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A 5 years old child presents with congestive cardiac failure and echocardiography shows dilated chambers with ejection fraction of 25%. The child died within 6 hours. What is the diagnosis? Read more...

Last fortnight's query of a 4 ½ years old boy with non-resolving pneumonia and generalized lymphadenopathy. Lymph node biopsy shows granulomatous change. Subsequently he develops a cold abscess that grows aspergillus. Does this child have chronic granulomatous disease? The authors reply that subsequent NBT test in the child was normal.

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Ira Shah
A 2 ½ years old girl has fever for 2 months with hepatosplenomegaly. Chest X-ray, HIV, Hemogram, Mantoux test are normal. How should this child be investigated further? Read the entire teaching clinical query in the section of "TEACHING FILES" and try the correct answer.

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Query: A 6 years old child with ascitis and anasarca. What is the cause of ascitis in this child?

Answer: Liver disease. Hepatitis A and Dengue IgM tests were positive. Read more...

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Birth Weight and Early Neonatal Outcome in Infants Born to Malnourished Pregnant Women given Multimicronutrient Supplementation: A Comparative Study. R. Chakrabarti, SP Goel, K Dubey. A study on the effect of multimicronutrient supplementation to malnourished pregnant women on the birth weight and early neonatal outcome.

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Intractable Constipation and Severe Abdominal Pain due to Compulsive Geophagia in a Child from a Developing Country. Emmanuel Onyekwelu

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