acute glomerulonephritis (agn) is a type of renal disease which indicates the inflammation of glomerulus and nephrons. this study was carried on 94 children, <15 years old with the diagnosis of agn who were admitted to qom and yazd's hospitals between 2000 and 2006. data were collected using hospital records on admission, progression notes and outpatient follow up. among 94 patients, 55.3% were...

Introduction: Chest pain is a common compliant in children and adolescents visiting the clinic. We assess and analyze the etiology of chest pain among children referred a pediatric cardiology clinic in cardiac center in south west of Iran.Materials and Methods: We assessed children with chest pain who visited our medical center during March 2013 to April 2014. Any case of trauma associated ches...

Postoperative intussusception is a rare complication after various kinds of operations, the incidence of POI is 0.01–0.25 % of children following laparotomy. We reported and analyzed a case of a patient who developed postoperative intussusception following laparotomy for Nissen fundoplication.Postoperative intussusception differs from the other cases of invagination with respect to the pathogen...

Kawasaki disease is a systemic vasculitis of children. Among gastrointestinal symptoms of this disease jaundice occurs uncommonly. We present a 23 month boy with icter and clinical hepatitis and final diagnosis of kawasaki disease.

introduction: foreign body ingestion is common among children and more common in boys and in children under the age of 3. it can present with a wide variety of symptoms like dysphagia and drooling or symptoms related to the upper aerodigestive tract.   case report: a 20-month-old male presented with refractory croup and poor feeding since 2 weeks. bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy was performed du...

background and objective: despite consistent evidence that probiotics reduce the duration of diarrhea, there is only weak evidence for their efficacy in reducing the duration of hospitalization. another source of heteroge-neity for probiotic trials is the type of probiotic being assessed; also, information about combined products is scarce. methods: this is a randomized, single-blind controlled...