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11695729

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-6
pubmed:abstractText
A hundred and six clinically diagnosed cases of epidemic dropsy, admitted in June to August 1998 to the P-III unit of RML Hospital and the Department of Pediatrics, Safdarjang Hospital, were studied. All of them consumed mustard oil contaminated with Argemona mexicana, confirmed by ferric chloride and nitric acid tests. No specific sex predilection was seen. No child was affected below the age of 3 years. Pedal edema and reddish hyperpigmentation were the most consistent findings (100 per cent). Frank cardiac failure was seen in only 24 (22.64 per cent), yet persistent tachycardia was alarmingly high (104/106, i.e. 98.4 per cent). Notably ECG showed prolonged Q-T interval in 24 children (22.64 per cent), unrelated to serum Ca2+ level in patients with congestive cardiac failure (CCF). Color Doppler echocardiography showed biventricular dilatation in all the 24 patients with CCF. Wide pulse pressure was recorded in two patients only. Mortality occurred in only two patients (1.89 per cent). Eye involvement was a late finding. All those who survived (i.e. 104/106) recovered completely, except two patients who were left with sarcoid-like changes of skin telangiectasia.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0142-6338
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
47
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
291-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-3-28
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
A two-centre collaborative study on clinico-epidemiological profile of a recent outbreak of epidemic dropsy in New Delhi (India) with special emphasis on its cardiac manifestations in pediatric patients.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatrics, Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi, India. aggarwal_kailash@hotmail.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Multicenter Study