Aim: The aim of the study was to asses the necessity of lumbar puncture in infants under 12 months of age with simple febrile seizure. Material and Methods: The study group covered 33 infants less 12 months of age and diagnosed as simple febrile seizure. Lumbar puncture was performed for all the patients. The age, vaccination status, physical examination, laboratory results of patients are eval...

The use of anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents has largely increased. Diagnostic lumbar puncture in patients taking these drugs represents a challenge considering the opposing risks of bleeding and thrombotic complications. To date there are no controlled trials, specific guidelines, nor clear recommendations in this area. In the present review we make some recommendations about lumbar punct...

Lumbar puncture has, for many years, been the responsibility of the internal medicine physician or the neurologist. As more patients have undergone spine surgery and with the current increase in body mass index of the general population, the radiologist has been consulted with increasing frequency to perform lumbar puncture with fluoroscopic guidance. Radiology, in fact, is now the dominant ove...

Introduction: Infections are one of the main causes of death during childhood. Epidemiologic studies in Iran showed that the incidence of neonatal sepsis was 1.8% in 1995. Moreover, the incidence of neonatal meningitis is 0.2 to 0.4 in per 1,000 live births. The aim of this study was to determine the necessity of lumbar puncture (LP) in early neonatal sepsis. Methods: In a retrospective study, ...

Introduction:   Sometimes physicians need to assess some markers on selected children's cerebrospinal fluid specimen according to lumbar puncture (LP). Although immediate diagnosis and treatment especially for meningitis is necessary, But just at this moment, due to some incorrect believe in society, some parents may not allow physician to do LP. The reality is that most of these people, if the...

Introduction: Evaluation of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) white blood cell (WBC) count and glucose and protein concentrations is used to assess the probability of the presence of central nervous system (CNS) infection. Although normal values are well established for CSF cell counts and protein and glucose contents in children and adults, this is not the case for neonates. The purpose of this st...

Hospital Physician June 2007 51 Lumbar puncture is a common procedure performed for diagnostic, anesthetic, and obstetric purposes; however, up to one third of patients may experience headache after the procedure.1,2 In 1898, Bier was the first to report on post–lumbar puncture headache (PLPH) after he and his associates underwent lumbar puncture themselves and experienced headaches first-hand....