Both occult and non-occult forms of HCV infection are more prevalent than HBV infection in hemodialysis patients. Especially the patients with isolated anti-HBc positivity should be tested for probable occult hepatitis B infection.

Vitamin E treatment, in addition to its previously shown beneficial effect by suppressing oxidative stress, may also achieve improvement by reducing IR and PPAR-alpha expression in NASH.

(1 g/day, orally) for a median duration of 7 months (range, 6-11 months) initially, whereas the remaining patients (9 Stage B patients and 7 Stage C patients) received 1 Department of Medical Oncology, Ibn-i Sina combination chemotherapy (cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine, and Hospital, Ankara University School of Medicine, prednisolone [COPP regimen]) followed by tetracycline at a dose of 1 g/day for 6 Sihhiye-Ankara, Turkey.more months in patients with complete response (CR) after the COPP regimen. 2 Department of Gastroenterology, Ibn-i Sina RESULTS. The median follow-up was 68 months (range, 38-89 months). As first-Hospital, Ankara University School of Medicine, line therapy in Stage A patients, tetracycline yielded a 71% CR and 43% disease Sihhiye-Ankara, Turkey.free survival (DFS) rate. Eleven of 16 patients (69%) with Stage B or C disease who 3 Department of Third Internal Medicine, SSK received the COPP regimen achieved CR and only 2 patients had a recurrence Hospital, Diskapi-Ankara, Turkey.(DFS rate of 56%). The 5-year overall survival (OAS) rate for the entire group was 70%, and the 5-year DFS rate for patients with CR was 75%. However, the median

In this sample group from a developing country H. pylori infection was not shown to be associated with atopic diseases. Therefore, the eradication of H. pylori may not be assumed to have an effect on allergic inflammation.