background: kawasaki disease is an acute febrile systemic vasculitis mainly affecting children under 5. its etiology is still unknown. kawasaki disease can only be diagnosed clinically as there exists no specific laboratory test that can tell if someone has it. the cardiac complications are, by far, the most important aspect of the disease. this study reports the signs and the symptoms of patie...

Pediatric onset Crohn's disease (CD) tends to have complicated behavior (stricture or penetration) than elderly onset CD at diagnosis. Considering the longer duration of the disease in pediatric patients, the accumulative chance of surgical treatment is higher than in adult onset CD patients. Possible operative indications include perianal CD, intestinal stricture or obstruction, abdominal absc...

Although they represent the most common malignant brain tumor in the pediatric population, medulloblastomas are rare in adults, with an incidence of 0.5 per million. With only one exception, all of the prospective clinical trials in this disease have been done in the pediatric population, and therefore therapy for adult medulloblastoma has been either extrapolated from the pediatric literature ...

Pediatric heart disease, aka cardiovascular disease in the young, comprises varied phenotypes, including cardiovascular malformations, cardiomyopathies, vasculopathies (eg, Marfan syndrome), and cardiac arrhythmias. Cardiovascular malformations are a major component of pediatric heart disease and constitute a substantial portion of clinically significant birth defects, with a definition-depende...

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...

Capsule endoscopy (CE) avoids the ionizing radiation, deep sedation, and general anesthesia required by other imaging modalities, making it particularly valuable in the evaluation of gastrointestinal disease in pediatric patients. In examining the use of CE in pediatric and adult patients through a review of the literature, it was observed that CE is most frequently indicated for the evaluation...