1205 THE STILLBORN INFANT: NEED FOR PEDIATRIC CONSULTATION

An Unusual Ectopia Cordis in a Human Stillborn Infant **

A stillborn female with multiple malformations had an unusual ectopia cordis unlike any that have been described insofar as the writer has been able to ascertain. The 39-year-old mother, whose four previous pregnancies resulted in miscarriage, was in good physical condition. Although there was moderate enlargement of her abdomen and no menses for seven months, the mother was not aware that she ...

The need for interdisciplinary pediatric sleep clinics.

The purpose of this study was to describe the function and structure of an interdisciplinary outpatient pediatric sleep clinic. In addition, the frequency of individual and comorbid sleep diagnoses, the prevalence of comorbid medical or psychiatric disorders, and the types of treatment recommendations and referrals provided to patients at the end of their clinic visits was examined. Over a 4-mo...

Hiv and Infant Feeding Technical Consultation

Infant and Pediatric Polysomnography

Fifteen-minute consultation on the infant with a large head.

An infant with a large head (2.5 SDs above normal for weight and gender or above 99.6th centile for age) is a common clinical presentation. Usually, it is due to benign isolated macrocephaly or familial macrocephaly (FM) where some close family members are similarly affected(1); neither condition requires any further intervention. However, there are a few important underlying causes the clinici...