An infant with hypertriglyceridemia presenting as failure to thrive: a case report

An unusual case of an infant with failure to thrive.

An infant Presenting with Cerebrovascular Accident was Diagnosed as a Sickle Cell Disease Patient: a Case Report

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a known inherited hemoglobin disorder featured by the presence of sickle shaped erythrocytes in the blood. It can cause cerebrovascular accident (CVA) in adults and children and is responsible for the majority of the strokes in children. Repeated blood transfusion are often required in an attempt to dilute blood thus reducing the risk of vaso-occlusion and stroke in...

A baby presenting with failure to thrive in primary care: a case report

BACKGROUND A nine month old baby (A) presented to primary care with an episode of diarrhoea. Initially treated at home, he subsequently required admission to hospital for management of dehydration. During and following a 24 hour period of hospitalisation, his mother became severely depressed. CASE PRESENTATION A was examined in primary care at aged 11 months, after a referral was received fro...

Hypophosphatemia Dependent Rickets with Failure to Thrive (FTT) in a 4- Years Old Child: a Case Report

BackgroundRickets is a disorder due to impaired metabolism of bone mineralization which caused by low concentrations of extra-cellular calcium or phosphate. In children, hypophosphatemic rickets (HR) happen malabsorption of phosphate and increasing of renal tubular loss.Case Presentation We present the case of a 4-year-old girl who had medical history of HR with failure to thrive (FTT). Child h...

An infant with respiratory distress and failure to thrive.

A 4-month-old male was referred to the Dept of Paediatric Surgery at the authors9 institution, for the investigation of respiratory distress, failure to thrive and complete situs viscerum inversus since birth. A chest radiograph obtained a few hours after birth showed situs viscerum inversus, left apical atelectasis, hyperinflation and hyperlucency of the remaining left lung, and a mild shift o...