Cord blood thyroid-stimulating hormone and free T4 levels in Turkish neonates: is iodine deficiency still a continuing problem?

Background: The objectives of this study were to determine the cord blood thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and free T(4) (FT(4) ) levels in Turkish neonates and to determine whether these variables reveal iodine deficiency.

Methods: We collected 818 cords from healthy mothers at parturition and measured levels of FT(4) and TSH. We also measured cord blood FT(4) and TSH levels in different stages of gestation and gender.

Acute pancreatitis: a rare presenting feature of Henoch Schonlein purpura.

Pancreatitis is a rare manifestation of Henoch Schonlein purpura (HSP). Herein we report a 3-year-old girl presented with acute pancreatitis that developed characteristic rash for HSP at the fifth day of clinical onset. Abdominal pain which is the most frequent sign of gastrointestinal involvement can be also explained by acute pancreatitis.

Early but prolonged gallbladder hydrops in a 7-month-old girl with Kawasaki syndrome: Report of a case.

Kawasaki syndrome (KS) is a self-limiting childhood disease. Gallbladder hydrops is an uncommon manifestation of this syndrome, found rarely in infants. We report the case of a 7-month-old girl with KS manifesting as gallbladder hydrops, which resolved spontaneously during follow-up.

A novel mutation for TAP deficiency and its possible association with Toxoplasmosis.

We describe two siblings (a male patient and his older sister) with a novel mutation in the peptide transporter associated to antigen processing (TAP). The index case presented with not only granulomatous skin lesions and recurrent sino-pulmonary infections, often associated with this deficiency, but also a severe pulmonary toxoplasmosis. His toxoplasmosis and skin lesions were successfully treated.

Obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus: a population-based study of adolescents.

A cross-sectional, population-based study was conducted on 1,647 Turkish adolescents to determine the prevalence of obesity, impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), and to determine whether the recent increase in DM2 prevalence in some countries is applicable to this population. Information was gathered through a questionnaire. All children were screened with physical examination and fasting plasma glucose.