Sara Kashef

..Sensitization to foods was much higher in patients with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis. Determining specific IgE in children with atopic dermatitis can be helpful in managing these patients...

..A high prevalence of aCLAbs, the majority in low titers, was detected in Iranian thalassemic patients irrespective of previous history of thrombosis and presence of HCV infection...

..Infection is now the most common cause of morbidity in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). There is lack of information regarding the specific antibody formation in response to vaccines in young SLE patients...

..As the coding regions of the genes known to be responsible for Ig CSR (CD40L, CD40, AICDA, and UNG) were intact in our patient, this might be a new form of Ig CSR deficiency...

..We determined BMD in Iranian children with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) to evaluate the relationship between disease-related variables and BMD...

..This pattern of dyslipoproteinemia in active SLE may be associated with the autoimmune mechanisms especially in relation to the presence of anti-dsDNA antibodies...

..This study showed small airway disease was predominant abnormality in thalassemia patients, although additional larger studies are needed to evaluate underlying mechanisms and validate these findings...

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..pneumoniae in acute LRTIs in children, who were referred to main pediatric hospitals in Shiraz, Iran, with the diagnosis of LRTI. Polymerase chain reaction method on a throat-swab specimen was utilized to detect M. pneumoniae...

..Liver transplantation (LT) maybe complicated by pulmonary problems. This study aimed to evaluate pulmonary function and gas exchange abnormalities in pediatric patients listing for LT...

..To avoid nonspecific dietary restrictions in children with asthma, laboratory-based advice about foods is potentially helpful. The purpose of this study was to determine food sensitization in children with asthma...

..Beta-thalassemia major is a hereditary disease with developing hemochromatosis as a consequence of repeated blood transfusions. Degenerative arthropathy may be the first manifestation of primary hemochromatosis...

..Respiratory problems, which are the major cause of morbidity in CGD, usually result from recurrent severe infections; however, vigorous inflammatory response could also cause respiratory diseases...

..Cervical lymphadenopathy is one of the major presenting manifestations of Kawasaki disease. We report a case of Kawasaki disease with para aortic lymphadenopathy, as an unusual feature in this disease...

..This pattern of prevalence was expected based on herbal geography, climate and also found to be compatible with the results from studies carried out in places with the same habitat...

..In this study, the associations of 25-hydroxy vitamin D3 levels with asthma and with the severity of asthma were evaluated...

..This may be secondary to recurrent pulmonary infections or an unknown mutation process. Cardiovascular abnormalities are an entity that should be kept in mind in patients with primary immunodeficiency diseases...

..We concluded that the Tei-index, which measures combined systolic and diastolic function, is a simple, sensitive, and accurate tool for estimating global myocardial dysfunction in patients with Kawasaki disease...

..Considering these results, it can be concluded that having a high tissue eosinophil count in patients with nasal polyp does not indicate that the polyp is allergic...

..Cow's milk allergy has been suggested as one of the causes. We aimed to investigate the value of the cow's milk skin test for the diagnosis of cow's milk allergy in exclusively breast-fed infants with infantile colic...

..Antibodies, although crucial, cannot on their own prevent enteroviral infection in some hypogamaglbulinemic patients...

..This study was conducted to assess bone mineral density (BMD) and bone mineral content (BMC) in patients with thalassemia major and intermedia, and to correlate them with biochemical and hematological profile...

..The rate of initial treatment failure was 9.4% in this cohort of patients, which is comparable with previous reports. No predictive factors such as coronary artery disease, age or gender were found for initial treatment failure in KD...

..Dilated funduscopy showed diffuse intense retinal whitening, narrowing retinal arterioles, and a pale swollen disk-but no cherry-red spot. These findings suggested ophthalmic artery obstruction. Kawasaki disease can be sight-threatening...

..Although HIES is a rare condition, the recurrent infections should always raise a suspicion, which deserves further evaluation for detecting the syndrome...

..This study was accomplished in order to determine the frequency of consanguineous marriages in the families of patients with PiD...

..Construction of such registry is not only important for its epidemiological aspect but also for its role in increasing the physician's knowledge about such disorders...

..A comparative study shows some differences between our results and other registries...