Newborn screening for severe combined immunodeficiency: The results of the first pilot TREC and KREC study in Ukraine with involving of 10,350 neonates.

Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is a group of inborn errors of immunity (IEI) characterized by severe T- and/or B-lymphopenia. At birth, there are usually no clinical signs of the disease, but in the first year of life, often in the first months the disease manifests with severe infections. Timely diagnosis and treatment play a crucial role in patient survival.

TREC/KREC levels in children with ataxia-telangiectasia.

The aim of the study was to determine the TREC/KREC levels in the patients diagnosed with ataxia-telangiectasia (AT) and to establish their informative value for early diagnosis of this pathology. TRECs and KREC assay was performed using real-time polymerase chain reaction on the DNA of 25 patients diagnosed with AT aged 3 to 14 years and of 173 healthy individuals of the control group aged 1 to 12 years. Clinical and laboratory characteristics of patients were ascertained using their medical records.

[Survey assesment of vitamin D and calcium dietary intake in children with somatic pathology].

Vitamin D and calcium play a key role not only in maintaining skeletal integrity, but are also important in the functioning of other systems of the human body. of the study is to evaluate the dietary intake of calcium and vitamin D in the children with different somatic pathologies (gastroenterological and endocrine) and its impact on somatic health indicators. .

Relation of carbohydrate exchange markers with vitamin D status in adolescents with overweight and obesity.

Introduction: In the case of obesity and excessive body weight, the deficiency of vitamin D increases, which significantly impairs metabolic processes in the body, especially fatty and carbohydrate metabolism. Vitamin D metabolites affect insulin sensitivity of cells.

The Aim Of The Study: was to determine the relationship between vitamin D and carbohydrate metabolism in adolescents with excessive body weight and obesi-ty.

[A new method for cannulation of the common bile duct in an experiment].

The proposed method of common biliary duct cannulation is simple, easily performed and permits studying bile hydrodynamics biligenesis for a necessary time. Tightness of the system is completely preserved after removal a choledochostomical tube. Walls of the invaginated stump of the cystic duct are swiftly abated as a result of hydrostatic pressure and cover its gap.