purpose: to report the outcomes of pediatric penetrating keratoplasty (pk) performed in labafinejad medical center, a tertiary referral ophthalmology center, between 2001 and 2012. methods: in this retrospective interventional case series, medical records of all pediatric patients (age≤12 years) who underwent primary pk were reviewed. age at the time of surgery, indications for keratoplasty, po...

background: central nervous system (cns) tumors have accounted for approximately one fourth of all pediatric malignancies. cns tumors have been the most common solid malignancies among the children. in this study, we have evaluated survival and prognostic factors in children with non-brain stem astrocytoma. methods: children with non-brain stem astrocytoma, referring to radiation oncology cente...

doxorubicin, used in pediatric chemotherapy regimens, has cardiotoxic effects. dexrazoxane is co-administrated with doxorubicin to prevent its cardiotoxicity. here we have explored some alternative food or drugs to be used in absence of dexrazoxane since it’s not readily available in iran at this time. keywords: pediatric, chemotherapy, doxorubicin, cardiotoxicity, dexrazoxane, iran.

how to cite this article: akhondian j, ashrafzadeh f, beiraghi toosi m, hashemi n. a rare presentation of neurobrucellosis in a child with recurrent transient ischemic attacks and pseudotumor cerebri (a case report and review of literature). iran j child neurol. 2014 spring; 8(2):65-69.   brucellosis is a multi-system infectious disease that presents with various manifestations and complication...

how to cite this article: alavi s. paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes in children: a review article. iran j child neurol. 2013 summer; 7(3): 6- 14. objective paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (pns) were initially defined as neurological syndromes with unknown etiology that often associate with cancer. this broad definition may lead to misconception that any neurological syndrome, which coi...

objectives this report describes the indication, histopathological patterns, and epidemiology of renal diseases in children in india. patients and methods this is a single-center study on renal biopsies performed between january 2008 and december 2013 in 346 children (age ≤ 14 years). results eleven (3.17%) biopsies were inadequate, and 335 biopsies were considered for analysis. the mean age wa...

Introduction: Logbooks show whether medical students have been exposed to a particular disease and whether they are able to perform particular practices or not. To evaluate the training status of the medical students in the pediatric ward of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, the data about the students’ knowledge of different diseases in different parts of the pediatric ward in 2011 was co...

kidney transplantation in children is the treatment of choice to treat end stage renal disease. improvements in immunosuppressive management have dramatically reduced the risk of early acute rejection and graft loss, however the long term results in terms of graft survival and morbidity still require search for new immunosuppressive regimens. reducing of side effects are the challenges for impr...

conclusions nursing management and custodians of nursing trainings can break through the barriers to self-efficacy by knowing these factors and making changes in the educational programs and providing supporting policies. this can be an important step toward improving nurses’ inefficacy and ultimately improving the provision of quality healthcare services. objectives the present paper attempts ...

background: achieving proper clinical outcomes relies on patient cooperation and patient cooperation relies on their satisfaction; thus patient satisfaction is essential for health care improvement; the aim of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction of patients referred to pediatric department of babol dental school in 2011-2012. methods: in this cross-sectional study, questionnaires contai...