Enterovirus 71 (EV71) causes epidemics of hand, foot, and mouth disease associated with neurological complications in young children. We report an outbreak of EV71-associated neurological disease that occurred from February through September 1999 in Perth, Western Australia. Fourteen children with culture-proven, EV71-induced neurological disease were identified. Nine patients (64%) developed s...

superficial siderosis (ss) is a rare disease which affects people in all ages and both sexes, but three times more in men. pathological etiology is deposition of hemosiderin (a product of the breakdown of blood) in leptomeninges, subpial layer, ependymal surface and other parts of central nervous system (cns) and typically leads to neurological dysfunction and progressive irreversible signs and...

how to cite this article: karimzadeh p. juvenile type of niemann-pick type c disease and our study in iranian npc patients. iran j child neurol. 201 5 autumn;9:4(suppl.1): 5-6. pls see pdf.

leptospirosis, a disease of great significance in tropical countries, presents commonly as a biphasic illness with acute febrile episode in the first phase followed by a brief afebrile period and then by the second phase of fever with or without jaundice and renal failure. however, it has varied manifestations and unusual clinical features ascribed to immunological phenomena can occur due to th...

BACKGROUND Plasma HIV RNA levels reflect systemic viral replication but in CNS it may occur relatively independent of systemic infection, yet clinical application of CSF HIV-1 RNA levels is less clear. OBJECTIVE To compare CSF and plasma HIV-1 RNA levels of patients with different opportunistic neurological diseases to those without neurological disease, as well as to correlate these levels w...

Celiac disease or gluten sensitivity may initially present as one or more neurological signs and/or symptoms. On the other hand, it may be associated with or complicated by neurological manifestations. Neurological presentations are rare in children but as many as 36% of adult patients present with neurological changes. With severe malnutrition after progression of celiac disease, different vit...

AIM To describe the prevalence and types of neurological disease that occur in association with uveitis. METHODS Retrospective review of medical records of patients attending a tertiary referral uveitis service over a 15 year period. RESULTS Of 1450 patients with uveitis, 115 (7.9%) had neurological disease that was considered to be causally related to the eye inflammation. The most frequen...

BACKGROUND Wilson disease is a rare genetic disorder in which impaired copper excretion results in toxic copper levels and tissue damage. Manifestations are primarily hepatic and/or neuropsychiatric, with a variety of neurological phenotypes. The aim of this study was to characterize neurological signs of Wilson disease in newly diagnosed patients and to determine whether they correlated with d...