Background: Breath-holding spells (BHS) is a sudden and reflexive phenomenon that is common in infancy and early childhood. Despite the harmless nature of BHS, being subjected to this phenomenon is very stressful for parents and sometimes requires treatment. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of fluoxetine therapy (as an anxiolytic medication) on ​​pediatric BHS....

Recently a case of an infantile hypophosphatasia (HPP) patient was published [1]. We would like to report supplemental data that were collected during the first 2 months of his life, when patient was admitted at our neonatal ward because of seizures. After a first period of seizures, successfully treated with a single gift of phenobarbitone, pyridoxine and midazolam, patient went home at day 7....

Aim: In this study, we aimed to investigate the etiological factors, electroencephalographic (EEG) findings, rates of response iron therapy, and factors affecting therapy in children diagnosed with breath-holding spells (BHS). Methods: The study included 136 aged 1 48 months who received after a BHS diagnosis at our pediatric neurology clinic between November 2015 No¬vember 2019. Patient medica...

To evaluate the prognosis of breath holding spells (BHS) after iron treatment, 91 children (56 boys, 35 girls) aged between 6 months and 40 months (median, 17) were followed prospectively for a median of 45 months (range, 6-89). In 49 of the children, the frequency of BHS was less than 10 each month, in 22 it was 10-30 each month, and in 20 more than 30 each month. The spells were cyanotic in 6...

INDIAN PEDIATRICS 297 VOLUME 41MARCH 17, 2004 stereotypic hand wringing and washing movements. All her milestones virtually regressed over one year after an episode of bronchopneumonia. Environmental factors like fever has been reported to trigger the onset of RS in genetically predisposed subjects, though there are hardly any reports in the literature. Seizures are one of the supportive criter...

BACKGROUND Propranolol has become the first-line treatment for complicated Infantile Hemangioma (IH), showing so far a good risk-benefit profile. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a toddler, on propranolol, who suffered cardiac arrest during an acute viral infection. She had a neurally-mediated syncope that progressed to asystole, probably because of concurrent factors as dehydration, b...