Recurrent Coxsackievirus Infection in a Patient with Lamellar Ichthyosis

Lamellar Ichthyosis with Rickets

Lamellar ichthyosis (LI) is a rare genetic disorder with autosomal recessive inheritance. It is equally seen in both sexes and usually manifests at birth. The child presents as a collodion baby. The erythema is minimal or absent; but when present, it is maximum on the face. The scaling is generalized, accentuated on lower extremities and flexural areas. Rickets is a condition in which there is ...

Vitamin D deficiency rickets with Lamellar ichthyosis.

Spontaneous corneal perforation in a patient with lamellar ichthyosis and dry eye

We report spontaneous corneal perforation in a patient with lamellar ichthyosis. The patient presented with complaints of pain, redness, diminished vision, and discharge in her right eye for 15 days. Visual acuities were light perception in the right and 20/400 in the left eye. Cicatricial ectropion in both lower eyelids and 2 mm perforation site in the center of the right cornea were observed....

A New Born with Lamellar ichthyosis(Collodion Baby).

Ichthyosisis an infrequent clinical entity worldwide with an incidence of 1:600,000 births. It can be one of the two types: collodion baby and Harlequin fetus or malignant keratoma (most severe form). The clinical manifestations in either form are thick and hard skin with deep splits. Affected babies are born in a collodion membrane, a shiny waxy outer layer to the skin that is shed 10 - 14 day...

High plasma urea concentration in babies with lamellar ichthyosis.

Sir, Guiscafre et al have reported two cases of meningitis due to Haemophilus influenzae type b tesistant to ampicillin and chloramphenicol.' In their report they say 'since 1980 eight cases of meningitis. have been reported'. This is not true. In previous reports we have drawn attention to the explosive increase of multiply resistant strains of H. influenzae type b causing invasive and non-inv...