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Aga Khan University

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

1999

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Self-Reported Feeding Advice By Physicians For Common Childhood Illnesses, S Q. Nizami, Z A. Bhutta Dec 1999

Self-Reported Feeding Advice By Physicians For Common Childhood Illnesses, S Q. Nizami, Z A. Bhutta

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Background: A nutritious diet is important for recovery during illnesses. Dietary advice by physicians and consumption of food by the patients are often based upon their hot and cold concepts and beliefs about various foods rather than on scientific basis.
Objectives: To look at the food-advising behaviour of physicians during illnesses and to know the maternal concepts about various foods being hot or cold.
Methods: A questionnaire was served to the physicians participating in a continuous medical education session held at the Aga Khan University and Hospital, asking them to write the foods they advise or restrict during different illnesses …


Dysphagia In Hereditary Sensory Autonomic Neuropathy Type Iv, U Shah, M Arshad, T Mozaffar May 1999

Dysphagia In Hereditary Sensory Autonomic Neuropathy Type Iv, U Shah, M Arshad, T Mozaffar

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

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Myelofibrosis In Severe Vitamin D Deficiency Rickets, Mehnaz Atiq, Zehra Fadoo, Fouzia Naz, Mohammad Khurshid Jan 1999

Myelofibrosis In Severe Vitamin D Deficiency Rickets, Mehnaz Atiq, Zehra Fadoo, Fouzia Naz, Mohammad Khurshid

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in infants and children in the underdeveloped countries1. Infants with mild deficiency tend to present with complications like hypocalcemic seizures whereas occurrence of pathological features in advanced rickets is well elucidated2. Secondary myeloflbrosis has been reported as a complication of severe rickets and in these children anemia, myeloid metaplasia and bone marrow aplasia strongly suggested myelofibrosis. Despite the high prevalence of rickets in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent, there has been no report on this complication.We present a case of severe clinical rickets who had developed secondary myelofibrosis with hepatosplenomegaly. The purpose of …