INTRODUCTION Febrile seizure is among the most common convulsion disorders in children, which strikes 2% to 5% of children between 3 to 60 months of age. Some studies have reported that iron deficiency could be a risk factor for febrile seizure. The present study was conducted to compare the rate of iron deficiency anemia in febrile children with and without seizure. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thi...

(Received for publication, September 15, 1949) Electro (encephalo) graphic studies of convulsion induced by cardiazol injection have hitherto given significant meanings in explanation of the cerebral mechanism for convulsion phenomenon and improvement of psychic cgndition.1)2)13)14) We also had once investigated electrographic changes during cardiazol convulsion in man.16) Those results, howeve...

The pathophysiology of febrile convulsion, the most common childhood neurologic disease, remains unclear. In this study, we investigated what role a heat shock protein plays in this disease. We enrolled eight boys and two girls with febrile convulsion and 10 age-matched healthy controls. We did a biosynthetic evaluation of both groups by separating lymphocytes and measuring the expression of he...

Background: Diarrhea is a leading cause of illness and death in children developing countries, where an estimated 1300 million episodes 3.2 deaths occur under-5 children. About 80% due to diarrhea the first 2 years life. Convulsions may during diarrheic illness. Children develop febrile seizures if fever accompanies diarrhea. Objective: The aim current work was investigate prevalence determina...

Zinc homeostasis in the brain is associated with the etiology and manifestation of epileptic seizures. Adult Noda epileptic rats (NER, >12-week-old) exhibit spontaneously generalized tonic-clonic convulsion about once a day. To pursue the involvement of synaptic Zn(2+) signal in susceptibility to spontaneous seizures, in the present study, the effect of zinc chelators on epileptogenesis was exa...