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June 2013 NEWSLETTER

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June 2013 Newsletter

GRAND ROUNDS

A newborn baby girl with birth weight of 2.8 kg is referred for further management. The father was diagnosed to be HIV infected 3 years back and is on antiretroviral therapy. The mother was tested HIV at 7 months of gestation and was HIV negative, and not on any treatment. Baby was born vaginally and was otherwise normal. On examination, no abnormality was detected.

Does the child need prophylaxis for HIV?

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Question Of the Day

Q. Hi I have a 9yr old girl with PCP very hypoxic on presentation despite oxygen. She has responded very well to high dose trimetoprim and prednisolone. Clinical much improved. However after 3 weeks of treatment is still very oxygen dependant dropping O2 sat to 75 on room air 96 on 40 face mask. What is the usual length of O2 dependancy should I be looking or thinking of something else or just be patient Tx

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HIV GRAND ROUNDS

A 32 years old HIV infected pregnant female (G2P2L1) presented at 36 weeks of pregnancy for deciding neonatal antiretroviral (ARV) prophylaxis. Her HIV viral load at 34 weeks of gestation was undetectable and she was on antiretroviral therapy (ART) consisting ....

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