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01-11-2015 | Clinical Quiz
Hypercalcemic crisis in the pediatric emergency department: Questions
Authors:
Kanika Kapoor, Abhijeet Saha, Nand Kishore Dubey, Devki Nandan, Sarita Jillowa
Published in:
Pediatric Nephrology
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Issue 11/2015
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Excerpt
A 13-month-old boy presented to our pediatric emergency department with failure to gain weight for the past 3 months. He had had excessive irritability, anorexia, polyuria, and polydipsia for the last 20 days. His mother also complained that the child cries excessively during micturition. He had not passed stools for 3 days and had several episodes of non-bilious vomiting 6 h before admission. He was born at term by caesarean section (indication—oligohydramnios). Infantile course was uneventful. He had received intramuscular injections weekly along with oral medications daily for the past 10 weeks prescribed by a general physician with no documentation of the treatment received. …
