Rachitic hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy in an infant.

Cardiomyopathy in infants is characterized by heart failure in apparently normal children without previous organic cardiac lesions. Cardiomyopathy has been found to comprise four types. Rickets is common in Saudi Arabia, that is why I reviewed this subject.

The Return of Congenital Rickets, Are We Missing Occult Cases?

Congenital rickets is the term given to fetus born with clinical features of rickets, but those born with biochemical evidence of rickets without obvious clinical features still can be considered occult congenital rickets. Some of the affected babies with this disease have the intrauterine rachitic environment, but a calcium trans-placental pump prevents the fetus from having clinical features of rickets. They may present with hypocalcemia few days after birth or later with more florid features of rickets.

Hypocalcemic rachitic cardiomyopathy in infants.

Unlabelled: Hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy in infants is characterized by heart failure in a previously normal infant with hypocalcemia without organic cardiac lesion. Vitamin D deficiency rickets is increasing in Middle East. In a six month study 136 cases of rickets were diagnosed in the main Children's Hospital in Almadinah but none of them showed evidence of cardiomyopathy.

Serotherapy in the management of scorpion sting in children in Saudi Arabia.

A total of 780 children with scorpion stings were admitted to a referral hospital in Saudi Arabia over a 7-year period. A similar number was managed in the outpatient department. The mortality was 4.

Failure of clinical and laboratory characteristics to differentiate mesangial proliferative from minimal-change nephrotic syndrome.

Twelve clinical and laboratory characteristics of nephrotic syndrome were compared in 24 children with biopsy-proven mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis (MesPGN) and 17 children with biopsy-proven minimal-change nephropathy (MCNS). The objective of the study was to determine if these characteristics alone, without renal biopsy, could be used to differentiate the two histopathologic entities. Sex, urinary protein level and IgM immunofluorescence were found to be significantly different in the two groups.