Breath-holding spells in pediatrics: a narrative review of the current evidence

AKC Leung, AAM Leung, AHC Wong… - Current pediatric …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Breath-holding spells are common, frightening, but fortunately benign events.
Familiarity with this condition is important so that an accurate diagnosis can be made …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of oral iron on markers of oxidative stress and antioxidant status in children with iron deficiency anaemia

Z Zaka-Ur-Rab, M Adnan, SM Ahmad… - Journal of clinical and …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Aim To study the levels of markers of oxidative stress and anti-oxidant status in children with
IDA and to assess the effect of iron therapy on the same. Materials and Methods This …

Effectiveness oral theophylline, piracetam, and iron treatments in children with simple breath-holding spells

AI Dai, AT Demiryürek - Journal of child neurology, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Breath-holding spells (BHS) are common nonepileptic paroxysmal events in children. This is
a retrospective study to compare the effectiveness of oral theophylline, piracetam, and iron …

The evaluation of physiological and biochemical parameters and the autonomic nervous systems of children with breath-holding spells

H Arslan, E Torun, JCU Akkan, S Guler… - …, 2014 - thieme-connect.com
Aim The aim of this study was to investigate the physiological and biochemical parameters
of children who are experiencing breath-holding spells (BHS) and to compare the function of …

Breath‐holding spells occur disproportionately more often in children with transient erythroblastopenia

S Hellström Schmidt, U Tedgård, CJH Pronk - Acta Paediatrica, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim This study aimed to evaluate the concomitant occurrence and possible association of
breath‐holding spells (BHS) and transient erythroblastopenia of childhood (TEC). Methods …

Brain metabolite values in children with breath-holding spells

M Calik, D Sen Dokumaci, S Sarikaya… - Neuropsychiatric …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Breath-holding spells are benign, paroxysmal events with apnea and postural tone changes
after a crying episode in infants. The objective of this study was to investigate the …

Selenium and antioxidant levels decreased in blood of children with breath-holding spells

K Saad, HS Farghaly, R Badry… - Journal of Child …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
We hypothesize that the imbalance between oxidant and antioxidant systems might be
involved in the pathophysiology of breath-holding spells. The aim of this study is to evaluate …

[HTML][HTML] Is it really a seizure? The challenge of paroxysmal nonepileptic events in young infants

SY Jung, JW Kang - Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Paroxysmal nonepileptic events (PNE) comprise of a variety of nonepileptic behaviors and
are divided into various types. A more accurate diagnosis is possible by examining the video …

Relationship between oxidant-antioxidant status and hypercoagulobility indices in children with iron deficiency anaemia

ZC Özdemir, E Çolak, YD Kar, H Özen… - Blood Coagulation & …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Oxidative stress is a potential mechanism involved in the pathogenesis of iron deficiency
anaemia (IDA). Although a tendency for hypercoagulability has been reported in IDA, its …

Assessment of both serum S-100B protein and neuropeptide-Y levels in childhood breath-holding spells

M Calik, A Ciftci, S Sarikaya, O Kocaturk… - Epilepsy & Behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective Breath-holding spells are common paroxysmal events in children. Although the
spells have a benign prognosis in the long term, they may be complicated by loss of …