TEACHING FILES
Ira Shah
A 4 months old child presents with persistent bacteremia inspite of intravenous antibiotics. What is the cause of persistent bacteremia? Read the entire teaching clinical query in the section of “TEACHING FILES” and try the correct answer.

Last month’s teaching file:
Query:A 38 day old girl born prematurely at 32 weeks presents with non-resolving pneumonia with severe hypoxia. What is organism causing the pneumonia?
Answer: Pneumocystis carinii (PCP). Read more...

EDUCATIONAL ARTICLE

Urinary Tract Infections in Newborns. Moslehi Mohammad Ashkan. The epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnosis, and management of UTIs in newborns are reviewed here. Read more…

CASE REPORTS

A Near Fatal Arrhythmia in Teenager with 2 Year History of Benign Sounding Syncope. Francis J Gilchrist. Benign sounding syncope may have a serious or life-threatening underlying cause. This 14 year old boy had recurrent benign syncopal attacks but subsequently had 2 syncopal attacks with exercise. He was then diagnosed to have a cardiac cause of syncope. Read more…

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SPOT DIAGNOSIS

Last month’s answers:
Case 1: Bone age is 2 years
Case 2: Schinzel-Giedion Syndrome (SGS).

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

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