Publications by authors named "Hikmet Kiztanir"
Background: Clinical effects of subclinical hypothyroidism are not clearly understood. This study aims to investigate the effects of subclinical hypothyroidism (SH) on cardiac autonomic and conduction systems in children.
Methods: Forty-seven cases (25 female, 22 male) with SH aged between 3 and 17 years and 46 controls that were age, body mass index and sex matched, were included in the study.
Hypertension is an increasing disease in children and the risk of endothelial damage and target organ damage increases in the presence of additional risk factors such as obesity. In our study, the effect of hypertension on early atherosclerotic changes and target organ damage in children was investigated. Twenty four-hour ambulatory pulse wave analysis was performed by oscillometric method in 71 children aged 8-18 years, 17 of whom were diagnosed with primary hypertension without obesity, 18 had both primary hypertension and obesity, and 16 had renal hypertension.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Arterial stiffness is an important predictor factor of aortopathy and myocardial remodeling in patients with a bicuspid aortic valve and it might be increased in childhood.
Objective: To assess the arterial stiffness and left ventricular myocardial function in children with a well-functioning bicuspid aortic valve.
Methods: Forty-four children with a bicuspid aortic valve and 41 healthy peers with a tricuspid aortic valve were included in this case-control study.
Objective: In the present study, for which reasons fetal cardiac evaluation was requested from our pediatric cardiology clinic, the effects of routine fetal cardiac evaluation in obstetric ultrasonography (USG) on the detection of congenital heart disease (CHD) and the distribution of intrauterine diagnosis of CHD according to pregnancy risk profiles were retrospectively analyzed.
Materials And Methods: Fetal echocardiography reports which containing the nineteen-month period were retrospectively examined. We performed a fetal echocardiography for all pregnant women who were referred to pediatric cardiology clinic after detail obstetric USG screening.
Objectives: To determine the incidence and clinical relevance of neuronal autoantibodies in children with demyelinating syndromes.
Methods: We conducted a prospective study including 31 consecutive children with demyelinating syndromes. Four patients with N-Methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis, 32 patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome, 13 children with benign childhood epilepsy, and 28 healthy children were used as controls.