Introduction The connection between iron and excessive adiposity has received much
research interest. Although children and adolescents have unique developmental phases …

BACKGROUND Patterns of and progress against childhood cancer have been reported on
multi‐institution, regional, national, and international bases by several sources in the past …

Background and Aims: During the long-term treatment of patients with hereditary
haemochromatosis (HH) the authors observed that proton pump inhibitors (PPI) reduced the …

Dietary microparticles are non-biological, bacterial-sized particles. Endogenous sources are
derived from intestinal Ca and phosphate secretion. Exogenous sources are mainly titanium …

Alimentary tract malignancies in children are unusual. From 1952 to 1996, 54 patients (55
cases) underwent surgery at The Children's Hospital, Columbus for intestinal malignancy …

Over the past 16 years, 18 children under 2 years of age received chronic hemodialysis
(HD) at our center. Five children were anuric at the start of HD and 6 had significant co …

We describe the outcome since 1984 of all children receiving chronic dialysis in our centre
for> 3 months with a minimum follow-up of 5 (median 7.2) years. There were 98 children (61 …

Abstract Background/Aim: To report our experience of paediatric renal transplantation at
Great Ormond Street and Royal Free Hospitals since the inception of the programme …

Milk thistle contains silybin, which is a potential iron chelator. We aimed to determine
whether silybin reduced iron absorption in patients with hereditary haemochromatosis. In …

Sir, Serum nontransferrin-bound iron (NTBI) is a potential catalyst for the production of
reactive oxygen species, contributing to tissue damage. Nontransferrin-bound iron not only …