Effects of Chronic Gastritis on Sleep and Quality of Life in Adolescents

Aim: This study aims to evaluate the sleep quality and the quality of life (QoL) of adolescents with chronic gastritis, and determine the related factors. Materials and Methods: This study included patients who were diagnosed with chronic gastritis both clinically and histopathologically. the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Epworth Sleepiness scale were used to assess sleep quality, and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory was used to assess QoL. the control group included healthy volunteers with no chronic diseases and no gastrointestinal system complaints. Results: Fifty-six patients with gastritis and 55 healthy volunteers were included. the patients with gastritis were found to have significantly lower overall QoL subscale, and total scale scores, except for the social functioning total score. Except for the subjective sleep quality, significant differences were seen between the groups in the sleep quality subscale, total scale, and sleepiness scale averages. the total score of the sleep quality scale was significantly higher in patients who had lower incomes than expenditure. There were no significant differences between the obese or overweight patients with gastritis and the rest of the gastritis patients in the study sample. There were no significant differences found between the Helicobacter pylori positive and negative gastritis patients in terms of the total QoL and sleepiness scale scores. Conclusion: This study is important because it is the first study in adolescents in this respect. the sleep and QoL scores of those adolescents with chronic gastritis were lower than the control group

Pseudobartter and hypertriglyceridemia in an ınfant presenting with afebrile convulsion: a case of cystic fibrosis

Kistik fibrozis otozomal resesif geçiş gösteren, beyaz ırkta daha sık görülen multisistemik bir hastalıktır. Ülkemizdeki gerçek sıklığı tam olarak bilinmemekle birlikte 1/2000-1/4000 arasında olduğu tahmin edilmektedir. Birçok sistemi tutabilen kistik fibrozis değişik klinik tablolarla gelebilmektedir. Bu tablolardan biri olan psödo-Bartter sendromu sıcak havalarda terle aşırı miktarda tuz kaybı ile birlikte daha sık görülebilmektedir. Elektrolit bozukluğuna bağlı konvülziyon, ölüm gibi ciddi komplikasyonlara yol açabildiği için gözden kaçırılmaması gereken metabolik bir bozukluktur. Bu yazıda, yaz mevsiminde acil servise dehidratasyon, konvülziyon ve uykuya eğilim tablosuyla gelen, hipertrigliseridemi, hiponatremi, hipokalemi ve hipokloremik alkaloz saptanan 4 aylık bir olgu sunulmuştur. Bu vaka ile infantil dönemde hiponatremiye bağlı konvülziyonun kistik fibrozisin geliş kliniği olabileceği vurgulanmak istenmiştir.Cystic fibrosis is a multisystemic disorder which is mostly seen in white people and its inheritance is autosomal recessive. The precise incidence is not known but it is estimated between 1/2000-1/4000. Cystic fibrosis can effect many of the organs, so it can be presented with different features. Pseudo-Bartter's syndrome is one of these features and can be with the salt loss in hot weather. In this paper, a four-month-old infant presented with dehydration, convulsion, dullness and detected hypertrigliceridemia, hyponatremia, hypocalemia, hypochloremia in the summer time. With this case we would like to emphasize that seizure due to sodium depletion can be a presentation of cystic fibrosis during infancy

The cause of abdominal mass in a child with celiac disease: Rapunzel syndrome. A case report

ABSTRACT CONTEXT: Rapunzel syndrome is a rare form of gastric trichobezoar that develops through outstretching of the bezoar from the stomach to the intestine. CASE REPORT: A 12-year-old girl who had been diagnosed with celiac disease six years earlier was brought to the department of pediatric gastroenterology because of abdominal distension. A palpable mass was detected. A trichobezoar that stretched to the small intestine was removed surgically. The patient was diagnosed as having anxiety and depressive disorder, and treatment started. Following the treatment, her previous trichophagia completely disappeared. CONCLUSION: Presence of trichobezoar should be kept in mind, especially when young girls who have psychiatric problems suffer from gastrointestinal symptoms

Vasoactive intestinal peptide releasing tumor which caused to chronic watery diarrhea and hypokalemia

Watery diarrhea, hypokalemia and achlorhydria syndrome is a rare cause of chronic secretory diarrhea arising from a vasoactive intestinal peptide releasing tumor. In this article, a 15-month old female patient with watery diarrhea and abdominal distension which lasting four months is presented. In different centers no diagnosis could be made although investigations. The patient was diagnosed with vasoactive intestinal peptide releasing ganglioneuroblastoma localized in the right surrenal gland