Introduction: Teenage pregnancy is defined as a pregnancy occurring between ages 10 and 19 (Loredo-Abdlá et al., 2017; Belitzky, 1985; Kaplanoglu et al., 2015), and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality for both mother and child.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive condition affecting lipid metabolism with a prevalence of less than 1:1,000,000. Described here is the case of a 29-year-old pregnant woman with a diagnosis of LCAT deficiency (c.140G>A in exon 4), who had three episodes of hypertriglyceridemia-induced pancreatitis and nephrotic-range proteinuria throughout the pregnancy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Primary breast cancer in the pediatric population is rare. To our knowledge, no cases of intracystic papillary carcinoma have been reported in patients younger than 21 years.
Case: A 16-year-old patient presented with a retroareolar mass and bloody nipple discharge in her left breast.