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BACKGROUND: Malnutrition is a major contributor to the global disease burden, accounting for more than one-third of child deaths worldwide. Severe Acute Malnutrition is a disease that is an underlying condition in many under five admissions in the study area of Hiwot Fana Specialized University Hospital, Harare and in Ethiopia as a whole. OBJECTIVE: The main objective of the study is to identify the prevalent cause of mortality in Severe Acute Malnutrition, among children aged 6-59 months, admitted to Hiwot Fana Specialized University Hospital, Pediatric ward, Nutrition Rehabilitation Unit from 2013 to 2015...

Glycogenosis type II or Pompe disease is an inherited autosomal recessive disorder known in 3 different clinical forms (infantile, juvenile and adult). We report on a case diagnosed as a classic infantile form with the worst outcome of all 3 described, if we had followed and executed a correct and complete diagnostic pathway. A 7 months old female child was admitted for fever and dyspnoea. At chest auscultation weepings and weezings were found; on the cardiac apex a murmur due to mitralic failure was retrieved...

INTRODUCTION: Endogenous Cushing's syndrome is a clinical state resulting from prolonged, inappropriate exposure to excessive endogenous secretion of cortisol and hence excess circulating free cortisol, characterized by loss of the normal feedback mechanisms of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis and the normal circadian rhythm of cortisol secretion [2]. The etiology of Cushing's syndrome may be excessive ACTH secretion from the pituitary gland, ectopic ACTH secretion by nonpituitary tumor, or excessive autonomous secretion of cortisol from a hyperfunctioning adrenal adenoma or carcinoma...

A case of a 7-year-old boy admitted to the clinic with severe symptoms of 1-month lasting pneumonia not responding to antibiotics is presented. The chest X-ray confirmed inflammatory process in left lung parenchyma. Due to unsuccessful further preservative treatment, bronchoscopy and CT of the thorax were performed. They showed the presence of a tumor narrowing the left main bronchus. Histopathologic examination of the tissue taken during bronchoscopy revealed carcinoid. Through the left-sided thoracotomy, the resection of a 5 cm large oval-shaped tumor, as well as the distal part of the left main bronchus was done...