Background: previous studies have shown that phenobarbital (PB) is a effective and safe drug in the treatment of benign convulsions with mild gastroenteritis (CwG), but there is a lack of large sample prospective randomized controlled study of different doses. This study was a prospective randomized controlled study on the efficacy and safety of different doses of phenobarbital for CwG. There has been no similar study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Thiamine metabolism dysfunction syndrome 5 (THMD5) is a rare inherited metabolic disorder due to thiamine pyrophosphokinase 1(TPK1) deficiency, caused by mutations in TPK1. The core symptoms of the disease is acute or subacute onset encephalopathy, ataxia, muscle hypotonia, and regression of developmental milestones in early infancy, repeatedly triggered by acute infectious illness. However, we report two brothers of THMD5 with compound heterozygous for the mutations c.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Hemiplegic migraine (HM) is an uncommon subtype of migraine with aura including motor weakness. The core symptoms of HM are headache and motor weakness. However, we report a rare case of atypical HM with nonheadache onset in a Chinese child who was misdiagnosed several times.
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