Background. An impact of burdened family history on epilepsy course and disease outcome remains insufficiently studied. Objective: assessing the rate achieving remission in epileptic patients with/without history. Material methods. The study included 660 with a specified divided into three groups: Group 1 (n=192) – genetic forms (56 136 without history); 2 (n=148) structural (16 132 3 (n=320) u...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Although acquired aplastic anemia is usually a chronic disorder, a small proportion of patients with aplastic anemia was reported to recover spontaneously without specific therapy such as allogeneic bone marrow transplantation or immunosuppressive treatment. We attempted to determine the rate of spontaneous remission in the patients with AA. DESIGN AND METHODS We rev...

Aim: In this study, we aimed to investigate the etiological factors, electroencephalographic (EEG) findings, rates of response iron therapy, and factors affecting therapy in children diagnosed with breath-holding spells (BHS). Methods: The study included 136 aged 1 48 months who received after a BHS diagnosis at our pediatric neurology clinic between November 2015 No¬vember 2019. Patient medica...

this study was designed to examine the antidepressant effect of celecoxib (200 mg/day) augmentation of sertraline in the treatment of female patients with first episode of major depression over 8 weeks of therapy.thirty female outpatients diagnosed with first episode of major depression, were recruited for this study. participants were randomly assigned into two equal groups receiving either se...

OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical effects of concurrent radiochemotherapy with those of radiotherapy in treating locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (Stage III~IVa). METHODS A total of 95 patients suffering from nasopharyngeal carcinoma (Stage III~IVa) were divided into two groups: concurrent radiochemotherapy (Group CCRT, n=49) and radiotherapy (Group RT, n=46). The two groups were bot...

Eighteen patients with active Crohn's disease were treated with one leukocytapheresis session per week for a five-week intensive therapy, decreasing to one leukocytapheresis session per month for five sessions of initial maintenance therapy. Nutritional indices, inflammatory reactions, flow cytometry profiles, and cytokine production were also assessed before and after the intensive and initial...

In a prospective multicenter study, 368 acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients aged 15 to 65 years were treated with an intensified induction and reinduction regimen; 272 (73.9%) achieved complete remission (CR). The median remission duration (MRD) is 24.3 months, and the probability of being in continuous CR (CCR) at greater than 5 years is .37. The median survival for all 368 patients is...