purpose : patients with infantile or childhood strabismus who do not achieve visual axes alignment early in life are believed to have poor prognosis with respect to the stereopsis. this study investigates the binocularity and stereopsis following delayed surgical alignment in patients with congenital and early-onset strabismus. patients & methods : 36 patients aged between 6-30 years participat...

Background: Infantile spasms (IS) represent an age-specific epileptic disorder of infancy and early childhood. Children with infantile typically exhibit along the electroencephalographic (EEG) pattern known as roceededica. Although rare, 1.6 to 4.5 per 10,000 live births, IS is a significant because association developmental delay or regression, high mortality rate, refractoriness conventional ...

The main characteristic of infantile hemangioma is that it grows rapidly after birth and mostly regresses spontaneously. It is a common practice for only a small part of the hemangioma to be treated, as they can be extremely disfiguring and destructive to normal tissue as well as possibly being life-threatening. Recent studies have discovered that the use of topical 0.5% timolol maleate gel is ...

h E safety of vitamin-D supplementation has been the subject of editorials and statements by pediatric associations, both in Great Britain 1-1 and in the United States 8-11 for more than 12 years, ever since infantile hypercalcemia was correlated with hypervitaminosis D. •• Frank overdose with vitamin D, and hyperreactivity to amounts of vitamin D far lower than those usu· ally deemed toxic, ha...

Sixty-nine infants were examined who presented with rectal bleeding in the first month of life. In 64% of these children no cause was found. Infantile diarrhoea, haemorrhagic disease of the newborn and anal fissure were the most common diagnoses made. The mortality in the entire group was less than 3%. It is concluded that rectal bleeding in this age group is a relatively benign condition and i...

Congenital glucose-galactose malabsorption (CGGM) is a rare cause of intractable infantile diarrhea, with only a few hundred cases recognized worldwide. This life-threatening disorder must be considered in the differential diagnosis of an infant who presents with diarrhea and dehydration that fails to respond to standard therapy. The clinical and diagnostic course of an infant with recurrent ep...

PURPOSE An apparent life-threatening event (ALTE) refers to the sudden occurrence in an infant of a breathing abnormality, color change, or alteration in muscle tone or mental status. The finding of retinal hemorrhage in an infant who has experienced an ALTE strongly suggests the possibility of shaken baby syndrome. Previous ALTE studies have reported the frequency of this specific ocular abnor...

THE retinal histopathology of amaurotic idiocies, as seen in sections stained with routine technique, as well as some of the histochemical changes are relatively well known (Holmes and Paton, 1925; Givner and Roisin, 1944; MacMillan, 1948). Good knowledge of the neuropathology, however, in this group of diseases is largely limited to the brain (Spielmeyer, 1906). To demonstrate the changes of t...

Background Atopic dermatitis (AD) is detrimental to the infants' and their families' quality of life. We aimed to study the disease effects on Iranian infants and their familiesapplying theinfants’ dermatitis quality of life index (IDQOL), and the dermatitis family impa...