Background: Eclampsia is a major cause of perinatal mortality. There need for studies that will correlate maternal factors and outcome, which provide potential strategies to improve fetal outcomes in pregnancies complicated by eclampsia. Aims Objectives: This study aims outcome babies born mothers with antepartum eclampsia convulsion delivery interval. Materials Methods: A included 200 patients...

Convulsion in diabetics is often considered as a result from fluctuation of blood glucose level. However, if a diabetic patient also presents abnormal neurological signs, mitochondrial diseases need to be considered in the differential diagnosis.

We present a case of quadriceps tendon (QT) rupture. QT ruptures can occur in all ages. The cause is mostly traumatic in origin. Spontaneous ruptures that are thought to result from predisposing conditions are rare. Post-convulsion QT ruptures lacking traumas in their history can be overlooked in clinical examinations. This should be born in mind by the attending physician, as early diagnosis a...

UNLABELLED A questionnaire survey was conducted on parents of 58 patients admitted with febrile convulsion (FC) over a 4 month period to the University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur to determine parental response towards febrile convulsion in their child and their understanding of home management of FC. RESULTS The majority of parents (93%) were frightened or were in a panic state on...

Familial hypomagnesemia with hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis (FHHNC) is an autosomal recessive syndrome that affects the tight junction proteins claudin-16 and claudin-19 in the thick ascending limb. In patients with claudin-19 mutations, additional symptoms such as visual impairment and other ophthalmologic findings are expected. In this report, we present a seven-year-old girl with polyur...

Hip fractures are one of the most common injuries which present to an orthopaedic surgeon. Most of these cases are unilateral .Bilateral simultaneous femur neck fracture is a rare occurrence. We report a case of a bilateral neck femur fracture in a 30 year male following a generalized tonic clonic seizure in view of its rarity and also to increase the awareness of such rare injuries. The patien...

The recognition of epileptic convulsions has gathered the focus of researchers in recent years. The main part of the studies make use of Electrocardiograms or Electroencephalograms for such identification; unfortunately, these measurements need devices that are, in the best case, portable. Furthermore, the studies are mainly restricted to laboratory rooms, without focusing on daily life epilept...

To evaluate the anticonvulsant activity of the aerial parts of Verbena officinalis used traditionally by local Iranians for the treatment of convulsion. The anticonvulsant activity of the extract was assessed in pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) and maximal electroshock (MES) induced seizures in mice. Diazepam was used as reference drug. In addition, for investigating the mechanism of V officinalis in P...

A prolonged anticonvulsant action of taurine has been shown in a strain of seizure susceptible rats. The audiogenic rat (AS) has lower intracerebral electroshock thresholds in three auditory nuclei; the ventral cochlear, the inferior colliculi and the medial geniculate, and in one nonauditory structure; the reticular formation, than a strain of nonaudiogenic rats (NAS). Furthermore, the AS anim...

BACKGROUND Left ventricle non-compaction (LVNC) or persistence of spongy myocardium is a rare form of congenital cardiomyopathy which presents with cardiac failure, thromboembolic events, arrhythmia and sudden death. CASE PRESENTATION We report a family with two deceased children and two alive offspring diagnosed with left ventricular (LV) non-compaction. A 9-year-old boy and a 16-year-old gi...