Case 2: Hyponatremia and hyperkalemia in a four-week-old boy

A 5-Week-Old Boy with Failure to Thrive, Marked Hyperkalemia, and Hyponatremia.

Pertussis in a four-week old baby.

liaison with a drug counselling service, this regimen could be easily undertaken in a primary care setting with the support of a local drug counselling service. While it is recognized that interpretation of the results may be limited by the small sample size, this lofexidine based regimen may provide the practitioner with an effective alternative method of patient detoxification from opiates wh...

A Rare Case of Duplication of Chromosome 2 (q31.3q36.3) in a 4.5-year-old Boy and Review of the Literature

De novo duplication of 2q is very rare. Most cases of 2q duplications result from familial translocations, and are associated with simultaneous monosomy of another chromosome segment. To our knowledge and search in English literature there are less than 20 reported cases of isolated 2q duplication. Hereby we introduce a 4.5-year-old Iranian boy of a non-consanguineous marriage who was referred ...

A 6-week-old baby boy with discharge.

A 6-week-old non-Hispanic white boy presented to the Neonatal Intensive Care team of Tulane University Medical Center with a 3-week history of yellow-grey discharge from both eyes; he was otherwise in no distress. He was born by normal vaginal delivery at 37 weeks gestational age after an uneventful pregnancy. He was in the care of foster parents, and the medical history of his biological paren...

Primary lymphedema in a four year old boy.

Primary lymphedema is usually due to either a congenital absence of, or abnormalities in lymphatic tissue or it is caused by mutations in genes influencing lymphatic development(1). It can be sporadic or hereditary. Primary lympedema generally presents with a swollen extremity, most often affecting the lower extremities. A four-year-old boy with sporadic type of primary lymphedema is presented ...