[Association between bone turnover markers, bone mineral density and vitamin D in Moroccan postmenopausal women].

Unlabelled: The aim of the study is to find the correlation between bone turnover markers and bone mineral density in a cohort of Moroccan postmenopausal women.

Patients And Methods: A cross-sectional study, conducted over a period of 12 months from October 2008 to November 2009. Five hundred Moroccan postmenopausal women volunteers participated in this study and we included only 185.

[Tinea capitis etiology in Ibn Sina Hospital in Rabat (Morocco)].

Tinea capitis (TC) is a contagious infection that affects mainly children and teenagers. A retrospective study was realized at the mycology-parasitology department of the Ibn Sina hospital in Rabat, Morocco. The study includes 125 cases of TC.

[Epidemiological profile of echinococcosis in Morocco from 1980 to 2008].

The aim of this study was to analyze the epidemiology and evolution of hydatidosis in Morocco. This is a descriptive and retrospective study over a period ranging from 1980 to 2008. The patient data were collected from the epidemiological bulletin issued by the Department of Epidemiology and Fight against Disease that report all cases operated for hydatidosis between 1980 and 1992, and from the annual reports of parasitic diseases published annually by the same department between 2003 and 2008.

[Hydatid disease of the spine: a case report].

Hydatid disease of the spine is rare and has a poor prognosis, presenting both diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. The diagnosis is based on epidemiological, clinical, biological and radiological arguments. Treatment is primarily surgical.

[The mechanism of non-immune haemolytic anaemia in burns patient].

Mechanisms of non-immune haemolytic anemia in burn patients: severely burned patients often present with anemia in the early course of resuscitation, requiring the transfusion of red blood cells. One of the causes is a non-immune haemolytic anemia. On the blood smear, there are morphological abnormalities of the red blood cells such as the presence of spherocytes and schizocytes.