Infantile Tremor Syndrome--A Tale of 50 Years.

نویسنده

  • Sharmila B Mukherjee
چکیده

We continue with the second stop of our journey, the July issue of Indian Pediatrics in 1965. This comprised of 41 pages with seven articles that had three research papers (the syndrome of tremors, mental regression and anemia; neonatal blood pressure recording; and effects of long acting sulfonamides), a review on tremors, a case series (diaphragmatic disorders), book reviews and current literature. Out of all these, we chose to review the syndrome, since although it is a common and easily recognizable entity, our understanding is just marginally more than it was 50 years ago.

برای دانلود رایگان متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید

ثبت نام

اگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید

منابع مشابه

Early Onset of Fragile X Associated Tremor and Ataxia Syndrome: A Case Report from Iran

Background: Different alleles of Fragile X Mental Retardation1 (FMR1) gene with separate molecular etiologies cause Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) and Fragile X-associated Tremor and Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS). Premutation alleles with 55 to 200 repeats in the FMR1 gene lead to FXTAS. It is carried by 1 in 209 women and 1 in 430 men. FXTAS commonly appears in 50- to 70-year-old adults. Case Presentatio...

متن کامل

Infantile tremor syndrome: A review and critical appraisal of its etiology

Infantile tremor syndrome (ITS) is defined by the tetrad of pallor, developmental delay/regression, skin pigmentation, and brown scanty scalp hair. Involuntary movements in the form of tremors supervene in the natural course of the illness in a significant number of cases. The disorder occurs in exclusively breast-fed infants of vegetarian mothers belonging to economically deprived sections of ...

متن کامل

Infantile Tremor Syndrome: Still A Mystery!

With reference to the recent publication in Indian Pediatrics [1], infantile tremor syndrome may indeed be ‘down’ perhaps in terms of incidence, but certainly not ‘out’ in terms of etiology. Authors found low serum vitamin B12 only in 8 of 16 infants and they are justifiably cautious in stating that vitamin B12 deficiency is “causally associated”. There was initial worsening of tremors seen in ...

متن کامل

Infantile Fibrosarcoma in a Child: a Case Report

Abstract Background Infantile Fibrosarcoma is a rare soft tissue tumor in infants and children mostly located in extremities. An infantile and adult form has similar histopathological patterns but survival prognosis is much better in infantile form. Recurrence of infantile fibrosarcoma is common but the rates of metastasis are less than 10 percent in children younger than five Years and 50 p...

متن کامل

Cranial neuroimaging in infantile tremor syndrome (ITS).

Clinical, hematological and cranial neuroimaging findings of eight cases of infantile tremor syndrome are reported. All had coarse tremors, anemia, hyperpigmentation and delayed or regression of developmental milestones. Five patients had microcytic, hypochromic anemia, three had dimorphic anemia. CT scans of two cases and MRI scans of three cases showed cerebral atrophy. One of these two CT sc...

متن کامل

ذخیره در منابع من


  با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید

عنوان ژورنال:
  • Indian pediatrics

دوره 52 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015