Gastroenterology and Neurology.

Evaluation of Liver Enzymes Rising in Patients Treated with Sodium Valproate (VPA)

Introduction Valproic acid (VPA, Valproate) is an eight-branch fatty acid and varies from other antiepileptic drugs. VPA use might lead to mild to severe hepatotoxicity. The aim of this study was to investigate valproic acid impact on liver transaminases at the beginning of VPA treatment and after three and six months of it. Materials and Methods This study was designed as a cross sectional pro...

Antitumor Immunity Induced by Genetic Immunization with Chitosan Nanoparticle Formulated Adjuvanted for HPV-16 E7 DNA Vaccine

Children in chronic pain: promoting pediatric patients' symptom accounts in tertiary care.

This paper examines how clinicians promote pediatric patients' symptom accounts at the beginning of visits in three pediatric tertiary care clinics at a university hospital in the United States: pain, gastroenterology and neurology. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected for 69 patient-parent pairs, including videotaped intake visits. Two forms of child account promotion, together wit...

Vasculitis in children: Classification and clinical presentation

Childhood vasculitis is a challenging and complex group of conditions that are multisystem in nature and often require integrated care from multiple subspecialties including rheumatology, dermatology, cardiology, nephrology, neurology, and gastroenterology. vasculitis is defined as the presence of inflammation in a blood vessel that may occur as a primary process or secondary to an underlying d...

Clinical and Pathological Manifestations with Differential Diagnosis in Behçet's Disease

Behçet's disease is a multisystemic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology which usually occurs as a trait of symptoms: aphthous stomatitis, genital ulcerations, and ocular disease. At the beginning of the disease the diagnosis is uncertain because of various clinical manifestations and a long period up to the full clinical picture manifestation. Since neither the laboratory data nor the hist...

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