02Malnutrition - 20010128 Page 1 ongenital heart defects (CHD) are often associated with
malnutrition and failure to thrive,1 the prevalence being as high as 64% in developed …

Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is an important cause of chronic congestive cardiac failure (CCF)
in infants and children. Although a variety of aetiological factors have been listed, most …

We reviewed the clinical profile of our neonates diagnosed to have inborn errors of metabolism
(IEM) by Tandem Mass Spectrometry (TMS) over a seven years period, and compared …

We report a 3-month-old infant girl who presented with supraventricular tachycardia, who was
detected to have a large right atrial rhabdomyoma and evidence of Wolff-Parkinson-White (…

EDITOR,—Aicardi syndrome(OMIM 304050), a rare genetic disorder of cerebroocular
development, is characterised by infantile spasms, psychomotor retardation, agenesis of corpus …

We present a 4-month old infant boy accidentally detected to have cardiomegaly on a chest
radiograph, and on further investigation discovered to have a giant right atrial aneurysm and …

We report on an 11-year-old Omani boy who presented with acute heart failure due to
dilated cardiomyopathy. Examination revealed the presence of left ventricular thrombi on …

Preseptal orbital cellulitis refers to infection of eyelid and periocular tissues anterior to the
orbital septum (Table)." Common predisposing factors include eyelid trauma and extraocular …

A woman in the second trimester of pregnancy with recurrent episodes of dizziness is
presented. She had a large left atrial myxoma that interfered with left ventricular filling, …

OBJECTIVE--To test the hypothesis that isolated coarctation of the aorta is associated with
relative hypoplasia of the mitral valve, even when the valve is morphologically normal. …