Evaluation of Risk Factors for Exchange Range Hyperbilirubinemia and Neurotoxicity in Neonates from Hilly Terrain of India.

Background And Aim: Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia continues to be the most common cause of hospital admissions and readmissions in the neonatal population worldwide and this pattern continues despite attempts to identify neonates at risk of pathological hyperbilirubinemia. Therefore, this study aimed to study the risk factors for severe hyperbilirubinemia in neonates.

Materials And Methods: An observational prospective study was undertaken for 1 year in neonates with hyperbilirubinemia requiring double volume exchange transfusion in neonatology unit of a tertiary rural health care hospital.

The changing profile of infantile tremor syndrome in hilly terrain of India.

Background: Infantile tremor syndrome (ITS) is characterized by anemia, skin pigmentation, tremors, physical, and mental regression without a defined etiopathogenesis and low incidence.

Materials And Methods: We have studied 9 patients over 1 year for the changing clinical and laboratory variables of patients with ITS. Neuroregression and anemia were presented in all followed by tremors in 5 and hypotonia in 2.

Sacral Agenesis with Neurogenic Bladder Dysfunction-A Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Sacral agenesis (part of the caudal regression syndrome) is a rare and severe sacral developmental abnormality. It is a congenital malformation of unknown aetiology with possible involvement of genetic and teratogenic factors. It is described by various degrees of developmental failure, the most extreme and rare being sirenomelia or mermaid syndrome.