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...

acute gastroenteritis (age) is a serious disease and is one of the most important causes of early childhood mortality in developing countries. the neurologic manifestations can be propounded as primary symptoms of age. in order to determine the rate, clinical presentations, and outcome of patients with age who presented with neurologic manifestations and compare them with patients without neuro...

Background: Hepatic encephalopathy is defined as a neuropsychiatric brain dysfunction in acute or chronic liver failure. Infection and inflammation have crucial role in its pathophysiology. The purpose of our study was to demonstrate the relationship between toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) expression and the encephalopathy induced with endotoxin in biliary cirrhotic rats. Methods: The present stud...

how to cite this article: malak m, barzgar m. baclofen induced encephalopathy in a 6-year-old boy with advanced renal failure. iran j child neurol. spring 2015;9(2):61-63.   abstract baclofen is a drug for many diseases for all ages, but it is hazardous in patients with renal failure. this article talks about a case of baclofen overdose in a child with renal failure. a 6-year-old boy admitted t...

a 33 yr old man, previously diagnosed with hypothyroidism, presented with decreased level of consciousness and generalized tonic-clonic (gtc) seizure to namazi hospital, shiraz, iran, during april 2015. the patient later referred with another episode of seizure like attack for which he received phenytoin, carbamazepine and levothyroxine and was discharged. during his last admission, the patient...

Background: Bilirubin encephalopathy is a clinical syndrome, associated with bilirubin toxicity in the central nervous system, resulting in chronic and permanent sequelae. It has been estimated that approximately 60% and 80% of term and preterm newborns develop jaundice in the first week of life, respectively. In the present study, we aimed to determine the prevalence, morbidity, and mortality ...

Multinuclear organometallic species play a significant role in alkylation of carbonyl compounds. Enantioselective alkylation of aldehydes using a 1: 1 reagent/substrate stoichiometry is achievable by chirally modified lithium/magnesium binary organometallic reagents. For example, diethylmagnesium treated with di-O-lithio-(S)-2.2'dihydroxy1, 1'-binaphthyl reacts with benzaldehyde in a THFdimetho...