Introduction Infantile colic is a common disorder in the three first months of childhood. There is no clear management in treating this disease which may lead to psychosocial consequences in parents. Due to the importance of infantile colic in Traditional Iranian Medicine (TIM) in this study was conducted. Materials and Methods In this review article, we searched the words for colic infantile l...

BACKGROUND This study analyzed the clinical presentation, postoperative morbidity and mortality and incidence of associated extrahepatic biliary atresia in children with biliary cysts in Taiwan. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the records of 158 pediatric patients with biliary cysts seen between June 1981 and July 2004, with follow-up ranging from 12 months to 22 years (mean, 11.2 +/- 6.1...

Botulinum toxin (BOTOX®) has been reported to have success as an alternative to traditional surgery for patients with infantile and early onset acquired strabismus. Selected cases with smaller angles may do well with botulinum toxin as a primary treatment; however, the large angle associated with most cases of infantile esotropia in my experience prevents its use. We report the use of botulinum...

Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) is etiologically connected with genetic/epigenetic growth dysregulation. The supposed localization of this disorder is a short arm of chromosome 11 (11p 15.5). Its prevalence is 1:13 per 700 newborns. West syndrome is an age-dependent epileptic syndrome related to a group of infantile epileptic encephalopathies and characterized by a triad of basic symptoms: se...

Background CACNA1A-related disorders present with persistent progressive and non-progressive cerebellar ataxia paroxysmal events: epileptic seizures non-epileptic attacks. These phenotypes overlap co-exist in the majority of patients. Objective To describe infantile onset disorder to explore intra-familial variations genotype-phenotype correlations. Material methods This study was a multicenter...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence of infantile esotropia from a defined population in the United States over a 30-year period. Recent reports from the United Kingdom have suggested that strabismus or strabismus surgery is occurring less frequently today than in previous years. METHODS The medical records of all patients diagnosed with infantile esotropia within Olmsted County, Minnesota,...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND Infantile fibrosarcomas are soft tissue sarcomas that are diagnosed at or soon after birth. In the present study, we retrospectively evaluated clinical characteristics, treatment modalities and outcome of patients diagnosed with infantile fibrosarcoma at our institution. METHODS A retrospective review was conducted to evaluate demographic characteristics, presenting featur...

atopic dermatitis (ad) is one of the most common infantile diseases. immunological dysfunctions in ad patients may predispose them to infections. the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between infantile ad and urinary tract infection (uti). in this cross sectional study, we enrolled 57 patients with ad aged 1 to 24 months that referred to dermatology clinic, and 57 healthy contr...

OBJECTIVE Infantile colic is a painful condition in the first months of infancy. Acupuncture is used in Scandinavia as a treatment for infantile colic. A randomized controlled trial was carried out with the aim of testing the hypothesis that acupuncture treatment has a clinically relevant effect for this condition. DESIGN A prospective, blinding-validated, randomized controlled multicentre tr...

BACKGROUND Pompe disease (Glycogen storage disease type II, GSD II, acid alpha-glucosidase deficiency, acid maltase deficiency, OMIM # 232300) is an autosomal-recessive lysosomal storage disorder due to a deficiency of acid alpha-glucosidase (GAA, acid maltase, EC 3.2.1.20, Swiss-Prot P10253). Clinical manifestations are dominated by progressive weakness of skeletal muscle throughout the clinic...