August 2004 Past Issues

Preeti
I am a final yr medical student and i just love ur website!!! I regularly use it to help me with my preparations. The topics are so lucidly written and easily understood with up to date information.. Even the HIV related web site (www.hivinchildren.org) by Dr.Ira Shah is just fabulous!!!

Dr Parang N Mehta
Dear Dr Ira Shah, Congratulations on putting up an excellent website, which will be of great use to practicing pediatricians everywhere. You have achieved the near impossible in getting some of the biggest names in pediatrics in India to contribute content to your site.

Sailala
An excellent website!! good and useful information! Many Thanks for to u all!

Sujatha
Very informative site, and queries are getting resolved immediately. Thanks

Uttam Laisram
I found the Vaccine Reminder feature on your Website very interesting. My request is that this useful facility may not be restricted to Registered Users, but may be made available to all Visitors, who may like to enter their child's details and take a print-out of the Vaccine schedule. Please consider. Keep up the excellent work in providing India-relevant information for child care.

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Past Issues of www.pediatriconcall.com

August-2004 Volume-1, Issue-5
Dear Doctor :
	New sections on PEDIATRIC ONCALL:
	POST A JOB: Now you can post for job recruitments (Be it for a consultant, RMO, Registrar or Houseman) for your hospital/clinic on PEDIATRIC ONCALL. This is a free service to the medical fraternity and aspiring doctors can get to know of vacancies at one place itself.

	POST A CONFERENCE: All organizing secretaries of SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS please note. You can now post your conference details on PEDIATRIC ONCALL by filling in a simple online form and it will be displayed on www.pediatriconcall.com for all doctors to view.
	IMAGE GALLERY: This is a section of “SPOT DIAGNOSIS”. Test your clinical skills !!! A clinical or radiological picture will be displayed and doctorscan answer the quiz on the spot. The correct answer will be displayed immediately on answering
	Latest articles on Pediatric Oncall:

	DIAGNOSTIC DILEMMA: This month’s diagnostic dilemma A 2½ years old girl presents with progressive breathlessness, alternating constipation and diarrhea since 3 months and fever since 4-5 days. On examination she had Pallor, axillary lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly and cardiomegaly. Her investigations revealed anemia with lymphocytosis, military shadows on XRC and chronic hepatitis on liver biopsy. What is the differential diagnosis? Read the complete case and answer the dilemma at the link given below: Last month’s query of a Newborn with multiple congenital anomalies and direct hyperbilirubinemia had a differential diagnosis of Down's syndrome, Allagille syndrome and Zellweger syndrome.

	TEACHING FILES: This month’s teaching File: An 8 month old presents with splenomegaly, leucocytosis and thrombocytopenia. What is the differential diagnosis? Read the entire teaching clinical query in the section of “TEACHING FILES” and try the correct answer. Last month’s teaching file: Query: An 11 month old with recurrent respiratory infections and failure to thrive with bulky stools. Answer: Cystic Fibrosis. Most of our viewers have answered this query correctly. Read more about Cystic Fibrosis in the answer given on Teaching Files. Discuss this case further in the section of “DISCUSSION GROUPS”.

	CASE REPORTS: CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA: CAH can be a medical emergency in the neonatal period. Read more about 2 infants who presented with loose motions and dehydration and subtle clinical signs that make one suspect CAH. HYPER IGM SYNDROME PRESENTING AS RECURRENT NEONATAL INFECTIONS: Hyper IgM syndrome is a congenital immunodeficiency that is due to a predominant primary defect of antibody production. Patients have very low serum concentrations of IgG and IgA with normal or elevated concentration of polyclonal IgM.

	VIEWER’S CHOICE: ANTI-DIURETIC HORMONE (ADH) - ITS USE IN DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER: This is an interesting hypothesis put by one of the viewers on how ADH would be useful to treat the hemorrhagic manifestations by dengue.

	Sincerely, Pediatric Oncall