background: infection is now the most common cause of morbidity in systemic lupus erythematosus (sle). there is lack of information regarding the specific antibody forma-tion in response to vaccines in young sle patients. objective: to determine the efficacy of anti-tetanus antibody response in young patients with sle. methods: forty sle pa-tients with mean age of 14.1 years (range: 7-21) and 6...

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Young blacks receiving dialysis have an increased risk of death compared with whites in the United States. Factors influencing this disparity among the young adult dialysis population have not been well explored. Our study examined the relation of neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) and racial differences in mortality in United States young adults receiving dialysis. We merged US Renal Data...

The treatment of an adolescent patient who recalled having been sexually abused in childhood by her father is described. In the course of treatment, various doubts were raised in the analyst's mind about the truth of this memory. As the analysis progressed, the analyst felt that the patient's responses to interpretations were signs of the presence of a delusional structure. When the patient fel...

AIMS To study the reasons for attendance behaviour from the patient viewpoint at a young adult diabetes outpatient clinic. METHODS Attendance rates for 231 clinic appointments over 19 months for 102 patients were calculated. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of 17 of the 102. The interviews encouraged participants to describe routines, thoughts and feelings aro...

Although scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) since 2005 has contributed to declines of about 30% in the global annual number of human immunodeficiency (HIV)-related deaths and declines in global HIV incidence, estimated annual HIV-related deaths among adolescents have increased by about 50% and estimated adolescent HIV incidence has been relatively stable. In 2012, an estimated 2,500 (40%)...

background: ovarian cancer is the most common cause of cancer death worldwide. incidence of ovarian cancer is more common in postmenopausal women. premenopausal onset is rare and the present study described two cases of ovarian clear cell tumors in young women. case presentation: the patients presented with pelvic mass which was confirmed by sonography and laparotomy and final diagnosis was mad...