purpose: to evaluate the effect of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (ivt) reinjection on clinical and optical coherence tomographic (oct) features in refractory diabetic macular edema (dme). methods: in an interventional case series, all ivt-treated patients enrolled in a previous clinical trial (45 subjects), were recalled for performing a new ophthalmologic examination and oct. suitable e...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (ivt) on clinical, angiographic, and optical coherence tomographic parameters in refractory diabetic macular edema (dme). methods: in a double-masked placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial, 88 eyes of 61 patients with dme refractory to previous laser therapy or not suitable for such treatment were included in the stud...

objecive prolonged and uncontrolled refractory status epilepticus (se) is a life-threatening medical emergency in children (1,2,3). there is no consensus on the optimal therapy for refractory status epilepticus (1). the aim of this study was to develop a new method for treating patients with refractory status epilepticus. materials & methods ten children with refractory status epilepticus in mo...

Lamotrigine (LTG), a newly developed antiepileptic drug (AED), is efficacious in treating refractory epilepsy. This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of LTG as add-on therapy in 40 children with refractory epilepsy. The trial was an open-labeled prospective study in children with drug-resistant epilepsy aged

objective the lennox-gastaut syndrome (lgs), one of the most difficult epilepsy syndromes to treat, is characterized by a triad of intractable seizures of various types, a slow (< 2.5-hertz) spike-wave pattern in eeg and mental retardation. the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of lamotrigine as add-on therapy in intractable epilepsy of children with lgs. materials & met...

objective midazolam is a significant and effective drug for control of a life-threatening condition, generalized and partial refractory convulsive status epilepticus. the goal of this study was evaluation of midazolam efficacy for management of this serious disease and its two side effects, hypotension and respiratory failure. materials & methods our study was done using a quasi experimental me...

we discuss here an uncommon condition of neurogenic hypotension in the context of immunoglobulin light chain (amyloid light-chain) amyloidosis. th e most serious feature was autonomic nervous system impairment, mainly characterized by severe refractory orthostatic hypotension, which became progressively invalidating, forcing the patient to bed. moreover, since the systemic involvement of the di...

how to cite this article: fallah r, yadegari y, salmani nodushan m. efficacy and safety of intravenous sodium valproate in convulsive status epilepticus in children in shahid sadoughi hospital. iran. j. child. neurol 2012;6(2):39-44.   objective status epilepticus (se) is the most common pediatric neurologic emergency with high mortality and morbidity. there is no consensus on the drug of choic...

multiple myeloma (mm) characterized by proliferation of plasma cells in bone marrow and production of monoclonal immunoglobulin's. recently, arsenic trioxide (ato), has been considered for treatment refractory mm. we assessed the safety and efficacy of ato for patients with refractory mm. a phase 2, study of arsenic trioxide was conducted in 12 mm patients, whose refractory to two standard ther...

In this study, slag penetration into a magnesia refractory monolithic was investigated by the crucible test method. A synthetic calcium aluminate slag system has been used to study commercial magnesia mix refractory for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 hours at 1450°C and 1600°C. It has been shown that the penetration rate is controlled by a diffusion mechanism at 1450°C. In this case, capillaries are the ...