Thiamine responsive acute life threatening metabolic acidosis in exclusively breast-fed infants.

Background: Acute life threatening metabolic acidosis in exclusively breast fed infants due to thiamine deficiency is not described. Kashmir valley, a north Indian state has a population that largely consumes polished rice.

Methods: A six months prospective descriptive study of infants who presented with acute life threatening metabolic acidosis (Blood pH ≤ 7.

Klebsiella brain abscess in a neonate.

Klebsiella pneumoniae is rarely associated with neonatal cerebral abscess. A case of Klebsiella brain abscess in a neonate is described. Diagnosis of abscess was confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound-guided aspiration.

Parry-Romberg syndrome associated with unusual intracranial vascular malformations and Phthisis bulbi.

Neurovascular anomalies of Parry-Romberg syndrome have been reported infrequently. We report a case of Parry-Romberg syndrome with hypoplastic left internal carotid, middle cerebral, anterior cerebral, posterior communicating and posterior cerebral artery. The patient presented with partial seizures, hemiparesis and phthisis bulbi.