Background: Methanol is a highly toxic alcohol and causes such severe side effects as CNS depression, blindness, acute renal failure and even death. Methods: Patients were three male referrals (aged 29-56 years) to the poisoning center at Taleghani Hospital, Urmia, Iran, in 2020. They had unknowingly ingested methanol. Their chief problems were bilateral blindness and metabolic acidosis. Upon ...

in order to identify the clinical and electrophysiological characteristics of childhood guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) in east azarbaijan province, clinical and electrophysiological data on 40 consecutive children with gbs, admitted to tabriz children's medical center from march 21st 1999 to march 20th 2002, were analyzed. all patients received intravenous immunoglobulin, 400 mg /kg/ day fo...

A prospective study in South-East England during 15 months in 1983-1984 recruited 100 patients with acute idiopathic neuropathy. After 12 months 67% had recovered completely, 20% were still significantly disabled and 13% had died. Ten of the 13 deaths were attributable to the neuropathy. The major features in the initial assessment which were associated with persistent disability were the time ...

1 National AIDS Control Programme, National Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan (Correspondence to F. Mansoor: [email protected]). 2Health Services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan. 3 WHO National Surveillance; 5WHO Polio Eradication Initiative, World Health Organization, Islamabad, Pakistan. 4Expanded Programme for Immunization, Islamabad, Pakistan. ABSTRACT We used acute flaccid p...

Acute transverse myelitis (ATM) has been described as an uncommon complication of vaccinations and is rarely accompanied by inflammatory peripheral neuropathy. We report a case of a 77-year-old woman who developed ATM and acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN) following vaccinations against seasonal and 2009 A/H1N1 influenza. She manifested ophthalmoplegia, quadriparesis and sensory impairment. M...

purpose : evaluation of efficacy of memantine (n-methyl-d-aspartate receptor antagonist) on visual function of patients with acute non-arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy (naion). methods : the study was conducted as interventional case series from november 2005 through november 2006 in farabi eye hospital . twenty-two patients with acute naion of less than 8 weeks duration entered the study. m...

In order to identify the clinical and electrophysiological characteristics of childhood Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) in East Azarbaijan province, clinical and electrophysiological data on 40 consecutive children with GBS, admitted to Tabriz Children's Medical Center from March 21st 1999 to March 20th 2002, were analyzed. All patients received intravenous immunoglobulin, 400 mg /kg/ day fo...