Psychogenic Vomiting Considered as Co-Morbidity With Tuberculosis in Adolescents

psychogenic vomiting considered as co-morbidity with tuberculosis in adolescents

a twelve-year-old girl with disseminated tuberculosis was complicated by psychogenic vomiting and multiple drugs’ adverse effects. she was admitted to our hospital, complaining of fever, cough and abdominal pain. diagnosis of tb was obtained by abdominal ct-scan and open liver biopsy. during the anti-tb treatment, hepatitis, hemolytic anemia and pancreatitis occurred due to some drugs' side eff...

Psychogenic vomiting and hypokalaemia.

Psychogenic Vomiting: A Clinical Diagnosis Merits Special Attention in Pediatrics

A 2 years and 9 months old boy attended to a gastroenterology clinic of pediatric hospital for investigation of recurrent and intractable vomiting. He had post prandial, non-projectile, non-bilious emesis since past 2 years. Since the onset of illness, he was carried to many doctors and underwent extensive laboratory investigations. Because all of the science lab and imaging work up for etiolog...

ADHD characteristics: I. Concurrent co-morbidity patterns in children & adolescents

OBJECTIVE 342 Caucasian subjects with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were recruited from pediatric and behavioral health clinics for a genetic study. Concurrent comorbidity was assessed to characterize the clinical profile of this cohort. METHODS Subjects 6 to 18 years were diagnosed with the Schedule for Affective Disorders & Schizophrenia for School aged Children (K-SADS-P ...

Venous Thromboembolism in Tuberculosis Patients: A Neglected Co-morbidity

Background: Despite the global efforts to control tuberculosis, it remains a common, life-threatening infectious disease. Tuberculosis can lead to hypercoagulability, increased venous stasis, and endothelial dysfunction, thus increasing the susceptibility to venous thromboembolism (VTE). However, few studies have assessed the epidemiology of the association between tuberculosis and VTE. We rece...