OCT on Anterior Segment Anomalies of the Eye in a Polish Paediatric Cohort: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges.

Purpose: To present applications of anterior segment optical coherent tomography (AS OCT) for anomalies of the eye in a Polish paediatric cohort.

Materials And Methods: Seventy-four eyes of infants and older children were examined. The majority of them underwent general anaesthesia to allow OCT to be performed in the operating room, but a few were examined in a routine way.

Childhood growth hormone treatment in women with Turner syndrome - benefits and adverse effects.

Turner syndrome (TS) is characterized by the partial or complete loss of one sex chromosome and results in growth failure, gonadal insufficiency and cardiac anomalies. Treatment with growth hormone (GH) during childhood has indisputable benefits when taking into account the low stature of TS women. Medical records and biochemical findings of 33 TS women treated with GH in childhood (GH+) were compared to those of 124 TS women who did not receive GH (GH-).

New insights into clinical features, karyotypes, and age at diagnosis in women with Turner syndrome.

Introduction: Turner syndrome (TS) is due to a chromosomal abnormality in which only one normal X chromosome is present. The purpose of the study was the assessment the prevalence of phenotypic differences in TS-women and monosomy-45,X and with other karyotypes as well as the possible relationship between the presence of differentiating features and age at final TS diagnosis.

Material And Methods: The prevalence of anomalies and abnormalities from history taking/physical examination of 157 TS-patients was compared to 25 healthy controls (age 27.