Ace The Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Exam

Agammaglobulinemia or hypogammaglobulinemia is a rare inherited immunodeficiency disorder. It is characterized by low or absent mature B cells, whi ...

Pulmonary sequestration is a condition in which a segment or lobe of dysplastic lung tissue exists with no communication with the rest of the ...

The red reflex is elicited in the Brückner test, a pediatric screening tool often used by primary care doctors and pediatricians to detect abn ...

Cri-du-chat is a genetic disorder that is caused by a deletion of the short arm of chromosome 5. The name of the syndrome, meaning 

While typically thought of as a disease in neonates, gonococcal conjunctivitis (GC) is an infectious process that has also become an increasing iss ...

Strabismus is derived from a Greek word, which means “eyes looking obliquely.” Strabismus means misaligned eyes. Often strabismic eyes ...

Trisomy 13 is a chromosomal aneuploidyoriginally described by Patau et al. in 1960.

Congenital melanocytic nevi (CMN) are one of the most frequent skin lesions encountered at birth. They are composed of collections of melanocytes ( ...

The birth of an infant with ambiguous genitalia generates difficult multiple medical, surgical, ethical, psychosocial, and physical issues for ...

Neonatal hyperglycemia is usually defined as serum glucose greater than 150 mg/dl (8.3 mmol/L) or whole blood glucose greater than 125 mg/dl (6.9 m ...

Down syndrome was first described by an English physician John Langdon Down in 1866, but its association with chromosome 21 was established almost ...

Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an inborn error of metabolism (IEM) most often caused by missense mutations in the gene encoding phenylalanine hydroxylase ...

Hypospadias is an anatomical congenital malformation of the male external genitalia. It is characterized by abnormal development of the urethral fo ...

Methemoglobinemia is a condition with life-threatening potential in which diminution of the oxygen-carrying capacity of circulating hemoglobin occu ...

Posterior urethral valves are one of the most common causes of urinary tract obstruction in the pediatric population. They are obstr ...

Congenital lung diseases are rare but exceptionally distinct in their presentation ranging from large masses requiring immediate surgical intervent ...

Intraosseous (IO) vascular access refers to the placement of a specialized hollow bore needle through the cortex of a bone into the medullary space ...

Choanal atresia is a congenital disorder in which the nasal choanae, (i.e., paired openings that connect the nasal cavity with the nasopharynx), ar ...