asthma is a chronic inflammatory airway disorder and the most common chronic disease among children characterized by frequent and chronic cough, wheezing, and dyspnea. asthma is defined as an inflammatory process in response to t- helper 2 cells. vitamin e as a lipid soluble vitamin containing 4 isomers α, β, γ, б, with α- tocopherol as the most important isomer is an important defensive agent ...

how to cite this article: bidaki r, zarepur e, akrami m, nadi sakhvidi m. functional neurological symptom disorder: mismanagement, misdiagnosis, chronic cough following sexual abuse; a rare case report. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2):90-92. abstract objective conversion disorder (cd) is a mental disorder in which patient displays neurological symptoms such as blindness, mutism, paralys...

mitochondrial myopathy, lactic acidosis, and sideroblastic anemia (mlasa) syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder of oxidative phosphorylation and iron metabolism. the association between myopathy and sideroblastic anemia was initially reported in 1974. here we report an 8.5 year old boy with normal cognitive function, suffering from chronic progressive weakness in his lower extremities...

Psoriasis, a disorder that manifests as a variety of chronic inflammatory skin diseases, affects an estimated 7.4 million Americans. We consider five promising biologic agents poised to enter the psoriasis market for advanced disease by 2019.

COPD is a slowly progressive disorder defined by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) as “A common preventable and treatable disease characterized by persistent airflow limitation that is usually progressive and associated with an enhanced chronic inflammatory response in the airway and the lungs to noxious particles or gases. Exacerbation and comorbidities contribu...

Introduction Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO) is an inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology, characterized by nonbacterial inflammatory bone lesions. The bone lesions can be unifocal or multifocal, and have an either uniphasic or recurrent course. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and Glucocorticoid have been reported to be effective in some cases, and more recen...

Primary sclerosing cholangitis is a chronic inflammatory fibrotic disorder strongly associated with inflammatory bowel disease. Although an association between some inflammatory fibrotic conditions, such as Riedel's thyroiditis and retroperitoneal fibrosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis has been described, to our knowledge there are no reports of primary sclerosing cholangitis in patients w...

asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways. the stress is a factor for asthma which indicates a disorder in the function of communicational mediators of nervous and  immunological systems  such  as  neurotransmitters.  a  study  indicated  that  blood serotonin concentration increases in asthmatic patients. other study indicates that one kind of the serotonin  receptors, named 5ht...

  Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy is an autoimmune disease with progressive and relapsing courses. The main clinical presentations are diffuse deep tendon hyporeflexia or areflexia and symmetric proximal-distal muscles weakness. Myasthenia gravis is also an immune mediated disease with fluctuating ocular and bulbar symptoms and sometimes weakness. Although both myasthenia grav...

Rosacea is a common chronic inflammatory facial disorder. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have key role in the pathogenesis of rosacea. In this study, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects bilirubin-based nanoparticles (BRNPs) were investigated LL-37-induced rosacea-like mouse model. Effects BRNPs on skin inflammation ROS level determined using histological analysis. The expression genes enco...