MARCH 2021 ISSE

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL COMMENTARIES
Improving Availability of Pediatric Formulations
Sandeep B. Bavdekar 213
Psychiatric Comorbidities in Adolescents with Obesity: A Wake-Up Call for Life Course
and Multisectoral Interventions
Bhavneet Bharti and Prahbhjot Malhi 215
Shorter Duration of Antibiotics in Low-Risk Febrile Neutropenia in Children with Malignancy
Jagdish Prasad Meena and Aditya Kumar Gupta 217
Optimum Duration of Antibiotics in Acute Bacterial Meningitis: Where Do We Stand?
Nabaneeta Dash and Jitendra Kumar Sahu 219
Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Care Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
Puneet Kaur Sahi and Jagdish Chandra 221
COVID-19 Pandemic: Impact on Health Care of Children and the Urgent Need to Restore
Regular Healthcare Services
Rakesh Lodha and S. K. Kabra 225

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Availability of Pediatric Formulations in Public Health Care System in India: A Case Study
Vandana Roy, Shubha Singhal, Himanshu Tayal and A. P. Dubey 227
Psychiatric Co-morbidities and Body Shape Dissatisfaction in Adolescents with Obesity –
A School Based Case Controlled Study
Arumuganathan S, Rajesh Sagar, Manju Mehta and Siva Ilango T 235
Early Discontinuation versus Continuation of Antimicrobial Therapy in Low Risk
Pediatric Cancer Patients with Febrile Neutropenia, Before Recovery of Counts:
A Randomized Controlled Trial (DALFEN Study)
Akash Kumar, Bivas Biswas, Anita Chopra, Arti Kapil, Sreenivas Vishnubhatla and Sameer Bakhshi 240
Seven versus Ten Days Antibiotics Course for Acute Pyogenic Meningitis in Children:
A Randomized Controlled Trial
N. D. Vaswani, Nishu Gupta, Ravi Yadav and Anuradha Nadda 246
Predictors of Metabolic Complications in Obese Indian Children and Adolescents
C. Dave, N. Agarwal, R. Patel, R. Shukla and Anurag Bajpai 252
CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL CONFERENCE
Mystery of a Family with Recurrent Male Infant Deaths- Solved by Autopsy and Molecular Tests
Nameirakpam Johnson, Akriti Bansal, Ankush Jindal, Vijai Williams, Debajyoti Chatterjee,
Biman Saikia, Pandiarajan Vignesh and Amit Rawat 257
CLINICAL BRIEFS
ADSL Deficiency – The Lesser-Known Metabolic Epilepsy in Infancy
Arundhati Banerjee, Vikas Bhatia, Gunjan Didwal, Arvind Kumar Singh and Arushi Gahlot Saini 263
Neurological Deterioration in Three Siblings: Exploring the Spectrum of Argininemia
Divyani Garg, Sunita Bijarnia-Mahay, Aman Elwadhi, Sandip Ray, Johannes Häberle
and Suvasini Sharma 266
SCIENTIFIC LETTERS
White Serum – A Clue to Diagnosis of Acute Recurrent Pancreatitis
Arghya Samanta, Anshu Srivastava, Sonali Verma, Moinak Sen Sarma and Ujjal Poddar 269
Clinical Sequencing Solves a Diagnostic Dilemma by Identifying a Novel Pathogenic
Variant in USB1 Gene Causing Poikiloderma with Neutropenia
Harikrishnan Gangadharan, Komal Singh, Shubha Phadke and Amita Aggarwal 270
Continuous Venovenous Hemodiafilteration for Extremely High Ammonia Levels
in Methyl Malonic Acidemia
Ramaswamy Ganesh, Shobana Rajendran, S. Arunkumar, R. Karthik Narayanan and Rahul Yadav 272
Epidemiology and Prevalent Rotavirus Genotypes and Clinical Severity of Acute
Gastroenteritis among Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Children
Manisha Rani, Nagamani Kammili, Ranganathan N Iyer, Sushma Rajyalakshmi
and Sunitha Pakalapaty 274
Vitamin D Deficiency: Prevalence and Association with Intrathoracic Tuberculosis
in Indian Children
Priyatharshini Parameswaran, Pankaj C Vaidya, Savita Verma Attri, Suresh Kumar Angurana,
Pandiarajan Vignesh and Meenu Singh 276
SARS-CoV-2 Vertical Transmission: Rare But a Potential Possibility
Sugandha Dhawan and Mukul Pandey 277
Dilated Cardiomyopathy in a Child with COVID-19
Rashmi Kishore, Avinash Choudekar, Ashit Bhusan Xess, Lalit Dar, Rahul Kumar Anand,
Anita Saxena and S. K. Kabra 278
A Survey of Parents of Children Attending the Online Classes During the Ongoing
COVID-19 Pandemic
Sandeep Grover, Sandeep Kumar Goyal, Aseem Mehra, Swapnajeet Sahoo and Samta Goyal 280
Dual Internal Pancreatic Fistulae Complicating Chronic Pancreatitis
R. Ganesh, Malathi Sathiyasekeran, N. Suresh, G. Padmapriya, Nataraj Palaniappan
and Karthik Narayanan R 281
Masks Mask Communication – Communicating with Children in Health Care Settings
Divya Swaminathan and Shoba S. Meera 283
Heart Rhythm Abnormalities Following Acute Verapamil Overdose
Utkarsh Kohli, Stephanie Lam, Hunter Eason and Priti Jani 285
Traumatic Stress or ADHD? Making a Case for Trauma Informed Care in Pediatric Practice
Prahbhjot Malhi and Bhavneet Bharti 287
A Pediatric COVID19 Case with Suspected Acute Abdomen, Hyperferritinemic
Sepsis and Developing MIS-C and Pancreatitis
Nagehan Aslan, Dincer Yildizdas and Muhammed Selcuk Sinanoglu 288
Clinical Spectrum and Outcome of Poisoning
Abhinav Tiwari, Pranay Trivedi, Sumita Mishra, Meeta Sachdev, Sambita Panda
and G. Malini Chandramohan 289
Ceftazidime-Avibactam for Hospital Acquired Pneumonia Due to Extended
Drug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae
Amit Ranjan Rup, Arun Kumar Dash and Sibabratta Patnaik 290
Transient Symptomatic Zinc Deficiency Resembling Acrodermatitis Enteropathica
in a Full-Term Breastfed Infant
Yongping He, Qin Yang, Sushmita Pradhan, Yuping Ran and Sheng Wang 292
Neurological Manifestations in Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome
Temporally Associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS)
Sagar S. Lad, Santosh Pandurang Kait, Pradeep B. Suryawanshi, Jalil Mujawar, Preeti Lad,
Ravindra Khetre, L. M. Jadhav, Amol Bhor, Prasad Balte, Prateek Kataria,
Mohd Shahbaz Saifi and Shehla Kazi 294
Hemopericardium in an Infant
Vishnu Mohan, Pediredla Karunakar, C.G. Delhikumar, Avinash Anantharaj, Abraar Sheriff,
Kiruthiga Sugumar, Vivek Kattungal Anil and Mohankumar Shivaprasad 296
A Seizuring Child: Accidental Ingestion of an Ancient Remedy
Vidushi Mahajan, Anam Siddiqui, Rohitashva Mani Tripathi and Rajeev Jain 298
COVID Abdomen: SARS-CoV-2 Infection Presenting as ‘Acute Abdomen’ in a Child
Muthiah Periyakaruppan, Sandip Kumar, Sasidaran Kandasamy, Thangavelu Sangaralingam,
Sundaram Srinivasan, Anand Thiagarajan and Nandhini Ganapathy 299
Low-Dose Dexamethasone Following IVIG in Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem
Syndrome in Temporal Association with COVID-19 (PIMS-TC)
Priyanka Meena, Pallavi, Devendra Mishra, Urmila Jhamb and Meenakshi Aggarwal 301
Cardiac Affection in a Young Girl with Post Covid-19 Kawasaki Like Syndrome
Anil Kumar Singhi, Soumya Kanti Mohapatra, Subhajit Dey Sarkar, Debapoma Biswas
and Priyankar Pal 303
Ostracizing Children from Research in COVID-19: Is it Ethical?
Jitendra Meena, Arushi Yadav and Jogender Kumar 305
Do Atypical Food Preferences in Children with Autism Differ by Severity?
Prahbhjot Malhi, Lolam Venkatesh, Bhavneet Bharti and Pratibha Singhi 307
ADCY5- Related Dyskinesia in a Child with Sleep Related Paroxysmal Dyskinesia
Vikram V Holla, Koti Neeraja, Shweta Prasad, Nitish Kamble and Pramod Kumar Pal 308
A Newborn with Congenital Intrahepatic Arterioportal Fistula
Zhiqiu Ye, Jianlan Wang, Zhuxiao Ren and Jie Yang 310
International Adoption: Journey of An Indian Girl from a Child Care Institute to France
Bhavneet Bharti and Prahbhjot Malhi 311
PICTURES OF THE MONTH
Expanding Phenotype of Hypomyelination and Congenital Cataract (HCC) with
a Novel Pathogenic Variant
Vykuntaraju K. Gowda, Balamurugan Nagarajan, Varunvenkat M. Srinivasan and Maya Bhat 312
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva: Turning into Stone!
Vasundhara Kailasnath Posavanika and Subramanian Kannan 314
Painful Skin Nodules in Nephrotic Syndrome
Lesa Dawman, Karalanglin Tiewsoh, K. Vinay and Uma Nahar 316

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