background and objective: the diagnosis of typhoid fever in children is a challenge due to the non-specific clinical picture. the current role of the widal test for diagnosis in developing countries has not been clear. materials and methods: charts were reviewed on all children ≤ 15 years of age discharged from 5 pediatric teaching hospitals in tehran from 1991 to 2004 with a diagnosis of typho...

although most parts of iran is free of malaria owing to appreciable struggle against this disease by the ministry of public health, in every case of fever of unknown origin (fuo) possibility of malaria should not be neglected. unjustified administration of antibiotics can delay the diagnosis because of diminishing effect in number of malaria parasites in peripheral blood. for this reason freque...

objective gastroenteritis has a diverse etiology; many pathogens can cause this condition. of the extraintestinal manifestations, one is convulsions, which may be  attributable to fever, type of bacteria, or electrolyte imbalance. to assess the risk of occurrence of convulsions, in this study we investigated the association between the paraclinical and clinical findings of children with gastroe...

In his book "Canon in Medicine (AI-Ghanoon)", Avicenna has specified a chapter containing two sections pertaining to fever. After defining fever and explaining it's different stages, he divides it into three types: hectic fever, infection-induced fever and daily fever. After accurate attention to the patient's history and key-points in examination, he focuses on fever signs and its treatmen...

Rheumatic fever (RF) is a prevalent healthcare problem in the developing countries. Recurrence of this disorder is often observed in childhood and adolescence. RF can mimic the presentations of infective endocarditis, and clinicians are not really familiar with this issue. Herein, we present a case of recurrent acute rheumatic fever in a patient suspicious of acute bacterial endocarditis due to...

Background When a child’s body temperature rises, most parents become very worried that high fever may harm the child; in this study, knowledge and performance of the parents at the time of fever in children and how they act when encountering children’s fever were studied. Materials and Methods  In this cross-sectional descriptive study, samples (300 parents of children under 10 years) were se...

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