Case-based Reviews in Pediatric Infectious Diseases

This book is a comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of commonly encountered infectious diseases in children.

Divided into 25 sections, each chapter covers a different condition with emphasis on assessment and treatment.

Each topic begins with a clinical case followed by step by step instruction on history taking, examination and investigation, diagnosis, and management. Key points of the topic are summarised to assist learning.

The thorough text is further enhanced by clinical photographs, illustrations and tables.

Key points

• Comprehensive guide to diagnosis and management of commonly encountered infectious diseases in children
• Presented as selection of clinical cases with step by step guidance on treatment
• Emphasis on assessment and therapeutic options
• Highly illustrated with clinical photographs, diagrams and tables

1. An infant with deep jaundice and acholic stools
2. A child with fever for 3 months
3. Child with unusual infections
4. Adolescent immunization
5. An infant with cataract and positive IgM rubella
6. A child with prolonged diarrhea
7. An infant with microcephaly with recurrent seizures
8. Neurocysticercosis in children
9. A child with recurrent or non-resolving pneumonia
10. A case of recurrent jaundice
11. Approach to a child having fever with coma
12. General management of a child with coma
13. A child with recurrent fever
14. Fever with positive tuberculin skin test
15. Fever beyond one week
16. Case based scenarios in rickettsial infection
17. Case scenarios on rational antibiotic usage
18. Approach to a case of matted lymphadenopathy
19. A child with UTI
20. Paediatric septic shock
21. Typhoid Fever with Jaundice
22. Children with pyrexia and unilateral pleural effusion
23. Prolonged and confusing fevers in children
24. Fever with splenomegaly
25. A child with skin tuberculosis

Ajay Kalra MD DCH MNAMS FIAP
Erstwhile Professor, SN Medical College, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Vipin M Vashishtha MD FIAP
Director and Consultant Paediatrician, Mangla Hospital and Research Centre, Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh, India