OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Graves' disease (GD) has multiple adverse effects on the cardiovascular system. We aimed to examine the outcome of thyroidectomy in patients with cardiac manifestations of GD and evaluate their associated postoperative complications. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective analysis using a prospectively collected database. METHODS A retrospective analysis of our prospectively colle...

The hallmark of neuronopathic Gaucher disease (GD) is oculomotor abnormalities, but ophthalmological assessment is difficult in uncooperative patients. Chromatic pupillometry is a quantitative method to assess the pupillary light reflex (PLR) with minimal patient cooperation. Thus, we investigated whether chromatic pupillometry could be useful for neurological evaluations in GD. In our neuronop...

A randomized double-blind crossover comparison of 0.2 mmolikg Gd-DTPA and 0.1 mmolikg Gd-BOPTA was performed in 25 patients for MRA of the aorta and sopra aortic trunk, and the renal, mesenteric, lumbar, iliac and femoral arteries. Blinded qualitative evaluation by two radiologists revealed no differences in terms of lesion size, signal intensity or degree of stenosis. The results indicate that...

The identification of parental inbred lines to develop superior hybrids is a rather costly and time-consuming step in maize breeding. In some cases, pedigree information has been used to select diverse parental lines. In the case of Iranian maize inbred lines, this information is not fully available. In this study we investigated the genetic distance (GD) based on Simple sequence Repeats (SSR) ...

The coexistence of Crohn’s disease (CD) and autoimmune thyroid diseases [Graves’ disease (GD) and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT)] is uncommon, although these conditions involve autoimmune processes. This report reviews the English and Japanese literature, including proceedings regarding coexisting CD and the autoimmune thyroid diseases GD and HT, and discusses cases of concomitant CD and GD (six ...

An evaluation was done of the effect of gadolinium diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) on computed tomographic (CT) studies performed after magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. CT scans of two solutions of Gd-DTPA demonstrated substantial attenuation. In two patients who underwent CT after Gd-DTPA-enhanced MR imaging, the high attenuation of concentrated Gd-DTPA was seen in the urinary bladde...

Type 3 Gaucher disease (GD) manifests with hematologic, neurological and skeletal involvement including Erlenmeyer flask bone deformities, osteopenia, painful bone crises and fractures. We describe bilateral symmetric osteolytic lesions in a 22 year old with type 3 GD, chronically treated with enzyme replacement therapy. These atypical bone findings, previously reported in two similar patients ...

Patients with complete XY gonadal dysgenesis (GD) show a high predisposition to germ cell tumors (GCT). Patients with coexistence of GCT and GD have been reported previously. Here we present a 15-year-old girl with mixed GCT and GD who also developed an intra-abdominal synovial sarcoma one year after the treatment. This is the first report, to our knowledge, of synovial sarcoma associated with ...

BACKGROUND Gaucher disease (GD) is an inborn error of metabolism caused by mutations in the gene (GBA) coding for glucocerebrosidase (GCase), inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern. GD patients have up to 9% risk of developing PD. CASE PRESENTATION We report two patients with GD that developed PD at different disease stages. CONCLUSION We reviewed the literature on the coexistence of P...

Fractional concentrations of indium solutes at Gd sites and Al sites in the Laves phase Gd113xAl223x were measured for different temperatures and sample compositions using perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy. At fixed composition, the fraction of indium on Gd sites was observed to decrease as temperature was increased. At fixed temperature, the fraction of indium on Gd sites was observed...