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Epilepsy affects approximately 1% of the world population. Lifetime prevalence of childhood and adolescence epilepsy (children <18 years) in Upper Egypt was 9.7/1000, with higher prevalence among children <12 years (10.8/1000).
There is a clear cause for epilepsy in only a minority of the cases,
This study will examine the toxicity of using allogeneic stem cell transplantation for treatment of subjects with relapsed or refractory ES and rhabdomyosarcoma. Donors will consist of either HLA identical or 9/10 (A, B, C, DR, DQ) matched related or unrelated donors. Specifically, we will examine
Japanese encephalitis (JE) is the most important epidemic encephalitis worldwide, causing approximately 35-50,000 cases and 10-15,000 deaths annually. Half of the survivors have severe neuropsychiatric sequelae, posing a large socio-economic burden on communities that can ill afford it. JE virus
Many children with sickle cell disease are severely affected by acute complications, especially stroke, recurrent and debilitating pain, or recurrent acute chest syndrome. As they become adolescents and young adults, patients with sickle cell disease often develop chronic problems, including renal
Detailed: DiGeorge Syndrome is a complex of three problems, 1) cardiac defects, 2) parathyroid deficiency, and 3) absence of the thymus, resulting in profound T-cell deficiency. There is a spectrum of disease in DiGeorge syndrome with respect to all three defects. There is no safe and effective
Chronic Focal Encephalitis (Rasmussen's Encephalitis) is a condition characterized by a progressive hemiparesis, cognitive decline (including loss of language skills if the language dominant hemisphere is involved) and epileptic seizures that are typically refractory to medical treatment