background: diagnosis of psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (pnes) particularly in patients with epilepsy poses a challenge to physicians to care. this study is aimed at determining the frequency of depression and anxiety among iranian patients with pnes. materials and methods: sixty patients with pnes and one hundred age-and-sex matching healthy controls were enrolled in this study from januar...

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to examine the relationship between provoked coronary spasm and clinical course in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). BACKGROUND Coronary spasm has a pathogenetic role in the occurrence of AMI and progressive atherosclerosis. There is no report that focused on the prognostic significance of provoked coronary spasm in AMI patients. METHODS Ou...

BACKGROUND Regional left ventricular (LV) diastolic wall motion abnormalities detected by color kinesis (CK), an echocardiographic technique, may be a more sensitive measure to postischemic damage following coronary spasm than parameters of global diastolic function. METHODS AND RESULTS Regional LV diastolic wall motion was evaluated by using CK in 18 patients with variant angina on the day f...

Background & Importance: Primary hemifacial spasm is usually caused by microvascular compression of the facial nerve at its root exit zone at brainstem without any space-occupying pathology. Secondary or so-called symptomatic hemifacial spasm has an additional underlying pathology e.g. tumors leading to the microvascular compression. We review and discuss the pathophysiology and the literature ...

A 42-year-old male admitted with a non-ST elevation myocardial infarction was referred for invasive angiographic assessment. Based on preprocedural assessment, the right radial artery approach was selected. Despite possessing none of the consensus risk factors for radial artery spasm, in addition to receiving standard arterial spasm prophylaxis and conscious sedation, the patient suffered very ...

how to cite this article: taghdiri mm, nemati h. infantile spasm: a review article. iran j child neurol. 2014 summer;8(3): 1-5. abstract objective infantile spasm (is) is a convulsive disease characterized by brief, symmetric axial muscle contraction (neck, trunk, and/or extremities). is is a type of seizure that was first described by west in 1841, who witnessed the seizure in his own son. wes...

To the Editor: In reviewing no-reflow, Rezkalla and Kloner1 indicted injuryinduced microvascular changes, but did not mention spasm of resistance vessels, which might be the basic mechanism of no-reflow. I proposed in 1971 that no-reflow (“stasis”) is due to ischemic injury-induced spasm, and the evidence seemed convincing.2 Short coronary occlusions reversed no-reflow, and this was interpreted...