Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a genetically heterogeneous neurobehavioral disorder. The etiology and the inheritance pattern are usually multifactorial. The index case is a 3-year-old male, whose family applied to the child psychiatry outpatient clinic due to failure to speak at 30 months.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGitelman syndrome is a rare, autosomal recessively inherited tubulopathy manifesting with hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, hypocalciuria, and metabolic alkalosis. Common symptoms include fatigue, myalgia, reduced performance capacity, tetany, paresthesia, and delayed growth. However, as reported in the literature, diagnosis in some patients is prompted by an incidental finding of hypokalemia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Cigarette smoking is a primary risk factor, linked to 80% of LC deaths. TP53, a key gene, is implicated in various cancers, with TP53 alterations in 36.7% of cancers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol
December 2023
Objectives: Teratogens are responsible for 5% of all known causes of congenital anomalies. Isotretinoin, a retinoic acid-derived agent, leads to congenital anomalies in 21-52% of cases when exposure occurs during pregnancy according to studies conducted before 2006. However, rates of congenital anomalies were much lower in later studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In insulin resistance (IR), it is thought that pancreatic fat accumulation may decrease pancreatic volume, cause an impaired endocrine function, and simultaneously lead to an exocrine dysfunction before diabetes develops.
Aim: The association between pancreatic exocrine function and insulin resistance (IR) was assessed in a population with insulin resistance.
Method: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study that included 43 IR cases with no other comorbid diseases or pregnancy and 41 healthy controls.