A survey on internet usage and online learning behaviour among medical undergraduates.

Aim: To determine the magnitude and pattern of internet usage by undergraduate medical students to retrieve medical information.

Materials And Methods: A pretested questionnaire-based survey was conducted among undergraduate medical students who were willing to participate. The institute ethics committee approved the study.

Clinical profile of acute kidney injury in a pediatric intensive care unit from Southern India: A prospective observational study.

Background: Although the term acute renal failure was replaced by acute kidney injury (AKI) recently, there is a paucity of data on the incidence and profile of AKI in critically ill children from the developing world.

Objectives: The objective of this study is to determine the incidence, etiology, short term outcome and predictors of fatality in critically ill children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with AKI, aged 1 month to 13 years.

Materials And Methods: In this prospective observational study, from June 2010 to March 2011, 215 children admitted to the PICU were screened for AKI, defined according to the AKI Network criteria.

Breast feeding practices among health care professionals in a tertiary care hospital from South India.

Personal breastfeeding experiences of health care professionals play a major role in influencing their attitudes and expertise regarding counseling and managing breastfeeding issues in patients. This study was done with an objective of studying the current breastfeeding practices among health care professionals (HP) and their spouses and the factors influencing them. All children < 5 years of age, residing in hospital's residential quarters, were included.

Incidence and etiology of acute kidney injury in southern India.

Objectives: To determine the incidence, etiology, short term outcome and predictors of mortality in hospitalized children aged 1 mo to 13 y with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI).

Methods: This prospective observational study was conducted in the pediatric wards and the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of a tertiary hospital in southern India, to study the clinico-etiological profile of AKI (defined according to the Acute Kidney Injury Network criteria). From June 2010 through March 2011, 2376 children were included in the study.

Kartagener syndrome associated with mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis.

An 11-year-old girl with clinical features of Kartagener syndrome presented with signs of acute glomerulonephritis. Blood urea and creatinine were mildly elevated and anti-streptolysin O and C3 levels were normal. Renal biopsy demonstrated mesangial proliferation and direct immunofluorescence showed IgM and C3 deposits.

Scrub typhus in children at a tertiary hospital in southern India: clinical profile and complications.

Objective: To study the clinical profile of and complications in children with scrub typhus.

Design: Prospective observational study.

Setting: Tertiary care hospital.

Fanconi-Bickel syndrome in a 3-year-old Indian boy with a novel mutation in the GLUT2 gene.

Fanconi-Bickel syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by hepatorenal glycogen accumulation, proximal renal tubular dysfunction and impaired utilization of glucose and galactose. Most cases have been reported from Europe, Japan, Turkey and the Mediterranean belt. We report a 3-year-old boy from southern India who presented with doll-like facies, florid rickets, massive hepatomegaly, growth retardation, renomegaly and laboratory evidence of proximal renal tubular dysfunction.

Bilateral ptosis in a child following massive attack by a swarm of wasps.

Neurological manifestations of wasp sting are rare and the etiopathogenesis is not completely understood. We report a 2-year-old girl who developed bilateral ptosis after multiple wasp stings, which responded partially to pyridostigmine. This is the first reported case of wasp venom-induced ptosis in a child.