OBJECTIVE To evaluate presenting features, treatment modalities and response to therapy in children with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. METHODS The retrospective study was conducted at the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, and comprised clinical data, presenting demographics, clinical spectrum, management and outcome of children admitted with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura fro...

OBJECTIVE To measure the promptness of antibiotic treatment in children with meningococcal disease. METHODS "Door to needle time" for parenteral antibiotics in children with meningococcal disease was recorded prospectively as part of a larger study. The time from arrival at hospital until the first dose of parenteral antibiotics was recorded in 100 children with meningococcal disease (median ...

despite the many studies about timing for surgery in subarachnoid hemorrhage (sah), the optimum time is still unclear. the aim of this study was to determine the results of early and late surgery for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. in this cross-sectional study we evaluated the results of 70 consecutive surgery for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in in firuzgar hospital from 2005 to 2008...

background: intracerebral hemorrhage (ich) is a stroke type which resulted in disability. memantine have been supposed to have the effect on the functional status in patients with ich. objectives: comparing the effect of memantine with placebo on the clinical outcome of ich. materials and methods: this double-blind clinical trial was conducted in an academic hospital in northern iran on patien...

conclusions there were 80 (17.90%) patients receiving endoscopic hemostatic therapy. in children with ugib, upper endoscopy is a diagnostic procedure for the categorization of underlying causes of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in children and various endoscopic lesions may be found in a patient with the impression of ugib. background upper gastrointestinal (ugi) endoscopy is a tool used frequ...

background : proton pump inhibitors (ppis) are currently the most effective agents for acid related disorders. however, studies show that 25-75% of patients receiving intravenous pantoprazole had no appropriate justification, indicating high rate of inappropriate prescribing in hospitals. the aim of this study is to examine the appropriate use of intravenous pantoprazole in accordance with guid...

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this study is carried out to determine effective risk factors for early death and their causes in those who died due to intra cerebral hemorrhage within 30 days.materials and methods: from patients who have been admitted in neurologic ward of imam khomeini hospital in tabriz, we enrolled 100 patients with intra cerebral hemorrhage and the causes and risk factors effective in early death were ev...

intraventricular hemorrhage (ivh) is one of the major causes of the cerebral palsy and mental retardation. prevention and early management of these neurologic developmental problems will require determining the perinatal risk factors associated with this clinical entity. pneumothorax increase the risk of ivh, and cause of pneumothorax has an important effect in severity of ivh. this is a prospe...