Paediatrics 👧🏾 Flashcards
Speech sound disorder
Dysfunctional speech articulation presenting as difficulty articulating specific sounds
Child hood onset fluency disorder
Dysfunction in speech fluency (stuttering
Social communication disorder
Dysfunctional verbal and non-verbal communication. Unlike autism, these patients don’t have restricted interests or repetitive behaviours
When does the Babinski reflex naturally disappear
One year old
Constitutional growth delay
 Growth curve remains consistent, but is low. In essence it’s lagging behind the other children. NBME case. Has delayed bone age . Children will eventually reach a good height
Familial short stature
 Short stature, with at least one of the parents also being short. Burnage corresponds with chronological age, puberty is not delayed. Adult height will remain low
Main differences between constitutional gross delay and familall short stature
Constitutional growth delay patients have a delayed bone age, and will eventually achieve target height. FSS will have normal bone age and won’t reach target height
On growth chart, if a patient is falling off the growth chart (crossing two major percentile lines) what does that indicate
Failure to thrive. Not familial short stature of constitutional growth delay
Infants with failure to thrive will fall off the curves in which order
Wait, height, heads Circumference 
Newborns lose what percent of the body weight at birth, they should regain it by how long
10%, then by two weeks
Order this for female development:
Thelarche, menarche, growth spurt, pubarche
Thelarche, pubarche, growth spurt, menarche
Order this for male development:
Gonadarche, growth spurt, pubarche, Adrenarche
Gonadarche, pubarche, adrenarche, growth spurt
Androgen insensitivity patience. What procedure must be done
Removal of the gonads to prevent cancer
Horseshoe kidney seen in which trisomy
 Edward
Meckel diverticulum scene in which trisomy
Edward
Which trisomy does holoprosencephaly belong to
patau
Which trisomy does omphalocele belong to
Patau
Polydactyl is seen in which trisomy
Patau
Lymphedema in neonate can be seen in which chromosome issue
Turners
If untreated Fabry. Increase risk of what
Thromboembolism