background: hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection is the most common transfusion transmitted disease in poly-transfused patients worldwide. in this study we aimed to evaluate the effects of pegylated interferon alfa-2a (peg-ifn a-2a) in reducing serum alt and eradicating serum hepatitis c virus (hcv) rna in hcv infected polytransfused thalassemic patients. materials and methods: a cohort of 51 hcv-...

background and objective: vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) and its receptors (vegf-r1 and r2) are major regulators of angiogenesis. this study was designed to assess serum levels of vegf and vegf-r1 and their prognostic significance in newly diagnosed childhood acute leukemia. materials and methods: for this purpose, vegf and vegf-r1 were determined using enzyme linked immuno-sorbant a...

radionuclide therapy is widely used as an effective modality in the management of bone pain. the main indication for this treatment is symptomatic bone metastases, confirmed by bone scintigraphy. we present a case of small cell lung cancer (sclc) stage t4n2m1b, with a good metabolic response to systemic therapy and radiotherapy of the primary tumor and locoregional disease, which became metabol...

langerhans cell histiocytosis (lch) is a rare disorder described as three different entities including eosinophilic granulomaof bone, the hand-schuller-christian syndrome, and letterer-siwe disease. lch is currently classified into singlesystem lch, and multisystem lch. patients with single system lch have an excellent prognosis, and are mostlytreated with local therapy. multisystem lch is subd...

800x600 hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection is the main cause of chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc). several factors such as serum hbv dna level, genotype and specific viral mutations have been clarified to determine disease progression of chronic hepatitis b. among these, mutations can also occur in chronic hbv patients with antiviral treatment such as lamivudine the...

Vitiligo, manifested by skin hypopigmentation, is an autoimmune disorder of the due to destruction melanocytes. Nivolumab, which a programmed cell death–1 receptor inhibitor, well-known therapy for melanoma. Nivolumab-induced vitiligo has been described in literature, explained non-cancerous This considered favorable response, correlated stronger immune response against tumor cells. The average...

  Background and Objective: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and its receptors (VEGF-R1 and R2) are major regulators of angiogenesis. This study was designed to assess serum levels of VEGF and VEGF-R1 and their prognostic significance in newly diagnosed childhood acute leukemia. Materials and Methods: For this purpose, VEGF and VEGF-R1 were determined using enzyme linked immuno-sorba...