Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
The free meconium acts as an irritant and inflammatory serosal reaction develops leading to ascites, and formation of adhesions, pseudocyst and calcification[2]
The perforation seals off and the bowel is intact at birth[3]
The diagnosis of meconium peritonitis is possible by clinic-radiological examination[4,6,7]
Summary
Open Access Article published under the Creative TORCH profile and direct Coombs test were negative. The serum bilirubin, transaminases, international normalized ratio (INR) were within normal range, serum albumin was low (2.3g/dl) and serum alkaline phosphatase, gamma glutamyl transpeptidase and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) were high initially but normalised subsequently. *Permission given by parents to publish photograph
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