Leptospirosis, a zoonotic disease is increasingly being recognized in developing countries. It often underdiagnosed resulting significant mortality as the presenting features mimic other commonly prevailing diseases like Malaria, Dengue, Acute hepatitis, Typhoid world. We are reporting case of 16 years old male student presented with acute febrile illness icterus, hemorrhagic manifestation and ...

Background: Febrile seizures are one of the most common neurological conditions of childhood. It seems that zinc deficiency is associated with increased risk of febrile seizures.Aim: To estimate the serum Zinc level in children with simple Febrile seizures and to find the correlation between serum zinc level and simple Febrile seizures.Materials and Methods: The proposed study was a hospital ba...

A diagnosis of rheumatic fever conjures in the minds of most physicians a serious disease demanding prolonged rest in bed, suggesting the likelihood of cardiac damage, and producing subsequent invalidism to a varying degree. Copeman (1944) described 42 cases of febrile polyarthritis of acute onset which he states were " non-epidemic, of short duration, and probably not uncommon." None of his ca...

Leptospirosis is one of the most widespread and globally important zoonotic diseases. In India, it is emerged as an important cause of febrile illness with seasonal and geographical variation and affects humans on all continents, in both urban and rural area and in tropical and temperate climates. Most outbreaks of leptospirosis are reported in coastal regions. Leptospirosis has been recognized...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Previous studies have indicated that febrile children with sickle cell disease (SCD) had a 3% to 5% risk of being bacteremic due to compromised immune function. The introduction of routine penicillin prophylaxis and conjugate vaccines may have lowered the risk of bacteremia. Our goals were to determine the rate of bacteremia among children with SCD per febrile episode ...

background febrile seizure is one of the most prevalent pediatric diseases. an essential part of the physicians’ efforts is to decreasing the parents’ stress level when they confront febrile diseases in children. objectives this study was performed to compare the effects of acetaminophen and ibuprofen on controlling fever and preventing seizures in children with febrile seizure. patients and me...

febrile seizure is the most common form of childhood seizures that occur in 2-5% of them. the purpose of this study was to compare serum sodium level in first simple, multiple and recurrent febrile con-vulsions to answer whether serum sodium levels can predict febrile seizure recurrence in 24 hours and in other febrile episodes? in a retrospective study, sodium serum levels of all children aged...

Introduction: Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile vasculitis mainly affecting children, with two types of presentation, namely, typical and atypical. It is the most critical cause of coronary artery complications and if not treated on time and appropriately, complications may occur in up to 25% of the patients will get. Patients: This study reports five rare cases of incomplete KD Who has...

BACKGROUND Dengue is re-emerging throughout the tropical world, causing frequent recurrent epidemics. The initial clinical manifestation of dengue often is confused with other febrile states confounding both clinical management and disease surveillance. Evidence-based triage strategies that identify individuals likely to be in the early stages of dengue illness can direct patient stratification...

OBJECTIVE To develop and validate a novel decision tree-based clinical algorithm to differentiate Kawasaki disease (KD) from other pediatric febrile illnesses that share common clinical characteristics. STUDY DESIGN Using clinical and laboratory data from 801 subjects with acute KD (533 for development, and 268 for validation) and 479 febrile control subjects (318 for development, and 161 for...