Background: Obesity is associated with the risk factors such as iron and vitamin D deficiencies. Increased risk of iron deficiency generally correlates with the high levels of serum hepcidin in obese children. Vitamin D deficiency was also linked to an increase in serum hepcidin levels.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this study was to determine the alterations in thyroid function during carbamazepine or valproate monotherapy in a prospective study. Forty patients treated with valproate, 33 patients treated with carbamazepine, and 36 control patients, all aged between 2 and 18 years, were enrolled in our study. Serum levels of thyroid hormones were measured before the beginning of the antiepileptic therapy and at 6 and 12 months of treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: The utility of screening urinalysis in asymptomatic children has been questioned based on studies done in school-age children or adolescents. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended to abandon this screening in 2007 but many paediatricians perform it at some point during childhood. Thus, we aimed to investigate usefulness of screening urinalysis during infancy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTransvenous pacemaker leads may impair tricuspid valve function. Severe tricuspid regurgitation due to leaflet adhesion to the pacemaker lead has not been reported in a young adult patient in the literature. Our patient underwent a transvenous pacemaker implantation for symptoms of bradycardia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWaardenburg-Shah syndrome (Waardenburg syndrome type IV-WS4) is an auditory-pigmentary disorder that combines clinical features of pigmentary abnormalities of the skin, hair and irides, sensorineural hearing loss, and Hirschsprung disease (HSCR). Mutations in the endothelin-B receptor (EDNRB) gene on 13q22 have been found to cause this syndrome. Mutations in both alleles cause the full phenotype, while heterozygous mutations cause isolated HSCR or HSCR with minor pigmentary anomalies and/or sensorineural deafness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwenty-one patients with incidental hypertransaminasaemia who were eventually diagnosed as muscular dystrophy are described. There were two females and 19 males aged between 2 and 11 years [mean (SD) 6.7 (3.
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November 2005
Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of ribavirin on bone mineral metabolism in patients with chronic hepatitis C who had been treated with interferon and ribavirin.
Methods: Twenty patients (3 female, 17 male) with chronic hepatitis C were enrolled. Age range was 6 to 15 years (mean+/-SD, 11.
Unlabelled: Upper gastrointestinal system adenoma is generally seen amongst elderly patients and quite rarely seen during the childhood. A 14-y-old female patient was referred to our hospital with complaints of vomiting and abdominal pain. She had been followed up for 6 y with the diagnosis of familial intermittent fever and chronic renal failure due to amyloidosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 15-month-old boy was admitted with fever and a swollen knee. His mother had been treated for brucellosis 11 months ago. At that time he had been asymptomatic and had both negative blood culture and serum agglutination tests and breastfeeding had been stopped.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpondyloenchondrodysplasia is a very rare skeletal dysplasia in which multiple enchondromata exist in the metaphyses of the long bones with platyspondyly. We present three patients (two of them are sibs) with spondyloenchondrodysplasia. The first patient was a 10-year-old boy, who had short stature and enchondromatous-like lesions in the metaphyses of the long bones and platyspondyly on radiography.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCutis laxa is a term that refers to markedly loose skin that is not hyperelastic. It is regarded as a genetically heterogeneous group of diseases and is presently divided into five types. We report a male patient with type II autosomal recessive disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPancytopenia, although mainly reported in adults, has also been described in children with brucellosis. However, bone marrow hypoplasia is a rare feature of the infection. An 11-year-old boy was admitted with fever, vomiting, and abdominal pain of 10 days' duration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcute hepatic failure has been reported in the presence of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. Autoimmune hemolytic anemia may also occur in the course of this infection. We report a rare case of fulminant hepatic failure and autoimmune hemolytic anemia associated with Epstein-Barr virus.
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September 2001
We present a girl and autopsy finding of her sister with Mohr-Majewski syndrome (Orofaciodigital syndrome type IV). The parents were first cousins and their two sons died of similar findings. The only healthy child of the family was mildly effected from this syndrome who had cleft palate.
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