Background and Objective: Febrile convulsions (FC) are the most common seizure disorder in children. Lumbar puncture should be considered in any case with FC who is suspected to intracranial infections. This study determined white blood cell and polymorphonuclear cell counts, and protein and glucose levels in cere-brospinal fluids (CFS) of children hospitalized with FC. Methods: In this cross ...

  Background: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) is an inherited hereditary autosomal recessive heredity, which is often induced by mutation in the CYP21A2 gene. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of cluster exon 6 mutation among patients with CAH deficient in 21-OHD enzyme in Iranian population. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive study and Blood samples were ...

    Background & Aim: Hemolytic uremic syndrome(HUS) is the most common cause of renal failure in children. Hemolytic microangiopathic anemia, thrombocytopenia and renal failure are diagnostic triads of the disease. The aim of the preset study is determining histopathological findings of renal biopsy and their correlation with early outcome of the patients. Patients and Methods: In this cross-s...

Background: Neonatal thrombosis is one of the most important challenges among patients admitted in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), which can lead to an asymptomatic condition, limb loss or even death. This study was performed to determine the incidence and risk factors of neonatal thrombosis in a tertiary care hospital in Tehran, Iran. Material and Methods: In this historical cohort, all n...

Background: Febrile seizures (FS) occur in 5% of children with 6 to 60 months ages. Many investigations are being performed, one of them is EEG. This study was done to determine EEG in recurrent simple and complex febrile seizures. Methods: In this descriptive, cross sectional study, we evaluated 86 patients with recurrent and complex febrile seizure admitted to neurology ward in Ali-Asghar ...

Aplastic anemia is a clinical syndrome in which there is peripheral blood pancytopenia due to reduced or absent production of blood cells without evidence of another marrow disorder. The disorder may be acquired or inherited like Fanconi’s anemia. In this study, survial and prognostic factors in acquired aplastic anemia is determined. This analytic cross-sectional study was done on 224 ...

Cardiac symptoms and premature death from cardiac causes are still major problem with beta thalassemia despite chelation therapy. Heart complications are the leading causes of mortality in the absence of effective iron chelation therapy. Many patients develop evidence of iron-induced myocardial damage with cardiac failure, cardiac arrhythmia, sudden death or death from progressive conge...

In order to find out the incidence and severity of intraventricular hemorrhage (lVH) in premature babies in Iran which probably has not been evaluated and reported so far and compare it with reports of other countries, a prospetive study was done over a two year period. All premature babies at or before 34 weeks gestation which were admitted in the newborn nursery of Ali Asghar Children Hospita...

Intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) is one of the major cause of neonatal mortality and morbidity in premature babies. The etiology of intraventricular hemorrhage is multifactorial. The role of normal vaginal delivery as a cause is controversial in literature. During recent years the incidence of cesarian section has been increasing in Iran and many other countries. In a prospective study we comp...