Lethargy, Failure to Thrive, and Psychomotor Retardation in an Infant

Persistent lethargy, hypothermia, and failure to thrive in a neonate.

Case: A 7-day-old male presented to the emergency department of our hospital with a history of lethargy and poor feeding for 1 day. He had no fever, no vomiting, no diffi culty breathing, and no other complaints. He was born at 37 weeks’ gestation by normal spontaneous vaginal delivery, and his birth weight was 4 kg. The mother was colonized with group B streptococcus infection and received pen...

An unusual case of an infant with failure to thrive.

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...

Reset Osmostat in an Infant with Failure to Thrive

We are reporting an infant who was presented to our institution exhibiting a failure to thrive and hyponatremia. An extensive renal evaluation revealed resistive hyponatremia with normal renal glomerular and tubular function. Patient remained hyponatremic even after fluid restriction, salt loading and Fludrocortisone (Florinef) administration. Water deprivation and water loading tests were sugg...

An infant with repeated respiratory infections and failure to thrive.

KIRTI GUPTA, *SURJIT SINGH, *DHRUBAJYOTI SHARMA, #MINI P SINGH AND *MEENU SINGH From the Departments of Histopathology, *Pediatrics, and #Virology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. Correspondence to: Dr Kirti Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of Histopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, (PGIMER), Chandigar...