Encephalopathy with hemi-status epilepticus during sleep or hemi-continuous spikes and waves during slow sleep syndrome: a study of 21 patients.

Purpose: To retrospectively analyze the electroclinical features, etiology, treatment, and prognosis of 21 patients with encephalopathy with hemi-status epilepticus during sleep (ESES) or hemi-continuous spikes and waves during slow sleep (CSWSS) syndrome.

Methods: Charts of 21 patients with hemi-ESES/CSWSS syndrome followed between 1997 and 2012 were analyzed. Inclusion criteria were: (1) Focal seizures or apparently generalized seizures and focal EEG epileptiform discharges; (2) Further occurrence of atypical absences, and myoclonic, atonic, and/or generalized seizures; (3) Cognitive impairment and/or behavioral disturbances; (4) Hemi-continuous spike-and-wave discharges during slow sleep in more than 85% of non-REM sleep at onset and throughout the ESES/CSWSS period.

[Is there any correlation between mothers birth weight with the first child birth weight?].

Background: The birth weight is influenced by intrauterine environmental factors and genetic factors. The main determinants of birth weight are gestational age and sex. The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between mothers birth weight with the first child birth weight.

[Emergent pneumococcus primary peritonitis in children: presentation of two cases].

Introduction: Primary peritonitis is rare condition in children previously healthy. It is often related to cirrosis and kidney disease or peritoneal dyalisis. The diagnosis must be made at laparotomy in the absence of intraabdominal findings and positive cultures of peritoneal fluids.