Klebsiella pneumoniae infections are uncommon in premature and maternity units as well as in paediatric wards. Hospital epidemics are exceptional, only some five published reports being known to us. Kliewe (1930) reports an epidemic in which pneumonia developed in 11 or 12 infants in a single ward, Kiebsiella having been cultured from the pharynx of all 11. Two infants died. Of the remaining 13...

how to cite this article: taghdiri mm, nemati h. infantile spasm: a review article. iran j child neurol. 2014 summer;8(3): 1-5. abstract objective infantile spasm (is) is a convulsive disease characterized by brief, symmetric axial muscle contraction (neck, trunk, and/or extremities). is is a type of seizure that was first described by west in 1841, who witnessed the seizure in his own son. wes...

background: choriocarcinoma is a rare highly malignant trophoblastic neoplasm. it can be preceded by any form of gestation including a complete or a partial mole, miscarriage and normal pregnancy. simultaneous intraplacental choriocarcinoma involving both mother and infant is extremely rare. hepatomegaly, anemia, elevated ßhcg is the diagnostic triad. here we report a 6 weeks old afghan girl in...

introduction infantile colic is somehow believed to be the worst pain a baby has thus experienced. it is usually manifested as an acute abdominal pain with intense spasmodic cramping accompanied by intense crying lasting for more than 3 hours a day during at least a three days period. accordingly, this study is aimed to investigate the effects of fumaria on such pain in 3-16 weeks-old infants. ...

G M1 gangliosidosis G M1 gangliosidosis is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder with an estimated incidence of between 1 in 100,000 and 1 in 200,000 (1). Clinical features are predominantly those of a neurodegenerative disorder due to G M1 ganglioside deposition in the central nervous system (CNS). Other clinical features include hepatosplenomegaly, coarse facial features and skele...

hemangiopericytoma is a rare vascular tumor observed mostly in adults. it usually presents with a painless slowly enlarging mass. the infantile type with much rarer occurrence has a different course compared to adults. very few case reports have been described in the literature with disease onset in the infancy. the first reported case of infantile hemangiopericytoma of limbs from the middle ea...

Introduction Infantile colic is a common disorder in the three first months of childhood. There is no clear management in treating this disease which may lead to psychosocial consequences in parents. Due to the importance of infantile colic in Traditional Iranian Medicine (TIM) in this study was conducted. Materials and Methods In this review article, we searched the words for colic infantile l...

Case presentation: M.S.G, 1 year old, previously healthy, suffered intoxication by acaricide (organophosphate and pyrethroid) in November 2021. Patient presented seizures, vomiting, bronchoaspiration, pneumonia, severe respiratory distress two cardiorespiratory arrests. The magnetic resonance imaging showed hemorrhagic laminar cortical necrosis slight accentuation of sulci brain fissures. He wa...