background: food-born botulism is caused by ingestion of contaminated food with clostridium botulinum neurotoxin. case: in food-born botulism, due to acetylcholine release blockade, neuromuscular signs and symptoms are common, but in this case report we present a food-born botulism with papiledema and venous sinus thrombosis. conclusion: papiledema and fever could not rule out the diagnosis of ...

background: cerebral venous-sinus thrombosis is an uncommon form but important cause of stroke, especially in young-aged women. methods: we performed a retrospective descriptive-analytical study in which 124 patients with cerebral venous-sinus thrombosis, who referred to nemazee hospital, shiraz university of medical sciences from january 2000 to march 2008, were included, and their demographic...

BACKGROUND There are over 183,000 patients living with a functioning solid organ transplant in the United States, and almost no data exist discussing complications of acute otomastoiditis in this vulnerable population. Early recognition and treatment of acute otomastoiditis is essential in patients whose immune system is not normal, as progression can lead to sepsis, meningitis, brain abscess, ...

background cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (cvst) is a frequent cause of cerebrovascular disease in iran. objectives in this study, we report cumulative data of published iranian studies in a systematic manner with critically appraisal and presenting future directions. materials and methods the authors systematically searched the isi web of knowledge, pubmed, scopus, ebesco and iranmedex for k...

background: the purpose of this study is to demonstrate the advantages of gradient echo (gre) sequences in the detection and characterization of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis compared to conventional magnetic resonance sequences. methods: a total of 17 patients with cerebral venous thrombosis (cvt) were evaluated using different magnetic resonance imaging (mri) sequences. the mri sequences i...

A 72 year old gentleman was referred for an MRI study of the brain for evaluation of long standing trigeminal neuralgia and right sided 6th nerve paralysis of more than 2 year duration. He had a history of deep venous thrombosis of the lower limbs for which he had been on warfarin which was later discontinued. There were no findings suggestive of raised intracranial pressure. MRI revealed throm...