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This study aimed to describe the practice of electroconvulsivotherapy (ECT) at the University Hospital of Monastir (Tunisia). We conducted a retrospective study of all patients treated by ECT at the University Hospital of Monastir between 2002 and 2013. 80 patients were enrolled in the study (60 men and 20 women, with an average age of 42.

Incongruent cerebral growth in sudden infant death syndrome.

Sudden infant death syndrome remains a leading cause of post-neonatal mortality in developed countries. Its etiopathogenic mechanisms are unknown. In this neuropathologic study, we noticed that the weights of the brains of infants who died from sudden infant death syndrome (n = 97) were invariably heavier in comparison with those of a group of age-matched controls (n = 23) issuing from the same local population.

Cerebellar symptoms heralding bilirubin encephalopathy in Crigler-Najjar syndrome.

Children with Crigler-Najjar syndrome type I are at increased risk for neurologic deficits. Cerebellar symptoms are not prominent and appear in adolescent or adult patients with this syndrome. We report a 2-year-old female with Crigler-Najjar syndrome type I who presented severe cerebellar symptoms revealing bilirubin encephalopathy.