Abstract Objective To assess the effect of cardiac surgery on growth catch-up Down syndrome (DS) children with failure to thrive (FTT) and congenital heart disease (CHD) investigate other causes FTT in DS children. Method We conducted a retrospective observational study tertiary center from 2015 2018. included all cases diagnosed CHD who completed 1-year follow-up after surgery. divided into tw...

AIMS To ascertain the long term outcomes in children diagnosed as having failure to thrive (FTT). METHODS Systematic review of cohort studies. Medline, Psychinfo, Embase, Cinahl, Web of Science, Cochrane, and DARE databases were searched for potentially relevant studies. INCLUSION CRITERIA cohort studies or randomised controlled trials in children <2 years old with failure to thrive defined...

BACKGROUND Non-organic failure to thrive (NFTT) is the most common cause of failure to thrive (FTT) which is attributed to inadequate nutrition due to economic factors or parental neglect . NFTT can lead to a vicious cycle of poor and inadequate eating and severity of anemia. The aim of this study was to determine the hematological indices in children with NFTT. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a cro...

Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI) is a clinical disorder characterized by a urinary concentrating defect resulting from resistance of the collecting duct to the antidiuretic action of vasopressin (AVP). X-linked NDI is the most common inherited form of NDI and is caused by mutations in the gene encoding the V2 vasopressin receptor (V2R).1,2 Mutations of AVPR2 are implicated in nearly 90% of ...

Following a successful campaign to end the unlawful practices of trafficking that brought them to Manaus, indigenous Tukanoan women from the Upper Rio Negro established a local indigenous organization with which to plan and manage their own ethno-development, including cultural heritage activities, institution building, revenue development, health and legal services, community, and other initia...

The natural history of fundoplication in young children with gastroesophageal reflux (GER) had not been analyzed previously. The authors reviewed the charts of 160 children who underwent gastric fundoplication (GF) before the age of 2 years (mean age [+/- SD], 9 +/- 7 months; range, 1 week to 2 years), from 1974 to 1992. Reflux was documented by upper gastrointestinal series in 124 patients, by...

This patient is a 13-year old boy who is the product of intrauterine insemination from a nonconsanguineous marriage. He had a normal prenatal period including normal fetal movements and a reported normal amniocentesis carried out due to advanced maternal age (39year old at the time of pregnancy). He was born at term by vaginal delivery and with normal Apgar score. However, during the neonatal p...