This oral board case is appropriate for emergency medicine residents and medical students (with senior resident assistance) on emergency medicine rotation.Although a somewhat rare disease, infant botulism is a true pediatric emergency that carried a 90% rate of mortality prior to the development of an antitoxin.1 While botulism infections can be ...
Garispe, DO, Ashley, Cherry, MD, Steven
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Infant botulism results from the absorption of heat-labile neurotoxin produced in situ by ingested Clostridium botulinum. Honey and environmental exposure are the main sources of acquisition of the organism. Clinical manifestations are owing to progressive neuromuscular blockade, initially of muscles innervated by cranial nerves and later of the trunk,
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Challenges and lessons learned from the rapid operationalization of a prospective cohort to study the natural history and neurodevelopmental outcomes of postnatal Zika virus infection among infants and children in rural Guatemala [PDF]
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Predicting Postoperative Hypertension Among Patients With Ventricular Septal Defect in Infants [PDF]
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Environmental and behavioral exposure pathways associated with diarrhea and enteric pathogen detection in twenty-six week old urban Kenyan infants: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
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Morphological features and development dynamics of retinal vessels in preterm infants with retinopathy of prematurity [PDF]
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Changes in plasma cortisol and catecholamine concentrations in response to massage in preterm infants. [PDF]
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Effect of blood transfusion on cardiorespiratory abnormalities in preterm infants. [PDF]
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This article reviews the evidence for an association between infant colic and migraine. Infant colic, or excessive crying in an otherwise healthy and well-fed infant, affects approximately 5%-19% of infants. Multiple case-control studies, a cross-sectional study, and a prospective cohort study have all found an association between infant colic and ...
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