BACKGROUND Birth defects are a leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality. Studies suggest associations between environmental contaminants and some structural anomalies, although evidence is limited and several anomalies have not been investigated previously. METHODS We used data from the California Center of the National Birth Defects Prevention Study and the Children's Health and Air P...

The choroid plexus, an epithelial-based structure localized in the brain ventricle, is the major component of the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier. The choroid plexus produces the cerebrospinal fluid and regulates the components of the cerebrospinal fluid. Abnormal choroid plexus function is associated with neurodegenerative diseases, tumor formation in the choroid plexus epithelium, and hydro...

INTRODUCTION Screening of newborns with seizure, who have curable pathologic brain findings, might be able to improve their final outcome by accelerating treatment intervention. The present study aimed to evaluate the brain ultrasonography findings of newborns hospitalized with complaint of seizure. METHODS The present cross-sectional study designed to evaluate brain ultrasonography findings ...

The ability of the brain to maintain a considerable degree of normal function in the presence of tumor, and in spite of distortion and hydrocephaly, has always been a matter of interest. Such a condition is best seen with slowly growing masses, such as the acoustic neuromas. Recently, such a pathological condition has been encountered in a patient in the New Haven Hospital. After viewing the la...

AIM Stent assisted coilling (SAC) is an alternative in the treatment of ruptured aneurysms. Stenting requires the use of dual antiplatelet agents. Hydrocephaly is a complication of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) requiring ventriculostomy. Antiplatelet treatment reveal a risk of hemorrhage in ventriculostomy. Anti-aggregant effect starts at least four hours after the initial doses of treatment. H...

BACKGROUND To determine the prevalence and characteristics of birth defects in perinatal infants in Hubei Province during 200l-2008. METHODS The prevalence of birth defects in perinatal infants delivered after 28 weeks or more was analyzed in Hubei surveillance hospitals during 200l-2008. RESULTS The incidence of birth defects in perinatal infants from 200l to 2008 was 120.0 per 10,000 birt...

PURPOSE To describe the clinical, radiographic, and neuropathologic features of bilateral thalamic glioma. METHODS We searched our hospital records (1963 to present) to identify patients diagnosed as having the disease. RESULTS Our search revealed eight patients, ranging in age from 8-63 years, with bithalamic tumor diagnosed by angiography, CT, and/or MR. All patients displayed personality...

objective(s):copper oxidenanoparticles have different industrial applications so it is inevitable that nanoparticulate products finally find their way into aquatic ecosystems. nevertheless there is little information available about their effects on some of edible fish. the present study aims to determine the acute toxicity and evaluate the effect of two sub-acute concentrations (50 and 70% 96 ...

how to cite this article: yıldırım s. inan ar, gül lh, türk börü ü. an acute motor axonal neuropathy (aman) case with motor conductıon blocks in childhood. iran j child neurol. winter 2016; 10(1):65-69. abstract objective characterized with decreased compound muscle action potentials (cmap) and absence of demyelinating findings in electrophysiological studies, is a subtype of guillain-barre syn...