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Indexed with IndMED ISSN 0971-0876 Indexed with MedIND RNI 50798/1990 Indian Citation Index (ICI) University Grants Commission 20737/15554 www.ijcpgroup.com A Multispecialty Journal Volume 30, Number 2 July 2019, Pages 101–200 Single Copy Rs. 300/- Peer Reviewed Journal y Original Research y Original Study y Review Article y Clinical Study y Case Report y Public Health y HCFI Consensus Statement y RTI Analysis y Expert’s View y Medifinance y Medical Voice for Policy Change y Conference Proceedings y Around the Globe y Spiritual Update y Inspirational Story y Lighter Reading Full text online: http://ebook.ijcpgroup.com/ijcp/ www.emedinexus.com IJCP Publications | https://goo.gl/j2nXQQ Online Submission IJCP Group of Publications A Multispecialty Journal Dr Sanjiv Chopra Volume 30, Number 2, July 2019 Group Consultant Editor FROM THE DESK OF THE GROUP editor-IN-CHIEF Dr Deepak Chopra 105 Bihar Children Deaths: Could Refeeding Syndrome Chief Editorial Advisor Precipitated by Litchis have Triggered the Deaths? KK Aggarwal Dr KK Aggarwal ORIGINAL RESEARCH Group Editor-in-Chief 107 Ambulance Services in Delhi Need an Ambulance Care Dr Veena Aggarwal KK Aggarwal, Ira Gupta Group Executive Editor ORIGINAL STUDY Mr Nilesh Aggarwal 110 Prevalence of Thyroid Dysfunction in Pregnancy CEO Ruchika Garg, Prabhat Agrawal, Vishy Agrawal, Urvashi, Saroj Singh Ms Naina Ahuja REVIEW ARTICLE COO 114 Management of Diabetic End-stage Renal Disease: Role of Hemodialysis Dr Anoop Misra H Sudarshan Ballal Group Advisor 120 Evaluation of the Infertile Female Garima Kachhawa, Anju Singh Editorial Advisors CLINICAL STUDY Obstetrics and Gynaecology 125 A Study of Corneal Thickness and Endothelial Dr Alka Kriplani Morphology in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Rajender Singh Chauhan, Ashok Rathi, JP Chugh, P Sharma, R Rajput, R Kumar Cardiology Dr Sameer Srivastava 130 Effect of Adjuvant Atorvastatin Therapy on Disease Activity in Active Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Tertiary Care Paediatrics Center Study in India Dr Swati Y Bhave H Singh, Rekha Mathur, A Singhania, Kiran B ENT CASE REPORT Dr Chanchal Pal 136 Gastroenterology Unusual Temporary Treatment for Mastoid Fistula Dr Ajay Kumar and Dr Rajiv Khosla Subramaniam Vinayak Easweran, Sarvesh Nayak, Arpana Hegde Dermatology 138 The Wide Clinical Spectrum of Raised Fetal Dr Anil Ganjoo Hemoglobin in Adults Pratik Vora, Sakshi Singh, Jemima Bhaskar, Manish Mehta, Ami Trivedi Oncology Dr PK Julka 141 Bilateral Single System Ectopic Ureters with Secondary Calculi in an Adult Anand Gopal Bhatnagar Editorial Anchor Gopi Kishore M, Suhasini G, Prasad PVGS, Sainadh AV Advisory Bodies PUBLIC HealtH Heart Care Foundation of India 146 Non-Resident Indians Chamber of Commerce & Industry 2013-2014 Investigation Findings of Unexplained Acute World Fellowship of Religions Neurologic Illness Outbreak, Muzaffarpur, Bihar – Brief Note This journal is indexed in IndMED (http://indmed.nic.in) HCFI CONSENSUS Statement and full-text of articles are included in medIND databases (http://mednic.in) hosted by National 154 Patient-Doctor Relationship Informatics Centre, New Delhi. 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Even the World Health Organization eyebrows. The illness has claimed more than 100 lives. (WHO) says that acute or severe malnutrition should be From blaming the government to identifying litchi as treated slowly over 10 days. Rapid treatment with large the cause of the condition, the hypotheses have been intake of litchi may have precipitated fatal electrolyte many. However, it is imperative at this juncture to imbalance. understand that litchi may not be the underlying cause Rapidly treating hypoglycemia with litchi, without of the symptoms and subsequent deaths, but only a managing phosphate levels, may be harmful. The best triggering factor. food in such a situation could have been sugarcane Most malnourished children below 10 years of age juice and not litchi. One must remember here that all experienced convulsions early in the morning without those who break a long-term fast, do so with sugarcane fever. Despite the fact that all of them had low sugar, juice. mortality still remained high even after infusing sugar. The risk of hypophosphatemia during refeeding This suggests that apart from sugar, there was some appears to be greater in patients who are more other metabolic factor in play. severely malnourished and at lower percent of ideal body weight. During episodes of starvation, the UNDERSTANDING THE REACTION phosphate stores in the body get depleted. When In significantly malnourished children, who have not nutritional replenishment starts and patients are fed consumed food in the last 24 hours, rapid carbohydrate carbohydrates, glucose causes release of insulin, which intake (in the form of litchi in this case, which has 10% triggers cellular uptake of phosphate (and potassium sugar) may have led to electrolyte and fluid shifts. and magnesium) and a decrease in serum phosphorous This may have in turn precipitated disabling or fatal levels. Insulin also causes the cells to produce a medical complications. This is also called the refeeding variety of depleted molecules that require phosphate syndrome and is marked by hypophosphatemia (this (adenosine triphosphate and 2,3-diphosphoglycerate), is the hallmark feature), hypokalemia, congestive heart which further depletes the body’s stores of the latter. failure, peripheral edema, rhabdomyolysis, seizures, The subsequent lack of phosphorylated intermediates fever and hemolysis. causes tissue hypoxia, myocardial dysfunction and IJCP SUTRA: "Lower your blood pressure (BP) levels as a high BP is one of the leading causes for stroke." 105 FROM THE DESK OF THE GROUP EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Indian Journal of Clinical Practice, Vol. 30, No. 2, July 2019 respiratory failure due to an inability of the diaphragm negative health outcomes. In the case of children in to contract, hemolysis, rhabdomyolysis and seizures.