Carbamazepine-induced dystonia in an adolescent.

Dystonia is sustained muscle contraction, which may be primary or secondary to other causes. Drugs comprise one of the most important causes for the secondary dystonia, the usual mechanism being a dopaminergic blockade. There are very few reports describing dystonia resulting from carbamazepine (CBZ) administration.

Primary treatment of kawasaki disease with corticosteroids.

Kawasaki disease (KD), is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children in the developed world. The use of aspirin and intravenous immunoglobulin as the initial therapy in KD is the standard of care, as they reduce the incidence of coronary artery aneurysms, the major cardiac morbidity from this disease. The place of corticosteroids in the initial therapy is; however, controversial.

Homocysteine, fibrinogen and lipid profile in children of young adults with coronary artery disease.

Plasma homocysteine (9.05 ± 4.78 vs 5.

Haemostatic changes in children with cyanotic and acyanotic congenital heart disease.

This study was undertaken to screen children with congenital heart disease for coagulation abnormalities and to compare the groups of cyanotic and acyanotic children with congenital heart disease with respect to abnormalities of the coagulation system. Following investigations were done in all the patients: complete blood count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, peripheral smear examination, bleeding time, prothrombin time, activated partial thromboplastin time, assay of fibrinogen, D-dimer, factors VII and VIII and antithrombin III. Red cell indices were determined in 12 control, 12 acyanotic and 20 cyanotic children.