neurological manifestation may complicate takayasu arteritis (ta). a 23-year-old girl with sudden onset of vision loss was admitted to hospital. her brain mri showed abnormal t2-signal hyperintensity and visual evoked potential revealed prolonged p100 latency. consequently, optic neuritis was diagnosed. a review on history of dizziness, falling, and weak pulses of upper extremities led to more ...

background: anti-phospholipids syndrome (aps) is considered a non inflammatory auto-immune disease with a significant thrombophilic risk with varied clinical manifestations. the purpose of the current study was to investigate the frequency of thrombotic and non-thrombotic events in patients with aps. methods: in this retrospective study, 102 definite aps subjects were recruited (2007-2011) at a...

how to cite this article: karimzadeh p. approach to neurometabolic diseases from a pediatric neurological point of view. iran j child neurol. 2015 winter;9(1): 1-16.   abstract objective neurometabolic disorders are an important group of diseases that mostly are presented in newborns and infants. neurological manifestations are the prominent signs and symptoms in this group of diseases. seizure...

Paraneoplastic neurologic disorders are extremely rare in cancer patients and are most commonly associated with certain tumors, such as ovarian cancer, small cell lung cancer, and breast cancer. We report here a paraneoplastic neurological syndrome in a 53-year-old man with colonic adenocarcinoma with a solitary liver metastasis. His paraneoplastic syndrome was successfully treated by methylpre...