Evaluation of immunization status in patients with cerebral palsy: a multicenter CP-VACC study.

Children with chronic neurological diseases, including cerebral palsy (CP), are especially susceptible to vaccine-preventable infections and face an increased risk of severe respiratory infections and decompensation of their disease. This study aims to examine age-appropriate immunization status and related factors in the CP population of our country. This cross-sectional prospective multicentered survey study included 18 pediatric neurology clinics around Turkey, wherein outpatient children with CP were included in the study.

Evaluation of the relationship between cranial magnetic resonance imaging findings and clinical status in children with cerebral palsy.

Background/aim: The objective of this study was to evaluate the relationship between cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings and clinical features in cerebral palsy (CP).

Materials And Methods: Children aged 3 to 18 years, who were followed with the diagnosis of CP between January 2012 and September 2015, were included. The type of CP was classified using the European Cerebral Palsy Monitoring Group’s classification system and then, patients were divided into two groups as spastic or nonspastic groups.

Treatment Outcomes of Pediatric Status Epilepticus in a Tertiary Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Objective: Status epilepticus is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality; thus, early diagnosis and proper treatment are crucial. We aimed to study the etiology, clinical features, and treatment among pediatric patients with convulsive status epilepticus.

Methods: The medical records of 100 patients were retrospectively obtained from pediatric intensive care unit.

Efficacy of a Brief Psychoeducational Intervention for Mothers of Children with Breath-Holding Spells: A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.

Objective Mothers of individuals with breath-holding spells (BHS) suffer more often from anxiety and experience more stressors in their everyday life. The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of psychoeducational intervention in reducing BHS and coping with these spells. Participants and Methods Mothers who have children with BHS were randomly assigned to one of the two groups: an intervention group receiving psychoeducational therapy in addition to the routine follow-up (n = 31) and a control group who did not receive psychoeducation in their routine follow-up (n = 28).

Parental attitude, depression, anxiety in mothers, family functioning and breath-holding spells: A case control study.

Aim: This study aimed to identify differences in the antenatal stressful life events, parenting style, family functioning, depression and anxiety of mothers who have children with breath-holding spells (BHS) compared with controls.

Methods: This case control study divided 66 children into a group of children with BHS and a control group, with the children's ages ranging between 6 months and 5 years of age. This study explored underlying anxiety and depression in mothers as well as functioning of their families.

Severe acute disseminated encephalomyelitis with clinical findings of transverse myelitis after herpes simplex virus infection.

Background: ADEM is a central nervous disease that leads to myelin damage as a result of autoimmune response that develops after infections or vaccination. Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) infection rarely leads to ADEM.

Patient: 25-month-old male due to urinary retention, paradoxical respiration and muscle weakness after herpetic gingivostomatitis diagnosed as transverse myelitis.

The Comparison of PRISM and PIM scoring systems for mortality risk in infantile intensive care.

Scoring systems that predict the risk of mortality for children in an intensive care unit (ICU) are needed for the evaluation of the effectiveness of pediatric intensive care. The Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM) and the Pediatric Index of Mortality (PIM) scores have been developed to predict mortality among children in the ICU. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether these systems are effective and population-independent.

The use of botulinum toxin type A treatment in children with spasticity.

The current modalities in managing spastic children have some limitations; thus, alternative therapeutic agents are in need. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether intramuscular botulinum toxin type A administration may be an alternative agent in the treatment of children with cerebral palsy. Eighteen children who were aged between 3 and 17 years and manifested cerebral palsy were administered intramuscular botulinum toxin type A with a total dose of 6 U/kg body weight.

Tension-type headache in children: a clinical evaluation.

Background: Headache Society (IHS) criteria for episodic tension-type headache were included in the present study. Pain characteristics, associated symptoms, and stress-triggering factors were evaluated. Psychiatric and psychosocial evaluations were performed according to DSM-IV criteria.

Oxcarbazepine in the treatment of childhood epilepsy.

In this study, oxcarbazepine was began as monotherapy to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the drug. Forty-two patients (19 females, 23 males) with partial or generalized epilepsy more than 4 years of age were included (mean age, 11.9 +/- 3.

Hemiplegic migraine with prolonged symptoms: case report.

Hemiplegic migraine is defined by the occurrence of migraine during attacks of unilateral weakness. Neurologic symptoms last for 15 to 60 minutes in most cases. Attacks usually start in childhood, adolescence, or early adulthood.