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J Med Toxicol
December 2024
Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins Children's Center, 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
Introduction: Diazoxide is the first-line treatment for children with hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia (HI). In these cases, diazoxide raises blood glucose levels by suppressing insulin release, preventing hypoglycemia, and potentially devastating end-organ sequelae. Hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS) is an exceedingly rare side effect of diazoxide.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCongenital diarrhea and enteropathies (CoDEs) condition is a rare cause of chronic diarrhea in infants that can be challenging to diagnose. This article discusses key signs to recognize in considering a CoDEs diagnosis and provides an overview of the diagnostic process. We report a late preterm twin infant with intractable watery diarrhea starting shortly after birth.
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December 2024
Section of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Background: Acute illness states with increased metabolic demand can precipitate severe thiamine deficiency if physiologic needs exceed endogenous stores and supplementation. Patients with preexisting risk factors such as parenteral nutrition (PN) dependence, eating disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, or surgeries are especially vulnerable.
Case Summary: A 9-year-old girl with short bowel syndrome receiving long-term PN, including standard thiamine supplementation, presented with refractory shock following aspiration.
Front Med (Lausanne)
November 2024
Department of Gastroenterology, 108 Military Central Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is an opportunistic disease in immunocompromised patients that may appear without symptoms, with constitutional symptoms, or as a tissue-invasive disease. infection often manifests with non-specific symptoms; however, it can lead to severe malabsorption and extraintestinal dissemination by accelerated autoinfection. The coinfection of CMV and has rarely been reported, particularly with solely severe gastrointestinal bleeding.
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December 2024
Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
Histological assessment is essential for the diagnosis and management of celiac disease. Current scoring systems, including modified Marsh (Marsh-Oberhuber) score, lack inter-pathologist agreement. To address this unmet need, we aimed to develop a fully automated, quantitative approach for histology characterisation of celiac disease.
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