Blastomycosis: eMedicine Pediatrics: General Medicine

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Blastomycosis: eMedicine Pediatrics: General Medicine

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Overview: Blastomycosis, which originally was described by Gilchrist and Stokes in 1894 and 1896, is an infection with a highly variable spectrum of clinical presentations. Disease can range from an asymptomatic, self-healing pulmonary infection to widely disseminated ...

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Tags: Infection, Disease and Condition, Children's Health, Antifungal Medication, Vfend, Pulmonology

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Does voriconazole have a role in treating Blastomycosis in children? See the eMedicine article http://bit.ly/9YLdKh. #pediatrics #health

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Hereditary Elliptocytosis and Related Disorders: eMedicine Pediatrics: General Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Hereditary elliptocytosis (HE) and its variants are congenital hemolytic disorders in which erythrocytes are either elongated into a cigar or oval form or are poikilocytic and bizarrely shaped . Its transmission has usually been classified as ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Bartter Syndrome: Treatment & Medication - eMedicine Pediatrics: General Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Treatment: Bartter syndrome, originally described by Bartter and colleagues in 1962, represents a set of closely related autosomal recessive renal tubular disorders characterized by hypokalemia, hypochloremia, metabolic alkalosis, and hyperreninemia with normal blood pressure. The underlying renal ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Bartter syndrome treatment and medication - Treatment and medications will be determined by symptoms. http://bit.ly/bEcvic

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HIV Infection: Treatment & Medication - eMedicine Pediatrics: General Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Treatment: Over the past 25 years, since the first cases of what is now recognized as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection were identified in 1981, the number of children infected with HIV has increased dramatically in developing ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Our Pediatric HIV Infection article has been updated to include the latest NIH Guidelines at http://bit.ly/ax3cF9

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Myelodysplasia: eMedicine Pediatrics: General Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Myelodysplasia encompasses a heterogenous group of disorders that result in ineffective hematopoiesis. Historically, a wide variety of terms have been used to describe these syndromes, including preleukemia, refractory anemia with excess of myeloblasts, subacute myeloid leukemia, ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Alagille Syndrome: Multimedia - eMedicine Pediatrics: General Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Media: Alagille syndrome (AS) is an autosomal dominant disorder (OMIM 118450) associated with abnormalities of the liver, heart, skeleton, eye, and kidneys and a characteristic facial appearance.1 In 1973, Watson and Miller reported 9 cases of ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Asplenia: eMedicine Pediatrics: General Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Absent or defective splenic function is associated with a high risk of fulminant bacterial infections, especially with encapsulated bacteria. Asplenia and splenic hypoplasia are terms used to indicate complete or partial lack of splenic tissue. Loss ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Potter Syndrome: eMedicine Pediatrics: General Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Potter syndrome refers to the typical physical appearance and associated pulmonary hypoplasia of a neonate as a direct result of oligohydramnios and compression while in utero. The term was coined after the pathologist Edith Potter, who ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of 6 viruses (along with hepatitis A, B, D, E, and G viruses) that cause viral hepatitis. Prior to identification of the virus, it was termed non-A/non-B hepatitis to distinguish ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Chlamydial Infections: eMedicine Pediatrics: General Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Chlamydia infection can cause disease in many organ systems. The most frequent disease caused by Chlamydia trachomatis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that affects the cervix, urethra, salpinges, uterus, nasopharynx, and epididymis. C trachomatis infection ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic disorder caused by an absolute or relative deficiency of insulin, an anabolic hormone. Insulin is produced by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans located in the pancreas, ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Omenn Syndrome: eMedicine Pediatrics: General Medicine

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Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome: eMedicine Pediatrics: General Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: Superior mesenteric artery (SMA) syndrome is an uncommon but well recognized clinical entity characterized by compression of the third, or transverse, portion of the duodenum between the aorta and the superior mesenteric artery. This results in ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: The thalassemias are inherited disorders of hemoglobin (Hb) synthesis. Their clinical severity widely varies, ranging from asymptomatic forms to severe or even fatal entities. The name Mediterranean anemia, which Whipple introduced, is misleading because the condition ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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