how to cite this article: ghasemi f, valizadeh f, taee n. iron-deficiency anemia in children with febrile seizure: a case-control study. iran j child neurol. 2014 spring 8(2):38-44. objective considering the recurrence of febrile seizure and costs for families, many studies have attempted to identify its risk factors. some recent studies have reported that anemia is more common in children with...

There are a number of obstacles to successful operationalization of clinical practice guidelines, including the difficulty in accurately representing a statement's decidability or an action's executability. Both require reasoning with incomplete and imprecise information, and we present one means of processing such information. We begin with a brief overview of fuzzy set theory, in which elemen...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The prevalence of retinal haemorrhages after convulsions is not well established. As these haemorrhages are considered characteristic of child abuse, we investigated their occurrence after convulsive episodes to see whether the finding of haemorrhage should prompt further investigation. METHODS Prospective study of 153 children (aged 2 months to 2 years), seen in the emerg...

objective: the aim of our study was to find the relationship of mpv (mean platelet volume) levels and platelet counts as markers of inflammation between simple and complex febrile seizures. methods: in this retrospective comparative study, we investigated the recordings of 356 children between 5 months and 6 years with diagnosis of simple and complex febrile seizure (sfs&cfs;) between march 201...

BACKGROUND Changes in levels of trace elements have been proposed to underlie febrile seizures. Particularly, low zinc levels have been proposed as related factor of febrile seizure. In this study, we investigated whether mean serum zinc levels differed between children with febrile seizure and afebrile seizure. METHODS Using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, serum zinc levels wer...

OBJECTIVE To study the role of iron deficiency as a risk factor for simple febrile seizures. DESIGN Case control study. SETTING Pediatric department of a tertiary care teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS 154 cases and 154 controls were included in the study. Consecutive cases and concurrent controls were selected. Cases were children of age group 6 months to 3 years presenting with simple feb...

Febrile seizure is a common disorder between children with age of 6 month to 6 years and its recurrence is an emotional trauma for parents. Causative factors of febrile seizure have not been completely identified. In this study we determined the correlation between causative factors and probability of febrile seizure occurrence. This study was performed on 344 children factors related to febril...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate serum selenium levels and mean platelet volume in children who experience simple febrile convulsion. METHODS The study comprised 42 patients diagnosed with simple febrile convulsions and a control group of 30 healthy children. Blood samples were taken following a febrile convulsion. Selenium levels in the serum of both the patients and control subjects w...

introduction: febrile convulsions occur in young children when there is a rapid increase in their body temperature. it affects up to 1 in 20 children between the ages of one and four but can affect children between six months and about five years old.  previous studies have showed relationship between low serum sodium and calcium level and recurrence of febrile convulsions. this study designed ...