The family attitudes towards febrile convulsions

PubMed ID: 10829846Giving adequate information about febrile convulsion and its prognosis would be helpful in alleviating parental stress, and would contribute to decrease in the morbidity of febrile convulsion. In this study, the knowledge level of parents on taking body temperature, and decreasing high fever, their attitudes during febrile convulsion and the impact of febrile convulsion on parents are evaluated. One hundred seventy-four parents of 132 children with FC were enrolled in the study. Twenty-seven per cent of parents had no thermometer at home, 32.8% of them did not know how to take a temperature, 72.2% of them did not know the minimum range of increased body temperature, and 69.5% of them did not know how to decrease the increased body temperature. Thirty-six percent of parents recognised the convulsions when their children suffered from them, the others assumed the convulsion were fainting spells (6.9%), near death state (38.5%) and suffocation (18.4%). Thirty-six per cent of parents brought their children to the hospital without doing anything themselves. Most parents (91.4%) had a fear of a recurrence of febrile convulsion in their children. Seventy-four per cent of parents complained of insomia, 24.3% parents had dyspeptic symptoms even 14 parents had weight loss due to dyspepsia. © 1995 Dr. K C Chaudhuri Foundation

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy in childhood

PubMed ID: 12019558Reflex sympathetic dystrophy is characterized by constant burning pain and hyperesthesia in an extremity. Lower extremities are usually affected. Pain is accompanied by swelling, sweating, vasomotor instability and sometimes trophic changes. There may be a history of minor injury or not. Muscle spasms, myoclonus or focal dystonia may occur. Diffuse pain, loss of function and autonomic dysfunction are three main criteria suggested for diagnosis. Symptoms can last a few days to as long as a year. In this report we present a girl with multiple limb involvement of stage I RSD. The sympathetic skin responses were tested during a remission period. She had milder attacks with a recurrence rate of 4 per year in the following three years from onset

Acute alternating hemiplegia: A Case Report

PubMed ID: 8993184Acute alternating hemiplegia in childhood is a rare disorder characterized by onset before 18 months of age and frequent attacks of alternating paralysis. In this case report, a 20-month-old boy having the diagnosis of acute alternating hemiplegia is presented. The diagnosis was based on clinical features. The frequency and severity of the hemiplegic attacks decreased following flunarizine therapy. In this case, cerebral perfusion was investigated during ictal and interictal periods. Tc-99m HMPAO-Brain single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) revealed normal cerebral perfusion in ictal periods and hypoperfusion in interictal periods

Structural, magnetic and GMR properties of FeCo(Cu)/Cu magnetic multilayers electrodeposited at high cathode potentials of the magnetic layer

Structural, magnetic and giant magnetoresistance properties of the electrochemically deposited FeCo(Cu)/Cu multilayers at the various cathode potentials for magnetic layers were investigated. The cathode potentials were -1.8, -2.0, -2.5 and -2.8 V for magnetic layers and -0.3 V for non-magnetic layers with respect to a saturated calomel electrode. The multilayers have a face-centred-cubic structure. The obtained composition was found to be close the nominal composition at -2.8 V cathode potential. The highest giant magnetoresistance value (16.50 %) was obtained in the multilayer produced at -1.8 V. The highest sensitivity was found in the multilayer produced at -1.8 and -2.8 V.Balıkesir Üniversitesi BAP 2012/33Balıkesir Üniversitesi - 2001/02 - 2005/1

Electrochemical, Structural and Magnetic Analysis of Electrodeposited CoCu/Cu Multilayers: Influence of Cu Layer Deposition Potential

The electrochemical, structural and magnetic properties of CoCu/Cu multilayers electrodeposited at different cathode potentials were investigated from a single bath. The Cu layer deposition potentials were selected as -0.3,V-0.4V, and -0.5V with respect to saturated calomel electrode (SCE) while the Co layer deposition potential was constant at -1.5V versus SCE. For the electrochemical analysis, the current-time transients were obtained. The amount of noble non-magnetic (Cu) metal materials decreased with the increase of deposition potentials due to anomalous codeposition. Further, current-time transient curves for the Co layer deposition and capacitance were calculated. In the structural analysis, the multilayers were found to be polycrystalline with both Co and Cu layers adopting the face-centered cubic structure. The (111) peak shifts towards higher angle with the increase of the deposition potentials. Also, the lattice parameters of the multilayers decrease from 0.3669 nm to 0.3610 nm with the increase of the deposition potentials from -0.3V to -0.5V, which corresponds to the bulk values of Cu and Co, respectively. The electrochemical and structural results demonstrate that the amount of Co atoms increased and the Cu atoms decreased in the layers with the increase of deposition potentials due to anomalous codeposition. For magnetic measurements, the saturation magnetizations, M s obtained from the magnetic curves of the multilayers were obtained as 212 kA/m, 276 kA/m, and 366 kA/m with -0.3V, -0.4V, and -0.5V versus SCE, respectively. It is seen that the M s values increased with the increase of the deposition potentials confirming the increase of the Co atoms and decrease of the Cu amount. The results of electrochemical and structural analysis show that the deposition potentials of non-magnetic layers plays important role on the amount of magnetic and non-magnetic materials in the layers and thus on the magnetic properties of the multilayers. © 2017, The Minerals, Metals ; Materials Society

Uncommon cause of psychotic behavior and insomnia: Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: Case report [Psikotik davranislar ve insomninin nadir bir sebebi: Anti-NMDA reseptör ensefaliti]

Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor encephalitis has been raising increasing interest in pediatric literature, and its clinical features have been progressively better defined. Anti- NMDA receptor encephalitis is characterized by acute or sub-acute onset encephalopathy with extrapyramidal, psychiatric, and epileptic manifestations. The encephalitis has become a leading cause of autoimmune encephalitis in children and adolescents. Accurate and timely diagnosis is critical to selection of treatments, and optimal patient outcomes. Diagnosis is confirmed by positive antibodies to NMDA receptor in cerebrospinal fluid and serum. Brain imaging and electroencephalographic findings are not spesific, they only support the suspected diagnosis. Herein we report on a 5-year-old boy with non-paraneoplastic anti-NMDA receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis, who presented with psychotic symptoms, insomnia and involuntary movement following a seizure. © 2014 by Tür ki ye Kli nik le ri