how to cite this article: dara n, sayyari aa, imanzadeh f. hepatic encephalopathy: early diagnosis in pediatric patients with cirrhosis. iran j child neurol. 2014 winter; 8(1):1-11. objective as acute liver failure (alf) and chronic liver disease (cirrhosis) continue to increase in prevalence, we will see more cases of hepatic encephalopathy. primary care physician are often the first to suspec...

Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is the most prevalent autoimmune thyroid disease with an increasing incidence. Although exact causes and pathogenesis of are not yet fully understood, literature indicates complex interactions immunologic, genetic, environmental, epigenetic factors. It generally leads to hypothyroidism which can cause neuromuscular problems including neuropathy myopathy. Data on function...

how to cite this article: salehi omran mr, nooreddini h, baghdadi f. acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood; a case report. iran j child neurol. 2013 spring;7(2):51-54.   abstract acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood (anec) is an atypical disease followed by respiratory or gastrointestinal infection, high fever, which is accompanied with rapid alteration of consciousness and sei...

how to cite this article: sharifian m. hypertensive encephalopathy. iran j child neurol 2012; 6(3):1-7. hypertension is called the silent killer and vital organs such as the brain, eyes,kidneys and the heart are the targets. seizure, central nervous system (cns)hemorrhage, and cerebrovascular accident (cva), blindness and heart attacksare the end points.the prevalence of hypertension in childre...

Anti-complementary activity was detected in the sera of 23 (59%) out of 39 patients with Hashimoto thyroiditis; in 10 (29%) out of 34 patients with primary hypothyroidism; in six (17%) out of 36 patients with thyrotoxicosis; and in only six (8%) out of 78 control subjects. Fractionation of Hashimoto sera by Sephadex G-200 chromatography showed that the anti-complementary activity was founding f...

Noonan syndrome is an autosomal dominant, multisystem disorder. Autoimmune thyroiditis with hypothyroidism is an infrequent feature in patients with Noonan syndrome. A 16-year-old boy was admitted because of chest discomfort and dyspnea; an echocardiogram revealed pericardial effusion. Additional investigations led to a diagnosis of severe hypothyroidism due to Hashimoto thyroiditis. The patien...

We propose a minimally supervised method for multilingual paraphrase extraction from definition sentences on the Web. Hashimoto et al. (2011) extracted paraphrases from Japanese definition sentences on the Web, assuming that definition sentences defining the same concept tend to contain paraphrases. However, their method requires manually annotated data and is language dependent. We extend thei...

CHEST I 100 I 6 I DECEMBER, 1991 1741 1 Rolla C, Bucca C, Costa F, Calleris V. Castenetto E, Brussino L. Methacholine bronchial responsiveness in mitral valve disease before and after valve replacement [abstract]. Am RF’/ Respir Dis 1990; 141:A730 2 Nishimura Y, Maeda H, Yokoyama M, Fukuzaki H. Bronchial hyperreactivity in patients with mitral valve disease. Chest 1990; 98:1085-90 3 Nishimura Y...

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...