Neonates with Down's syndrome occasionally show an excess of blasts in their peripheral blood. This disorder spontaneously resolves within several months and is called transient abnormal myelopoiesis (TAM) or transient myeloproliferative disorder. It has been uncertain whether the excess of blasts in TAM is a result of a clonal proliferation or a polyclonal reactive condition. The clonality of ...

BACKGROUND Patients with celiac disease who present with symptoms of gastrointestinal hypomotility have abnormal antroduodenal manometry. There are no data on antroduodenal manometry in malabsorption syndrome (MAS) due to causes other than celiac disease. METHODS Fasting, post-prandial and post-octreotide antroduodenal motility parameters were compared in 18 untreated patients with MAS presen...

conclusions adherence to the meddiet, according to mds and sofi-mds, may not predict mets components and mets incidence after 3 years of follow-up in iranian adult populations. results after adjusting for potential confounders, neither higher mds nor higher sofi-mds were significantly associated with the mean values of mets components and the risk of metabolic abnormalities incidence after 3 ye...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of combined l-carnitine and l-acetyl-carnitine therapy in infertile males with oligo-astheno-teratozoospermia. DESIGN Placebo-controlled double-blind randomized trial. SETTING University tertiary referral center. PATIENT(S) Sixty infertile patients (aged 20-40 years) with the following baseline sperm selection criteria: concentration, 10 to 40 x 10(6)/m...

© Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. Transl Androl Urol, 2016;5(S1) tau.amegroups.com this study. Their obesity-associated markers were measured, and semen parameters were analyzed. Also, seminal plasma and serum TC, TG, HDL and LDL and serum FFA levels were detected. Results: Seminal plasma and serum TG, TC and LDL levels were positively related to age. Serum TC, TG and ...

introduction: cervical rib is relatively uncommon congenital abnormality that originates from the seventh cervical vertebrae and rarely from the sixth vertebrae. the purpose of this paper is to consider that this abnormal condition is an important cause of neurovascular compression at the thoracic outlet. methods: in this study all patients who were referred to radiology department of isfahan h...

introduction women with mosaic turner syndrome (ts) bearing the presence of y chromosome material or with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (cais) is at risk of gonadal malignancy. two patients with characteristic features of these uncommon disorders are reported, and the surgical techniques of laparoscopic gonadectomy are reviewed and discussed. the aim of the present study is to report...