perioperative stress and anesthesia are risk factors for exacerbation of multiple sclerosis (ms) attacks. infection, emotional labiality and hyperpyrexia are also known to increase the risk of postoperative ms attacks. appropriate preoperative evaluation, administration of a good premedication, control of fever, selection of the anesthetic agents and effective postoperative pain control can pre...

BACKGROUND Although thrombocytopenia is common in typhoid fever, its course, response to treatment, and need for specific therapies such as platelet transfusion are not well characterized. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of typhoid fever in a 4-year-old Asian male returned traveler, admitted with prolonged fever and found to have severe thrombocytopenia (platelets 16 × 109/L). Despite appr...

The analysis initially compared LNS intake on days when children were reported to be ill versus not ill. The categories ‘ill’ and ‘not ill’ were then further subdivided. Mutually-exclusive groups were developed to categorize illnesses: fever was given the first priority in forming the groups, followed by diarrhoea, as these have the largest effect on food intake of children (2,3). Fever was def...

ticks are vectors of some important arthropod-borne diseases in both fields of veterinary and medicine, such as lyme, tularemia, rocky mountain spotted fever, and some types of encephalitis as well as crimean congo hemorrhagic fever (cchf). iran is known as one of the main foci of cchf in west of asia. this study was conducted in darrehshahr county because of the development of animal husbandry...

OBJECTIVES To determine the ability of Bishop score and sonographic cervical length to predict time to spontaneous onset of labor and time to delivery in prolonged pregnancy. METHODS Ninety-seven women underwent transvaginal ultrasound examination and palpation of the cervix at 291-296 days' gestation according to ultrasound fetometry at 12-20 weeks' gestation. Sonographic cervical length and...

Background Kawasaki disease (KD) is a prevalent form of systemic vasculitis that can damage various organs and systems in children. Typical KD not difficult to diagnose clinical practice. In recent years, it has been shown an increasing number children do satisfy the diagnostic criteria for typical KD. This condition known as incomplete (IKD). It challenging promptly treat such Case Description...