Introduction: Serum Anti endothelial Cell Antibodies (AECAs) play a prominent role in idiopathic Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SNHL) in that they induce vascular damage (immune mediated).The of the current study is  To compare AECAs in serum and perilymphatic .uid of idiopathic SNHL children (<15y) undergoing cochlear implant surgery.Methods: This was a cross sectional study performed in the coch...

idiopathic cd4+ lymphocytopenia is a rare combined immunodeficiency disease, characterized by low cd4+ t-cell count and increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, autoimmunity and malignancies after exclusion of secondary forms of cd4 lymphocytopenia. here we present a 13-year old boy who was referred to our center because of destructive ulceration of soft and hard palates with exten...

materials and methods a number of 100 patients with imr, normal karyotypes and negative fragile-x and metabolic tests were screened for subtelomeric abnormalities using mlpa technique. results nine of 100 patients showed subtelomeric abnormalities with at least one of the two mlpa kits. deletion in a single region was found in 3 patients, and in two different subtelomeric regions in 1 patient. ...

chronic idiopathic urticaria is defined as recurrent hives occurring for at least 6 weeks. in  the  majority of  cases, there  is no  identifiable underlying etiology despite  extensive evaluation. a subset of these patients is classified as having autoimmune urticaria defined by the presence of a functional igg antibody to the α subunit of the high-affinity ige receptor (fceria) or to ige. the...

background : self- esteem is defined as the reliance of one's own abilities. decrees of self- esteem may lead to fail to solve the problems not being able to use ones abilities. so, this study was done to compare tip patients' self- esteem with healthy cases. the conduction of this investigation seems to be important, because this disease a chronic type.        materials and methods: this is a ...

purpose : to determine the optical coherence tomography (oct) findings in eyes with idiopathic perifoveal retinal telangiectasis (ipt) methods : this study is a retrospective review of patient charts, oct, fundus photography, related to 16 eyes (11 patients). results : the most consistent finding of idiopathic perifoveal telangiectasia seen in 93.7% of eyes (15 eyes) on oct was the presence of ...

introduction: serum anti endothelial cell antibodies (aecas) play a prominent role in idiopathic sensorineural hearing loss (snhl) in that they induce vascular damage (immune mediated).the of the current study is  to compare aecas in serum and perilymphatic .uid of idiopathic snhl children (<15y) undergoing cochlear implant surgery.methods: this was a cross sectional study performed in the coch...

Idiopathic gingival enlargement is a heterogenous group of disorders characterized by progressive the gingiva caused an increase in submucosal connective tissue elements. Many cases are iatrogenic and some inherited or idiopathic. We present case idiopathic to highlight etiological factors, radiographic histological features

conclusions the weakness of the literature with regard to coenzyme q10 is about its effects in patients with severely diminished sperm densities and the physiologic steps of morphologic improvements. results the increase in mean values of concentration after the ubiquinol treatment was not statistically significant (p value = 0.065). however, the changes in morphology and motility (fast progres...