introduction: acute leukemia covers a broad spectrum of hematological clonal diseases originating from the malignant transformation of stem cells. current chemotherapeutic methods result in an incomplete response to primary regimens in 30-40% of cases. methods: 20 patients who had been diagnosed with acute leukemia and who had displayed defined criteria in order to enter our study, were assesse...

hypercalcemia in children is a medical emergency and often manifests as nonspecific symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, weight loss, and anorexia. severe hypercalcemia is a rare complication of malignancy in children, while it can be seen in various types of malignant tumors. it is usually associated with significant morbidity and may be severe enough to threaten life. incidence of hypercalcemia...

how to cite this article: salehi omran mr, nooreddini h, baghdadi f. acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood; a case report. iran j child neurol. 2013 spring;7(2):51-54.   abstract acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood (anec) is an atypical disease followed by respiratory or gastrointestinal infection, high fever, which is accompanied with rapid alteration of consciousness and sei...

abstract objective fever and neutropenia are a common complication of chemotherapy in cancer. it is usually managed by hospitalization and empiric administration of antibiotics. use of fluroquinolones is limited because of joint/cartilage toxicity. this study attempted to compare the efficacy of oral ciprofloxacin with intravenous ceftazidim in low risk febrile neutropenic lymphocytic leukemia....

background: the aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the characteristics of patients, treated by acute peritoneal dialysis (pd). we also assessed the indications for pd, pd-associated complications and neonatal outcomes in our patients. methods: during five years, 30 term newborns underwent temporary cycling pd. the procedure was performed by applying the manual technique. a straight a...

pneumatic rectosigmoid rapture is usually occurred following the inappropriate fun by direct entering a high volume of the air through the pneumatic device to the anus. such an event was reported for the first time in 1904 by stone. diagnosis and treatment of such injuries are often delayed because of some social limitations and preventing the patient form explaining the event. colon sigmoid ru...

background: acute myeloid leukemia (aml) with translocation (3,3) is a form of aml that may present de novo or may arise from a previous myelodysplastic syndrome. it is often associated with normal or elevated peripheral blood platelet count and increased bone marrow megakaryocytes with associated multi lineage dysplasia. a subset of patients present with hepatosplenomegaly while a few cases ha...

in this prospective descriptive study, all patients with acute lower limb ischemia who presented to shohada tajrish hospital (sth) between july 200 1 and july 2003 were analyzed and followed for 6 months. the total population of 109 patients, with no significant difference in sexual distribution had a mean age of 64± 16 years. 23% had af and 31 % had a history of mi, 'but in the ecg of 30%...

purpose: to compare visual and refractive outcomes as well as graft survival after penetrating keratoplasty (pk) in keratoconic patients with or without acute hydrops. methods: in this comparative interventional case series, 14 eyes of 14 keratoconic patients with acute hydrops (group 1) and 37 eyes of 37 keratoconic patients with no history of acute hydrops (group 2) underwent pk. visual acuit...