Adult Favism in Al-Ramadi City

Oral Factors Predisposing to Injury of Permanent Incisors in School Children in Al-Ramadi City

Dental trauma is a serious public problem causing psychology, aesthetic, Social and therapeutic problems and its irreversible pathology that after occurrence is characterized by life-long debilitating effects. This study aimed to investigate the oral risk factors for injury to maxillary permanent incisors among Al-Ramadi schoolchildren aged 6-13 years, the result clarified frequency of traumati...

The epidemiology of clinical neonatal seizures in Ramadi city.

A seizure is defined clinically as paroxysmal alternations in neurological function, namely, motor, behavioral, or autonomic function. Neonatal seizures tend to be brief, because immature neurons cannot sustain repetitive activity for a long time and tend to be focal or multifocal. Neonatal seizures are common: estimates of the incidence of clinical seizures in term infants range from 0.7-2.7 p...

Favism.

Favism in London.

Favism is an acute haemolytic anaemia caused by an acquired allergy to a protein of the broad bean (Viciafava). Reports of the disease date from before the fifth century B.C. and in a good review of the literature Luisada (1941) points out that favism used to have a very wide distribution in the Mediterranean basin. It now occurs particularly in the Sardinians, who seem to have retained the mor...

Favism in Childhood *

"Favism" defines an acute hemolytic episode and its sequelae following ingestion of the bean or inhalation of the pollen of Vicia faba (broad bean or fava bean) in an individual probably sensitized by previous contact of a similar nature. The features of this syndrome and its potentially widespread occurrence in this country,t together with an excellent account of its prevalence in Italy, were ...