Diet and physical activity interventions do have effects on body composition and metabolic syndrome parameters in overweight and obese adolescents and their mothers.

To determine the effects of lifestyle intervention and diet on body composition, anthropometric measurements, and metabolic syndrome (MS) in obese and overweight adolescents and their mothers, a diet and lifestyle intervention program was administered for 16 weeks to 19 9-17-year-old (12.52 ± 2.85 years) adolescents (female/male, 8/11) with a body mass index (BMI) value over the 90th percentile; hemoglobin (Hb)A1C, fasting insulin, homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), fibrinogen, and C-reactive protein levels of the adolescents and anthropometric measurements of the mothers were compared.

Cardiac chest pain in children.

Objective: Chest pain (CP) is a common cause of referral to hospital, not always directly related with cardiac diseases (CD). We investigated the causes for cardiac CP in children.

Methods: A hundred and twenty children, admitted consecutively to pediatric cardiology clinic with CP, were evaluated in two groups (5-12 and 13-16 age-group) in a cross-sectional and a retrospective way.

Glucocorticoid-induced diabetic ketoacidosis in acute rheumatic fever.

Glucocorticoids are used as anti-inflammatory agents and are associated with many side effects including hyperglycemia, hypertension, pancreatitis, peptic ulcer, and so on. Hyperglycemia is a common side effect, but ketoacidosis is observed rarely. We present a girl who developed diabetic ketoacidosis after the administration of methylprednisolone during the treatment of acute rheumatic fever.

Community-acquired pneumonia and parapneumonic effusions in developing countries.

Ninety-eight patients with diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia and parapneumonic effusion were retrospectively evaluated in order to determine the demographic properties of the patients, etiologic microorganism and the resistance patterns. Ages of study groups were between 2 to 16 years (mean 6.5 +/- 3.

Treatment of massive cardiac thrombi in a patient with protein C and protein S deficiency.

Myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy is characterized by dilatation of all four cardiac chambers and decreased systolic function of the heart, especially in the left ventricle. In this report we presented a patient with myocarditis or dilated cardiomyopathy and deficiency of protein C and protein S with biventricular multiple intracardiac thrombi. Standard heparin infusion and acetyl salicylic acid was begun.

Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome and pseudotruncus arteriosus.

Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome (ARS) is an autosomal dominant disorder. It is described as the association of malformation of the anterior chamber of the eye with extraocular anomalies. Cardiovascular defects are considered an occasional findings with this syndrome.

Left main coronary artery and aortic root compression associated with atrial septal defect and pulmonary hypertension.

The extrinsic compression of left main coronary artery (LMCA) by dilated pulmonary artery is rarely reported. Various congenital and acquired diseases were shown to cause extrinsic LMCA compression. Here we present a child with aortic root and LMCA compression due to dilated pulmonary trunk and causing angina like chest pain.

Familial Mediterranean fever and mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis: report of a case and review of the literature.

In familial Mediterranean fever (FMF), a genetically inherited disease characterized by fever and serositis, renal involvement is mainly AA amyloidosis. We report a patient with FMF who developed mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis; presumably in response to colchicine treatment, the activity of the disease decreased and renal function tests and urinary findings normalized. This report emphasizes the concurrent existence of mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis with FMF in the absence of renal amyloidosis.