Turner syndrome: results of the first Tunisian study group on Turner syndrome (TuSGOT).

Objectives: Early diagnosis in Turner syndrome is desirable to optimize growth and puberty and yet, it is often made late. Here, we aim to identify age at diagnosis, clinical features at presentation and potential strategies to improve the care of TS girls.

Methods: Retrospective study, including patients from 14 care centers across Tunisia including neonatal and pediatric care units, adult endocrinology and genetics departments.

[Medical practice assessment during the phlebotomy: clinical audit of blood sampling].

Introduction: Phlebotomy is taking a venous blood sample for a medical biology analysis .If the taking of a sample is poorly executed, the results for this sample may be inaccurate and mislead the clinician, or the inconvenience of the patient having to undergo a new levy. The three main problems associated with errors in the collection are: hemolysis, contamination and mislabelling.

[Primary biliary cirrhosis: a retrospective study of 36 cases].

Background: Primary biliary cirrhosis is a rare cholestasis liver disease affecting the women of mature age,it association with Autoimmune hepatitis defined the overlap syndrome.

Aim: It was to determine epidemiological, clinic-biological, immunological, histological, therapeutic and evolutive characteristics of PBC and to compare them to those in subjects having an overlap syndrome.

Methods: It is a retrospective study grouping all the cases of PBC hospitalized over a period of 15 years (1995-2009) in the hepatogastro-enterology department at Sahloul hospital in Sousse.

[False aneurysm of left ventricle after nonpenetrating chest trauma (about one case)].

Ischemic heart disease is the most common etiology of aneurysms of the left ventricle. The latter can also result from trauma. We report a case of a patient operated for false aneurysm of the left ventricle revealed by dyspnea and occurring six years after a nonpenetrating chest trauma.