2024年4月1日 · Premature infants who have intensive care needs at home are at greater risk for neglect or abuse. Although the discussion of pediatric growth failure can be traced back over a century in the...

Growth faltering, previously known as failure to thrive, is a broad term describing children who do not reach their expected weight, length, or body mass index for age.

2010年2月8日 · Failure to Thrive (FTT) is defined as persistent weight below the 3rd percentile for age in infants and young children. The associated terms “Failure to gain weight” (FGW) or “Lack of Normal Physiologic Growth and Development” are more precise, especially for children who are not below the 3rd percentile but are losing weight over time ...

This case highlights a rare condition presenting as failure to thrive, a common problem with a wide differential diagnosis. Keywords: Wolman's disease, failure to thrive. Case History by Dr. Aprile. The patient is a 6-month-old male, presenting with failure to thrive (FTT) since birth.

Failure to thrive (FTT) is a symptom, not a diagnosis. Malnutrition is a diagnosis that more accurately describes inadequate nutrition and can be determined via clinical assessment.

2013年3月19日 · After two days of observed (and appropriate) weight gain, the patient was discharged with follow-up at multiple specialty clinics including GI, FTT, and A&I.

It is important to differentiate failure to thrive into organic and non-organic causes. Furthermore, using the concepts of bone age, chronological age, catch up growth and catch down growth, conditions such as constitutional growth delay and familial …

2023年1月1日 · Failure to Thrive (FTT) is a multifactorial illness requiring the systematic application of evidence in conjunction with a multidisciplinary team-based approach. Evidence suggests most cases of FTT can be diagnosed using key elements of the patient history and physical examination including appropriate growth assessment, and that laboratory ...

Failure to thrive (FTT), or faltering growth, describes a complex group of clinical scenarios that manifest as abnormalities of growth. A thorough history and physical examination typically reveal the diagnosis, so laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging often are unnecessary.

This PedsCases note provides a one-page summary on failure to thrive, including history, physical exam, differential diagnosis and management. It was developed by Tingting Yan, a medical student at the University of Toronto with the help of Dr. Kim Zhou, a paediatrician at North York General Hospital.