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AIM:Recently, it was reported that the development of breast tissue and secondary sex characteristics in girls occurred at much younger age and the incidences of premature thelarce (PT) and central idiopathic precocious puberty (ICPP) are increasing. In this context, we wanted to evaluate the mycoestrogen exposure as triggering factor for premature sexual development. METHODS:The girls living in Mediterranean region of Turkey were divided in to three groups: control (N.=25; mean age: 6.45 ± 1), PT (N.=28; mean age: 6.86 ± 0.95) and ICPP (N.=25; mean age: 6.97 ± 0.87). Urinary ZEN levels were measured by using ELISA technique and were normalized by urinary creatinine levels. Body Mass Index (BMI) was evaluated and sex hormone levels were also measured. RESULTS:We found that urinary ZEN was detectable in ~81% of all samples and observed an increase of ~2-fold in PT and a significant increase ~2.8-fold in ICPP group vs. control. We did not find any significant correlations between urinary ZEN levels and BMI and sex hormones in any of the groups. CONCLUSION:To our knowledge, this is the first study evaluating urinary ZEN levels in PT and ICPP Turkish patients. We can postulate that ZEN exposure can contribute to the etiology of PT and PP; however further studies on large number of subjects are needed to confirm the present data.
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Minerva Pediatrjournal_title
Minerva pediatricaauthors
Asci A,Durmaz E,Erkekoglu P,Pasli D,Bircan I,Kocer-Gumusel Bsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-12-01 00:00:00pages
571-8issue
6eissn
0026-4946issn
1827-1715pii
R15Y2014N06A0571journal_volume
66pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:In 1967 a baby was observed who presented post-natal progressive growth deficit, mental retardation, craniofacial dysmorphias and other malformations which didn't form part of the syndromes till then known. However the first description of patients with this combination of anomalies dates back to 1981, when Niikawa an...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) show a broad spectrum of clinical symptoms intimately related to the disturbed mineral and bone metabolism and summarized as CKD-mineral-bone disorder (CKD-MBD). Whereas in adults an impaired bone metabolism translates mainly into an increased risk of fractures, in pediatric ...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Aspecific chronic diarrhea is one of the most common causes of protracted diarrhea in infancy. The pathology is characterised by an increased frequency of daily bowel movement with half-formed feces; it is not associated to malabsorption syndrome or enteric infections and appears to be correlated to an unbalanced diet...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：
更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The development and evaluation of early preventative interventions for individuals exposed to a potentially traumatic event (PTE) have been increasing in number and sophistication over the last decade. Evaluation of early interventions for individuals who are symptomatic several weeks after exposure to a PTE have been...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Between 1973 and 1993 7 perineal testis are observed and operated on in our surgical department. The perineal testis is a rare ectopic testis probably caused by some mechanical obstacles in the entrance of the testis in the scrotum. A diagnosis is easy if also the less frequent localizations of testicular ectopia are ...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:To evaluate if vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) contralateral to the multicystic dysplastic kidney can interfere with the compensatory renal hypertrophy. METHODS:Twenty-seven patients (17 males, 10 females) with multicystic dysplastic kidney (MDK) (14 on the right, 13 on the left) have been treated at the Nephro...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：AIM:To evaluate the prevalence of ultrasound diagnosis of adenomyosis and endometriosis in young women complaining of pelvic pain and to find the symptoms and clinical characteristics associated with these diseases in young women. METHODS:Cross-sectional study, including 100 young women (14-24 years) with a history of...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.23736/S0026-4946.20.05842-9
更新日期：2020-06-16 00:00:00
abstract：:We are currently witnessing a worldwide return of tuberculosis. An extremely rare form is tuberculosis of the spine which is reported above all in extra-European studies. The authors report a case of Pott's disease in a child aged 3 years and 3 months who was referred to their attention due to the appearance of left i...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In the present study the authors investigated the normal range of the marker TPA in the sera of 100 children (apparently healthy) aged from 0 to 6 years. Well-defined criteria as guide-lines to the interpretation of laboratory results are a very urgent necessity for the expanding utilization of clinical laboratory dat...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：
更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Megapolycalicosis is defined as a congenital dilatation of calices without evidence of obstruction. In absence of complications such as infection and stones, megapolycalicosis would not have a particular clinical relevance if not for the possible misinterpretation as hydronephrosis. A case of megapolycalicosis is pres...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Biliary atresia is a severe neonatal malformation in which the entire extrahepatic biliary tract or part of it is absent and replaced by fibrosclerotic tissue. Having been described for the first time by Thomson in 1891, biliary atresia has an incidence of 1:10,000-15,000 live neonates with a slight predominance in th...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the sudden dead of every infant or small child (usually within the first year of life). It is an unexpected event, according to the anamnesis of the subject, and the necroscopic examination of the event does not allow to demonstrate with success the proper cause of death. The...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The case of a six-year-old girl suffering from recurrent abdominal pain is reported. On the basis of the laboratory tests and a number of other clinical investigations, the diagnosis of ascaridiasis was made. At scanning electron microscopy the ultrastructural study of the bioptic fragments obtained during endoscopy s...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：AIM:Considering how eating habits affect the health of children and taking into account the influence of advertising messages, we wanted to investigate the quantity and the typology of advertising on air during children's television programmes. METHODS:The research was conducted beginning in January 2008 up to March 2...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to asses the validity of the TCB nomogram for the European population for predicting significant hyperbilirubinemia in healthy term and late-preterm newborns. METHODS:This observational study was conducted from February 2009 to December 2009 in the well-baby nurseries of Gemelli hos...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited, prematurely lethal rare disease affecting more than 85,000 people worldwide. CF is caused by more than 2000 loss-of-function mutations in the gene coding for the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). This review summarizes recent advances in the etiological t...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.23736/S0026-4946.19.05506-3
更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.23736/S0026-4946.16.04513-8
更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Sidenham's chorea represents one of the gold standards of rheumatic fever. Its identification however has recently become more difficult, owing to the progressive decrease of rheumatic fever itself. Nevertheless this pathology disturbing both the child and the family, easily dominated by a suitable therapy, is still t...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The remarkable effectiveness of surfactant in neonatology suggested its use also in adults as well as in children on the basis of the pulmonary pathophysiology. We describe a case of an 18 month-old child affected by acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to asphyxy by gastric juice inhalation, successfully tr...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Celiac disease (CD) is one of the most common immune-mediated diseases with a worldwide prevalence of around 1%, although a couple of decades ago the disease was thought to be very rare. CD is characterized by an inadequate inflammatory response to gluten in genetically susceptible individuals. In this inflammatory re...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Avascular necrosis (AN) of bone is a complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In the present paper we describe two patients with SLE who presented an AN of femoral condyles 18 months and 2 years respectively after the diagnosis of the disease. In the second case, together with the destructive change of the ...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We report a case of esophageal achalasia in a nine months old baby. Recurrent cough and cyanosis were the most important clinical findings. Esophagomyotomy remarkably improved the clinical symptoms. Disorders of esophageal motility may be an important cause of respiratory emergencies in the first year of life. ...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Parenteral nutrition associated liver disease is the most common complication of pediatric short bowel syndrome (SBS). There is emerging evidence that the disease may be reversed with the use of parenteral lipid emulsions derived from fish-oils, which contain significant concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids (w3FA). T...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:A drug-related problem (DRP) may be defined as "an event or circumstance involving drug therapy that actually or potentially interferes with the desired health outcome". Our aim was to determine the frequency and characteristics of DRPs in pediatric patients admitted to a tertiary cardiac care center in the ...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Varicella or chickenpox is a common and highly contagious exanthematic disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) that during primary infection has the ability to establish latency. VZV reactivation, even decades after primary infection, causes herpes zoster. In healthy immunocompetent subjects, children in pa...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：AIM:To evaluate the possible effects of recombinant growth hormone (rhGH) therapy on mineral homeostasis and bone turnover, the authors studied calcium-phosphate metabolism parameters, including some bone markers, in 2 prepubertal subjects with Noonan's syndrome (NS). METHODS:Two prepubertal males suffering from NS, s...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:During patient triggered ventilation, the infant's inspiratory efforts should occur synchronously with ventilator inflations. Such an optimal interaction, however, is dependent on the performance of the triggering device and the ventilator and the infant's lung function. Triggered ventilation (assist control, A/C), sy...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：INTRODUCTION:Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is defined as an inflammatory disorder of the paranasal sinuses and of the nasal mucosa that lasts 12 weeks or longer. In CRS microbes contribute to the disease pathogenesis. Clinical microbiology is focused on finding single pathogens that causes the disease and the main goal ...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.23736/S0026-4946.20.05850-8
更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00
abstract：:Intracranial tuberculoma is a possible complication of meningeal, miliary or pulmonary tuberculosis. In developing countries it represents 30% of space-occupying intracranial lesions, in industrialised countries only 0.1-0.2%. One recently recognised phenomenon is the development ex novo or the enlargement of the tube...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:In this paper we present growth height standards obtained by an auxological study on a primary school population of central Italy (Lazio), in the 1991-1992 and 1992-1993 school-years. METHODS:4,175 children were included in the study: 2,024 females and 2,151 males, aged from 6 to 11 years. The sampling rate...
journal_title：Minerva pediatrica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00
