objective concern for side-effects of therapy related to treatment of childhood malignancies is becoming an increasingly important topic. in this study, we evaluated extent of vincristine (vcr) induced neurotoxicity in a group of children who underwent chemotherapy, with vcr being part of the regimen. materials & methods in this investigation, for 75 children (54% boys, 46% girls), aged between...

Introduction: Cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN) is a common and one of the major complication diabetes mellitus. It also most under diagnosed least understood diabetic complication4. Objective: To determine frequency cardiac its various grades in type 2 Study Design: Cross Sectional Study. Setting: Medical OPD as well from clinic Services Hospital, Lahore. Methodology: Total 195 patient...

intracranial hemorrhage and entrapment neuropathy are the most serious and disabling complications in hemophilia.the occurance of these neurological complications was studied in 214 hemophiliac patients during a 3 month period. nine patients (4.2%) suffered intracranial hemorrhage (one epidural and others intracerebral). all of intracranial hemorrhage patients had the sevee form of disease (<1%...

the use of manometry, i.e. the recording of pressures within hollow viscera, after being successfully applied to the study of esophageal and anorectal motor dysfunctions, has also been used to investigate physiological and pathological conditions of the small bowel. by means of this technique, it has been possible to understand better the normal motor functions of the small intestine, and their...

objective: diabetes mellitus is one of the most common endocrine diseases with micro-vascular complications and is a common cause of polyneuropathy. we studied the effect of enalapril on electrophysiologic criteria and clinical symptoms of patients with type ii diabetes and sensory neuropathy. materials and methods: a double blind study was conducted on 45 patients with type ii diabetes and neu...

conclusions although toxoplasmosis nr is rare, it should be considered in the differential diagnoses of nr. case presentation a 13-year-old girl presented with painless subacute visual loss in her right eye for a week at khatam-al-anbia eye hospital in mashhad, iran. following comprehensive evaluation, a diagnosis of toxoplasmic nr was made. the nr favorably responded to classic anti-toxoplasmo...

background: the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors of the sensory neuropathy in type 2 diabetic patients referring to yazd diabetes research center. neuropathy is one of the most common complications of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes melli-tus. material and methods: this is a cross-sectional study on 2350 diabetic patients (1071 male, 1279 female) referred to ya...

Background and aim Damage to small nociceptive fibres may contribute painful diabetic neuropathy. We aimed compare large nerve fibre measurements together with skin biopsy corneal confocal microscopy in patients type 1 diabetes or painless Methods have assessed the McGill pain questionnaire, neuropathy disability score, vibration perception threshold, warm cold sensation thresholds, electrophys...