Postgraduate medicine
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Postgraduate medicine · Mar 2024
Retrospective evaluation of 130 cases with kawasaki disease follow-up in a tertiary care center in Turkey between 1999 and 2019: a 20-year experience.
Kawasaki disease (KD), which is a medium vessel vasculitis, is common in Asian countries and is the most common cause of childhood-acquired heart diseases in developed countries. However, disease course and epidemiological data are limited in non-Asian developing countries like ours. We aimed to evaluate the clinical features and prognosis of patients with KD in our country and ethnicity, one of the referee centers of our country. ⋯ The rate of CAL is approximately three times higher in our results than in the Japanese data in recent years. We showed that the time of IVIG administration is the most critical factor for preventing CAL. Wide-ranging studies are needed to decently predict the disease process according to the age and region of patients.
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Postgraduate medicine · Mar 2024
Review Meta AnalysisVitamin D levels in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy patients: a meta-analysis.
This meta-analysis aimed to explore correlations between vitamin D and idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM). ⋯ This meta-analysis showed correlations between vitamin D level and IIM. The results indicated, VDD may be a risk factor for IIM, a determinant of immune dysregulation in IIM, or a consequence of IIM. Also, it implied further research to determine whether vitamin D supplementation is beneficial for patients with IIM.