December 2004 Past Issues

Preeti
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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
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Sujatha
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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

December-2004 Volume-1, Issue-9
Dear Doctor :
NEW FEATURES :
	DISCUSSION GROUPS(Updated): Avail of a more user friendly, easy to access discussion groups to form support groups, ask queries, share grievances and difficult case scenarios in this section.
	DISCUSSION AID(Updated): Get a differential diagnosis by typing in the symptoms and relevant features (e.g. Convulsions, hepatitis, arthritis, myalgia = SLE). Avail of this updated DIAGNOSTIC Tool to help you reach a differential diagnosis in your patients.

	Latest articles on Pediatric Oncall: DIAGNOSTIC DILEMMA: This month’s diagnostic dilemma: A 6-year-old boy presents with ascitis, generalized edema and hypertension. He has hypoalbuminemia with normal renal function tests and marginally dysfunctional liver function tests. HIV, HBsAg, ANA, dsDNA, S. Ceruloplasmin, 24 hours urinary copper = Normal. What is the differential diagnosis? Read the complete case and answer the dilemma… Last month’s query of an 8 months old girl with hepatosplenomegaly, repeated serositis, hypodense lesions in the liver and multiple generalized lymphadenopathy had several replies. Most of the viewers have suggested malignancy, tuberculosis, histiocytosis and Storage disorders. The authors will let us know what is the final outcome

	TEACHING FILES: DIAGNOSTIC DILEMMA: This month’s teaching File: This is the case of a 3-year 8-month-old boy with headache since 3 months. What is the cause of his headache? Read the entire teaching clinical query in the section of “TEACHING FILES” and try the correct answer. Last month’s teaching file: Query: An 8 year old with recurrent otitis media and past history of leukemia. What is the cause of her recurrent otitis media? Answer: Hypogammaglobulinemia secondary to B-cell leukemia. Most of our viewers have answered this query correctly. Discuss this case further in the section of “DISCUSSION GROUPS”.

	CASE REPORTS: Hypercalcemia due to Hypervitaminosis D: A 3½ months old infant presented with failure to thrive and polyuria and had hypercalcemia due to vitamin D excess. This case highlights the judicious use of calcium and vitamin D supplementation in children to prevent irreversible changes such as nephrocalcinosis as this child had.

	IMMUNIZATION UPDATES – PART 2 - Measles Vaccine: Read more about the newer measles vaccines being developed and WHO perspective of the use of Measles Vaccine. - MMR Vaccine: Does MMR cause autism? Read more about the side effects of MMR vaccine and efficacy of different MMR strains. - Hib Vaccine: Can Hib be mixed with DPT or one has to give combined vaccine? What is the role of Hib in various disease conditions? Did you know that Hib vaccine is more effective at providing immunity than natural infection? Read more.. - Hepatitis A Vaccine: What are the various schedules of Hepatitis A vaccine? What is its role in cirrhosis and HCV carriers? Is a booster dose required? Read more about Hepatitis A vaccine…

	IMAGE GALLERY: Try your clinical skills in the “SPOT DIAGNOSIS” for the fortnight and the lucky winner gets a set of 3 child health CDs – Courtesy Pediatric Oncall This fortnight’s spot diagnosis: Last months answers : Case 1: Congenital Hypothyroidism. Case 2: TORCH group of infection.

	ANNOUNCEMENTS: POST A JOB/RESUME: Now you can post for job recruitments (Be it for a consultant, RMO, Registrar or Houseman) for your hospital/clinic on PEDIATRIC ONCALL. Also submit your biodata online. 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.comfor all doctors to view. Sincerely, Pediatric Oncall