Volume 1, Issue 4 (Autumn 1997)
J Arak Uni Med Sci 1997, 1(4): 30-34 |
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Sabooni F, Namaee B, Goudarzi A A. Mumps and Study A Number of Patients Under the Age of 15 in Amir Kabir Hospital, Arak. J Arak Uni Med Sci 1997; 1 (4) :30-34
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Mumps of epidemic parotitis is a viral infection usually characterized by the develoement of parotitis. Several complications including meningoencephalitis, deafness, orchitis, oophoritis, mastitis, nephritis, and diabetes mellitus have been reported. CNS, ophthalmologic and hearing and cardiac complications are very important.The study is on 131 patients under the age of 15. More than 85percent of cases were under the age of 11 who were in school age. Male to female ratio was 3:1. The most common complaints and physical disorders were vomiting 73.75percent, fever 49.6 percent and swelling of parotid 41.22percent CSF Pleocytosis has been reported in 42.74 percent of cases and leukocyte counts were under 500cells IMM3 in more than 70 percent of patients that lymphocytes were predominant. Serum amylase increased in 70.8 percent. Vomiting, nausea, fever, headache parotid enlargement, convulsion, abdominal pain similar to appendicitis, adema of neck, face and upper ches, meningoencephalitis, encephalitis, hematemesis petechial, testicular enlargement, arthraigia and deathness also have been reported in this study.
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