[LO 134] MAY 2019 Sub. Code: 2085
M.D. DEGREE EXAMINATION
BRANCH VII PAEDIATRICS
PAPER IV SPECIALITIES OF PAEDIATRICS MEDICINE AND
RECENT ADVANCES
Q.P. Code: 202085
Time: Three Hours Maximum: 100 Marks
I. Elaborate on: x 15 30)
1. Outline the Etiopathogenesis of chronic Diarrhoea and provide a scheme
of investigation for a child with Chronic Diarrhoea.
2. Biology and role of Cytokines in newborn infant.
Techniques of surfactant administration.
Diagnosis and management of Persistent Pulmonary Hypertension
in Newborn (PPHN).
II. Write notes on: (10 x 7 70)
1. Management of Cerebral Malaria.
2. Recombinant factor VII a.
3. Indication and mode of action and side effects of IVIG in paediatric
practice.
4. Immunophenotyping in the diagnosis of ALL and management of ALL in
children.
5. Milrinone.
6. Revised 2014 WHO Classification and treatment of childhood Pneumonia.
7. MDR and XDR Tuberculosis treatment strategy.
8. Macrophage Activation Syndrome.
9. Diagnosis, Pathogenesis and Management of Toxic Shock Syndrome.
10. Digoxin Toxicity.