Faruk Incecik

..Although it is well tolerated in children, some adverse effects including hypohidrosis and hyperthermia are reported. We present two children with epilepsy who were treated with topiramate and developed hypohidrosis and hyperthermia...

..Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a neurological disorder characterized by signs of posterior cerebral edema upon radiographic examination...

..We wanted to investigate if ototoxicity occurs in pediatric epileptic patients using VPA for long terms...

..The authors think that it is necessary to be alert for rhabdomyolysis in severe hypernatremia cases...

..4%) who had recurrent stroke and three (3.2%) who had multiple risk factors. Cardiac and infectious causes appeared to be the most important risk factors for ischemic stroke in children in the Adana region of Turkey...

..1%) died. Poor outcome was related with clinic stage and electrophysiological subtypes (axonal form). In our study, poor prognostic factors were related with clinic stage and electrophysiological subtypes (axonal form)...

..No renal dysfunction was expected in humans because there were no clinically statistically significant renal side effects in this study...

..Continuous spikes and waves during slow sleep syndrome is a rare epileptic syndrome in childhood. A variety of clinical and neurocognitive features were found in patients with continuous spikes and waves during slow sleep syndrome...

..Even though dystonia side effects of albendazole are rare, it can induce an alarming dystonia in some sensitive children. The mechanism of dystonia is unclear...

..We report a rare case of acute encephalopathy following intravenous immunoglobulin treatment for Guillain-Barré syndrome in whom posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome developed without severe hypertension...

..In conclusion, PTC in children is rare. Both papilledema and sixth nerve palsy resolved rapidly with treatment. However, children can sustain loss of visual field and visual acuity despite treatment...

..Neonatal seizures, family history of epilepsy, and mental retardation were found to be important and independent predictors of development of epilepsy in patients with cerebral palsy...

..In this article, two siblings who had scoliosis and conjugate gaze palsy are presented regarding clinical and laboratory findings...

..We believe that a thorough clinical and neurological assessment might prevent failure to notice rare but possible vitamin B12 deficiency in infants with neurological deficits and neurodevelopmental retardation...

..We conclude that cyclosporin treatment can be effective and safe in chronic inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy, when standard treatments are ineffective. Cyclosporin can also be used safely in infants...

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..Neurological complications frequently recover fully especially in previously healthy children, but sometimes a severe clinical course occurs...

..PTC without papilledema is rarely reported in children. We describe an atypical presentation of PTC in a child with HIES...

..Recently, mutations in the gene coding for the skeletal muscle voltage-gated sodium channel alpha subunit (SCN4A) have been reported. We detected the R672H mutation in one HypoPP Turkish family...

..HWE has usually a favorable prognosis by first avoiding lukewarm water and secondly using either intermittent oral prophylaxis with benzodiazepines or conventional AEDs...

..Both the infant and his mother were positive for anti-Ro (SS-A) and anti-La (SS-B)...