Autism disorders in Iraq

Description

This is a retrospective clinical study aiming at describing the pattern of pervasive developmental disorders in Iraqi children observed at the pediatric psychiatry clinic in a tertiary pediatric referral center. During nine months period (18,November, 2018 to 18 , July, 2019), fifty one patients with pervasive developmental disorders (30 males and 21 females) were observed at the psychiatry clinic at the Children Teaching Hospital of Baghdad Medical City. Their ages ranged from two and half years to twelve years. Most of the patients were from the province of Baghdad, but it was documented that there were two patients from other provinces, one from Kerbala and one from Erbil in the North of Iraq.The patients were treated with individualized treatment plans including intramuscular cerebrolysin as the main therapy based on our published experience with treatment of pervasive developmental disorders.