I . The plasma and blood volumes of twenty-eight Iraqi children were measured. Twentyfour of them were malnourished in varying degrees and four were normal children who acted as controls. None of the children was anaemic. 2. Therc was an increase in the plasma and blood volumes per unit body-weight correlating with the degree of malnourishment (P < 0.001). 3. There was little variation in the v...

This study uses unit-record data on over 50,000 rural children, from the sixteen major states of India, to analyse the determinants of the risks of severe stunting and of being severely underweight. The importance of this study derives from the fact that the prevalence of undernourishment in India is, even relative to other poor countries, shockingly high. The study focuses on the role of mater...

One 2-year-old undernourished girl presented to our outpatient with large erythematous scaly plaques in arm along with multiple bony swellings over nose, fingers, left foot, and back for the past 1 year. Apart from skin and bone lesions the girl was also had intermittent fever, pallor, irritability, and malnourishment. Her parents gave a history of incomplete healing at the BCG vaccination site...

Protein-energy malnourishment is commonly encountered in patients with end-stage liver disease who undergo liver transplantation. Malnutrition may further increase morbidity, mortality and costs in the post-transplantation setting. The importance of carefully assessing the nutritional status during the work-up of patients who are candidates for liver replacement is widely recognized. The metabo...

BACKGROUND Extrapontine myelinolysis presenting with extra pyramidal features suggestive of parkinsonism may be a challenging clinical syndrome. Clinicians should maintain their vigilance while correcting electrolyte imbalances, especially with associated co-morbidity. CASE PRESENTATION A 41-year-old woman presented with acute parkinsonism like features while on a holiday. This followed slow ...

Huntington's disease is a dominantly inherited progressive autosomal disease that affects the basal ganglia. Symptoms appear later in life and manifest as progressive mental deterioration and involuntary choreiform movements. Patients with Huntington's disease develop a progressive but variable dementia. Dysphagia, the most significant related motor symptom, hinders nutrition intake and places ...

India is home to some 120 million children under the age of 5, 36 percent whom are chronically malnourished. The associated high prevalence stunting has generated a stream research explaining why chronic malnourishment in higher than poorer countries sub-Saharan Africa. Surprisingly, this body overlooked crucial feature – that is, difference incidence across caste and religious groups. A compar...

Leiomyomas are benign smooth tumors that rarely affect the neck area. Complete surgical resection is the treatment of choice. Here, we describe a 13-year-old girl with a large leiomyoma of the neck, which increased in size after incomplete resection. The tumor caused progressive cervical kyphotic deformity, difficulty breathing and severe malnourishment. The tumor was resected successfully in a...

A 21-year-old woman with a history of disabling irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) was admitted to the internal medicine ward with abdominal pain. During the last few weeks she had experienced a 15% weight loss due to malnourishment secondary to the abdominal complaints and light-headedness upon standing, but no syncope. Because of a regular heart rate of 35 beats/min an electrocardiogram was taken...