More than 3 billion people worldwide are infected with parasitic worms called helminthes or suffer allergic disorders such as asthma, allergic rhinitis, food allergies and eczema. A common feature of these infectious or inflammatory conditions is the called allergic or “type 2” immune response. Type 2 immune responses are induced by and confer protection against helminthes, but can also play pa...

BACKGROUND Numerous syndromes with myopia and hearing loss have been described up to now. We present a family with pathologic myopia, corneal dystrophy, and deafness distinct from these syndromes. CASES Ten patients in the same Turkish family were evaluated by ophthalmologic, audiologic, physical, radiologic, genetic, serologic, and biochemical examinations. OBSERVATIONS Ophthalmic examinat...

A pathologic increase in the amount of porphyrin excreted in the urine by patients with lead poisoning was first reported by Garrod (1) in 1892. Since then it has been generally assumed that this porphyrinuria is related in some way to the destruction of hemoglobin. Until recently there has been no means of testing the validity of this belief. Lately, however, the advance in knowledge concernin...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The reported MR imaging characteristics of cavernous sinus cavernous hemangiomas (CSCHs) in the literature are nonspecific. The purpose of our study was to explore dynamic enhancement features of CSCHs on conventional contrast-enhanced MR imaging and to correlate these features with histopathologic subtypes. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-one patients (8 male and 13 femal...

PURPOSE Type III 5-α reductase (SRD5A3; steroid 5-α reductase 3) may be associated with the progression of prostate cancer (PCa). The aim of our study was to determine whether the length of AC repeats in the SRD5A3 gene is associated with the risk of PCa and the expression of androgen receptor (AR) protein in Korean men. MATERIALS AND METHODS We compared the length of AC repeats in the short ...