BACKGROUND Failure to thrive (FTT) poses a diagnostic dilemma for pediatricians. The kidney disorder that is considered most often is renal tubular acidosis (RTA). However, the prevalence of RTA may be overestimated, leading to unnecessary referrals for subspecialty evaluation. Moreover, preliminary data suggest that venous blood gas (VBG) testing may provide a more accurate measurement of the ...

AIMS To compare five anthropometric methods of classifying failure to thrive in order to ascertain their relative merits in predicting developmental, dietary, and eating problems. METHODS The five anthropometric methods were compared in 83 children with failure to thrive. RESULTS The methods were inconsistent in classification of severity, and no one method was superior in predicting proble...

introduction the current study introduces a case with adrenal insufficiency that was suspected to have congenital adrenal hypoplasia because of undescended testis and failure to thrive due to muscle involvement. case presentation the patient was a 34-month-old boy who had loss of consciousness, hypotension, hypoglycemia, hyponatremia and hyperkalemia with severe failure to thrive, hyper pigment...

BACKGROUND Pompe disease is a lysosomal glycogen storage disease (GSDII) characterized by deficiency of acid glucosidase, resulting in lysosomal glycogen accumulation in multiple tissues, with cardiac and skeletal muscles being the most seriously affected. It manifests itself as a spectrum in multiple age groups including infancy, childhood and adulthood. CASE REPORT We present a case of infa...

Review of hospital records of 122 infants, aged between 1 and 25 months, admitted to a teaching hospital with the diagnosis of failure to thrive but without an underlying disease apparent at admission, showed that about one-third of them had no diagnosis after evaluation. Thirty-two per cent were thought to have a social or environmental explantation for poor growth, and 31% were given a specif...