Umbilical cord blood is an alternative hematopoietic stem cell source for patients with hematologic diseases who can be cured by allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Initially, umbilical cord blood transplantation was limited to children, given the low cell dose infused. Both related and unrelated cord blood transplants have been performed with high rates of success for a variety of h...

how to cite this article:  esmaeeli m, erfani sayar r, saghebi a, elmi saghi, rahmani sh, elmi s, rabbani javadi a. screening for depression in hospitalized pediatric patients. iran j child neurol. 2014 winter; 8(1):47-51.   objective in chronically ill children who are hospitalized, many mood changes occur. for example, in children with cancer or renal failure, prolonged hospitalization and ch...

background and purpose: invasive candidiasis (ic) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with hematologic disorders and bone marrow transplant recipients. rapid, specific and sensitive test for the timely accuracy in immunocompromised patients to reduce mortality rates and prevent ic progress is necessary. we established a real-time pcr assay on blood for the diagnosis an...

CONTEXT Human and animal studies have suggested an underlying inflammatory mechanism for a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia. To date, most available reports focused on adult patients. OBJECTIVE We wished to test the hypothesis that the first psychotic episode in youth is associated with inflammation. PATIENTS We studied patients admitted to a pediatric inpatien...

The sideroblastic anemias comprise a heterogeneous group of acquired and congenital disorders which that have in common: (1) anemia; (2) the presence of ring sideroblasts in the bone marrow; and (3) impaired heme biosynthesis. Elevation in iron levels is secondary to a deficiency in mitochondrial physiology. Patients exhibit mild to moderate hemolysis due to peripheral red blood cell destructio...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the use of GATA-3 markers in the detection of hematologic disorders in children. In total, 35 pediatric patients diagnosed with blood disease and treated in Henan Red Cross Blood Center from January 2014 to June 2015 were selected for the observation group. Another 32 healthy children were selected for the control group. The differences in the GAT...