Background. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has long been used to treat chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the TCM syndrome characteristics of CAG and its core pathogenesis so as to promote optimization of treatment strategies. Methods. This study was based on a participant survey conducted in 4 hospitals in China. Patients diagnosed with CAG were ...

Klinefelter syndrome is characterised by advancing testicular function deterioration causing aspermatogenesis and androgen deficiency. Klinefelter patients characteristically have complete male sex differentiation, and genital anomalies are infrequently associated. Penoscrotal malformations at birth are very rare in this syndrome. Nonetheless, it is important to know the association, as one of...

2 cases of laurence- moon-biedl syndrome are described in 2 rothers. they have 5 out of 6 cardinal symptoms of this syndrome i.e. : i) obesity ,2) genital dystrophia, 3) retinitis pigmentosa, 4)menal deficiency, 5) familial occurrence. besides, their only sister has ocular signs of beginning of retinitis igmentosa and one of their relatives had polydactylism and another ne cretinism. what is cu...

introduction: megaloblasc anemia is an uncommon problem in childhood most frequently associated with vitamin deficiency or gastrointesnal disease. the common causes of megaloblasc anemia are vitamin b12 (cobalamin) deficiency and folic acid deficiency. familial selecve malabsorpon of vitamin b12 associated with proteinuria firstly was described by imerslund (1960) and grasbeck et al (1960)...

Polycystic ovary syndrome is a very common cause of female infertility. This study aims to assess the prevalence vitamin D deficiency and its association with clinical anthropometric characteristics Iraqi women without polycystic syndrome. Fifty eightwomen disease their matched control group were included. Their blood pressure was measured. Serum level 25 hydroxy <20 ng/mL graded as deficien...

Malignant syphilis is considered a rare disease, more commonly affecting individuals with poor immunity. We report case of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) repeated crusted ulcerat...

The cover image is based on the Original Article GATA2 deficiency syndrome: A decade of discovery by Claire Homan et al., https://doi.org/10.1002/humu.24271.

Ketogenic diet (KD) was usually tried as a last resort in the treatment of intractable epilepsy after failure of many antiepileptics and even epilepsy surgery. Glucose transporter-1 deficiency and pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency must be treated with KD as the first choice because of inborn errors of glucose metabolism. Infantile spasms, tuberous sclerosis complex, Rett syndrome, Doose syndrom...

Prasad's syndrome is characterized by geophagia, growth retardation, hypogonadism, and zinc deficiency. We report a 15-year-old boy whose medical history and clinical and laboratory findings were fully compatible with Prasad's syndrome. In addition to severe growth retardation and pubertal delay, iron deficiency anemia and zinc deficiency were determined. His gliadin and endomysium antibodies w...