INDIAN PEDIATRICS 297 VOLUME 41MARCH 17, 2004 stereotypic hand wringing and washing movements. All her milestones virtually regressed over one year after an episode of bronchopneumonia. Environmental factors like fever has been reported to trigger the onset of RS in genetically predisposed subjects, though there are hardly any reports in the literature. Seizures are one of the supportive criter...

Aim: In this study, we aimed to investigate the etiological factors, electroencephalographic (EEG) findings, rates of response iron therapy, and factors affecting therapy in children diagnosed with breath-holding spells (BHS). Methods: The study included 136 aged 1 48 months who received after a BHS diagnosis at our pediatric neurology clinic between November 2015 No¬vember 2019. Patient medica...

Recently a case of an infantile hypophosphatasia (HPP) patient was published [1]. We would like to report supplemental data that were collected during the first 2 months of his life, when patient was admitted at our neonatal ward because of seizures. After a first period of seizures, successfully treated with a single gift of phenobarbitone, pyridoxine and midazolam, patient went home at day 7....

The wrong diagnosis of epilepsy is common. At referral epilepsy centers, psychogenic non-epileptic attacks are by far the most common condition found to have been misdiagnosed as epilepsy, with an average delay of 7-10 years. There are many "red flags" that can raise the suspicion of psychogenic non-epileptic attacks. Syncope is the second most common condition misdiagnosed as epilepsy, and it ...