Purpose. To characterize the symptomatology of refractive, accommodative, and nonstrabismic binocular dysfunctions and to assess the association between dysfunctions and symptoms. Methods. 175 randomised university students were examined. Subjects were given a subjective visual examination with accommodative and binocular tests, evaluating their symptomatology. Accommodative and binocular dysfu...

Behçet disease is relatively rare in pediatric age group. And the bowel involvement is seen in only a small portion of Behçet disease. However, once the bowel is involved it is potentially life threatening event. We report a 15 year old boy with intestinal Behçet's disease who had a history of recurrent oral and genital ulcers for several years. He underwent right hemicolectomy under the impres...

BACKGROUND We aimed to determine the demographic and clinical features of patients with Behcet's disease (BD) in Southeastern Turkey. METHODS In this study, files of 132 patients with BD (76 females and 56 males) who were diagnosed with BD according to the International Study Group criteria at the Department of Dermatology of Dicle University Faculty of Medicine from 2005 to 2009 were evaluat...

Behcet's disease (BD) is a multisystemic inflammatory disease and is characterized by recurrent attacks on eyes, brain, skin, and gut. There is evidence that skewed T-cell responses contributed to its pathophysiology in patients with BD. We found that heat shock proteins (HSPs) reactive T cells were prevalent in patients with BD. Here, we summarize current findings on HSP reactive T cells and t...

We study possible effects of supersymmetry (SUSY) in CP asymmetries in nonleptonic Bd,s decays in a variety of SUSY flavour models considered in literature. We use both mass insertion and vertex mixing methods to calculate squark-gluino box diagrams contribution to Bd,s-B̄d,s mixings. With the squark mixing parameter η = 0.22, and with large new CP phases, it turns out that the CP asymmetries to...

Ad dress for Cor res pon den ce Korcan Demir MD, Dr. Behçet Uz Children’s Hospital, Clinic of Pediatric Endocrinology, İzmir, Turkey Phone: +90 232 412 60 77 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] ©Jo ur nal of Cli ni cal Re se arch in Pe di at ric En doc ri no logy, Pub lis hed by Ga le nos Pub lis hing. Genetic Diagnosis Using Whole Exome Analysis in Two Cases with Malignant O...

BACKGROUND Behcet's disease is a multisystemic inflammatory disease which may lead to blindness. The purpose of this study was to describe and compare the clinical features and visual outcome of Behcet's uveitis in Taiwan. METHODS The medical charts of 227 consecutive patients (414 eyes) with Behcet's uveitis who were seen in the Uveitis Clinic of Taipei Veterans General Hospital were reviewe...

The efficacy of inhaled nedocromil sodium (NS) for children with a persistent cough was studied. Children aged 4-12 years with a persistent cough for >1 month were recruited and entered a 2-week baseline period during which an asthma diary was kept. Children with a cough score of >20 received inhaled NS via a spacer, 4mg qid for 2 weeks followed by 4mg bd for another 4 weeks. Twenty-two (42%) o...

Behcet's disease (BD) is a polysymptomatic and recurrent systemic vasculitis with a chronic course and unknown cause. The pathogenesis of BD has not been fully elucidated; however, BD has been considered to be a typical Th1-mediated inflammatory disease, characterized by elevated levels of Th1 cytokines such as IFN-γ, IL-2, and TNF-α. Recently, some studies reported that Th17-associated cytokin...