background: status epilepticus (se) is a type of persistent lasting seizure with high mortality and morbidity. numerous medications are suggested for the treatment of se, two of which are sodium valproate and phenytoin. the purpose of this study is to conduct a comparison between the effi ciencies of intravenous sodium valproate and phenytoin in the treatment of this type of epilepsy. methods: ...

how to cite this article: gunawan pi, lusiana l, saharso d. hemispherectomy procedure in proteus syndrome. iran j child neurol.summer 2016; 10(3):86-90   objective proteus syndrome is a rare overgrowth disorder including bone, soft tissue, and skin. central nervous system manifestations were reported in about 40% of the patients including hemimegalencephaly and the resultant hemicranial hyperpl...

although treated properly for epilepsy, a number of epileptic children have intractable seizures and about 5-10 per cent of them do not respond to anti -epileptic drugs. in the years 1986-1996 about 10,000 epileptic patients were treated in the children's medical center in tehran. a retrospective study of their medical records revealed that 41 of them had intractable seizures. i of these 4...

Intractable epilepsy is a common clinical problem in pediatrics and approximately 13% of children with epilepsy experience intractable seizures. To determine the efficacy of pyridoxine in treating seizures, 30 infants and children with recurrent seizures were enrolled in the present study. All of them were treated with high-dose oral pyridoxine (40 mg/kg/day), as an adjunct to antiepileptic...

a 2 years and 9 months old boy attended to a gastroenterology clinic of pediatric hospital for investigation of recurrent and intractable vomiting. he had post prandial, non-projectile, non-bilious emesis since past 2 years. since the onset of illness, he was carried to many doctors and underwent extensive laboratory investigations. because all of the science lab and imaging work up for etiolog...

how to cite this article: ghazavi a, tonekaboni sh, karimzadeh p, nikibakhsh aa, khajeh a, fayyazi a. the ketogenic and atkins diets effect on intractable epilepsy: a comparison. iran j child neurol. 2014 summer;8(3): 12-17. abstract objective intractable epilepsy is a major difficulty in child neurology, because the numbers of drugs that are available for treatment are limited and new treatmen...