September 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

September-2004 Volume-1, Issue-6
Dear Doctor :
	New features :
	DIAGNOSTIC AID: Get a differential diagnosis by typing in the symptoms and relevant features. 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: An 8½ years old boy presents with recurrent fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain and hypernatremia. His serum antidiuretic hormone levels were normal and renal function tests are abnormal. What is the differential diagnosis? Read the complete case and answer the dilemma… Last month’s query 2½ years old girl with hepatosplenomegaly, anemia and generalized lymphadenopathy had several replies suggesting histiocytosis, sarcoidosis, SLE, Wegener’s granulomatosis. However, the authors have replied that the child died before she could be investigated in those lines.

	TEACHING FILES:

	This month’s teaching File: This is the case of a one month old child born to an HIV infected mother and the diagnostic problems in determining the child’s HIV status. teaching clinical query in the section of “TEACHING FILES” and try the correct answer.
	Last month’s teaching file: Query: An 8 month old presents with splenomegaly, leucocytosis and thrombocytopenia. Answer: Juvenile Chronic Myeloid Leukemia or Monosomy 7 Most of our viewers have answered this query correctly. Read more about JCML/ Monosomy 7 in the answer given on Teaching Files. Discuss this case further in the section of “DISCUSSION GROUPS”.

	CASE REPORTS: CONGENITAL CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION – A LATE MANIFESTATION : Congenital CMV infection usually presents at birth with symptomatic disease.Those with asymptomatic infection may have hearing loss, mental retardation, and microcephaly later in life. We present a case of a 10 month old child who presented with convulsions and subsequently Neuroimaging showed intracranial calcifications.
	CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS: Congenital Toxoplasmosis is one of the most difficult congenital infections to diagnose. We present a case of a 2 ½ month old child with hepatosplenomegaly, convulsions and intracranial calcifications.

	LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Probiotics and Prebiotics (Symbiotic) in gut health: Read about the usefulness of probiotics and prebiotics in various gastrointestinal disorders

	VIEWER’S CHOICE: THE CHILDREN ARE ABLE TO TELL US WORDS OF WISDOM, AREN'T THEY?: Dr. Kamel shares her views to tell us how the art of physical examination in a child needs to be revised to make it less traumatic for the patient.

	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 winners : Case 1: Achondroplasia- Inherited Autosomal dominant. Lucky winner is Dr. Sanvar Agarwal. Case 2: Apert’s syndrome Lucky winner is Dr. Basavaraj.

	Latest articles on Pediatric Oncall: 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.com for all doctors to view. Sincerely, Pediatric Oncall