Abstract Background Totally implantable central venous access devices (ports) have been available for over 10 years, but have not been achieved widespread use in pediatric oncology patients. Ports facilitate the administration of chemotherapy in children with cancer. Materials and Methods In this study, early complications of implantable central venous access devices in children with diff...

BACKGROUND Most studies report that being parents of a child with cancer is a stressful experience, but these have tended to focus on mothers and few have included both parents. Moreover, studies have focussed on families in Western countries and none have been published examining the psychological outcomes for parents living in an Arabic country.This research explores the stress levels of Jord...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether young adults have stereotypical beliefs toward children who have been treated for cancer. METHODS Undergraduate participants read a vignette describing a child labeled either healthy (HL), in remission from cancer and no longer undergoing treatment (RCL), or in remission and still undergoing treatment (RCTL) and rated the child on the Ratings of the Child Question...

Background and Purpose: Due to adverse effects of cancer on children's mental health, relaxation, chemotherapy side-effects and positive effects of music therapy on stress, this study was performed with the goal to determine the effect of music therapy on children's stress after chemotherapy. Methods: The present study is a randomized clinical trial done on 32 children undergoing cancer chem...

PURPOSE This randomized group experiment compared the efficacy of 2 communication interventions (Responsive Education and Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching [RPMT] and the Picture Exchange Communication System [PECS]) on spoken communication in 36 preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). METHOD Each treatment was delivered to children for a maximum total of 24 hr over a 6-month period. S...

The paper reviews findings from recent descriptive data on child support and estimates a multivariate model of the determination of child support income. The descriptive data show large differentials in award status among sociodemographic subgroups of women. Once an award has been made, variation in recipiency rates is small. Payments constitute a significant part of the incomes of women receiv...

BACKGROUND The impact of childhood cancer on the family has been studied in different cultures and continues to be an object of study and concern, In Lebanon, a country of 4 million people 282 new pediatric cases of cancer age <20 years diagnosed in 2004 were reported in 2008. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of Lebanese families living with a child with can...

how to cite this article: arzanian mt, shamsian bsh, karimzadeh p, kajiyazdi m, malek f, hammoud m. posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in pediatric hematologic-oncologic disease: literature review and case presentation. iran j child neurol. 2014 spring 8(2):1-10. objective posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (pres) is a cliniconeuroradiological disease entity, which is repres...