Background: Steven-Johnson syndrome is one of life-threatening skin abnormality. SJS complication involve multiorgan disfunction such as mucosa, ocular, respiration, and digestive tract. Around 30- 50% patient experience chronic ocular sequel, which concludes progressive symblepharon, margo palpebral keratinization, trichiasis, entropion, corneal pannus, dry eye syndrome, persistent epithelial ...

objective this study was undertaken to evaluate the clinical spectrum of myasthenia gravis in children and determine factors that help the clinician in his/her diagnosis and management. materials & methods a retrospective review was performed on all pediatric patients suffering from myasthenia gravis (m.g) admitted in the department of pediatric neurology of the mofid hospital of the shaheed be...

purpose: to report two sisters with congenital myasthenic syndrome (cms) masquerading as myasthenia gravis. patients and findings: two six and seven years old sisters presented with variable strabismus, ptosis, and fatigue. all symptoms were aggravated with exercise and improved with rest. intramuscular prostigmin injection decreased their symptoms. a diagnosis of cms was made according to earl...

an aborted female holstein foetus with marked generalized anasarca was referred to the excellence centre for ruminant abortion and neonatal mortality, ferdowsi university of mashhad. on postmortem examination, red-tinged ascites, pale and firm liver with extreme irregularity and numerous round to oval slightly raised foci on the capsular surface were seen. histological examination revealed wide...

atrial septal defect (asd) is a common congenital anomaly that has low surgical mortality and morbidity. we report a very rare case of a low-lying asd, combined with the drainage of the inferior vena cava and the left superior vena cava into the left atrium. this combination was associated with an unroofed coronary sinus. we also describe an iatrogenic surgical diversion of the inferior vena ca...

background the most common space occupying lesions of the fetal thorax are congenital diaphragmatic hernia (cdh), congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (ccam), and bronchopulmonary sequestration (bps). although applications of prenatal mri have been vastly improved in the recent years, its use in the assessment of space occupying lesions of the fetal chest differs among centers. objectives...

P rimary lymphoedema is oedema that occurs as a consequence of a failure of lymph drainage and arises from an intrinsic abnormality of the lymphatic system. Familial lymphoedema usually segregates as an autosomal dominant trait with reported variable expression and reduced penetrance. 3 Primary lymphoedema can be classified according to age of onset, at birth as primary congenital lymphoedema (...