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Volume 23

July - September 2007

Number  4


 

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Which cases of gastroenteritis will tend
to get into convulsion?

Shahnaz Armin1, Farhad Mahvelati2, Mohammad Reza Khalilian3

ABSTRACT

Objective: To identify risk factors for seizures in-patient with gastroenteritis.

Methodology: It is a match case control study of children who were admitted from March 2004 to February 2005 at Mofid Children’s Hospital affiliated to Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Science in Tehran, Iran. Paraclinical investigations including serum electrolytes, blood culture, stool smear and culture were performed in all patients. Hundred patients were studied, 50 patients with gastroenteritis and convulsion (the case group) with 50 cases as control group (gastroenteritis but without convulsion).

Results: The comparison between case and control groups demonstrated that fever and shigellosis were related to convulsion, while the relation of inflammatory gastroenteritis is not quite significant and electrolyte imbalance and dehydration are not related to the incidence of convulsion.

Conclusions: Reduction of fever and appropriate drug treatment are important for shigellosis in the prevention of convulsion.

KEY WORDS: Gastroenteritis, Convulsion, Shigellosis.

Pak J Med Sci   July - September 2007   Vol. 23 No. 4   637-640


1. Shahnaz Armin, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
Sub Specialist in Infectious Disease,
Pediatric Infectious Department,
2. Farhad Mahvelati, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
Pediatric Neurologist,
Mofid Children’s Hospital,
3. Mohammad Reza Khalilian, MD,
Pediatrician,
Pediatric Infectious Department,

1-3: Mofid Children’s Hospital,
Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences,
Tehran – Iran.

Correspondence

Shahnaz Armin,
E-mail: arminsh_2000@yahoo.com

* Received for Publication: January 10, 2007
* Revision Received: May 24, 2007
* Accepted: June 4, 2007


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