a 33 yr old man, previously diagnosed with hypothyroidism, presented with decreased level of consciousness and generalized tonic-clonic (gtc) seizure to namazi hospital, shiraz, iran, during april 2015. the patient later referred with another episode of seizure like attack for which he received phenytoin, carbamazepine and levothyroxine and was discharged. during his last admission, the patient...

introduction: behcet's disease is a chronic disease with multisystem involvement characterized clinically by oral and genital aphthae, cutaneous lesions and ophthalmologic, neurologic and gastrointestinal manifestation. nervous system involvement occurs in 5.3 – 30% of patients, mostly in brain stem and basal ganglia. the common manifestations are pyramidal signs, central nervous plegia, p...

introduction: idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura is one of the most common causes of thrombocy-topenia with varius clinical courses and different responses to its treatment modalities. therefore, we decided to evaluate the clinical course of this disease in our patients. methods: in this case series study, from march 1998 to march 2004, we evaluated 121 patients. as a first line of treatment, ...