COMMONEST CAUSES & CONDITIONS

Commonest Causes/Conditions

 

 

HEART

Commonest Congenital Malformation Without manifestation	Bicuspid aortic Valve
Commonest Congenital heart disease causing hyper tension in neonates	Coarctation of aorta
Commonest Cause of Cyanosis in new born	Transposition of Great Vessels
Commonest disease complicated by SBE	Rheumatic Mitral Regurgitation
Congenital heart disease with rare SBE	ASD
Congenital heart disease with Common SBE	VSD
Congenital heart disease with CHF in new born	Hypoplastic left heart Syndrome (Mitral and aortic atresia)
Heart disease where CHF is rare	Fallot’s Tetrology
Differential Cyanosis	1. PDA with reversal 2. Preductal Coarctation

 

Paediatrics:  

(A) Commonest Causes
Haemoptysis in child	Pneumonia
Haematemesis in infancy	Acute Duodenal ulcer (Stress Sepsis)
Bleeding per rectum  Infants  Children	fissure in ano  polyp
Common Cause of constant crying in a baby	Hunger
Convulsions in new born	Hypoglycemia
Large intestinal obstruction in infancy	Hirschsprung’s Disease

 

(B) Commonest Conditions
Commonest Malignancy in Children	Leukamia
Commonest abdominal tumour in children	Neuroblastoma
Commonest Bone tumour in Children	Osteogeneic sarcoma
Commonest brain tumour in children (Space occupying lesion)	Tuberculoma

 

(C) Miscellaneous
Commonest paediatric Complaint	U.R.I
Fever in child Commonly due to	U.R.I
Common cause of continuous dry cough	Eosinophilia
Pneumonia in child commonly due to	Viral
Commonest site of intestinal atresia	ileum, duodenum
Common complication of Ramstedt’s operation	Hypothermia