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Incharge of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Unit and Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Department of Pediatrics Center of Child Health Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
Rajinder Nagar, New Delhi, India
AK Dutta
Director-Professor and Head Department of Pediatrics Kalawati Saram Children's Hospital and Lady Hardinge Medical College
New Delhi, India
Editor Mahaveer P Jain
Senior Consultant Pediatrician Vardhman Medicare Centre Institute of Advanced IVF/ICSI, Laparoscopy and Child Care
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
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Ramesh Kumar Goyal
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5Contributors
- AK Dutta
- Director
- Professor and Head Department of Pediatrics
- Lady Hardinge Medical College and Kalawati Saran Childrens Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- ATK Rau
- Pediatric Hematologist-Oncologist
- Professor and Head Department of Pediatrics
- MS Ramaiah Medical College
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- AJ Chitkara
- Senior Consultant and Head
- Department of Pediatrics
- Max, Pitampura and Shalimar Bagh
- Delhi, India
- Aarti Rahangdale
- BJ Wadia Hospital for Children
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Aditi Sinha
- Senior Research Associate
- Division of Pediatric Nephrology
- Department of Pediatrics
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Afaq Ahmed Khan
- Senior Resident
- Department of Hematology
- Sir Gangaram Hospital, New Delhi
- Ajay Arora
- Consultant
- Pediatrician
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Ajay Kumar
- Department of Pediatrics
- Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital and Lady Hardinge Medical College
- New Delhi, India
- Ajay Kumar Jain
- Pediatric Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist
- Faculty, Saint Louis University
- St Louis, MO, USA
- AK Grover
- Senior Consultant and Head Department of Ophthalmology
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Akanksha Chichra
- Junior Consultant
- Pediatric Oncology
- Indraprastha Apollo Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Alpana Prasad
- Senior Consultant Pediatric Surgery
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Aman Chauhan
- Med-Peds
- Resident LSUHSC
- New Orleans, USA
- Amish Udani
- Pediatric Nephrology
- Department of Pediatric Nephrology
- Mehta Children's Hospital
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Amit Khosla
- Senior Consultant
- Department of Ophthalmology
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Amit Luthra
- Consultant
- Dermatologist and Cosmetologist
- New Delhi, India
- Amita Kaul
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital
- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Amita Mahajan
- Pediatric Oncology
- Sr. Consultant Pediatric Oncology/Hematology
- Indraprastha Apollo Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Amitava Sengupta
- Director
- Mother and Child Unit
- Chief Division of Neonatology and Pediatrics
- Paras Hospitals
- Gurgaon, Haryana (NCR)
- Anand Prakash
- Consultant
- Pediatric Hematologist and Oncologist
- St John's Medical College
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Anasua Ganguly
- Senior Resident
- Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Anil Sachdev
- Pediatric Intensivist Department of Pediatrics
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Anju Aggarwal
- Associate Professor
- Department of Pediatrics University
- College of Medical College and Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital
- Delhi, India
- Anju Seth
- Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- New Delhi, India
- Ankit Parakh
- Assistant Professor
- Division of Pediatric Pulmonology
- Department of Pediatrics
- Lady Hardinge Medical College and Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Ankur Kumar
- Consultant Neonatologist
- BL Kapoor Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Anu Maheshwari
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- New Delhi, India
- Anup Jalan
- Consultant Neonatologist
- AMRI Women and Children Hospital
- Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Anupam Sachdeva
- Director
- Pediatric Hematology Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation
- Chairman
- Department of Academics and Convenor Research
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Anurag Bajpai
- Consultant
- Pediatric and Adolescent
- Endocrinologist
- Regency Hospital Limited
- Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Anurag Krishna
- Senior Consultant
- Pediatric Urology Director
- Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery
- Max Institute of Pediatrics
- Max Super-Specialty Hospitals
- New Delhi, India
- Archana D Arya
- Consultant
- Pediatric Endocrinologist and Diabetologist
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital,
- New Delhi, India
- Arindam Dutta
- Former Reader
- College of Dental Sciences
- MAHE, Manipal presently Dundee Dental School, Scotland, UK
- Arpana Iyengar
- Associate Professor
- Division of Pediatric Nephrology
- Department of Pediatrics
- St John's Medical College
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Arun Soni
- Consultant Neonatologist
- Institute for Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Arvind Bagga
- Professor
- Division of Pediatric Nephrology
- Department of Pediatrics
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Arvind Dahiya
- Consultant Pediatric Intensive Care Medanta The Medicity Gurgaon
- Haryana
- Arvind Taneja
- Senior Consultant Pediatrics
- Max Devki Devi Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Ashish Mehta
- Fellow in Neonatology
- College of Pediatrics Australia
- Consultant Neonatologist
- Arpan Newborn Care Centre
- Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
- Atul Kulkarni
- Department of Pediatrics
- Ashiwini Sahakari Rugnalaya and Research Centre
- Solapur, Maharashtra, India
- Atul M Kanikar
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Canada Towers, Canada Corner
- Nasik, Maharashtra, India
- Avneet Kaur
- Consultant Neonatologist
- Max Hospital
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- AVM (Retd.) RK Ganjoo
- Director Medical
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- BR Thapa
- Professor
- Chief Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology
- Hepatology and Nutrition Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
- Chandigarh, India
- Bala Ramachandran
- Consultant and Head
- Department of Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care
- Kanchi Kamakoti
- Childs Trust Hospital
- 12A Nageswara Road
- Nungambakkam, Chennai
- Tamil Nadu, India
- Bhanu Bhakhri
- Assistant Professor
- Division of Neonatology
- Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- New Delhi, India
- Bharat R Agarwal
- Consultant Pediatric
- Hematology and Oncology
- BJ Wadia Hospital
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Bhavana Goel
- Child and Adolescent Psychologist
- Centre for Child and Adolescent Wellbeing
- New Delhi, India
- Bhavini Acharya
- Department of General Dentistry Center for Excellence in Oral and Craniofacial Biology LSUHSC
- New Orleans, USA
- BP Kalra
- Senior Consultant
- Pediatrics Himalayan
- Institute of Medical Sciences
- HIHT University
- Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
- Brig. KS Rana
- Professor (Consultant)
- Pediatric Neurology Command
- Hospital (affiliated to AFMC)
- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Brijesh Arora
- Associate Professor
- Medical Oncology Tata Memorial Hospital
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Chhaya Sambharya Prasad
- Developmental Pediatrician
- Regional Institute for Mentally Handicapped
- Chandigarh, India
- Col. Madhuri Kanitkar
- Senior Adviser
- Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrologist
- Military Hospital Namkum
- Ranchi, Jharkhand, India
- CP Bansal
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Chairperson Adolescent Chapter IAP and President IAP 2013
- Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
- DC Dhasmana
- Professor and Head Department of Pharmacology
- Himalayan Institute of Medical
- Sciences, HIHT University
- Swami Ram Nagar
- Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
- Deepak Gupta
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- Centre for Child and Adolescent Wellbeing
- New Delhi, India
- Devesh Aggrawal
- Senior Consultant Pediatrician
- Mother and Child Clinic
- DLF Galleria
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Dhanya Dharmapalan
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Dr. Yewale's Multispecialty Hospital for Children
- Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Dheeraj Shah
- Associate Professor
- Department of Pediatrics University
- College of Medical Sciences
- Delhi, India
- Dhiren Gupta
- Consultant Pediatric Intensive Care
- Unit Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Digvijay Singh
- Senior Resident
- Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Dinesh Yadav
- Senior Resident Pediatrics
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- New Delhi, India
- GS Toteja
- Center for Promotion of Nutrition
- Research and Training ICMR
- New Delhi, India
- Gaurav Shah
- Intern Adolescent Health
- WHO SEARO
- Gauri Kapoor
- The Department of Pediatric
- Hematology and Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant
- Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, Delhi, India
- Harish K Pemde
- Professor of Pediatrics
- Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- New Delhi, India
- Harsha Khullar
- Senior Consultant
- Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Heather Duncan
- Consultant Pediatric
- Intensive Care Birmingham
- Children Hospital, UK
- Himani Manchanda
- Fellow Pediatric Hematology
- Oncology, Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Himanshu Shekhar
- Senior Resident
- Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Hina Rizvi
- DNB Student SDMH
- Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
- IC Verma
- Center of Medical Genetics
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Ira Shah
- Associate Professor and Incharge
- Pediatric HIV, TB, Liver Clinic
- BJ Wadia Hospital for Children Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Jagdish Chandra
- Director Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Krishan Chugh
- Director Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- K Shreedhara Avabratha
- Associate Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- Fr. Muller Medical College
- Mangalore, Karnataka, India
- KP Kushwaha
- Professor and Head Department of Pediatrics
- BRD Medical College
- Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Kanav Anand
- Pediatric Nephrologist
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Kapil Vidyarthi
- Consultant Pediatric Surgeon, Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Kiran Viralam
- Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist
- Narayana Hrudaayalaya
- Institute of Cardiac Sciences
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Kishore Shetty
- Assistant Professor
- Pediatric Dentistry Director
- Medically Complex
- Patient Clinic University of Texas Health Sciences Houston
- LSUHC New Orleans, USA
- Kundan Mittal
- Professor
- Head of Emergency and Intensive
- Care Unit, In-charge Respiratory Clinic
- Pt. BD Sharma, PGIMS
- Rohtak, Haryana, India
- Lt. Col. H Ravi Ramamurthy
- Pediatrician
- Army Base Hospital
- Guwahati, Assam, India
- MA Sheiks
- Fellow Pediatric
- Intensive Care Institute of Child Health, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- MR Lokeshwar
- Consultant, Pediatrician
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- M Vijayakumar
- Consultant Pediatric Nephrologists
- Department of Pediatric Nephrology
- Mehta Children's Hospital
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Mahaveer P Jain
- Senior Consultant
- Pediatrician Vardhman Medicare Centre
- Institute of Advanced IVF/ICSI
- Laparoscopy and Child Care
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Malathi Sathiyasekaran
- Senior Consultant
- Pediatric Gastroenterologist
- Kanchi Kamakoti
- Childs Trust Hospital
- The Childs Trust Medical Research Foundation
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Mangesh Jadhav
- Children's Heart Centre
- Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Maninder Dhaliwal
- Pediatric Intensivist
- Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Liver Transplantation Medanta
- The Medicity Hospital
- Gurgaon, Harayana, India
- Manish Balde
- Consultant Neonatologist Cradle
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Manjari Agarwa
- Fellow
- Pediatric Rheumatology Division
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Manju Mehta
- Department of Psychiatry
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Manoj Modi
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Neonatology
- Maulana Azad Medical College
- New Delhi, India
- Manpreet Sethi
- Division of Gastroenterology
- Department of Pediatrics
- Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital
- Ghaziabad (NCT)
- Uttar Pradesh, India
- Manvinder Singh Sachdev
- MD (Pediatrics)
- FNB (Pediatric Cardiology)
- Consultant
- Pediatric Cardiologist,
- Department of Pediatric
- Cardiac Sciences
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Maurice G Sholas
- Assistant Professor
- Physical and Rehabilitation
- Director of Rehabilitation
- Children Hospital
- New Orleans Lousiana, USA
- Mehul P Jariwala
- Pediatrics
- Clinical Research Officer
- Pediatric Rheumatology Division
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Michael Higgins
- Department of Education of Services
- LSUHSC New Orleans, USA
- Milind M Gore
- National Institute of Virology
- Gorakhpur Unit
- Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Mir Sadaqat Hassan Zafar
- Fellow in Hematology
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- MMA Faridi
- Professor and Head
- University College of Medical Sciences
- Delhi, India
- Mohammed Ramzan
- Fellow in Pediatric Hematology Oncology
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Mohit Kehar
- Consultant Pediatrician
- New Delhi, India
- Monica Juneja
- Child Development Center
- Department of Pediatrics
- Maulana Azad Medical College
- BSZ Marg, New Delhi, India
- Mukesh Kumar
- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology
- Hepatology and Nutrition Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
- Chandigarh, India
- N Prahlad
- Consultant
- Pediatric Nephrologist
- Department of Pediatric Nephrology
- Mehta Children's Hospital
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Namjoshi Gajanan
- Senior Medical Advisor
- MSD Vaccines, India
- Namrata Makkar
- Assistant Medical Superintendent
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Nandan Yardi
- Consultant
- Pediatric Neurologist Epileptologist
- KEM Hospital and Jehangir Hospital
- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Narendra K Arora
- Executive Director
- International Clincial Epidemiology Network
- New Delhi, India
- Naveen P Gupta
- Consultant Neonatologist
- Max Balaji, Super-specialty Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Neelam Kler
- Senior Consultant and Head
- Department of Neonatology
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Neelam Mohan
- Director
- Department of Pediatric
- Gastroenterology
- Hepatology and Liver Transplantation Medanta
- The Medicity Hospital
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Neelanjana Singh
- Chief Dietitian
- PSRI Hospital
- Joint Secretary
- Indian Dietetic Association
- (Delhi Chapter)
- New Delhi, India
- Neena Raina
- Child and Adolescent Health
- South-East Asia Regional Office of WHO
- New Delhi, India
- Neeraj Aggarwal
- Fellowship Pediatric Cardiology (RGUHS)
- Consultant Pediatric Cardiologist
- Department of Pediatric Cardiac Sciences
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Neeraj Jain
- Himalyan Institute of Medical Sciences (Medical College), Jolly Grant
- Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
- Neeraj Manchanda
- Vitreo-Retina Unit
- Department of Ophthalmology
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Neetu Talwar
- Fellow in Pediatric Intensive Care
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Neha Rastogi
- Fellow in Pediatric Hematology Oncology
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Nehal S Parikh
- Assistant
- Professor of Pediatrics Director
- Childhood Solid Tumor Program
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center
- University of Connecticut
- School of Medicine
- Division of Hematology/Oncology Hartford
- Nirupama Laroia
- Associate Professor
- Pediatrics/Neonatology
- University of Rochester Medical Center
- Golisano Children's Hospital Rochester, NY, USA
- Nishant Wadhwa
- Consultant
- Pediatric Gastroenterology
- Hepatology and Pediatric Liver Transplant
- Institute for Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Nita Radhakrishnan
- Pediatric Hematologist Oncologist
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Nitin K Shah
- Consultant Pediatrician
- PD Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai
- President
- Indian Academy of Pediatrics 2006
- Honorary Hematologist Oncologist
- BJ Wadia Hospital for Children
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Nitin Maheshwari
- Consultant
- Pediatric Neurologist
- Medanta – The Medicity
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Nivedita Dhingra
- Fellow in Pediatric Hematology Oncology
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Nivedita Kamath
- Division of Pediatric Nephrology
- Department of Pediatrics
- St. John's Medical College
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Nowneet Kumar Bhat
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Pediatrics
- Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences
- Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
- PK Pruthi
- Senior Consultant
- Pediatrics and Pediatric Nephrology
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- PA Kurkure
- Prof of Pediatric Oncology
- Tata Memorial Hospital
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Padam Yadav
- Associate Consultant
- Department of Pediatrics
- Artemis Health Institute
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Pankaj Garg
- Department of Neonatology
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Pankaj Hari
- Additional Professor
- Division of Pediatric Nephrology
- Department of Pediatrics
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Panna Choudhury
- Consultant Pediatrician and President
- IAP 2009 DII/M 2753
- New Delhi, India
- Poonam Sachdev
- Consultant
- Pediatrician and Neonatologist
- Pushpanjali Medical Centre
- Faridabad, Haryana, India
- Prabhat Maheshwari
- Consultant
- Department of Pediatrics
- Artemis Health Institute
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Prashant Mathur
- Division of Noncommunicable Diseases
- Indian Council of Medical Research
- New Delhi, India
- Praveen Khilnani
- Senior Consultant and Head
- Pediatric Critical Care Services
- BLK Superspeciality Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Praveen Suman
- Consultant
- Developmental Pediatrics
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Preeti Singh
- Research Officer
- Division of Pediatric Pulmonology
- Department of Pediatrics
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Pritesh Nagar
- Consultant Pediatrician and Intensivist
- Department of Pediatrics
- Aditya Hospital
- Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Puneet Jain
- Division of Pediatric Neurology
- Department of Pediatrics
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Puneet Kalra
- Medical Specialist
- MSD Vaccines, India
- RG Holla
- Senior Consultant and Head
- Department of Neonatology
- Fortis Hospital, Shalimar Bagh
- New Delhi, India
- RK Sabharwal
- Senior Consultant
- Child Neurology and Epilepsy
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- RK Gupta
- Associate Professor
- Pediatric Medicine
- Senior Consultant
- Pediatric Gastroenterology Super-specialty
- Sir Padampat Mother and Child Health Institute
- SMS Medical College
- Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
- R Ganesh
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Kanchi Kamakoti
- Childs Trust Hospital
- The Childs Trust Medical Research Foundation
- Rachna Seth Associate
- Department of Pediatrics
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Raghvendra Singh
- Department of Pediatrics
- Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalya
- Geeta Colony
- New Delhi, India
- Rahul Jain
- Child Development Center
- Department of Pediatrics
- Maulana Azad Medical College
- BSZ Marg
- New Delhi, India
- Raj Kubba
- Consultant
- Dermatologist Delhi
- Dermatology Group
- New Delhi, India
- Raj Warrier
- Peds Hematology and Oncology
- Ochsner Hospital and Professor Emeirtus
- LSUHSC, New Orleans
- Raja Joshi
- Incharge Pediatric
- Cardiac Services
- Senior Consultant Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Rajeev Kulshreshtha
- Senior Consultant and Head
- Pediatric Surgery
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Rajesh Kumar Meena
- Senior Resident
- Division of Pediatric Pulmonology
- Department of Pediatrics
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Rajesh Mehta
- Child and Adolescent Health
- South-East Asia Regional Office of WHO
- New Delhi, India
- Rajesh Sagar
- Department of Psychiatry
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Rajesh Sinha
- Associate Professor
- Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Raju C Shah
- Consultant Pediatrician
- President IAP 2005
- Ahmedabad, Gujrat, India
- Raktima Chakraborty
- Consultant Neonatologist
- The Cradle
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Raman Garg
- Department of Psychiatry
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Ramesh Goyal
- Consultant
- Pediatrician
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Rashmi Dalvi
- Consultant
- Pediatric Hematologist Oncologist
- Professor and Head Department of Pediatrics
- Bombay Hospital Institute of Medical Sciences
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Ratna D Puri
- Center of Medical Genetics
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Ravindra Arya
- Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
- Division of Neurology
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Cincinnati, OH
- Reena K Joshi
- Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiologist
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Rekha Harish
- Professor and Head Department of Pediatrics
- Government Medical College
- Jammu, J&K, India
- Rekha Luthra
- Consultant
- Pediatric Intensive Care
- New Delhi, India
- Renu Dutta
- Director Professor and Head
- Department of Microbiology
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- New Delhi, India
- Revathi Raj
- Senior Consultant
- Pediatric Hematology Oncology
- Apollo Specialty Hospital
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Ridhima Grover
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- New Delhi, India
- Ritu Jain
- Consultant Gynecologist
- Obstetrician Infertility Specialist
- Laparoscopic Surgeon
- Vardhman Medicare Centre
- Institute of Advanced IVF/ICSI
- Laparoscopy and Child Care
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- RK Ganjoo
- Air Vice Marshal (Retd)
- Director, Medical
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Rohit Agrawal
- Consultant
- Pediatrician President
- IAP 2012
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Rohit Saxena
- Associate Professor
- Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Roma Kumar
- Clinical Psychologist
- Center for Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Ruchira Misra
- Consultant
- Pediatric Hematology Oncology Medanta
- The Medicity
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- S Aneja
- Professor of Pediatrics
- Lady Hardinge Madical College
- Kalawati Saran Children Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- SS Slathia Lecturer
- Government Medical College
- Jammu, J&K, India
- S Yamuna
- Senior Consultant
- Pediatrician and Adolescent Clinician
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- S Srinivasan
- Director, Professor and Head
- Department of Pediatrics
- JIPMER, Pondicherry, India
- Sagar Nirvagi
- Department of Pediatrics
- PD Hinduja Hospital
- Mumabi, Maharashtra, India
- Sameer Guliani
- Department of Pediatrics
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Samir Gupta
- Consultant
- Neonatologist and Senior Lecturer
- University Hospital of North Tees and Durham University
- Stockton-on-Tees, UK
- Samridh Nagar
- Neonatologist
- Australia
- Sandeep Jain
- The Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant
- Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, Delhi, India
- Sandeep Tripathi
- Assistant
- Professor of Pediatrics
- Children's Hospital at Montefiore Albert Einstein
- College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
- Sanjay Srirampur
- Senior Consultant
- Pediatrician and Head
- Department of Pediatrics
- Aditya Hospital
- Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
- Sanjay Wazir
- Consultant
- Neonatologist the Cradle
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Sanjeev Kumar Arora
- Fellow Pediatric Critical Care
- Department of Pediatrics
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Sanjiv Amin
- Department of Pediatrics
- University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
- Rochester, NY
- Sarath Gopalan
- Senior Consultant
- Pediatric Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, PSRI Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Executive Director, Centre for Research on Nutrition Support Systems, New Delhi, India
- Sarbani Raha
- Associate Consultant
- PD Hinduja Hospital
- Mumabi, Maharashtra, India
- Satnam Kaur
- Ex-Senior Resident
- Division of Pulmonology
- Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital and Lady Hardinge Medical College
- New Delhi, India
- Satya Prakash Yadav
- Consultant Pediatric Hematologist and Oncologist
- Department of Pediatrics
- Centre for Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Satyen D Gyani
- Consultant Pediatric Intensivist and Pulmonologist
- Apollo BSR Hospital and Sparsh Children Hospital Bhilai
- Chattisgarh, India
- Satyendra Katewa
- Clinical Fellow, Sick Kids Division of Hemato-Oncology and BMT The Hospital for Sick Children
- 555 University Avenue Toronto
- Ontario, Canada. M5G 1X8
- Saurabh Singh
- Department of Neonatology
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Sayan Chaterjee
- Senior Resident
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- SC Arya
- Consultant Pediatrician BL Kapoor Hospital
- Director Center for Child Health
- Department of Pediatrics
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Shaloo Bageja
- Consultant
- Department of Ophthalmology
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Sharandeep Kaur
- Senior Resident
- Department of Pediatrics
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- Kalawati Saran Childrens Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Sheikh Minaj Ahmed
- Fellow
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Shyam Kukreja
- Senior Consultant and Head
- Max Balaji Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Siddarth Ramji
- Professor
- Pediatrics, Maulana Azad Medical College
- New Delhi, India
- SK Mittal
- Division of Gastroenterology
- Department of Pediatrics
- Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital
- Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Snehal Kulkarni
- Children's Heart Centre
- Kokilaben Dhirubhai
- Ambani Hospital
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Soonu Udani
- Head
- Pediatric Critical Care
- Section of Pediatrics
- Hinduja Hospital
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Stephen S Roberts
- Assistant
- Attending Physician
- Neuroblastoma Program Memorial
- Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- 1275 York Avenue
- New York, NY 10065, USA
- Sudha Rao Chandrashekhar
- Professor of Pediatrics
- I/C Division of Pediatric Endocrinology
- Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Sudhakar Vira
- Senior Medical Administrative Officer
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Sujata Sawhney
- Consultant
- Adolescent and Pediatric Rheumatology
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Sunil Bhat
- Fellow Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation
- The Children Hospital at Westmead
- Sydney, Australia
- Sunil Dutt Sharma
- Consultant
- Pediatric Intensivist Santokba
- Durlabhji Memorial Hospital
- Sunil Gomber
- Professor of Pediatrics University
- College of Medical Sciences and GuruTeg Bahadur Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Sunil Sinha
- Professor of Pediatrics and Neonatology
- James Cook University Hospital
- Durham University
- Middlesbrough, UK
- Sunita Bijarnia
- Consultant
- Genetic Metabolic Physician
- Center of Medical Genetics
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Suresh Gupta
- Senior Consultant
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Acute Care
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Sushmita Banerjee
- FRCPCH. Pediatric Nephrologist
- Calcutta Medical Research Institute
- Kolkata, West Bengal, India
- Sushmita N Bhatnagar
- Professor and Head Department of Pediatric Surgery
- Wadia Children's Hospital
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Tanu Singhal
- Center for Children Kokilaben
- Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Tapisha Gupta
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Max Balaji Hospital
- Delhi, India
- Taruna Chutani
- Fellow in Pediatric Nephrology
- Department of Pediatrics AIIMS,
- New Delhi, India
- Tarun Gera
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Sunder Lal Jain
- New Delhi, India
- Tinku Bali
- Vitreo-Retina Unit
- Department of Ophthalmology
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Tripti Pensi
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Tulika Seth
- Associate Professor
- Department of Hematology
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Vaman Khadilkar
- Endocrinologist
- Jehangir Hospital
- Pune Bombay Hospital,
- Mumbai Asst. Professor
- Paediatric Endocrinology
- Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College
- Pune, Maharashtra, India
- Vandana Chatrath
- Consultant Dermatologist and Dermatologic Surgeon
- New Delhi, India
- Dermatology Group
- New Delhi, India
- Varinder Singh
- Professor
- Division of Pediatric Pulmonology
- Department of Pediatrics
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Varjesh Udani
- Consultant
- Pediatric Neurology and Epilepsy
- PD Hinduja Hospital
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Vasant Chinnabhandar
- Fellow Pediatric Hematology Oncology
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Veda V Vedanarayanan
- Professor
- Pediatrics and Neurology
- University of Mississipi Medical Center
- Jackson MS39211, USA
- Veenu Aggarwal
- Professor of Pediatrics
- Santosh Medical College
- Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Veronique Dinand
- Consultant Research
- Fellow Pediatric Hematology Oncology
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Vibha Mangal Jain
- Himalyan Institute of Medical Sciences (Medical College), Jolly Grant, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
- Vijay Yewale
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Dr. Yewale's Multispecialty Hospital for Children
- Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Vikas Bansal
- Pediatric Intensivist
- SPS Apollo Hospitals
- Ludhiana, Punjab, India
- Vikas Dua
- Fellow Pediatric Hematology Oncology
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- Vikas Mahajan
- Consultant Neonatologist
- Childrens Hospital
- Chandigarh, India
- Vikas Taneja
- Consultant
- Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care
- Columbia Asia Hospital
- Gurgaon, Harayana, India
- Vikram Datta
- Professor
- Division of Neonatology
- Kalawati Saran
- Children's Hospital
- Lady Hardinge Medical College
- New Delhi, India
- Vikram Kumar
- Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology
- Hepatology and Liver Transplantation
- Medanta
- The Medicity Hospital
- Gurgaon, Harayana, India
- Vinay Kumar S
- Senior Resident
- Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences
- All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- New Delhi, India
- Vinita Jain
- Consultant
- Pediatrician Aastha Medical Center
- New Delhi, India
- Vishal Dublish
- Consultant
- Pediatrician
- Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India
- Vishal Vaidya
- Associate Consultant
- Department of Pediatrics Artemis Health Institute
- Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Vivek Bhaganagare
- Fellow in Pediatric Critical Care
- Kanchi Kamakoti
- Childs Trust Hospital
- 12A Nageswara Road
- Nungambakkam
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
- Vivek Chouduary
- Department of Neonatology
- Institute of Child Health
- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
- New Delhi, India
- YK Ambdekar
- Consultant Pediatrician
- Jaslok Hospital
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
A plethora of literature has been published in the field of pediatrics during the past few decades. In the last five years there has been a many folds increase in the knowledge. With each passing moment our knowledge-base, has expanded dramatically, with the resultant emergence of various super- and subspecialties. We, in this edition of Advances in Pediatrics, have tried to add the latest management protocols for various diseases. There are some articles which cannot be found in any textbook but are invaluable for the pediatrician who is fresh in practice. The book will also be of great help to a postgraduate appearing in the examination as it gives consolidate information on a number of topics. The efforts put in by us in the past few months have resulted in a unique collation of expertise, clinical application and incisive opinions on the latest in our fields. It has been our pleasure to have a host of eminent academicians and practitioners, both international and national, as a part of this endeavor, each lending their imprint into the development of a thorough and comprehensive compendium. We, in India, are still struggling with abysmal health indices and they are a matter of shame. With the economic upturn, we need to see that the benefits of this percolate down to the poorest of the poor. We have a huge human resource of health care professionals but they are concentrated in the cities. The facility for updating the knowledge are not very good. We hope that the book will go a long way in bridging the gap for updating the knowledge of pediatricians. We are happy that the organizing committee of the PEDICON 2012 have decided that it is very important to disseminate knowledge and towards this end, they are giving a copy of the book to each and every delegate attending the conference. The need of the hour is to be well prepared to meet the adversities that come our way as professionals. Whether we are good, better or the best, we should never let it rest, until our good is better, and our better, the best. That has been the philosophy of our book, and that is the spirit that we would encourage to inculcate in all our readers. A beginning has been made and to see a generation benefit from this vast resource would be most gratifying for us.
Anupam Sachdeva
AK Dutta
16Preface to the First Edition
A plethora of literature has been published in the field of Pediatrics during the past few decades. With each passing moment our knowledge base has expanded dramatically, with the resultant emergence of various super and sub specialties. The very notion that a practicing pediatrician, and for that matter even a post graduate student, must be competent to deliver holistic care for the child patient at every juncture and in each of these ramifications of pediatrics, is a challenging prospect and highlights the need for continuing education and enhancement of one's skills. To meet these needs, we considered tracking the current trends of pediatric practice in the form of a concise book. The labors of the past few months have resulted in a unique collation of expertise, clinical application and incisive opinions on the latest in our fields. It has been our pleasure to have a host of eminent academicians and practitioners, both international and national, as a part of this endeavor, each lending their imprint into the development of a thorough and comprehensive compendium. The issues that we have addressed through “Advances in Pediatrics” reflect the health afflictions of the Indian child specifically, both urban as well as rural. Our nation suffers from perhaps one of the highest infant - and under five - mortality rates across the globe, reflecting the non availability and delivery of the neonatal health care system. In such a scenario, the importance of neonatal care assumes principal significance. In the same breath, infectious diseases are perhaps a major cause for mortality too and their management and prevention with appropriate vaccination have been the focus of attention. Our purview extends to include gastroenterology, hemato-oncology, nephrology, pediatric cardiology, emergency and respiratory diseases and neurology amongst others. The need of the hour is to be well prepared to meet the adversities that come our way as professionals. Whether we are good, better or the best, we should never let it rest, until our good is better, and our better, the best. That has been the philosophy of our book, and that is the spirit that we would encourage to inculcate in all our readers. A beginning has been made and to see a generation benefit from this vast resource would be most gratifying for us.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.
AK Dutta
Anupam Sachdeva