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A Triki

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PubMed1989

[Epidemiologic profile of accidents in Tunisian children].

The results of a retrospective study of 2,108 accidents in 0-14-year-old children are presented, recorded over a 1-year period at the Sfax Medical Centre, Tunisia. The average age of the children was 6 years 4 months. Our results show that 85% of the accidents were domestic (traumatisms 72%; poisoning 11%). The frequency and gravity of poisoning due to scorpion bites is emphasized: it represented 7% of the accidents, 35% of mortality due to accidental causes and a lethality rate of 10%. The total mortality rate due to accidental causes was 2%. Five per cent of the patient population had sequelae. Factors influencing the nature and gravity of the accident have been analysed and some recommendations have been made regarding prevention of accidents in children.

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[Determination of anti-transglutaminase antibodies in the diagnosis of coeliac disease in children: results of a five year prospective study].

AIM: To evaluate the interest of IgA antibodies to tissue transglutaminase in the diagnosis of children coeliac disease compared with anti-endomysium and anti-gliadin antibodies. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Seventy children with coeliac disease (mean age: 5 years and 8 months) and 99 disease controls (mean age: 4 years and 5 months). IgA anti-transglutaminase were tested by ELISA using a human recombinant tissue transglutaminase. IgA anti-endomysium were detected by indirect immunofluorescence on monkey oesophagus. RESULTS: The middle rate of IgA anti-transglutaminase was 101.06 units in patients and only 0.47 unit in controls. IgA anti-transglutaminase and IgA anti-endomysium were in agreement in 98.8% of cases; only two cases were discordant (+/- and -/+). Globally, the two markers had the same sensitivity (90%), specificity (98%), negative (93.2%) and positive (96.9%) predictive values. For anti-gliadin antibodies, the IgG were more sensitive (88.6%) and the IgA more specific (93.9%). CONCLUSION: IgA anti-tissue transglutaminase can be used instead of IgA anti-endomysium as a serological marker of screening and diagnosis of coeliac disease in children after 3 years.

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[Neurologic manifestations of hepatic distomiasis caused by Fasciola hepatica].

The hepatic distomiasis is a parasitic and cosmopolite affection caused by a trematode Fasciola hepatica. The clinical manifestation usually includes an invasion phase with toxi-infectious hepatitis and intermittent angiocholitis episodes during the chronic phase of the disease. Many authors insist for few years, on some revealing manifestations of the disease that are unusual in the classical forms, especially the neurological manifestations that are rare and of extreme polymorphism. Based on a 12 years old tunisian child case of distomiasis caused by F. hepatica associated with neurological manifestations and through the analysis of 25 literature cases, the symptomatological and physiopathological aspects of this clinical form that generally makes the physician perplex, are reviewed.

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