AIM To investigate the prevalence of osteopenia and osteoporosis in postoperative biliary atresia (BA) children and the association of bone mineral density (BMD) and biochemical parameters in postKasai BA subjects. METHODS A total of 70 patients with postKasai BA were enrolled in this prospective study. The patients were classified into two groups according to their jaundice status. BMD of th...

Infantile colic is an easily identified childhood entity that has no clear treatment guidelines. The management of infantile colic varies among physicians, and families are often frustrated by the medical community's inability to prescribe a cure for colic. This article reviews the current concepts for management options of infantile colic.

Hitherto little attention has been paid to cholestatic jaundice in the newborn which occurs in the absence of rhesus incompatibility. 4 such cases, among a consecutive series of 24 newborns with prolonged neonatal jaundice occurring in the Devon and Exeter clinical area since 1960, are here described in detail to demonstrate that their clinical and histological picture, and their prognosis, is ...

INTRODUCTION Paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia is characterized by sudden attacks of involuntary movements. It is often misdiagnosed clinically as psychogenic illness, which distresses the patients to a great extent. A correct diagnosis will improve the quality of life in patients with paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia because treatment with low doses of anticonvulsants is effective for elimina...

A. Acute Infective Hepatitis (i) The pre-icteric phase, with pyrexia and intestinal manifestations dominating the picture. (ii) The icteric phase, with jaundice as the dominant manifestation. The type varies from the fulminating to the average type of case with jaundice lasting two to three weeks. (iii) The post-hepatitis syndrome, the stage of symptoms without signs. (iv) Infective hepatitis w...

The plasma glucose response to an intravenous bolus of glucagon was examined in patients with obstructive jaundice, hepatocellular jaundice and in healthy volunteers. Plasma glucose levels were determined before and at 15, 30 and 45 min after glucagon. The glucose response to glucagon differed markedly in the two patient groups with significantly higher plasma glucose values in the obstructive ...

The cases of leptospirosis reported by the writer in previous communications (Lahiri, 1941, 1943) as well as those detected subsequently with the aid of laboratory studies all developed jaundice as an important symptom. Since the disease has been described in textbooks under different names, i.e. spirochetal jaundice or infective jaundice (Weil's disease), it is considered that the disease shou...