Autoimmune hepatitis and long-term disease course in children in Turkey, a single-center experience.

Introduction: The aim of this study is to determine clinic and laboratory features, treatment protocols, treatment responses, and long term follow-up of children with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) in a region of Turkey followed at Ege University.

Materials And Methods: The records of 47 children with AIH between 1998 and 2012 were retrospectively analyzed for clinical profiles, treatment response, relapse rate, and long-term side effects.

Results: The median age of the children was 10±4.

Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist deficiency with a novel mutation; late onset and successful treatment with canakinumab: a case report.

Introduction: Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist deficiency is a rare autoinflammatory disease involving neonatal onset of pustulosis, periostitis, and sterile osteomyelitis. The underlying genetic abnormality involves a recessive mutation in IL1RN, which encodes interleukin-1 receptor antagonist. In this case report, we describe a case of a 12-year-old Turkish girl who initially was presented at 1 year of age, older than previously reported children with interleukin-1 receptor antagonist deficiency, and with a novel mutation, p.

Excimer laser coronary angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction.

We evaluated the short-term results of percutaneous excimer laser angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction. Of the 18 patients studied, 2 were female and 16 male with a mean age of 56.6 +/- 12.

Levels of zinc and lipid peroxidation in acute coronary syndrome.

The present study was carried out on 20 female patients diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The control group was composed of 20 healthy female volunteers. Plasma malondialdehyde (MDA) levels and serum zinc (Zn), total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and VLDL-cholesterol, Lp(a), Apo-A1, and Apo-B were determined in all patients and controls.