The effect of vitamin D deficiency on eradication rates of infection.

Background/aim: Many studies have investigated risk factors other than antibiotic resistance linked to () eradication failure. The aim of this study was to study the effect of serum levels of 25-hydroxy-vitamin D (25[OH]D) on eradication rates of infection.

Methods: This study included 150 patients diagnosed with gastritis using magnifying narrow-band imaging endoscopy supported by stool antigen test.

Surgical management of intractable spasticity.

Background: Spasticity is motor disorder characterized by a velocity-dependent increase in tonic stretch reflexes (muscle tone) with exaggerated tendon jerks, resulting from hyper-excitability of the stretch reflex, as one component of the upper motor neuron syndrome.

Purpose: This study aimed at comparing between spinally based (dorsal rhizotomy) versus peripherally based (selective neurotomy) surgical procedures in management of hypertonia in the lower limbs of pediatrics.

Methods: Over a 3-year period, 50 children with intractable, lower limb spasticity were prospectively treated by selective neurotomy (group A, 35 patients) and dorsal rhizotomy (group B, 15 patients) with 6 months' follow-up period.