Background: Eclampsia is a major cause of perinatal mortality. There need for studies that will correlate maternal factors and outcome, which provide potential strategies to improve fetal outcomes in pregnancies complicated by eclampsia. Aims Objectives: This study aims outcome babies born mothers with antepartum eclampsia convulsion delivery interval. Materials Methods: A included 200 patients...

The disturbances of memory immediately following electric convulsion therapy (E.C.T.) have been the subject of many investigations (Zubin and Barrera, 1941; Mayer-Gross, 1943; Liberson and Wilcox, 1945; Kalinowsky and Hoch, 1947). Implicit, ifnot explicit, in the majority of these papers is the assumption that memory can be studied in isolation, Bartlett, however, (1932), long ago demonstrated ...

49 infants and children (29 boys and 20 girls) between the ages ~f 3 nlonthes and 5 Years, fulfilling the criteria of Fc were studied dusing the acute phase of the illness; both clinically and electroencephalographically and were followed up fox I2 nzonths with the main airn of defining the inlportant risk factors for recurrence of F.C. Recurrence was reported if2 13 cases (26.5%) during that p...

A five-year-old girl was admitted to Hammer-smith Hospital with a diagnosis of a perforated appendix. Her mother stated that she had complained of pain in the R.I.F. for 12 hours prior to admission, that during that time she had vomited periodically and was "breathing very fast." The pain had become severe in the evening and she was brought up to the Casualty Department. Physical examination re...