to review children with kawasaki disease admitted in 17-shahrivar hospital of rasht from 1999 to 2007. we reviewed retrospectively 64 children with kawasaki disease between 1999-2007 admitted in 17-shahrivar hospital of rasht. frequency distributions of variants including age, sex, season, clinical and laboratory manifestations, response to treatment and complications of the patients were abstr...

during two years study about mitochondrial disease (sep 1999-agu 2001), 15 cases of leigh syndrome (ls) were diagnosed, that consisted of 11 boys and 4 girls aged between 6 to 156 (mean: 40.5) months. most of the patients (46.7%) became symptomatic between 1-5 years of age. triggering factors were reported in 66.6% of the patients and 40% of them became symptomatic after infections. the most fr...