background: acute appendicitis is the most common surgical emergency of the childhood. its diagnosis is really challenging. a constellation of through history taking, physical examination, radiographic investigations, and laboratory analysis should be used to balance the risk of delayed operative intervention against the removal of a normal appendix. here a case with misdiagnosis of acute appen...

bachground: paraquat (pq) intoxication manifests with pulmonary edema and fibrosis, heart failure, hepatic failure, and sometimes convulsions. in severe cases, the patients may die within the early hours. at best conditions, the conventional therapeutic methods can only save less than 50% of the victims of intentional pq intoxication. the aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome of new the...

stereologic methods are used to abtain quantitative information about 3-dimensional structures from histologic sections. the aim of the present study was using new and unbiased stereologic techniques to investigate changes in volume and number of glomeruli after chronic lead acetate intoxication both quantitatively and in 3-dimensional spaces.lead is one of the heavy metals that has adverse eff...

background: unintentional drug intoxication is still a major cause of mortality and morbidity in young children. method & materials: in order to study changes of epidemiological indices of children intoxication during a 10-year period in hamadan province, all cases admitted to ghaem hospital from 1995-1999 were recruited, and compared with all cases admitted to the same hospital from 1990-1994....

abstract background: acute opium intoxication is one of the most common causes of poisoning in children in iran. although most cases are accidental, traditional misuse of opium for symptomatic therapy of various childhood diseases also contributes to high rate of opium intoxication in iran. cases: here, we report two cases of opium intoxication in infants resulted from transdermal application o...

abstract we report a case of paint thinner intoxication by inhalation, with rhabdomyolysis, renal failure, skin lesions and severe sciatic nerve lesion at gluteal region.

ABSTRACT Background: Acute opium intoxication is one of the most common causes of poisoning in children in Iran. Although most cases are accidental, traditional misuse of opium for symptomatic therapy of various childhood diseases also contributes to high rate of opium intoxication in Iran. Cases: Here, we report two cases of opium intoxication in infants resulted from transdermal applicat...

Acetaminophen (APAP) intoxication is a common cause of hepatic toxicity and life-threatening hepatic failure. However, few studies have investigated the possible association between APAP intoxication and acute kidney injury (AKI). We constructed a retrospective cohort study to clarify the relationship between APAP intoxication and the risk of AKI.We identified patients with APAP intoxication an...

introduction vit d level is low in human milk (20-60 iu/lit) thus dialy supplement of 400 vit d is advised since birth for all infants. on the other hand upper limit dose for long term vit d intake is 1000 iu/day for children less than one year of age. excessive vit d more than upper limit by physicians or parents can cause hypervitaminosed. we report a rare case of hypervitaminose d in two mon...