September - 2004 Newsletter - Pediatric Oncall

4th Pediatric Infectious Diseases Conference

ISSN 0973 - 0958

September - 2004 Newsletter

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September-2004 Volume-1, Issue-6

Dear Doctor :

New features :

DIAGNOSTIC AID : Get a differential diagnosis by typing in the symptoms and relevant features. Avail of this updated DIAGNOSTIC Tool to help you reach a differential diagnosis in your patients.

Latest articles on Pediatric Oncall:

DIAGNOSTIC DILEMMA:
This month's diagnostic dilemma: An 8½ years old boy presents with recurrent fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain and hypernatremia. His serum antidiuretic hormone levels were normal and renal function tests are abnormal. What is the differential diagnosis? Read the complete case and answer the dilemma-

Last month's query 2½ years old girl with hepatosplenomegaly, anemia and generalized lymphadenopathy had several replies suggesting histiocytosis, sarcoidosis, SLE, Wegener's granulomatosis. However, the authors have replied that the child died before she could be investigated in those lines.

TEACHING FILES:
This month's teaching File:
This is the case of a one month old child born to an HIV infected mother and the diagnostic problems in determining the child's HIV status. teaching clinical query in the section of "TEACHING FILES" and try the correct answer.

Last month's teaching file:
Query: An 8 month old presents with splenomegaly, leucocytosis and thrombocytopenia.
Answer: Juvenile Chronic Myeloid Leukemia or Monosomy 7 Most of our viewers have answered this query correctly. Read more about JCML/ Monosomy 7 in the answer given on Teaching Files. Discuss this case further in the section of "DISCUSSION GROUPS".

CASE REPORTS: CONGENITAL CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION - A LATE MANIFESTATION : Congenital CMV infection usually presents at birth with symptomatic disease.Those with asymptomatic infection may have hearing loss, mental retardation, and microcephaly later in life. We present a case of a 10 month old child who presented with convulsions and subsequently Neuroimaging showed intracranial calcifications.

CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS: Congenital Toxoplasmosis is one of the most difficult congenital infections to diagnose. We present a case of a 2 ½ month old child with hepatosplenomegaly, convulsions and intracranial calcifications.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Probiotics and Prebiotics (Symbiotic) in gut health: Read about the usefulness of probiotics and prebiotics in various gastrointestinal disorders.

VIEWER'S CHOICE: THE CHILDREN ARE ABLE TO TELL US WORDS OF WISDOM, AREN'T THEY?: Dr. Kamel shares her views to tell us how the art of physical examination in a child needs to be revised to make it less traumatic for the patient.

IMAGE GALLERY: Try your clinical skills in the "SPOT DIAGNOSIS" for the fortnight and the lucky winner gets a set of 3 child health CDs - courtesy Pediatric Oncall

This fortnight's spot diagnosis:

Last months winners :
Case 1: Achondroplasia- Inherited Autosomal dominant. Lucky winner is Dr. Sanvar Agarwal.
Case 2: Apert's syndromeLucky winner is Dr. Basavaraj.

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