Prehospital emergency service for internal medicine problems in pediatrics; causes, time indices and outcomes
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...Cyclic vomiting, congenital chloride diarrhoea (CCD), pyloric stenosis, disorders with primary excessive mineralocorticoid production and Guliner syndrome (family hypokalaemic alkalosis with primary tubulopathy) can cause dehydration, failure to thrive, hypokalaemia, hypochloraemia and metabolic alkalosis [2, 4]....
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...CCD is an uncommon autosomal recessive hereditary disorder characterized by severe watery diarrhoea and metabolic alkalosis [16]....
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...The similar clinical hallmarks and biochemical profile are indicated in the newborns and children suffering from disorders, such as cystic fibrosis, congenital chloride diarrhoea, pyloric stenosis or neonates on prostaglandin infusion [2, 3]....
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...We have come across the data about polyhydramnios, premature delivery, failure to thrive, dehydration and hypokalaemic, hypochloraemic metabolic alkalosis, with excessive chloride loss by stools in the infant suffering from CCD [3, 4, 16]....
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...The basic defect in CCD is the impairment of Cl-/ HCO3- exchange in an otherwise normal distal ileum and colon....
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...Chronic dehydration and renal impairment is a known complication of CCD (7, 8)....
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...Nevertheless, they may indicate fetal IO requiring rectal biopsy (1,2,8)....
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