meningitis is one of the most common infectious cerebral nervous system (cns), defined as an inflammation of the meninges. it is clinically categorized into a chronic and acute based on the acuity of symptoms. vomiting, bulging fontanel and fever are the main symptoms in the patients with meningitis. bacterial meningitis is a severe, potentially life-threatening infection that is associated wit...

how to cite this article: khosroshahi n, alizadeh p, khosravi m, salamati p, kamrani k. spinal fluid lactate dehydrogenase level differentiates between structural and metabolic etiologies of altered mental status in children. iran j child neurol. 2015 winter;9(1):31-36. abstract objective altered mental status is a common cause of intensive care unit admission in children. differentiating struc...

Enterobius vermicularis is a nematod of large intestine in man. Extra intestinal localization of this parasite is rare. A 60 year old man was admitted to the hospital with the clinical manifestation of meningitis. In laboratory examination of cerebrospinal fluid (C.S.F), the appearance was red, Albu-min level was high and the glucose showed normal value. Haematoxylin and Eosin stained slides pr...

evaluation of magnesium levels in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with febrile convulsion (fc) hospitalized in bahrami hospital in tehran in 2010-2011. in the past, decreased levels of magnesium in serum and csf of patients with fc were reported. the purpose of this study was to identify the possible role of magnesium in febrile seizures in children. identifying this condition, we may...

in this study, we examined the role of early acetazolamide administration in reducing the risk of cerebrospinal fluid (csf) leakage in patients with a high risk of permanent csf leakage. in a randomised clinical trial, 57 patients with a high risk of permanent csf leakage (rhinorrhea, otorrhea, pneumatocele or imaging-based evidence of severe skull-base fracture) were analysed. in the experimen...

background: incidence and predominant subtype  of guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) differs geographically. electrophysiology has an important  role in early diagnosis and  prediction  of prognosis. this study  is conducted to determine the frequent  subtype  of gbs in a large group of patients  in iran and compare  nerve conduction studies in axonal and demyelinating forms of gbs. methods:    we  ...

conclusions according to this research and prevalence of hhv-6 in children, evaluation of csf (detecting the hhv-6 dna by pcr) is recommended in patients younger than 13 months with possible encephalitis. results from a total of 114 patients, hhv-6 was detected in 10 (8.8%), 90% of which were boys with mean age 7.7 months and median of 7.5 months. no significant differences were found in clinic...

To the Editor:—We read with interest the article of Conzen et al. demonstrating a reduction of cardiac troponin I release after coronary artery bypass grafting on the beating heart when sevoflurane was compared to propofol. Most previous studies identified peak postoperative troponin I as the major endpoint. It is not clear from the article of Conzen et al. which was the peak postoperative trop...