background: seizure is the most common pediatric neurologic disorder. epidemiological studies of childhood epilepsy are of importance to compare incidence and prevalence rates, age distribution, inheritance, seizure types, epilepsy syn­dromes and treatment strategies. since there is little information about prevalence of childhood seizure in iran, this study was aimed to determine the life time...

background asthma is a chronic inflammatory air-way disease with increasing prevalence rate during the recent years. there are studies about the relationship between asthma and infectious diseases, including the association between asthma and helicobacter pylori. according to the latest studies, there is an epidemiological correlation between asthma prevalence and prevalence of h. pylori. objec...

objective the guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) is characterized by the acute onset of rapidlyprogressive, symmetric muscle  weakness with absent or decreased deep tendon reflexes. gbs is the most common cause of acute flaccid paralysis in childhood, with an incidence of 0.6-4 per 100 000 population per year. the clinical features are distinct and obtaining patient's history and conducting an exami...

utopian fantasy in the poetry of sohrab sepehri and abbas beydoun(a comparative study)tooraj zinivand *jahungir amiri **reza kiany ***abstractif we look at the poems of the iranian poet sohrab sepehri and lebanese poetabbas beydoun , we find that the fantasy adopted by poets imagination is linked topsychological factors, and this fantasy often comes in surreal manner in branches ofliterary, sym...

introduction in children with nephrotic syndrome, it is probable to determine a hypothyroid state because of thyroxine (t4), tri-iodothyronine (t3) and thyroid-binding globulin loss in presence of proteinuria. objectives: to examine thyroid function in pediatric cases of nephrotic syndrome. methods: in a cross-sectional study, from march 2010 to march 2012, thyroid function tests were performed...

background: the accidents are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children in in the world. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of educational intervention on promotion of prevention behaviors of home accidents in mothers with children less than 5- year based on protection motivation theory (pmt) in 2015. materials and methods: in this controlled interventional stud...

objective epilepsy is a known condition in both children and adults but less evidence is available about the refractory epilepsy, the causes of treatment failure and the strategies to confront it. we intend to find the prognostic factors to detect the patients who will fail the treatment, in the early stages of the disease. materials & methods after defining the criteria for exclusion and exclu...