Infectious and inflammatory disorders of the circulatory system as risk factors for stroke in Saudi children

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 27, Issue SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Salih, Mustafa A M ^a   Abdel Gader, Abdel Galil M ^a   Al Jarallah, Ahmed A ^a   Kentab, Amal Y ^a   Gadelrab, Mohamed O ^a   Alorainy, Ibrahim A ^a   Hassan, Hamdy H ^a   Zahraa, Jihad N ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FOLINIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; PREDNISOLONE; PYRIMETHAMINE; RIFAMPICIN; SULFADIAZINE;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRUCELLOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL RUBELLA SYNDROME; CONGENITAL TOXOPLASMOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DROWSINESS; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE A; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; INFECTION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LETHARGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SAUDI ARABIA; SEIZURE; SEPTICEMIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RUBELLA SYNDROME, CONGENITAL; SAUDI ARABIA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 33645231658     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 03795284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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