In July 2011, a 1.82-kg full-term male was delivered by caesarean section at a regional hospital. The parents were a consanguineous Pakistani couple and this was their firstborn. At birth, the baby exhibited generalised ruptured bullae (Fig 1), but there was no family history of any bullous disorder. The boy’s nails were not dystrophic. New blisters continued to develop spontaneously, without a...

History. A healthy white woman of 24 was delivered on October 14, 1944, of her third full term male child which weighed 5 lb. 15 oz. The infant cried promptly but was cyanosed. There was abundant mucus in the pharynx, and moist medium rales were present throughout the chest. No pyloric tumour was noted. Oxygen by nasal funnel relieved the cyanosis until the child fed, whereupon, within twenty s...

Background: Although the global number of newborn deaths declined from 5 million (1990) to 2.4 (2020), children face greatest risk death within their first 28 days life. Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) is biggest tertiary hospital in Bangladesh serving all incoming patients free cost. Objectives: We studied here clinical patterns and outcomes neonatal surgeries DMCH July 2014 June 2016. M...

Background Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS) is a common surgical condition in infancy, and typically presents at 2-4 weeks of age. Case Presentation A full term male neonate in Zeinabieh hospital, Shiraz, Iran was presented with oral feeding intolerance from birth, bile-stained...