jaundice/seizures

Siblings are reported with severe mental retardation, spastic cerebral palsy and seizures; in addition they had progressive or intermittent jaundice and recurrent infections; they died at 3 and 4 years respectively. Neuropathological studies in one showed a small brain with an almost complete lack

Two cases with partial seizure and periodic EEG pattern were reported. Case 1. A 74-year-old woman reveal typical periodic lateralized epileptiform discharges (PLED's) on the right hemisphere. The patient was semicomatous with mild jaundice and epilepsia partialis continua in the left lower limb.

A six-week-old male infant was admitted for investigation of cholestasis and pale stools. He became lethargic and apnoeic with prolonged seizures after a percutaneous liver biopsy. Subsequent investigations showed conjugated hyperbilirubinaemia, elevated liver enzymes, and hypoglycaemia. The

OBJECTIVE Published studies during the past year about three topics important to the pediatric clinician-- immunizations, neonatal jaundice, and animal-induced injuries-are concisely reviewed. RESULTS Recent updates regarding vaccines including the questionable link with autism, implementation of

Panchagavya Ghrita (PG), according to Ayurvedic formulary of India (AFI), is used to treat epilepsy (apasmara), fever (jvara), mania (unmade) and jaundice (kamala). In the present study, we examined its effect on convulsions, oxidative stress and cognitive impairment in pentylenetetrazole (PTZ)

A child with intractable seizures from the age of 10 months and developmental retardation developed jaundice and hepatosplenomegaly at 23 months. She died at the age of 25 months. Methionine and tyrosine were elevated in urine, plasma, CSF, and brain. These elevations were more marked in the CNS

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is an X-linked recessive disease that causes acute or chronic hemolytic anemia and potentially leads to severe jaundice in response to oxidative agents. Capicua transcriptional repressor (CIC) is an important gene associated with mental

OBJECTIVE Between September, 2010, and August, 2011, a series of cases of jaundice of unknown origin in young calves was detected in a number of farms in Southern Germany. This paper describes the syndrome on the basis of 57 cases, and the approach taken to discover the cause. METHODS The clinical

Valproic acid is a reliable and comparatively safe drug in the treatment of special forms of absence seizures. Severe but very rare complications include acute liver necrosis and acute pancreatitis which may end lethally. A case of a previously unreported association of pancreatic pseudocyst and

To evaluate prenatal and perinatal risk factors for early neonatal seizures, we conducted a case-control study including 100 newborns with neonatal seizures in the first week of life and 204 controls randomly selected from a list of healthy newborns born in the same hospital during the study period.

A 41-yr-old man presented with jaundice, night sweats, and weight loss. The patient had been on phenytoin for seizure disorder. The drug was discontinued, and a diminution of bilirubin and transaminases occurred over several weeks. Percutaneous liver biopsy revaled cholestasis at the time of maximal