1 Fever 2 Dermatitis 3 Leucopaenia with or without granulocytopaenia. 4 Agranulocytosis 5 Mild anaemia 6 Bleeding from the nose 7 Profuse menses 8 Bleeding from the bowel 9 Haemoptysis 10 Bleeding from the gums 11 Breathlessness with or without cyanosis 12 Numbness and tingling of fingers and toes 13 Herpes zoster 14 Diminished acuity of vision 15 Vestibular dysfunction?vertigo, tinnitus and sl...

Introduction. The association of celiac disease and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy was not reported earlier in the literature. Case presentation. A 35-year-old woman diagnosed clinically with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 23 years ago. In the family history patients’ mother was diagnosed with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, too. Physical examination revealed bilateral f...

Background: Acupuncture is one of the most popular forms complementary and alternative medicine, its usage linked to an improvement physical psychological symptoms. Main Objectives: Determine whether use acupuncture as adjunct physiotherapy treatment more effective than alone or in MSK conditions. Methodology: A systematic review literature was conducted using three major databases, from March ...

how to cite this article: karimzadeh p, ghazavi a. comparison of deflazacort and prednisone in duchenne muscular dystrophy. iranianjournal of child neurology 2012;6(1):5-12. objective duchenne muscular dystrophy (dmd) is a degenerative disease that usually becomes clinically detectable in childhood as progressive proximal weakness. no cure is yet available for dmd, but the use of steroids impro...

Botulinum toxin has been used for the treatment of many clinical disorders by producing temporary skeletal muscle relaxation. In pain management, botulinum toxin has demonstrated an analgesic effect by reducing muscular hyperactivity, but recent studies suggest this neurotoxin could have direct analgesic mechanisms different from its neuromuscular actions. At the moment, botulinum toxin is wide...

Nicolau syndrome is a rare complication of intramuscular injection consisting of ischemic necrosis of skin, soft tissue, and muscular tissue that arises locoregionally. The characteristic pattern is pain around the injection site, developing into erythema, a livedoid dermatitis patch, and necrosis of the skin, subcutaneous fat, and muscle tissue. Three patients were injected with drugs (diclofe...

Dyspareunia, ie coital pain, is a sexual dysfunction with a multifactorial and multisystemic etiology. Predisposing, precipitating and maintaining factors, biological (muscular, endocrine, immunitary, neurologic, vascular, iatrogenic) and psychosexual, may variably interact in the individual woman. The natural history of dyspareunia is basic to understand the current controversy on its “real” n...

OBJECTIVES This research was conducted with an aim of determining the correlation between job insecurity and an employee's work-related health problems among permanent and temporary workers. METHODS Using the data from the First Korean Working Conditions Survey conducted in 2006, a total of 7,071 workers, excluding employers and the self-employed, were analyzed. Work-related health problems w...