A randomized case-controlled study of recombinant human granulocyte colony stimulating factor for the treatment of sepsis in preterm neutropenic infants.

Background: To investigate the efficacy and safety of recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, recombinant human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF) to treat sepsis in neutropenic preterm infants.

Methods: Fifty-six neutropenic preterm infants with suspected or culture-proven sepsis hospitalized in Zeynep Kamil Maternity and Children's Educational and Training Hospital, Kozyatağı/Istanbul, Turkey between January 2008 and January 2010 were enrolled. Patients were randomized either to receive rhG-CSF plus empirical antibiotics (Group I) or empirical antibiotics alone (Group II).

Serum vitamin D levels in children with recurrent tonsillopharyngitis.

Objective: In this study, we aimed to compare vitamin D levels of children with recurrent tonsillopharingitis and healthy controls, and investigate the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and serum vitamin D levels.

Methods: Children with recurrent tonsillopharingitis and healthy controls aged between 2, and 12 years who consulted to the outpatient clinics of Zeynep Kamil Maternity and Children's Diseases Training and Research Hospital from January to October 2012 were included in this study. Serum 25 (OH) vitamin D levels were studied by tandem mass spectroscopy (tandem ms) method.

Does transient hypothyroxinemia influence metabolic bone disease of prematurity?

Objective: To investigate the relationship between Metabolic Bone Disease (MBD) and Transient Hypothyroxinemia of Prematurity (THOP).

Method: One hundred twenty-four infants, born in Marmara University Hospital with a gestational age ≤34 weeks, were enrolled. Clinical features were recorded.

ERCP experience in patients with choledochoduodenostomy: diagnostic findings and therapeutic management.

Background: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), besides reducing the need for surgery in a wide spectrum of biliary disease, is increasingly be used for the treatment of biliary complications of surgery. In this paper, we review our experience with postoperative ERCPs required after biliary surgery with a special focus on side-to-side choledochoduodenostomy (CD).

Methods: The records of 70 patients with a history of CD who underwent ERCP from May 2000 to February 2006 were analyzed.

Mucocutaneous manifestations in inflammatory bowel disease.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and features of the major cutaneous manifestations (erythema nodosum [EN] and pyoderma gangrenosum [PG]) and to determine the associations between cutaneous manifestations and other extraintestinal manifestations in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Methods: The mucocutaneous manifestations of patients with IBD were studied between December 2002 and June 2007. All patients underwent a detailed whole body examination by a gastroenterologist and dermatologist.