Peds Clerkship Flashcards
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Apnea of prematurity
- cessation of respiration for >20 seconds starting at age 2-3 days
- What is the treatment?
- Caffeine
- Noninvasive ventilation
–> This is caused by immature central respiratory centers in the brainstem due to prematurity.
A pathologic cause (e.g. tumor, infection, trauma) should be suspected in a patient with scoliosis if they have any of the following red flags.
1. through 4.
- Back pain that causes nocturnal awakening, interferes with activities, or requires frequent analgesics
- Neurologic symptoms
- Rapidly progressing curve (>= 10 degrees per year)
- Vertebral anomalies on x-ray
What is the most common risk factor for orbital cellulitis?
- Sinusitis, particularly of the ethmoid or maxillary sinuses. Proximity to orbital space allows for spread of bacteria.
–> after this its dental infection, skin infection, orbital trauma
Early clinical features of what?
- snuffles, copious clear/puruulent/serosanguinous rhinorrhea
- Maculopapular rash (palms, soles, buttocks, legs usually + desquamation and hyperpigmentation can occur)
- long bone abnormalities
- skin fissures adjacent to orifices
- hepatomegaly
Congenital syphilis
–> hepatomegaly due to spirochetes invading the liver
Late clinical features of what?
- saddle nose
- notched (hutchinson) teeth
- saber shins
- sensorineural hearing loss
Congenital syphilis
Epidemiology: Most commonly transmitted via undercooked poultry
Clinical features: fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea (mucoid +/- blood), pseudoappendicitis (RLQ pain)
—what is this?
Campylobacter gastroenteritis
-can also present with sick contacts
Campylobacter gastroenteritis
- Treatment?
- Complications?
- supportive care (self limited <7 days).
- Guillain-Barre syndrome, reactive arthritis
Medications that can cause idiopathic intracranial hypertension?
- isoretinoin (vitamin A metabolite) - believed to impair CSF reabsorption
- Also tetracyclines
- Growth hormone
What pediatric neck masses are midline?
- what is the difference?
- Thyroglossal duct cyst - from a embryological cause
- Dermoid cyst - cystic mass trapped with epithelial debris, no displacement with tongue protrusion
Lateral pediatric neck masses
1. Branchial cleft cyst
2. Reactive adenopathy
3. Mycobacterium avium lymphadenitis
- what is the difference
- anterior to the SCM
- firm, often tender and multiple nodules
- necrotic lymph node, violaceous discoloration of skin, frequent fistula formation
What is a cystic hygroma?
- posterior pediatric neck mass
- dilated lymphatic vessels
X linked agammaglobulinemia
- What is the pathophysiology?
- Laboratory findings?
- Age of showing symptoms?
- BTK gene mutation resulting in defective Bruton tyrosine kinase. This causes impaired B cell maturation and impaired immunoglobulin production
- flow cytometry shows decreased CD19+ B cells. Labs show normal T cells. Decreased immunoglobulins and response to vaccines
- Recurrent sinopulm and GI infections at age >3-6 months
Labial adhesion
1. What is this?
2. What causes this?
3. How to treat
4. What complications can occur?
- Fusing of the posterior labia minora which typically occurs in prepubertal girls (age 2-3)
- due to low estrogen production (but can also be due to chronic inflammation, poor hygiene, skin irritation, trauma)
- estrogen cream
- pain, pruritus, abnormal urinary stream, increased risk/recurrence of UTIs
—> mild/asymptomatic ones require no tx bc 80% of them resolve spontaneously
Meningococcemia (due to neisseria meningitidis)
1. Dx test:
2. Tx: for patient and close contacts
- Lumbar puncture , also blood culture
- Ceftriaxone (started even before getting lab results back) — Rifampin for close contacts
–Get CT before lumbar puncture if incident of seizure, obtundation, FND, papilledema, and immunocompromised state
Facial dysmorphisms (midfase hypoplasia)
- smooth philtrum/ indistinct nasal philthrum
- thin vermillion border (transition form lip to skin around it on upper lip)
- small palpebral fissures (a line from inner out to outer eye)
- <10th percentile growth
-what is this syndrome?
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Others: microcephaly, poor growth
–neuro: developmental delay, intellectual disability, memory issues, and poor adaptive functioning. Hyperactivity, inattention, and poor social skills
Autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease
vs
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
– how to differentiate
- manifests in infancy as large flank masses BUT also with pulmonary hypoplasia, Potter faces
- asymptomatic in childhood
Vesicoureteral reflux is definitive diagnosis after what procedure?
Voiding cystourethrogram
- renal ultrasound is performed to screen for hydronephrosis
- Renal scintigraphy with dimercaptosuccinic acid is modality for long term eval for renal scarring
Neurofibromatosis Type I vs II
1. Gene mutation
2. location of mutated gene
3. Main clinical features
Type I
1. NF1 - codes for neurofibromin
2. Chrom 17
3. Cafe au lait spots, multiple neurofibromas (includes optic gliomas), lisch nodules
Type II
1. NF2 - codes for merlin
2. Chrom 22
3. Bilateral acoustic neuromas
- What is the greatest risk factor for intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) ?
- when does IVH present if it does
- what is the screening test used?
- what is tx?
- prematurity- ruptured germinal matrix vessels. Neonates born <32 weeks are at highest risk bc germinal matrix involutes by week 32
- first 3-4 days of life, up to 50% are asymptomatic
- all neonates born <32 weeks gestation should undergo screening head ultrasound at age 1-2 weeks
- Tx is symptomatic
What is the pathophysiology of acute poststrep glomerulonephritis (APSGN)
- immune complexes (strep antigens + Ab) deposit between glomerular basement membrane and the mesangium/subepithelial – leads to complement system activation and accumulation of C3 within the deposits. You get low C3 but normal C4
- complement activation causes leukocytic infiltration and inflammation –> thickened GBM, decreased GFR (elevated Cr), and subsequent fluid retention (HTN, edema)
- damage to glomerular podocytes causes increased glomerular proliferation and permeability resulting in proteinuria, hematuria, and RBC casts (nephritic syndrome)
- What is the most common cause of early onset (age < 7 days) neonatal pneumonia?
- strep agalactiae/ Group B strep (commonly causes neonatal sepsis but can present with pneumonia in minority of cases)
GBS pneumonia
1. onset of symptoms
2. symptoms
3. x-ray findings
4. tx
- hours to days of birth
- temp instability, irritability, lethargy, poor feeding, tachycardia, hypotension, tachypnea, grunting
- diffuse alveolar densities with pleural effusions
- ampicillin and gentamicin
Until what age should parents be reassured that bedwetting is normal?
until age 5
What does CATCH 22 mean for digeorge syndrome
C= cardiac outflow tract anomalies (e.g. tet of fallot, persistent truncus arteriosus)
A = Anomalous face (e.g. prominent nasal bridge, low-set ears, micro/retrognathia)
T = thymic hypoplasia/aplasia –> decreased T cell immunity
C = cleft palate
H = hypoparathyroidism –> Hypocalcemia