ALLMedicine™ Failure To Thrive Center

May 19th, 2022 - Abetalipoproteinemia typically presents in infancy with failure to thrive, diarrhea, vomiting, and malabsorption of fat. Hematologic manifestations may include acanthocytosis (irregularly spiculated erythrocytes), anemia, reticulocytosis, and hemo...

May 17th, 2022 - We present an infant with severe atopic dermatitis, protein loss, and subsequent failure to thrive. With proper management, the patient's laboratory findings normalized, and he gained weight appropriately. In this report, we highlight the impact t...

May 13th, 2022 - Propionic acidemia (PA) is one of the most common inborn errors of organic acid metabolism. Although this disorder is now routinely detected in the immediate neonatal period on the US newborn screen, clinical outcomes are poor despite timely and a...

May 13th, 2022 - Anorexia nervosa is a severe cause of undernutrition. It leads to a dramatic decrease of weight with an important modification of the body composition. During the renutrition phase, disharmonious body composition recovery is a relapse factor. Dual...

May 10th, 2022 - Lysinuric protein intolerance (LPI) (MIM#222700) is a rare autosomal recessive defect in bibasic amino acid transport caused by pathogenic variants in solute carrier family 7 member 7 gene ( SLC7A7). The symptoms begin after weaning from breast mi...

Nov 19th, 2017 - Failure to thrive: Case definition & guidelines for data collection, analysis, and presentation of maternal immunisation safety data.|2017|Ross E,Munoz FM,Edem B,Nan C,Jehan F,|standards,standards,epidemiology,adverse effects,

May 13th, 2022 - Propionic acidemia (PA) is one of the most common inborn errors of organic acid metabolism. Although this disorder is now routinely detected in the immediate neonatal period on the US newborn screen, clinical outcomes are poor despite timely and a...

May 13th, 2022 - Anorexia nervosa is a severe cause of undernutrition. It leads to a dramatic decrease of weight with an important modification of the body composition. During the renutrition phase, disharmonious body composition recovery is a relapse factor. Dual...

Apr 27th, 2022 - Background Congenital combined pituitary hormone deficiency (cCPHD) is defined as the partial or complete loss of more than one hormone secreted from the pituitary gland, caused by genetic or prenatal factors. Combined pituitary hormone deficiency...

Mar 21st, 2022 - Interventional study with a pre-, post-test design. After the subject were diagnosed with infection (tuberculosis/TB or urinary tract infection/ UTI), they will receive 400 kcal/day (96 g/day divided 4 times consumption) of high calorie formula pr...

Jan 4th, 2022 - Eosinophilic esophagitis has recently emerged as a distinct clinical entity in children and adults. The diagnosis is based on the presence of at least fifteen eosinophils per high power field (hpf) in the esophageal biopsy in children pre-treated ...

Mar 25th, 2022 - A large registry-based cohort study in Sweden has revealed that 75% of children born before 24 weeks of gestation had neurodevelopmental disorders, including intellectual disabilities and autism, and required habilitative services. In addition, so...

Mar 8th, 2022 - Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are innovative and effective therapeutic agents that have transformed the treatment landscape for patients with HER2-positive breast cancer and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). ADCs have carved out a role in th...

Feb 9th, 2022 - When children with atopic dermatitis (AD) present to the clinic and their parents complain that no previously recommended medical therapies have worked, what’s the next step? “Many patients who have failed topical steroids have never had adequate.

Jan 6th, 2022 - Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS: Kandra, if we were to see this patient in clinic, and she’s going to get TDM-1 [trastuzumab emtansine] in the adjuvant setting given her residual disease, what are some things you talk about with the patient when you’re edu...

Aug 5th, 2021 - The enzyme aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) is involved in the synthesis of neurotransmitters. Patients born with AADC deficiency, which is an ultrarare, autosomal recessive neurometabolic disorder, may be asymptomatic at birth but can e...