Quality of Diet of Patients with Coeliac Disease in Comparison to Healthy Children.

A lifelong strict gluten-free diet is the only available treatment for patients with coeliac disease (CD). As with any restrictive diet, it may potentially lead to nutritional deficits. Seventy-six patients with CD (mean age 9.

Metabolic syndrome influencing infarct size and heart failure in patients with acute coronary syndrome: does gender matter?

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is the occurrence of diabetes mellitus/glucose intolerance, arterial hypertension, central obesity, dyslipidemia, and microalbuminuria in the same patient (definition by WHO). Presence of metabolic syndrome is associated with larger myocardial infarction size and complications following acute myocardial infarction. Two hundred and thirty patients with acute coronary syndromes were analyzed.

Brugada syndrome unmasked by accidental inhalation of gasoline vapors.

Loss-of-function mutations in the gene SCN5A can cause Brugada syndrome (BrS), which is an inherited form of idiopathic ventricular fibrillation. We report the case of a 46-year-old patient, with no previous medical history, who had ventricular fibrillation after accidental inhalation of gasoline vapors. His electrocardiogram (ECG) showed a typical type-1 BrS pattern that persisted after the acute event.

A cold shock response triggering acute myocardial infarction.

Acute risk factors are activities and events that suddenly and transiently increase the risk of acute cardiac events, as reported recently in International Journal of Cardiology. It has already been reported that sudden submersion in cold water may provoke myocardial infarction in both subjects with atherosclerotic coronary disease and young people with angiographically normal coronary arteries. We report a case of an acute myocardial infarction triggered by sudden exposure to cold air temperature extreme in a young person with acutely occluded proximal part of the left anterior descending coronary artery and normal other coronary arteries who had extreme obesity and cigarette smoking as cardiovascular risk factors.

Metabolic syndrome X--high risk factor for acute myocardial infarction and its complications.

Metabolic Syndrome X is a clinical entity which comprises the following factors: diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, high levels of triglyceride and/or low levels of HDL cholesterol, central obesity and microalbuminuria (by WHO criteria). The first goal of this study was to determine the frequency of the Metabolic Syndrome X (MSX) in patients with acute myocardial infarction compared with the general population. The second goal of the study was to examine the frequency of heart failure and reinfarction rate in the patients with myocardial infarction, with and without MSX.

Relationship of gastric metaplasia and age, sex, smoking and Helicobacter pylori infection in patients with duodenal ulcer and duodenitis.

Gastric metaplasia is one of the factors in duodenal ulcer appearance. The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of gastric metaplasia and its connection with age, sex, cigarette smoking and H. pylori infection.