enteritis/癲癇性発作

OBJECTIVE Rotavirus and norovirus gastro-enteritis (GE) are common in children. Complications, except severe dehydration, are rare. Rotavirus was known to cause seizures and even GE encephalopathy, but these complications are less described in norovirus infection. The objective of this study is to

A 14-month old boy presented to the hospital having had a convulsion. Initial work-up was essentially negative except for the presence of a temperature of 40 C. On the second hospital day, the patient began to have diarrhea and Campylobacter jejuni was isolated. This case illustrates that

It is the policy at the Jordan University Hospital to perform lumbar puncture on children with gastroenteritis who present with one or more of the following: age less than 1 month, convulsions, hypoactivity or marked irritability, and depressed sensorium. Review of the records of 737 children

OBJECTIVE To analyse the epidemiological, clinical and developmental characteristics of a group of children with seizures associated with mild gastroenteritis in order to facilitate the diagnostic suspicion of the condition in daily clinical practice. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of

A prospective study was conducted over a 2-year period to detect the effect of feeding practice, in particular the role of artificial milk formulae, in children admitted with hypernatraemic dehydration (serum sodium > or = 150 mmol/L) caused by acute gastro-enteritis, and to record morbidity and

We describe a 15-year-old boy who was on carbamazepine for the past 8 years for seizure disorder, who developed recurrent episodes of small bowel obstruction. Full-thickness small bowel biopsy obtained at laparotomy was consistent with eosinophilic enteritis. He improved clinically after tapering

A study was done on 111 children admitted in a university hospital in Tehran with fever and seizures to document the pattern of illness and to define indications for performing a lumbar puncture in children with fever and convulsions. Bacterial meningitis was diagnosed in 4 patients, aseptic

OBJECTIVE We aimed on identifying the differences of febrile and afebrile seizures associated with mild rotavirus gastroenteritis (RVGE) in the pediatric population. METHODS Medical charts of pediatric patients who had been admitted between July 1999 and June 2011 due to RVGE were retrospectively