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Not every infection follows the textbook. In this episode of "Curious Cases," Dr. Ira Shah (Professor & Head, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, B.J. Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai) walks through a series of rare, atypical, and diagnostically tricky pediatric cases — medical mysteries where pathogens behaved in wildly unexpected ways.
Highlights include a 7-month-old girl with antibiotic-unresponsive meningitis eventually diagnosed as eosinophilic meningitis linked to Gnathostoma/household cat exposure (and why her meningitis PCR panel falsely flagged HHV-6, S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae); an 11-year-old girl on anti-TB therapy who developed pellagroid dermatitis from isoniazid; a case of the filarial dance sign on scrotal ultrasound revealing lymphatic filariasis; viral and HSV retinitis; a rapid-fire round; and a case of Aicardi-Goutières syndrome.
Video Chapters include:
00:00 Intro
00:08 What are “curious” casess
00:27 Case 1
01:42 MRI Brain
03:59 Eosinophilic Meningitis
05:07 Why did Meningitis panel pick up HHV-6
06:14 Conclusion
06:54 Gnathostoma
07:26 Case 2
09:07 Pellagroid dermatitis
10:39 Case 3
11:23 Filarial dance sign - Lymphatic filariasis
12:30 Case 4
13:01 Viral Retinitis
13:33 HSV Retinitis
14:20 Rapid Fire
15:14 Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome
15:44 Remeber
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