Pediatric Health Care

26/11/2025

What Is a Heart Stent?

A heart stent is a small metallic or plastic mesh-like tube that is placed inside narrowed heart blood vessels (coronary arteries) to keep them open and allow normal blood flow.

When fatty substances, cholesterol, and calcium (plaque) build up inside the coronary arteries, the vessels become narrowed and blood cannot reach the heart properly. This condition is called Coronary Artery Disease.

In such cases, doctors perform a procedure called angioplasty:
1. A thin tube (catheter) is inserted through a blood vessel in the leg or arm and guided toward the heart.
2. A small balloon at the end of the catheter is inflated at the narrowed part of the artery.
3. A stent placed around the balloon expands as the balloon inflates and attaches to the artery walls.
4. The balloon is removed, but the stent remains in place to keep the artery open.

Functions of a Stent

👉 Prevents the artery from narrowing again
👉 Reduces chest pain (angina)
👉 May lower the risk of a heart attack
👉Restores normal blood flow

Types of Stents
1. Bare-Metal Stent (BMS):
Made only of metal.
2. Drug-Eluting Stent (DES):
Coated with medication to prevent re-narrowing of the artery (restenosis).

Translation & Compilation:
Dr. Mohammad Emal Momand — Specialist in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Family Medicine

25/11/2025

A Young boy on Aeroplane started having agitation, abdominal pain, palpitations & then had seizures.

After stabilization in hospital, his abdominal xray was showing .

What's the Diagnosis?

28/10/2025

Urology nurse

07/11/2024

Identical twin sisters Brittany and Briana 38 marry identical twin brothers Josh and Jeremy in 2017 after meeting at the Twins Day Festival. After their 'quaternary marriage', a term used to describe identical twins marrying identical twins, both couples gave birth to baby boys at the same time in 2021 which are considered quaternary multiples, which means they are full genetic siblings from identical twin parents. Although technically cousins, the boys are genetically brothers. By the way both families live together in the same house in Virginia.

17/04/2024

Dr or Nurse on her wedding day 🖤♥️💚

14/04/2024

Digital Invertogram for diagnosis of a**l atresia.

A coin/metal piece is placed over the expected a**s and the baby is turned upside down (for a minimum of 3 minutes).

The distance of the gas bubble in the re**um from the metal piece is noted:

>2 cm denotes high type

27/09/2023

Fathers of science #

★Father of Biology: *Aristotle*
★Father of Physics: *Albert Einstein*
★Father of Chemistry: *Jabir Bin Hayan*
★Father of Statistics: *Ronald Fisher*
★Father of Zoology: *Aristotle*
★Father of History: *Herodotus*
★Father of Microbiology: *Louis Pasteur*
★Father of Botany: *Theophrastus*
★Father of Algebra: *Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi*
★Father of Blood groups: *Landsteiner*
★Father of Electricity: *Benjamin Franklin*
★Father of Trigonometry: *Hipparchus*
★Father of Geometry: *Euclid*
★Father of Modern Chemistry: *Antoine Lavoisier*
★Father of Robotics: *Engelberger*
★Father of Electronics: *Michael Faraday*
★Father of Internet: *Vinton Cerf*
★Father of Economics: *Adam Smith*
★Father of Video game: *Ralph Baer*
★Father of Architecture: *Louis Henry Sullivan*
★Father of Genetics: *Gregor Johann Mendel*
★Father of Nanotechnology: *Heinrich Rohrer*
★Father of C language: *Dennis Ritchie*
★Father of World Wide Web: *Tim Berners-Lee*
★Father of Search engine: *Alan Emtage*
★Father of Periodic table: *Dmitri Mendeleev*
★Father of Taxonomy: *Carolus Linnaeus*
★Father of Surgery (early): *Sushruta*
★Father of Mathematics: *Archimedes*
★Father of Medicine: *Hippocrates*
★Father of Homeopathy: *Samuel Hahnemann*
★Father of Adding Mashine:*Blaise Pascal*

27/08/2023

Remember the DDX of Abdominal pain.

27/08/2023

It's eating disorder in which a person eats things that are not normally considered food, such as hair, soil, stones, plaster, chalk, soap, paper, chemical dayes & etc.
Eating non-food items for a month or more is detrimental to the child's growth.
It is not part of social and cultural norms but can be caused by deficiency of certain substances such as iron, calcium and zinc.

of pica:
1- It increases the risk of contracting parasitic infections.
2- Micronutrients deficiency
3- Intestinal obstruction
4- Heavy metal poisoning

:
Complete blood count(CBC) and peripheral blood film for iron deficiency
Blood calcium level for calcium deficiency
Blood zinc level , for zinc deficiency.


👉 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) :
Psychotherapy is a type of therapy that helps people identify and change destructive and disruptive thought patterns that negatively affect their behavior and emotions.
👉 Iron preparation :
Under 4 years of age 1-0-1 or one teaspoon morning-evening
More than five years of age. 2-0-2 or two teaspoons full morning - evening
👉 Calcium preparations:
Under 4 years 1-0-1 or one teaspoon full morning-evening
more than 5 years 2-0-2 or two teaspoon full morning-evening
If the result is not satisfactory, consult your doctor.

best regard♥️🇦🇫
Wishing you health and safety
Dr. Mohammad Emal Momand
MD-DCH-RMP-Family physician

17/08/2023

Vaginal Bleeding 🩸 in new born baby.
This is a normal condition and can also be called false menstruation.
It is seen in (1/4 or 25%) female babies at the age of 3-5 days of life.
The cause is said to be a sudden decrease in the mother's s*x hormone (estrogen), when the child is separated from the mother or the placenta.
Bleeding is light and pink in color and stops within 2-4 days. Keeping the area clean is recommended.
Concerns of parents should be taken care of and assured, and public awareness should be given to them.
Additional doses of vitamin K and other medications are not necessary.

best regard
Wishing you the health of your newborn babies.
Dr. Mohammad Emal Momand specialist of Internal , pediatrics and family medicine.

09/05/2023