Screening for celiac disease among patients with chronic kidney disease.

Aim: Celiac disease (CD) is considered to be a risk factor for chronic kidney disease (CKD) but there is no study determining the prevalence of CD, among patients with CKD. We aim to determine the prevalence of CD in patients with CKD.

Materials And Methods: Anti-endomysial IgA (EMA) antibody was screened in patients with CKD (glomerular filtration rate <60 mL/min).

Evaluation of related with age of IFN-gamma levels of treated leprosy patients and their healthy relatives compared with a control group.

Objective: This study was to search how change with age of IFN-gamma (IFN-gamma) levels of leprosy patients who had received or still undergoing treatment, their healthy close relatives and healthy people.

Method: From a total of 39 patients, 28 had received leprosy treatment and recovered with some defects [17 Lepromatous Leprosy(LL), 7 Borderline Lepromatous (BL), 3 Borderlien Tuberculoid (BT), 1 Tuberculoid form (TT)] and 11 (9 LL, 2 BL) were undergoing therapy in a hospital at that moment. Close relatives of the patients included 39 people living with treated patients in the same house and the control group consisted of 39 healthy people.