To the Editor: A 6-month-old girl with upper airway obstruction was evaluated in the emergency room. The patient had been born prematurely (at gestational week 34). Prior to the emergency room visit, she had been treated for gastroesophageal reflux and recurrent respiratory infection. Physical examination revealed laryngeal stridor. All laboratory test results were normal. A CT scan of the ches...

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Antecedent increases of corticosteroids can blunt counterregulatory responses to subsequent stress. Our aim was to determine whether prior activation of type I corticosteroid (mineralocorticoid) or type II corticosteroid (glucocorticoid) receptors blunts counterregulatory responses to subsequent hypoglycemia. Healthy volunteers participated in five randomized 2-day protocols. Day 1 involved mor...

BACKGROUND Simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplantation is the treatment of choice for selected diabetic patients. Corticosteroids are an important element of immunosuppressive protocols, but their long-term use has detrimental effects on patients' health, necessitating eventual discontinuation. METHODS This prospective study evaluated the safety and feasibility of corticosteroid withdr...

idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia is a rare and serious disease mostly encountered in female asthmatic patients in their fifth decade of life and rarely in children.  herein, we describe an 11-year-old boy presenting with clubbing of fingers and post-exertional cough without asthma and peripheral eosinophilia.  he had had a restrictive pattern in his pulmonary function test that showed ...

Aims: Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are serious severe cutaneous adverse reactions with high mortality and morbidity induced by medications. In this cross sectional study, we investigated, suspected drugs, and potential treatments of SJS/TEN. Methods: A cross- sectional descriptive study was conducted on 60 patients admitted with a diagnosis of Stevens-Jo...

recently, the role of myostatin (mstn) in controlling insulin resistance (ir( has been known. the aim of this study was to determine acute and delayed response of mstn and ir to circuit resistance exercise. for this purpose, 12 healthy men volunteered and participated in 2 sessions of the resistance exercise and control with one-week interval. after a session to instruct how to perform resistan...