Author name: admin

A 16-Year-Old Girl with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia

A 16-year-old girl was admitted to the hospital with severe ab dominal pain that could not be relieved. She was initially misdi agnosed as enterocolitis and did not improve after symptomatic treatment, the rupture of the spleen and massive blood accumu lation in the abdominal cavity were detected by ultrasonography and CT (Figure 1).

A 16-Year-Old Girl with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Read More »

Why Korean Teens Started Declining in Height Growth in The Midst of Economic Prosperity: Despite Increasing Supply of Animal Protein?

In ten years after the end of WWII, Japan’s economy recovered to the prewar level and achieved fast and steady progress toward the 1990s. People, the young in particular learned to eat animal prod ucts and the teens grew in height nearly 10 cm by the early-1990s and plateaued in stature after that. South Korea

Why Korean Teens Started Declining in Height Growth in The Midst of Economic Prosperity: Despite Increasing Supply of Animal Protein? Read More »

MRI-Guided Stereotactic Craniotomy to Set the Diagnosis of CNS Cryptococcosis. Case Report and Review of the International Literature

Cryptococcosis – a fungal infection – mainly caused by Crypto coccus Neoformans and Cryptococcus Gattii, may affect human central neural system (CNS) with various clinical manifestations. Diagnosis is usually confirmed by direct CSF microscopic exami nation for encapsulated yeasts by India ink preparation. However, sometimes laboratory tests may not be indicative and brain imag ing

MRI-Guided Stereotactic Craniotomy to Set the Diagnosis of CNS Cryptococcosis. Case Report and Review of the International Literature Read More »

Report of a Severe Case of Pancytopenia Caused by Chronic Brucellosis in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

Brucellosis is a type of zoonotic infectious disease that causes se rious harm to public health. Inner Mongolia has become one of the most severely endemic areas of brucellosis in China.

Report of a Severe Case of Pancytopenia Caused by Chronic Brucellosis in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Read More »

Frequency of Autoimmune Diseases Associated with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in Children and Adolescents in Albania

1.1. Background: Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) is the most common chronic autoimmune metabolic and endocrinological dis ease of children and adolescents. Children and adolescents with T1D are at increased risk of developing other autoimmune diseas es; more often autoimmune thyroiditis followed by celiac disease and other conditions, which significantly affect the clinical man agement

Frequency of Autoimmune Diseases Associated with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in Children and Adolescents in Albania Read More »