Diabetes insipidus is a rare endocrine disorder in paediatric patients. Polyuria is a cardinal manifestation that is extremely difficult to recognize in diapered infants. Careful urine quantification is the key to diagnosis in appropriate clinical setting. We report a case of a 4 months old infant presenting with an acute life threatening event following an episode of vomiting and decreased ora...

A genuine understanding of the functions of sodium, potassium, calcium , magnesium and their salts in the organism would necessitate a comprehension of the nature of protoplasm and its behaviour in living cells, something we have not begun to attain. Since Peters and Van Slyke published their classic text there has been an enormous increase in understanding of the processes governing the transp...

Background The outcome of pediatric deceased donor liver transplantation (LT) has not been well studied, especially pediatric deceased donor livers used in adult transplantation. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of LT using pediatric deceased donor livers and compare the outcomes between pediatric-to-pediatric LT and pediatric-to-adult LT. Methods A retrospective review of LT using p...