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Monday, May 4, 2020

PEDIATRIC MCQS: EASY & SMART WAY TO LEARN FAST

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  1. A newborn female weighs 4.6 kg. She has a large tongue and an umbilical hernia. She is noted to have facial hemangiomata, pits on the backs of her ear helices, and double creases in her earlobes. Abdominal ultrasound reveals enlarged, lobulated kidneys. Her likelihood of having cognitive impairments is most related to the presence of:
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    Hemihyperplasia
    Hypoglycemia

    Jaundice
    Obstructive apnea
    Wilms tumor
    Correct answer
    Hemihyperplasia
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    The child has Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome. These patients generally do quite well cognitively unless there are problems with untreated hypoglycemia in infancy. The other features on the list are possible complications of Beckwith–Wiedemann, but have not been associated with the development of cognitive impairment.

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  2. sir pleas explain y its not hypogylcemia

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  3. Thank you
    You are right. All readers are requested to please hypoglycemia is the cirrect answer. While making MCQS and then putting them into MCQS FORMAT [software], it was wrongly marked.

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