An Infant with Tachypnea and Failure to Thrive

An unusual case of an infant with failure to thrive.

An infant with respiratory distress and failure to thrive.

A 4-month-old male was referred to the Dept of Paediatric Surgery at the authors9 institution, for the investigation of respiratory distress, failure to thrive and complete situs viscerum inversus since birth. A chest radiograph obtained a few hours after birth showed situs viscerum inversus, left apical atelectasis, hyperinflation and hyperlucency of the remaining left lung, and a mild shift o...

An infant with repeated respiratory infections and failure to thrive.

KIRTI GUPTA, *SURJIT SINGH, *DHRUBAJYOTI SHARMA, #MINI P SINGH AND *MEENU SINGH From the Departments of Histopathology, *Pediatrics, and #Virology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. Correspondence to: Dr Kirti Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of Histopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, (PGIMER), Chandigar...

Reset Osmostat in an Infant with Failure to Thrive

We are reporting an infant who was presented to our institution exhibiting a failure to thrive and hyponatremia. An extensive renal evaluation revealed resistive hyponatremia with normal renal glomerular and tubular function. Patient remained hyponatremic even after fluid restriction, salt loading and Fludrocortisone (Florinef) administration. Water deprivation and water loading tests were sugg...

An infant with pneumonia, failure to thrive and persistent radiographical changes.

CASE HISTORY A 9-month-old male presented to his local hospital with a 2week history of diarrhoea and vomiting and a 48-h history of tachypnoea and grunting. He was afebrile on admission and oxygen saturation was 96% in room air, but he had mild respiratory distress and tachypnoea. Inflammatory markers were not raised but a chest radiograph showed left-sided collapse and consolidation. Treatmen...