mydriasis/vomiting

A 34-year-old woman was hospitalised with acute onset nausea, vomiting, ataxia, nystagmus, blurred vision, and bilateral mydriasis. Toxicologic investigations and serologic tests for infectious aetiologies were negative. Demyelinating disease was suspected based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

The authors present a case of unilateral mydriasis in a teenager prescribed transdermal hyoscine hydrobromide (scopolamine) for chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting. The authors discuss the ocular side-effects associated with this particular drug and delivery system and the potential use of

The anterior hypothalamic preoptic area (AH/POA) was examined as a possible site of action of clonidine and other alpha noradrenergic receptor agonists which evoke motor and autonomic changes. Chronically indwelling guide cannulae were implanted stereotaxically in the diencephalon of the cat.

A 7-year-old girl presented with bilaterally dilated pupils, nausea, and vomiting 2 days after head trauma. Pilocarpine pupil testing led to the correct diagnosis of pharmacologic pupillary dilation from an unexpected and unusual source of plant poisoning, Solanum dulcamara (blue nightshade). In

The antiemetic and emetic actions of the anticancer drug cyclophosphamide injected intracerebroventricularly (i.c.v.) and intravenously (i.v.) through chronically implanted cannulae were investigated in unanaesthetized cats. Cyclophosphamide in single doses was injected into the cerebral ventricles

History A 19-year-old woman with no pertinent medical history was brought to the emergency department after being found unconscious on her bathroom floor by her roommate. In the preceding weeks, she had reported intractable nausea and vomiting, for which she had been taking ondansetron. No other

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical features of syncope-like epileptic seizures (SLES) and their frequency in Panayiotopoulos syndrome (PS). METHODS This was a 6-year prospective study of all children aged 1-15 years referred for an EEG. PS was defined by the occurrence of at least one autonomic

Coricidin products seemed to be one of the over-the-counter medications being reportedly abused by adolescents, as observed from the Texas Poison Center Network data. This retrospective chart review investigated the occurrence of abuse, developed a patient profile, and defined the clinical effects

OBJECTIVE To evaluate clinical experience of amitraz poisoning in children. METHODS In this study, the clinical and laboratory features of amitraz poisoning in 14 children are presented and compared with previous studies. RESULTS This study revealed that clinical manifestations of poisoning by oral

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical and electroencephalographic features of three patients diagnosed with Panayiotopoulos syndrome with different lesions identified by cranial MRI investigation. METHODS Our study was based on patients from the Epilepsy Outpatient Clinic of Sişli Etfal Education

BACKGROUND Amitraz is a pharmaceutical, veterinary, and agricultural product which is used worldwide under numerous generic names as an acaricide and insecticide. Because of its widespread use amitraz poisoning has come emerged as a cause of childhood poisoning during the past decade, particularly

Both epidemiological and pharmacoclinical research have been carried out on children suffering from headache. Two epidemiological trials were performed. In the first, 562 migrainous children were questioned about several clinical symptoms that affect child headache suffers, and the incidence of

BACKGROUND ITP can give rise to bleeding episodes in different parts of the body including the central nervous system with various systemic manifestations. METHODS An eight-year old female child, diagnosed as a case of chronic ITP for last two years, developed intense headache and vomiting for a few

At certain seasons of the year in Thailand, the horseshoe crab Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda may be toxic to human and fatal poisoning occasionally occur. Tetrodotoxin (TTX) and its derivatives were major toxins in the toxic eggs of the horseshoe crab. An epidemic of poisoning by eating toxic eggs of