sickle cell anemia
A medical student is working with you in clinic. He is preparing to see a 2-month-old infant whose older sister has sickle cell disease. The infant’s medical record has the…
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congenital hypothyroidism
You are called by your state newborn screening program for a low total thyroxine (T4) level found on newborn screening. The level was drawn 24 hours after a term, healthy…
MALROTATION
on day old infant has vomiting and abdominal distension.baby has passed meconium. Bilious vomiting, usually with some abdominal distention, occurs in a baby who passed normal meconium and has an open…
HYPERNATREMIA
HPI: A 6-month-old male infant with watery diarrhea at home for the past 5 days and vomiting for 1 day presents with intermittent lethargy and irritability. He has also not…
HPV
The mother of one of your adolescent patients asks you about human papillomavirus (HPV)vaccination. She explains that she has just learned that HPV is the most common sexually-transmitted infectious agent and…
bronchiolitis
dear all are you using beta 2 agonists in bronchiolitis? are you using epinephrine in bronchiolitis? readbronchiolitis aap 2014
Antibiotics in Children Increase Risk for Juvenile Arthritis
dear all Exposure to antibiotics during childhood significantly increases the risk for juvenile idiopathic arthritis in a dose-dependent manner, say investigators reporting at the American College of Rheumatology 2014 Annual…
Is It Possible to Exercise Too Much?
dear all For apparently healthy people, there simply isn’t much evidence of a U- or J-shaped mortality curve, with mortality rising at very high levels of activity. Several recent studies…
WILSONS DISEASE
dear all you would have seen many children with hepatitis. we would have seen fewer number of wilson disease than hepatitis it is prudent to screen older children for wilson.…
NEWBORN, RESPIRATORY DISTRESS
A neonatology team was called to evaluate a full-term male infant with severe respiratory distress and cyanosis at a few minutes of age. The infant had been born by vaginal…
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