Social and Medical Characteristics of Neonates Who Were Abandoned in a Tertiary Maternity Hospital in Turkey.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of neonates who were aban- doned in a tertiary maternity hospital and to determine the accompanying morbidities.

Materials And Methods: This hospital-based, retrospective descriptive study was conducted by evaluating the medical records between 2012 and 2019 in a tertiary hospital in İzmir.

Results: During the study period, there were 76 women who left their babies in the hospital following delivery.

Elevated serum levels of IGF-binding protein 2 in patients with non-seminomatous germ cell cancer: correlation with tumor markers alpha-fetoprotein and human chorionic gonadotropin.

Background/aims: Alterations of the IGF system have been described in several different types of cancer. However, no information is available about the role of the IGF system in patients with non-seminomatous germ cell cancer.

Methods: Free IGF-I, IGF-II, acid-labile subunit, and IGF-binding proteins (IGFBPs) 1-4 were analyzed by specific RIAs in 32 patients with untreated non-seminomas and compared with IGFBP levels of 38 healthy controls.

Familial nonsyndromic pheochromocytoma.

Judging from recent data, heritable forms account for 30-40% of pheochromocytomas. The molecular basis for the familial pheochromocytoma has been largely elucidated and the role of germline mutation of the VHL, RET, SDHB, and SDHD genes has been established. However, on genotyping a group of 172 sporadic or familial pheochromocytomas, we characterized four unrelated probands with familial pheochromocytomas without any sequence variants of RET (exons 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, and 16) or the entire coding sequence of VHL, SDHB, SDHC, SDHD, and EGLN3 (exon-intron boundaries included).

[Epidemiology and clinical polymorphism of the humero-scapulo-facial form of progressive muscular dystrophy].

The paper is concerned with a clinico-genealogic analysis of 9 patients with the humeroscapular form of Landouzy-Dejerine myodystrophy. The patients come from 4 families united by the common ancestor. The following aspects of the illness are marked: a mild course and considerable clinical polymorphism manifesting itself in the age difference by the disease onset as well as in the intensity of the clinical symptoms.