8)
- Haptoglobin HP2-2 genotype, α-thalassaemia and acute seizures in children living in a malaria-endemic area (2008) (8)
- Community perceptions of paediatric severe anaemia in Uganda (2019) (8)
- Parenteral artemisinins are associated with reduced mortality and neurologic deficits and improved long-term behavioral outcomes in children with severe malaria (2021) (7)
- Asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia and seizure control in children with nodding syndrome; a cross-sectional study (2018) (7)
- Systemic and cerebrospinal fluid immune and complement activation in Ugandan children and adolescents with long‐standing nodding syndrome: A case‐control study (2020) (7)
- Congenital Malaria in Newborns Presented at Tororo General Hospital in Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Study. (2019) (6)
- Household poverty, schooling, stigma and quality of life in adolescents with epilepsy in rural Uganda (2020) (6)
- Measuring neurodevelopment in low-resource settings. (2017) (6)
- Plasma angiopoietin-2 is associated with age-related deficits in cognitive sub-scales in Ugandan children following severe malaria (2021) (6)
- Economic burden of the persistent morbidity of nodding syndrome on caregivers in affected households in Northern Uganda (2020) (6)
- Burden of neurological and neurocognitive impairment in pediatric sickle cell anemia in Uganda (BRAIN SAFE): a cross-sectional study (2019) (6)
- Epilepsy in Onchocerca volvulus Sero-Positive Patients From Northern Uganda—Clinical, EEG and Brain Imaging Features (2021) (6)
- Phase III Trials Required to Resolve Clinical Equipoise over Optimal Fluid Management in Children with Severe Malaria (2007) (6)
- Nodding syndrome: recent insights into etiology, pathophysiology, and treatment (2018) (5)
- Acquired Brain Injury in Children in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015) (5)
- Cerebral malaria in children (2003) (5)
- Contribution of perinatal conditions to cerebral palsy in Uganda. (2018) (4)
- “I feel so bad but have nothing to do.” Exploring Ugandan caregivers’ experiences of parenting a child with severe malaria and subsequent repeated uncomplicated malaria (2018) (4)
- Use of pre-hospital medication in children presenting with malaria to the emergency unit of Mulago Hospital, Uganda: A descriptive study (2017) (4)
- Risk Factors for Nodding Syndrome and Other Forms of Epilepsy in Northern Uganda: A Case-Control Study (2021) (4)
- Cognitive Abilities of Pre- and Primary School Children with Spina Bifida in Uganda (2016) (4)
- Blood use in sub‐Saharan Africa: a systematic review of current data (2019) (4)
- Adherence to community versus facility-based delivery of monthly malaria chemoprevention with dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine for the post-discharge management of severe anemia in Malawian children: A cluster randomized trial (2021) (4)
- Burden and Risk of Neurological and Cognitive Impairment in Pediatric Sickle Cell Anemia in Uganda (BRAIN SAFE): Final Results of the Cross-Sectional Analysis (2018) (4)
- Epstein–Barr virus and malaria upregulate AID and APOBEC3 enzymes, but only AID seems to play a major mutagenic role in Burkitt lymphoma (2022) (3)
- Abnormal intra-aural pressure waves associated with death in African children with acute nontraumatic coma (2015) (3)
- Prevalence and factors associated with dysglycemia among girls in selected boarding secondary schools in Wakiso District, Uganda (2018) (3)
- Nodding syndrome; a new (infectious?) disease entity of the CNS in Eastern Africa (2013) (3)
- Risk of pneumococcal bacteremia in Kenyan children with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (2020) (3)
- Compulsive behavior and coprolalia after cerebral malaria (2005) (3)
- Correction: Volume Expansion with Albumin Compared to Gelofusine in Children with Severe Malaria: Results of a Controlled Trial (2006) (3)
- Comparison of Structural Changes in Nodding Syndrome and Other Epilepsies Associated With Onchocerca volvulus (2022) (2)
- Paediatric immunisation and chemoprophylaxis in a Ugandan sickle cell disease clinic (2018) (2)
- Health related quality of life in children with spina bifida in Uganda. (2018) (2)
- Cerebrospinal fluid kynurenine and kynurenic acid concentrations are associated with coma duration and long-term neurocognitive impairment in Ugandan children with cerebral malaria (2017) (2)
- Vitamin D status and associated factors among HIV-infected children and adolescents on antiretroviral therapy in Kampala, Uganda (2021) (2)
- Association between Inflammatory Markers and Abnormal Neurological, Neurocognitive and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Findings in Children with Sickle Cell Anemia in Uganda (2019) (1)
- Neurological features of falciparum malaria in African children (2006) (1)
- NEUROLOGICAL INVOLVEMENT IN FALCIPARUM MALARIA IN AFRICAN CHILDREN (2006) (1)
- The Role for Osmotic Agents in Children with Acute Encephalopathies: A Systematic Review. (2009) (1)
- Economic evaluation of postdischarge malaria chemoprevention in preschool children treated for severe anaemia in Malawi, Kenya, and Uganda: A cost-effectiveness analysis (2022) (1)
- Projected health impact of post-discharge malaria chemoprevention among children under the age of five years with severe malarial anaemia in Africa: a modelling analysis (2022) (1)
- Analysis of the indications and results of cerebrospinal fluid examination in children admitted to the paediatric wards of two hospitals in east Africa (2010) (1)
- Severe complicated malaria in children seen in Moyo Hospital (1998) (1)
- Caregivers and community perceptions of blood transfusion for children with severe anaemia in Uganda (2019) (1)
- Etiologies of community acquired bacterial meningitis and antibiotic resistance patterns in Africa over the last 30 years: A Systematic Review (2020) (1)
- Plasma amino acid concentrations in children with severe malaria are associated with mortality and worse long-term kidney and cognitive outcomes. (2022) (1)
- Neuroimmunology of Common Parasitic Infections in Africa (2022) (1)
- Use of the creating opportunities for parent empowerment programme to decrease mental health problems in Ugandan children surviving severe malaria: a randomized controlled trial (2020) (1)
- High plasma levels of erythropoietin are associated with protection against neurological sequelae in african children with cerebral (2008) (1)
- Chronic pain among children with cerebral palsy attending a Ugandan tertiary hospital: a cross-sectional study (2021) (1)
- Family relationships, support and care : perspectives of children with spina bifida in central Uganda (2016) (1)
- Qualitative exploration of feasibility and acceptability of the modified Atkins diet therapy for children with drug resistant epilepsy in Kenya (2021) (1)
- Neuropathological Changes in Nakalanga Syndrome—A Case Report (2021) (1)
- Position Statement:Emerging genetic therapies for rare disorders (2019) (1)
- Physical growth, puberty and hormones in adolescents with Nodding Syndrome; a pilot study (2014) (1)
- Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine or sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for the chemoprevention of malaria in children with sickle cell anaemia in eastern and southern Africa (CHEMCHA): a protocol for a multi-centre, two-arm, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled superiority trial (2023) (0)
- Hypomelanosis of Ito: a case report from East Africa (2006) (0)
- Neurological involvement in acute falciparum malaria in Kenyan children. Authors reply [letter] (2007) (0)
- Editorial: Neuroimmunology in Africa (2023) (0)
- Cerebral malaria is associated with long-term mental health disorders: a cross sectional survey of a long-term cohort (2016) (0)
- Catatonia in Ugandan children with nodding syndrome and effects of treatment with lorazepam: a pilot study (2015) (0)
- Is the glass half full or half empty? A qualitative exploration on treatment practices and perceived barriers to biomedical care for patients with nodding syndrome in post-conflict northern Uganda (2015) (0)
- Very low mortality associated with albumin infusion in Kenyan children with severe malaria (2006) (0)
- Viral, bacterial, metabolic, and autoimmune causes of severe acute encephalopathy in sub-Saharan Africa: a multicenter cohort study. (2023) (0)
- Is nodding syndrome an onchocerca volvulus associated epilepsy? (2019) (0)
- Projected health impact of post-discharge malaria chemoprevention among children with severe malarial anaemia in Africa (2023) (0)
- Admission EEG findings in diverse paediatric cerebral malaria populations predict outcomes (2018) (0)
- Severe Malaria and Academic Achievement. (2023) (0)
- Seizures in children with acute falciparum malaria : risk factors, mechanisms of neuronal damage and neuro-protection (2008) (0)
- Safety of a modified gelatin colloid (Gelofusine) for correction of volume deficits in severe malaria [MIM-SA-81528] (2005) (0)
- Frequent Impaired Overall Neurocognitive and Executive Function in Children Ages 1-12 Years of Age with Sickle Cell Anemia in Uganda (2019) (0)
- Exploring the burden of Ntwetwe virus–A novel orthobunyavirus associated with CNS infections–in Ugandan children (2020) (0)
- Challenges of neuroinfections: What remains prevalent and current optimal care (2021) (0)
- Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Angiography in Children with Sickle Cell Anaemia in Uganda in a Cross-Sectional Sample. (2022) (0)
- Position statement by the ICNA in Support of vaccinating all children against measles virus (2020) (0)
- No Evidence of Ntwetwe Virus Infections in Children Presenting to Kiboga Hospital, Uganda (2022) (0)
- Plasma angiopoietin-2 is associated with age-related deficits in cognitive sub-scales in Ugandan children following severe malaria (2021) (0)
- Cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers provide evidence for kidney-brain axis involvement in cerebral malaria pathogenesis (2023) (0)
- Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Angiography Findings in Ugandan Children with Sickle Cell Anemia; A Cross Sectional Study (2018) (0)
- Additional file 3: of Comprehensive management of epilepsy in onchocerciasis-endemic areas: lessons learnt from community-based surveys (2019) (0)
- Nodding syndrome patients improve with symptomatic treatment (2014) (0)
- Report of the first international workshop on onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy : a challenge to the scientific and medical communities and a research agenda going forwards (2017) (0)
- Non-invasive intracranial pressure monitoring in African children with infectious encephalopathies: preliminary results (2008) (0)
- Biphasic Clinical Course Among Kenyan Children With Cerebral Malaria (2008) (0)
- Continuous EEG monitoring and seizures in children with cerebral malaria (2008) (0)
- Iron Deficiency and Acute Seizures: Results from Children Living in Rural Kenya and a Meta- Analysis Idro, (2010) (0)
- Additional file 2: of Comprehensive management of epilepsy in onchocerciasis-endemic areas: lessons learnt from community-based surveys (2019) (0)
- Open Access SHORT REPORT (2010) (0)
- Use of the creating opportunities for parent empowerment programme to decrease mental health problems in Ugandan children surviving severe malaria: a randomized controlled trial (2021) (0)
- Erythropoietin and neuro-protection in African children with cerebral malaria (2008) (0)
- Additional file 1: of Comprehensive management of epilepsy in onchocerciasis-endemic areas: lessons learnt from community-based surveys (2019) (0)
- Neurodisability Caused by Malaria: Burden and Pathophysiological Mechanisms (2020) (0)
- Radiological Findings By Magnetic Resonance (MRI) and Arteriography (MRA) Brain Imaging Compared to Neurological, Stroke and TCD Assessment in Children with Sickle Cell Anemia in Uganda (2019) (0)
- Severe falciparum malaria is associated with poor performance of everyday memory of school-age children (2009) (0)
- Autoimmune vasculitis in a child following tetralogy of Fallot repair in Uganda (2017) (0)
- ‘There Were Moments We Wished She Could Just Die’: The Highly Gendered Burden of Nodding Syndrome in Northern Uganda (2022) (0)
- “I feel so bad but have nothing to do.” Exploring Ugandan caregivers’ experiences of parenting a child with severe malaria and subsequent repeated uncomplicated malaria (2018) (0)
- Fosphenytoin does not prevent Seizures or improve outcome in African Children with Acute non-Traumatic Coma (2013) (0)
- The nodding syndrome: A new form of epilepsy? (2013) (0)
- Chronic pain among children with cerebral palsy attending a Ugandan hospital: a cross-sectional study (2021) (0)
- Risk factors for persisting neuro-cognitive impairments in children following cerebral malaria [MIM-RI-55680] (2005) (0)
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