AIM Lower respiratory tract infections including mainly pneumonia represent an important public health problem leading to high mortality and mobidity rates in children aged below five years in developing countries including our country. Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with increased risk of rickets/osteomalacia, various cancers, autoimmune diseases, hyperproliferative skin diseases, ca...

conclusions the pediatric patients undergoing general anesthesia with lma with intravenous lidocaine experienced fewer incidence of postoperative cough compared to the ones in the topical lidocaine group. results one hundred and twenty four patients fulfilled the trial. cough (primary outcome) was significantly more frequent among those with topical compared with intravenous lidocaine (46% vs. ...

how to cite this article: esmaili gourabi h, bidabadi e, cheraghalipour  f, aarabi  y, salamat f. febrile seizure: demographic features and causative factors. iran j child neurol autumn 2012; 6(4):33-37. abstract objective because of geographical and periodical variation, we prompted to determine the demographic features and causative factors for febrile seizure in rasht. materials & methods in...

background: selective antibody deficiency with normal immunoglobulins (sadni) may be identified as part of distinct primary or secondary immunodeficiency disorders. the clinical manifestations include recurrent, often severe or prolonged, upper or lower respiratory tract infections. objectives: to evaluate sadni in patients with recurrent sinopulmonary infections and its relation to igg subclas...

conclusions mp, flub and rsv are the principal contributors to ari in the hubei area, with mixed infections, typically of mp and flub, being the most common pathogens statistically significant between different age groups. background acute respiratory infection (ari) is one of the primary diseases that cause high morbidity and mortality to children especially in developing countries. ari can co...

OBJECTIVES To describe the pattern of infectious diseases among children admitted from a residential child care centre and to identify any unusual clusters of admissions. DESIGN Retrospective case review. SETTING Regional hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS All children from a residential child care centre aged over 28 days who were admitted from the Accident and Emergency Department to paediat...

background: changes in global temperature and its health effects have recently been under much investigated. consequently, these changes have affected mortality and morbidity rates which are important public health indices. the present study examines the effect of mean temperature on the frequency of hospitalization due to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases in ali ibn abi talib hospital of...