fifty six episodes of dka occurred in 33 patients during the period between 1998 -96. these patients were admitted and treated in bahrami children hospital, a tehran university teaching medical center. the most frequent clinical manifestations consisted of polyuria and polydipsia (66%), nausea and vomiting (64%), reduction in consciousness (53%), and kussmaul respiration (53.5%). 54.6% of dka e...

leigh syndrome is a severe progressive neurodegenerative disorder with different clinical presentationsthat usually becomes apparent in the first year of life and rarely in late childhood and elderly years. it is causedby failure of mitochondrial respiratory chain and often results in regression of both mental and motor skills and might even lead to death. in some of the inherited neurodegenera...

abstract background: to investigate the predisposing and precipitating risk factors for suicide ideations and suicide attempts in young and adolescent females, we tried to introduce a holistic model of suicidal behavior in young and adolescent girls. methods: this study is based on the survey studies and was cross-sectional. considering high rates of suicide attempts in provinces of iran, three...

Pituitary apoplexy is a rare but life threatening condition caused by sudden haemorrhage or infarction of the pituitary gland. Potential precipitating factors in the occurrence of acute pituitary apoplexy in 30 consecutive patients were identified and compared with the clinical characteristics and outcome of patients with and without associated factors. Six patients had a previously known pitui...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to identify the precipitating factors from a medical and social point of view, in addition to discussing some clinical and laboratory aspects of diabetic ketoacidosis. METHODS Sixty-eight patients were admitted to King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, over a 2 year period, (April 1999 through to April 2001). Diagnosis of diabet...

S’agissant du militantisme armé, il est commun de considérer qu’interviennent deux séries facteurs à son origine : des « facilitant » ce type d’engagement (facilitating factors) et accélérant le recours aux armes (precipitating factors). Afin voir comment ces éléments s’orchestrent au sein mécanismes faisant intervenir niveaux macro, méso microsociaux, nous avons réalisé une enquête sociologie ...

BACKGROUND Exacerbations of heart failure appear frequently associated with precipitating factors not directly related to the evolution of cardiac disease. There still a paucity of data on the proportional distribution of precipitating factors specifically in elderly patients. The aim of this study was to examine prospectively the precipitating factors leading to hospitalization in elderly pati...