how to cite this article: fallah r, nafisi moghadam r, fallah tafti m, salmani nodoushan m. results of noncontrast brain computed tomography scans of 1-18 year old epileptic children. iran j child neurol 2012; 6(3): 33-38. objective the advent of computed tomography (ct) scan revolutionized the diagnosticevaluation of neurologic patients. the aim of this study was to evaluate brain ctresults of...

It is often difficult to identify maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) in pediatric patients close onset. Hence, misdiagnosis and unnecessary insulin treatment are still common.

The outbreak of a novel coronavirus, referred to as coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), with its sentinel case in Wuhan,China, in December 2019, has spread rapidly around the globe. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization(WHO) declared COVID-19 a worldwide pandemic, which led to most countries implementing social distancingprotocols. Most non-essential medical practice...

Bedtime struggles, delayed sleep onset, and problematic night wakings are extremely common in the pediatric population, and have a significant impact on quality of life of both children and caregivers. This article reviews the research and clinical nosology of childhood insomnia, prevalence, and etiologic factors in infants, children, and adolescents. Clinical presentation, evaluation, and trea...

Surgical neonates need specialist medical and nursing care if their outcomes are to be improved. It needs a team of pediatric surgeons, neonatologists, pediatric anesthetists, and trained nurses. However, a key question in the management of these neonates is the place where they should be managed. A recent survey of neonatal surgical units in the UK in 2008 [1] revealed that surgical neonates w...

BACKGROUND Advances in medical science have enabled many children with chronic diseases to survive to adulthood. The transition of adult patients with childhood-onset chronic diseases from pediatric to adult healthcare systems has received attention in Europe and the United States. We conducted a questionnaire survey among 41 pediatricians at pediatric hospitals and 24 nurses specializing in ad...

S.T. de Bot, MD B.P.C. van de Warrenburg, MD, PhD H.P.H. Kremer, MD, PhD M.A.A.P. Willemsen, MD, PhD Because the medical literature on hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is dominated by descriptions of adult case series, there is less emphasis on the genetic evaluation in suspected pediatric cases of HSP. The differential diagnosis of progressive spastic paraplegia strongly depends on the age ...

We inquire into parental correlates of illness expression in three pediatric diagnoses: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, cancer and renal disease. Children with cancer and renal disease were the comparison groups, using valid pediatric measures for comparison across diagnostic categories in chronic illness. We found compromised parental support in families with IBD children, comparing relations amon...

As surgery for complex congenital heart disease is becoming more advanced, an increasing number of patients are surviving into adulthood, yet many of these adult patients remain in the pediatric hospital system. Caring for adult patients is often a challenge for pediatric nurses, because the nurses have less experience and comfort with adult care, medications, comorbid conditions, and rehabilit...

Acute abdominal pain is a popular descriptor that has evolved from the seminal definition by Sir Zachary Cope of abdominal pain of recent onset that triggers an urgent need for prompt diagnosis and active treatment.1 The nature of the pain is usually such that the parent seeks immediate medical evaluation by a general pediatrician or emergency room physician. An acute complaint of abdominal pai...