Reviews of Literature

By Dr. Osama Zaki

March,21,2001 -- The following is a brief list of the most recent publications that came to our attention during the last months. To read the topics or their abstracts, just click the underlined link

A Milk Protein Lactoferrin Enhances Human T Cell Leukemia Virus Type I and Suppresses HIV-1 Infection - Journal of Immunology

Here we demonstrate that lactoferrin, a milk protein that has a variety of antimicrobial and immunomodulatory activities, facilitates replication of HTLV-I in lymphocytes derived from asymptomatic HTLV-I carriers and transmission to cord blood lymphocytes in vitro...

Tall stature, gonadal dysgenesis, and stigmata of Turner’s syndrome caused by a structurally altered X chromosome - Journal of Pediatrics

Genetic analysis in a tall 14-year-old girl with gonadal dysgenesis and some stigmata of Turner’s syndrome revealed a duplication of the short arm in a monocentric X chromosome with partial loss of Xq. We suggest that triple gene dosage of SHOX and estrogen deficiency caused the unique overgrowth...

Surfactant protein-A gene locus associated with recurrent otitis media - Journal of Pediatrics

Surfactant protein-A, which plays a role in innate host defense in the lung, is also expressed in the Eustachian tube. We report that the frequency of specific surfactant protein-A haplotypes and genotypes differs between children with recurrent otitis media compared with a control population...

Bleeding tendency in Wolfram syndrome: a newly identified feature with phenotype genotype correlation - European Journal of Pediatrics

Wolfram syndrome (WS) is a recessively inherited disorder associated with recognised clinical features...

Circulating Neuroblastoma Cells Detected by Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction for Tyrosine Hydroxylase mRNA Are an Independent Poor Prognostic Indicator in Stage 4 Neuroblastoma in Children Over 1 Year - Journal of Clinical Oncology

In this prospective, multicenter study, the independent prognostic power of neuroblastoma cells detected by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) mRNA was evaluated...

Survival with congenital heart disease and need for follow up in adult life - Heart

Objective: To predict the growth in demand for long term follow up of adults with congenital heart disease. Observed diagnoses of congenital heart disease in infancy and childhood were adjusted for observed infant survival, predicted further survival to age 16 years, underascertainment in older childhood, and predicted need for long term follow up...

The echocardiographic diagnosis of totally anomalous pulmonary venous connection in the fetus - Heart

Objective: To describe the features of isolated totally anomalous pulmonary venous drainage in the fetus. Four fetuses with isolated totally anomalous pulmonary venous connection were identified and the echocardiographic images reviewed. Measurements of the atrial and ventricular chambers and both great arteries were made and compared with normal values...

What is the cost of atopic dermatitis in preschool children? - British Journal of Dermatology

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is the most common inflammatory skin disorder and an important cause of morbidity in young children in the U.K. Such disability produces significant economic burden reflected in direct medical costs associated with health service utilization, direct family care costs such as transport costs, indirect costs associated with loss of productivity of carers, and intangible costs associated with the psychological effects of the disease...

Prenatal diagnosis of heart defects aids survival after surgery - British Medical Journal

Babies in whom a heart defect was diagnosed before birth were more likely to survive initial surgery to correct the defect than those in whom a defect was diagnosed after birth, a new study has shown. Only two thirds of those with a postnatal diagnosis survived...

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