DIAGNOSTIC DILEMMA:

This month's Diagnostic Dilemma:
Anil Motani
A 2 month old male baby presents with cough since birth, has subcostal retractions and bilateral fine crepitations at base. Chest X-ray shows plethoric lungs with cardiomegaly; Echo reported small VSD. What is the diagnosis?...

TEACHING FILES

Ira Shah
This month's teaching File:A 14 month old boy presented with cough and difficulty in breathing, seborrheic dermatitis, hepatomegaly and multiple hospitalizations in past for recurrent respiratory tract infections Chest X-Ray shows bilateral interstitial pneumonitis.... What is the diagnosis? How to investigate further? Read the entire teaching clinical query in the section of "TEACHING FILES" and try the correct answer.


Last month's teaching file:
Query:A 3½ years old boy presents with pallor, icterus, frontoparietal bossing with malar prominence and splenohepatomegaly. What is the diagnosis?
Answer:
Thalassemia intermedia. Read and discuss this case in full details further in the section of "DISCUSSION GROUPS".

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

CASE REPORTS

Enteritis Cystica Profunda Causing Intussusception. Bader Al-Khabbaz, Mustafa Abbas, Mahmoud Abdulmenam, Nasser Al-Dalal. Read about 12 year-old boy with small bowel intussusception caused by Enteritis Cystica Profunda. Only four cases in children with similar symptoms in the last 32 years have been reported...

VIEWER'S CHOICE

Very High Mortality and Morbidity Due To Chikungunya Encephalitis in Neonates. Prakash C. Vaghela, Naresh B. Gohel. A prospective study was carried out in Bhavnagar over 3 months where 15 neonates had chikungunya encephalitis with maternal history of chikungunya 2-4 days before delivery...

IMAGE GALLERY

ECG QUIZ OF THE MONTH S.S.Prabhu, Sumitra Venkatesh, Div. Of Pediatric Cardiology, B.J.Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai

SPOT DIAGNOSIS

Last month's answers:
Case 1: Ostium secundum or sinus venous atrial septal defect
Case 2: Tuberous sclerosis

Try your clinical skills in the "SPOT DIAGNOSIS" for the fortnight and the lucky winner gets a child health CD - courtesy Pediatric Oncall 

Sincerely,
Pediatric Oncall

BLOG

Equivalence of DNB qualification. Anjali S Bangalore. Read about the blog written on issues regarding DNB and MD equivalence.

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