The modified Blalock-Taussig shunt is commonly performed as early palliation in cyanotic congenital heart disease. To highlight unusual diagnostic problems in such patients, two cases are reported in whom shunt complications were initially diagnosed as lobar pneumonia and tuberculosis, respectively. The children, an 8 month old boy and a 3 year old boy, had false aneurysm secondary to infection...

There have recently been opened, at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, a new pathological and a new biochemical laboratory. In the Pathological Laboratory investigations are being made into the causes of summer diarrhoea and rickets in children. In addition, experiments are being made as to the value of the complement fixation test in tuberculosis, and as to the precipitatio...

Intra pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital disorder that is characterized by malformation of pulmonary tissue having no connection to normal tracheobronchial tree and pulmonary arteries. This is a case history of 20 years old man initially misdiagnosed as Tuberculosis and later diagnosis of intra-lobar pulmonary sequestration was confirmed. There are few reports of this rare disorder gl...

Dr. Syed/Dr. Tiyas/Dr. Muralimohan (pulmonology). A 36-year-old male presented with dyspnea for 1 year, progressively increasing in severity, with recent onset of orthopnea. He had recurrent episodes of syncope, bilateral lower limb swelling, distended abdomen in the past 1 month. The patient did not have any history of a cough or fever. Furthermore, there was no history of any congenital heart...

Intralobar pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital abnormality of the lower respiratory tract which becomes symptomatic early in life. Clinical presentation may vary from asymptomatic state with incidental diagnosis while imaging to severe catastrophic hemoptysis. Here we report a case of intralobar pulmonary sequestration in a male of 36 years who continued to have hemoptysis for fourteen...

Although congenital tuberculosis (TB) is rare, it associated with a high mortality rate. The infection mainly acquired transplacentally and less frequently from infective lesions on the maternal genital tract. Many cases are missed in clinical practice due to non-specific presentation of disease hence tendency either miss diagnosis or make late. We report an infant 32-year-old mother who was tr...