Background: Diseases that cause acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) often progress rapidly, thus may cause life threatening complications, therefore, their diagnosis and cure are important. This study was carried out to investigate the causes of acute generalized weakness in children referred to Amirkola Children’s Hospital, in Babol, Iran. Methods: In this case series, the epidemiological causes of...

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT), as a monitoring tool of regional lung ventilation, is radiation-free imaging with high temporal resolution. The most important purpose of EIT is to visualize the distribution of tidal volume in different lung regions especially between dependent (dorsal in supine patients) and non-dependent (ventral in supine patients) regions. Many clinical studies evalua...

A transient cerebral disturbance characterized by somnolence of varying degree is described in children after cranial irradiation given as part of central nervous system (C.N.S.) prophylaxis for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in remission.Out of 28 such children receiving cranial irradiation as part of the Medical Research Council protocol for C.N.S. prophylaxis 11 (39%) developed pronounced sym...

T HE Ii\’IPORTANCE OF HEMORRHAGE as a part of the acute radiations syndrome is well recogisized. Warrets’ atsd LeRoy2 cite bleeding as a major cause of death iti radiation sickmsess atnomig the Japanese exposed to atonsic bomb radiations. The frequenscy of hemorrhagic nianifestations has heens emphasized! Isy Cromikite.3 Although bleeding is a more or less coisstaist feature of the acute radiat...

A toxic syndrome characterized by fever, headache, and vomiting, lasting 2-5 days, occurred in 61% of 39 children with acute leukemia in complete remission, receiving central nervous system prophylaxis with intrathecal methotrexate, and in 14% of 34 children receiving the same plus cranial radiation. The syndrome was accompanied by pleocytosis with lymphocytes, monocytoid cells, and neutrophils...

Therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia (t-AML) is a heterogeneous group of myeloid neo‐ plasms occurring as an overwhelming complication in patients receiving previous cytotoxic chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy used to treat haematopoietic or solid malignancies or associated with immunosuppressive treatment for non-neoplastic rheumatologic/autoim‐ mune diseases or solid organ transplantati...

A radiation accident is an unintentional exposure to ionizing radiation or radioactive contamination, resulting in possible deleterious effects on the exposed individuals [1,2]. Since the discovery of X-rays in 1895 and radioactivity in 1896, there have been accidents caused by radiation exposure, although radiological accidents requiring medical care rarely occurred [3]. As early as 1897, Becq...

the aim of this study was to investigate the radioprotective effect of thymol as a natural product against salivary glands dysfunction induced by ionizing radiation in rats. the rats were treated with thymol at dose of 50 mg/kg before exposure to radiation at dose 15gy. salivary gland function was evaluated with radioisotope scintigraphy and then salivary gland to background counts ratio was ca...

dandy-walker syndrome is a congenital brain malformation involving the cerebellum and the fourth ventricle. the key features of this syndrome are mental retardation, cerebellar ataxia, and symptoms related to hydrocephaly. the psychiatric aspects of this syndrome have been insufficiently appreciated. described here is a 17- year- old girl with an acute manic episode emerged in the course of dan...

Tietze’s syndrome is an inflammatory disorder, which frequently misdiagnosed as the severe life-threating problem. Herein, we reported a case of a 23-year-old male, who complained about the acute chest pain after pneumonia complication. After full examination, he diagnosed as Tietze’s syndrome. Since the precise diagnosis of Tietze’s syndrome has a great importance, our report may raise conscio...