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  • Year: 

    2015
  • Volume: 

    25
  • Issue: 

    6
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    0
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    322
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    186
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Dear Editor: The patient was a female newborn, 3200 g in weight, 50 Cm in length, who presented at birth with a firm mass on the left upper arm, measuring 25×16×45 mm in size. Physical examination revealed a non-movable mass with firm consistency and mild tenderness on the left upper arm. Family and maternal histories were unnoteworthy, and the laboratory examination was normal. An excisional biopsy of the mass was performed and the histopathological findings of the excised lesion were ES/PNET. Immunohistochemistry was positive for CD99, NSE, PCK, desmin, and negative for CK. In enhanced chest CT, abdominal ultrasonography, and whole body bone scan no evidence of abnormality or metastasis was detected. Bone marrow biopsy and further treatment were refused by her parents.

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  • Year: 

    2015
  • Volume: 

    25
  • Issue: 

    6
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    0-0
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    0
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    303
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    174
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Background: There is an increasing attention towards the relationship between oxidative stress and epilepsy. The effect of antiepileptic drugs on oxidant status is of major interest. Antiepileptic drugs can increase levels of free radicals, which consequently might lead to seizures. Carbamazepine (CBZ) is an antiepileptic drug commonly used in childhood and adolescence.Objectives: Therefore we aimed to investigate the effects of CBZ on total antioxidant status, total oxidant stress, and oxidative stress index.Patients and Methods: The study included 40 epileptic patients and 31 healthy children between 4 and 12 years of age. Serum CBZ level, total antioxidant capacity and total oxidant status were measured. Oxidative stress index was also calculated both in controls and patients.Results: In the epileptic group, decreased levels of total antioxidant capacity, increased total oxidative stress and oxidative stress index levels were found. Positive correlation between plasma CBZ levels and total oxidant status was observed.Conclusions: Antioxidant action could not be playing any role in antiepileptic effect of CBZ. Furthermore, increased oxidative stress induced by CBZ could be the cause of CBZ-induced seizures. Therefore combining CBZ with antioxidants could be beneficial.

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  • Year: 

    2015
  • Volume: 

    25
  • Issue: 

    6
  • Pages: 

    0-0
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    0
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    301
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    186
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Background: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most prevalent lethal autosomal recessive disease with a broad spectrum of phenotypes. Mutation of DF508 in the CFTR gene is the most important and lethal mutation in CF, which contains 70% of all predisposing mutations for CF worldwide.Objectives: Determining frequency of genotypes with DF508 mutation in CFTR gene, and evaluation of correlation between genotype and phenotype of Iranian patients with CF.Patients and Methods: Thirty six patients were included in this cross sectional study. ΔF508 mutations in both alleles of the CFTR gene were checked.Results: Among 36 pediatric patients, DF508 mutation was detected in 9 (25%) patients; 2 patients were heterozygous, and 7 patients homozygous for this mutation. From overall 72 tracked alleles, 11 (15.2%) were found to have DF508 mutations. Differences in prevalence of dyspnea and bronchiectasis were significant in homozygote group, compared with non-mutated group for DF508.Conclusions: It seems that more DF508 mutated alleles lead to more severe symptoms of CF.

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  • Year: 

    2015
  • Volume: 

    25
  • Issue: 

    6
  • Pages: 

    0-0
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  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    333
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    143
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Background: There are a few published studies about prognostic markers of Epstein-B virus (EBV) related to outcomes in pediatric Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL).Objectives: We aimed to investigate the prognostic value and effect of EBV on survival by using biopsy materials in children and adolescents diagnosed with HL.Patients and Methods: EBV LMP-1 expression was examined using immunohistochemical methods in 58 tumor samples. Clinical features, overall survival (OS) and failure free survival time (FFS) were compared between EBV LMP-1 positive and negative patients.Results: In 20 (35%) patients tumors were LMP-1 positive. When compared with patients above 10 years old, EBV LMP-1 was often positive in patients under 10 years old (30% vs. 70%, P=0.02). In our most cases having B symptoms and advanced stage, EBV positiveness in Hodgkin Reed-Stenberg cells (H-RS) was not a significant determinant for survival (P=0.78). Half of the past clinical trials in childhood HL reported longer survival rates in EBV LMP-1 positive patients. In some trials similar to our results there was no significant relationship between EBV and prognosis.Conclusions: The reason of diminished EBV positiviness may be related to technical methods such as not using immunohistochemical and in situ hybridization for EBER antigen but in laboratory conditions painting of control tissues with EBV impair this probability. In addition, cases enrolled to our study were living in Istanbul where social and economical factors are improved rather than generally.

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  • Year: 

    2015
  • Volume: 

    25
  • Issue: 

    6
  • Pages: 

    0-0
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  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    351
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    178
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Dear Editor: Amelia, defined as the complete absence of the skeletal parts of a limb that occurs when the limb formation process is either prevented or interrupted very early in the developing embryo between 24 and 36 days following fertilization. Amelia is generally thought to be a sporadic anomaly. But more than 50% of the cases it is associated with major malformations in other organ systems. The malformations most frequently seen with Amelia include cleft lip and/or palate, body wall defect, malformed head, and defects of the neural tube, kidneys, and diaphragm. Facial clefts may be accompanied by other facial anomalies such as abnormally small jaw, and missing ears or nose. The body wall defects allow internal organs to protrude through the abdomen. Head malformations may be minor to severe with a near absence of the brain. The diaphragm may be herniated or absent and one or both kidneys may be small or absent.

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  • Year: 

    2015
  • Volume: 

    25
  • Issue: 

    6
  • Pages: 

    0-0
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    0
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    301
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    172
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Introduction: Early diagnosis and treatment of Kawasaki disease as the most common cause of acquired heart disease in childhood, may significantly improve the prognosis. Diagnosing infantile Kawasaki (younger than a year) is difficult because of obscure symptoms; at the same time they are at the higher risk of coronary abnormalities.Case Presentation: We report three infants with prolonged (more than 5 days) fever and peripheral gangrene without any other clinical manifestations of Kawasaki disease. Kawasaki was diagnosed due to dilation of coronary artery and other aortic branches, thrombocytosis, and rising of ESR and CRP. All patients were treated with high dose aspirin, IVIG and pulse therapy with methylprednisolone. Additionally, cytotoxic drugs or infliximab were used for two of them because of severe aneurysms in the aortic branches. All 3 patients received aspirin with anti-platelet aggregation dose and 2 patients heparin as an anti-coagulant agent for longtime. After adequate treatment, peripheral gangrene, arterial dilations and aneurysms improved, but during 12 months follow-up coronary aneurysms did not improve completely.Conclusions: Peripheral gangrene must be regarded as an important sign of infantile Kawasaki disease early treatment of which can prevent severe permanent coronary involvements and sequels.

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  • Year: 

    2015
  • Volume: 

    25
  • Issue: 

    6
  • Pages: 

    0-0
Measures: 
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    0
  • Views: 

    419
  • Downloads: 

    174
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Background: Initial resistance to antibiotics is the main reason for the failure of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) eradication in children.Objectives: As we commonly face high antibiotic resistance rates in children, we aimed to determine the susceptibility of H. pylori to common antibiotics.Patients and Methods: In this cross-sectional in vitro study, 169 children younger than 14 years with clinical diagnosis of peptic ulcer underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. Biopsy specimens from stomach and duodenum were cultured. In isolated colonies, tests of catalase, urease, and oxidase as well as gram staining were performed. After confirming the colonies as H. pylori, the antibiogram was obtained using disk diffusion method.Results: Culture for H. pylori was positive in 12.3% of the specimens, urease test in 21.3%, serological test in 18.9% and stool antigen test was positive in 21.9%. We could show high specificity but moderate sensitivity of both histological and H. pylori stool antigen tests to detect H. pylori. The overall susceptibility to metronidazole was 42.9%, amoxicillin 95.2%, clarithromycin 85.7%, furazolidone 61.9%, azithromycin 81.0%, and tetracycline 76.2% with the highest resistance to metronidazole and the lowest to clarithromycin.Conclusions: In our region, there is high resistance of H. pylori to some antibiotics including metronidazole and furazolidone among affected children. To reduce the prevalence of this antibiotic resistance, more controlled use of antibiotics should be considered in children.

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  • Year: 

    2015
  • Volume: 

    25
  • Issue: 

    6
  • Pages: 

    0-0
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    0
  • Views: 

    427
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    203
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Background and Objectives: The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of classical and azithromycin-containing triple therapy eradication regimen against H. Pylori in children, and to determine the level of patients’ tolerance.Patients and Methods: This single clinical trial was performed in 2014 on 2 to 15 years old children. All children, in whom H. Pylori infection was confirmed through multiple biopsies of the stomach and required treatment, were enrolled in the study. H. Pylori-positive patients were treated alternately with two different drug regimens; Group OCA received clarithromycin 7.5 mg/kg/day every 12 hours for 10 days, amoxicillin 50 mg/kg/day every 12 hours for 10 days, and omeprazole 1 mg/kg/day every 12 hours for two weeks, and Group OAA received azithromycin 10 mg/kg/day once a day (before meal) for 6 days along with amoxicillin and omeprazole. Four to six weeks after completion of treatment, patients’ stool was tested for H. Pylori through the monoclonal method using the Helicobacter antigen quick kit.Results: There were no significant differences between the two groups regarding gender and age of patients. Based on ITT analysis, the therapeutic response in the OAA and OCA groups were 56.2% and 62.5%, respectively (P=0.40). Drug adverse effects were 15.6% in the OCA and 3.1% in the OAA group (P=0.19).Conclusions: The therapeutic response was seen in more than half of the patients treated with triple therapy of H. Pylori eradication regimen including azithromycin or clarithromycin, and there was no significant difference between the two treatment groups.

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  • Year: 

    2015
  • Volume: 

    25
  • Issue: 

    6
  • Pages: 

    0-0
Measures: 
  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    382
  • Downloads: 

    118
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Background: Hepatic manifestations are one of the unusual manifestations of dengue infection.Objectives: We conducted this study in order to study the pattern of serum aminotransferases and sequential changes before and after shock in Thai children with dengue infection.Patients and Methods: Children who were clinically and serologically diagnosed as dengue infection and were admitted to King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital during a peroid of one year were enrolled. They were clinically classified into a non-shock group and a shock group. The majority of serum aminotransferases including aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) were obtained within a week after the onset of fever and until 3 days after shock in the shock group. Student t-test and median in boxplot form were used for statistical analysis.Results: We enrolled 127 children with a mean age of 7.6±3.6 years. The incidence of abnormal AST and ALT levels was 97.4% and 50.0% in the shock group, and 91.8% and 44.9% in the non-shock group respectively. 29% and 15.4% of the patients in shock group and only 10.2% and 4.1% in non-shock group had the respective AST and ALT levels>200 U/L. Serum aminotransferase levels were significantly higher in the shock group when compared to the non-shock group. AST tended to increase starting from one day before shock and continued to increase within a few days whereas ALT was less likely to be affected.Conclusions: Elevated serum aminotransferases are a common finding in children with dengue infection and the levels of AST are higher than those of ALT. Patients with shock have significantly higher aminotransferase levels that increase up to 3 days after shock.

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  • Year: 

    2015
  • Volume: 

    25
  • Issue: 

    6
  • Pages: 

    0-0
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  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    309
  • Downloads: 

    164
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Background: Transcatheter closure of atrial septal defects (ASD) has been accepted world-wide as an alternative to surgical closure with excellent results. This interventional, non-surgical technique plays an important role in the treatment of ASD mostly in the developing world where resources are limited.Objectives: To report the outcomes and short term follow-up of transcatheter closure of ASD over a 12-year period at our institution with limited resources.Patients and Methods: This retrospective study included all patients with the diagnosis of secundum ASD and significant shunting (Qp/Qs>1.5:1) as well as dilated right atrium and right ventricle who had transcatheter closure at Integrated Cardiovascular Center (PJT), Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital between October 2002 and October 2014. One hundred fifty-two patients enrolled in this study were candidates for device closure. Right and left heart cardiac catheterization was performed before the procedure. All patients underwent physical examination, ECG, chest X-ray and transthoracal echocardiography (TTE) prior to device implantation.Results: A total of 152 patients with significant ASD underwent device implantation. Subjects’ age ranged from 0.63 to 69.6 years, with median 9.36 years and mean 16.30 years. They consisted of 33 (21.7%) males and 119 (78.3%) females, with mean body weight of 29.9 kg (range 8 to 75; SD 18.2). The device was successfully implanted in 150 patients where the majority of cases received the Amplatzer septal occluder (147/150; 98%) and the others received the Heart Lifetech ASD occluder (3/150, 2%), whereas two other cases were not suitable for device closure and we decided for surgical closure. The mean ASD size was 19.75 (range 14-25) mm. During the procedure, 5 (4.9%) patients had bradycardia and 3 (2.9%) patients had supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), all of which resolved.Conclusions: In our center with limited facilities and manpower, transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect was effective and safe as an alternative treatment to surgery. The outcome and short-term follow-up revealed excellent results, but long-term follow-up is needed.

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  • Year: 

    2015
  • Volume: 

    25
  • Issue: 

    6
  • Pages: 

    0-0
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    0
  • Views: 

    351
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    212
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Background: Nephrolithiasis in children is associated with a high rate of complications and recurrence.Objectives: Since some evidences reported that zinc has an important place amongst inhibitors of crystallization and crystal growth, we decided to assess the effectiveness of oral zinc sulfate as adjuvant treatment in children with nephrolithiasis.Patients and Methods: This was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial. 102 children in the age range 1 month to 11 years with first nephrolithiasis were recruited. Patients were randomly divided into two equal groups (intervention and control groups). Intervention group received conservative measures for stones and 1 mg/kg/day (maximum 20 mg/day) oral zinc sulfate syrup for 3 months. Control group received placebo in addition to conservative measures, also for 3 months. Patients were followed up by ultrasonography for 9 months, in 5 steps (at the end of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 9th month after treatment) assessing size and number of stones in the kidneys.Results: Only at the end of the first month, the average number (intervention: 1.15±3.78, control: 1.3±2.84) (P=0.001) and size (cm) (intervention: 0.51±1.76, control: 0.62±1.39) (P=0.001) of stones was significantly lower in the intervention group, and in other points there was no significant therapeutic efficacy in oral zinc adjuvant treatment compared to conservative treatment alone. Also, during the 9-month follow-up, the number and size of stones in both groups decreased significantly (both: P<0.0001) in a way that the decrease in the intervention group showed no difference with the control group.Conclusions: Adjuvant treatment with zinc is not more effective than consecutive treatment in children with nephrolithiasis. However, further studies are recommended due to the lack of clinical evidence in this field.

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  • Year: 

    2015
  • Volume: 

    25
  • Issue: 

    6
  • Pages: 

    0-0
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    0
  • Views: 

    281
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    154
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Dear Editor: The relation of Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP) vasculitis with Acute rheumatic fever was defined by Gairdner firstly in 1948. Both HSP and rheumatic fever can affect the joints and heart in a different way. In HSP artritis is usually non migratory and heart involvement is usually appear as myocarditis. In rheumatic fever artritis is usually migratory and heart involvement is manifest as valvulitis. Rheumatic fever may rarely develop during HSP. The role of group A beta-haemolytic streptococcus (GABHS) in the pathogenesis of rheumatic fever is well established. The presence of rheumatic fever, GABHS may sometimes have a pathogenic role in HSP. We present here a child admitted to our clinic as acute rheumatic carditis, who developed HSP vasculitis thereafter.

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  • Year: 

    2015
  • Volume: 

    25
  • Issue: 

    6
  • Pages: 

    0-0
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    0
  • Views: 

    335
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    171
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Dear Editor: Hydrocarbon compounds such as petroleum jelly and mineral oil can cause lower respiratory disease named exogenous lipoid pneumonia because of high viscosity and surface tension.Acute exogenous lipoid pneumonia occurs after exposure to large amounts of mineral oils. The acute form in children is mostly a consequence of accidental poisoning. Consolidation, nodular lesions, reticular and alveolar-interstitial patterns are the most common findings in the chest X-rays. Lower lobes or right middle lobe commonly get involved, but multifocal and bilateral lesions are shown too. The diagnosis of exogenous lipid pneumonia is made by a positive history of mineral oil exposure and radiologic findings in favor of the disease and revealing lipid-laden macrophages on bronchoalveolar lavages (BALs) or sputum specimen. Multiple BALs can remove Lipid-laden macrophages as a leading cause of fibrosis in the alveoli and interstitium.

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  • Year: 

    2015
  • Volume: 

    25
  • Issue: 

    6
  • Pages: 

    0-0
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    0
  • Views: 

    362
  • Downloads: 

    215
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Background: Functional abdominal pain (FAP) is one of the most common diseases, and large percentages of children suffer from it.Objectives: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of Lactobacillus reuteri in treatment of children with functional abdominal pain.Patients and Methods: This study was a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Children aged 4 to 16 years with chronic functional abdominal pain (based on Rome III criteria) were enrolled in the study. They were randomly divided into two groups, one receiving probiotic and the other placebo.Results: Forty children received probiotic and forty others placebo. There were no significant differences in age, weight, sex, location of pain, associated symptoms, frequency and intensity of pain between the groups. The severity and frequency of abdominal pain in the first month compared to baseline was significantly less and at the end of the second month, there was no significant difference between both groups compared to the end of the first month.Conclusions: This study showed that the severity of pain was significantly reduced in both groups. There was no significant difference in pain scores between them. The effect of probiotic and placebo can probably be attributed to psychological effect of the drugs.

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  • Year: 

    2015
  • Volume: 

    25
  • Issue: 

    6
  • Pages: 

    0-0
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  • Citations: 

    0
  • Views: 

    325
  • Downloads: 

    166
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Background: Hyperphenylalaninemia (HPA) and Phenylkeonuria (PKU) are metabolic errors caused by deficiency of phenylalanine hydroxylase enzyme, which results in increased level of phenylalanine. This increase is toxic to the growing brain.Objectives: The purpose of this study was to compare the intellectual and developmental status in HPA and PKU children with normal population in national screening program.Patients and Methods: In a historical cohort study, 41 PKU patients who had the inclusion criteria and 41 healthy children were evaluated. Wechsler preschool and primary scale of intelligence-3rd edition (WPPI-3) was used in order to assess the intellectual status of children 4 years and older and Ages and stages questionnaire (ASQ) was used to assess the developmental status of children 5 years and younger.Results: In intellectual test comparison, the two groups showed significant difference in Wechsler’s performance intelligence score and some performance subscales (P-value<0.01). In comparison of developmental status, no significant difference was observed between the two groups (P-value>0.05).Conclusions: Even with early diagnosis and treatment of PKU patients, these children show some deficiencies intellectually compared to normal children. This study emphasizes on necessity for screening intellectual and developmental status of PKU patients so that effective medical or educational measures can taken in case of deficiencies.

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