background and objective: chronic renal failure (crf) may have many effects on nervous system and manifest as headache, seizure, dialysis disequilibrium syndrome, cerebral hemorrhage, hypertensive encephalopathy, uremic neuropathy, and some neurologic complications of transplantation. in this present study we investigate neurologic disorders in children with crf. methods: in this descriptive, c...

Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) has been used primarily for immune deficiency patients, and its greatest expansion is seen more and more in the treatment of autoimmune disorders, especially in neurology. The benefits of IVIG treatment include its availability in all treatment centers and its ease of administration in an outpatient setting. This article gives an overview of some autoimmune neu...

Organic solvents have long been recognized as being toxic to multiple organ systems. It is commonly known that exposure to organic solvents causes hematologic diseases, including hematologic cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma. A large body of literature has developed which shows that exposure to organic solvents causes kidney disease, especially chronic glomerulonephritis. A number of recent...

INTRODUCTION There is scarce information on the demographic profile and diseases affecting neurologic outpatients. METHODS We evaluated 7,519 neurologic outpatients over 20 years at the outpatient clinic of the Department of Neurological Sciences, Hospital-Clínica Kennedy, Guayaquil, Ecuador. RESULTS Mean age was 48 ± 19.4 years, and 57.8% were women. Common reasons for consultation include...

The promise of stem cell regeneration has been the hope of many neurologic patients with permanent damage to the central nervous system. There are hundreds of stem cell trials worldwide intending to test the regenerative capacity of stem cells in various neurological conditions from Parkinson's disease to multiple sclerosis. Although no stem cell therapy is clinically approved for use in any hu...