How soon can the diagnosis of congenital cretinism be made? Isolated cases have been diagnosed at birth (Abels, 1911). There is a photograph in Potter's (1952) monograph showing an infant at the age of I month with the typical facies; the case had been diagnosed and, judging by a later view, successfully treated by McIntosh (1952). Wieland (1940), who has great experience, claims that he observ...

The occurrence of jaundice in the newborn is so frequent and the theories put forward to explain it so various, that the following observations were made in the hope of throwing further light on the subject. Number of Infants Examined.?Over 300 infants (337) were studied. The total number was composed of two large series of consecutive births. No blood tests were made for syphilis, reliance bei...

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In the last few years the close association of hydrops fetalis, congenital anemia of the newborn, icterus gravis neonatorum, and erythroblastosis fetalis has been stressed because of the occurrence of these pathological processes in various combinations in individual children and on some occasions in several of the offspring of one family. The opportunity for observing individually the children...

BACKGROUND Hepatobiliary diseases are associated with various mucocutaneous changes that are directly and indirectly associated with these diseases. There is a dearth of studies from India dealing with cutaneous manifestations in liver disorders. AIM This study was conducted to know the spectrum of cutaneous changes and their correlation with liver function tests in patients with disorders of...

Among the vertebrate pollinated plants, the genus Erythrina includes tree species in which birds are the pollen vectors. Two groups in this genus may be distinguished: a) the hummingbird, and b) the perching bird pollinated species. Erythrina dominguezii is included in the second group and occurs in deciduous/semi-deciduous forests in the southwestern neotropics. I studied the exploitation of E...

The conception of the pathological entity of the three manifestations of haemolytic disease of the newborn: hydrops foetalis, icterus gravis and congenital haemolytic anaemia has been confirmed by the discovery of the Rhesus factor. Moreover, this discovery has allowed us finally to abandon any sharp clinical distinction between the two latter forms of the disease. This is in accord with the fa...