Publications by authors named "Olga Liapi"
Unlabelled: Gilbert syndrome is a common autosomal dominant hereditary condition with incomplete penetrance and characterized by intermittent unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia in the absence of hepatocellular disease or hemolysis. In patients with Gilbert syndrome, uridine diphosphate-glucuronyl transferase activity is reduced to 30% of the normal, resulting in indirect hyperbilirubinemia. In its typical form, hyperbilirubinemia is first noticed as intermittent mild jaundice in adolescence.
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- Ceftriaxone, a third-generation antibiotic, can cause temporary gallstones (pseudolithiasis) in some children.
- The exact reason why this happens is not fully understood.
- In a study of three affected children, researchers found a connection to a specific genetic polymorphism (A(TA)(7)TAA) in the UGT1A1 gene, suggesting a potential cause-and-effect relationship.
Erythema nodosum is an acute, nodular, erythematous eruption usually limited to the extensor aspects of the lower legs. It could be idiopathic or associated with other systemic diseases. We, herein, report a phenotypically healthy, ten-year-old boy who presented with erythema nodosum in whom serological tests of autoimmunity and intestinal histological examination were compatible with celiac disease.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Community-acquired pneumonia in children is rarely depicted as round opacity. The aim of the present study was therefore to describe the clinical and laboratory characteristics of round pneumonia in children.
Methods: The clinical series consisted of 30 children aged 1-7 years (mean age, 3.