Extensive Visceral Endarteritis Obliterans in a Young Child

A Case of Syphilitic Endarteritis Obliterans

Thromboangiitis obliterans in a young male.

A 25-year old male presented with a 3 year history of recurrent spontaneously remitting swelling of any of his limbs and appearance of painful cord-like structures over different areas of the swollen limbs which would also resolve spontaneously. The patient also complained of pain in his lower limbs upon walking which had increased in severity over past one year. Clinical examination revealed a...

Visceral leishmaniasis in a Scottish child.

A Scottish girl acquired visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) while on holiday in Majorca. She presented with the infection, six months later, in Scotland. Because of inexperience with the disease and a degree of scepticism unnecessary investigations were carried out resulting in a delay in treatment.

Infant and Young Child Feeding: a Key area to Improve Child Health

  Good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. Poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. For millions of chi...

Pulmonic Valve Endocarditis with Pulmonary Artery Endarteritis in a Young Man with Congenital Ventral Septal Defect

BACKGROUND Isolated pulmonic valve endocarditis is a rare condition. The clinical and laboratory finding are not specific and experiences about that are limited. Most cases of that occur in children with congenital heart disease or in intravenous drug abusers and the main predisposing factor in adults is intravenous drug abuse. The most common pathogens are staphylococcus aurous and coagulase n...