Publications by authors named "A Dirican"

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of four clinical tests confirmed by ultrasonography (USG) and to evaluate the role of age, sex, handedness, subcutaneous tissue thickness (STT), tendon thickness (TT), and STT/TT in determining the absence of the palmaris longus muscle.

Patients And Methods: In this descriptive study, 282 wrists of 141 healthy individuals (71 females, 70 males; mean age: 29±9.6 years; range, 21 to 55 years) were included between September 2021 and November 2022.

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Background: Epignathus is a rare kind of teratoma. Its estimated incidence is one in 35,000-200,000 live births, and it may cause high mortality by causing airway obstruction in the neonatal period. It is generally diagnosed in the prenatal period.

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  • * Among 106 patients, 83 had CN, and those who had the surgery could continue their nivolumab treatment for longer (14.5 months) compared to those who didn't have the surgery (6.7 months).
  • * Overall survival was better for patients with CN (22.9 months) compared to those without it (8.1 months), but the surgery and certain medical scores were important factors for how long they lived.
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Objective: It was aimed to examine the overall role of cold ischemia time and anhepatic phase durations in terms of peroperative blood transfusion needs, hospital stay conditions and postoperative charges, and survival in recipients.

Material And Methods: One hundred forty-eight adult living donor liver transplant recipients (18 years and older) were included in the study. Whether the anhepatic phase and cold ischemia duration have an effect on the rates of surgery time, blood product transfusion, total hospital and intensive care unit stay, postoperative biliary complications, hepatic vein thrombosis, portal vein thrombosis, early postoperative bleeding, sepsis, and primary graft dysfunction.

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Background: The research was conducted to evaluate the birth and newborn outcomes of Syrian immigrant women according to maternal age groups and Vitamin D use.

Methods: It was conducted retrospectively using the birth records of 2,866 Syrian migrant women, who had given birth at a tertiary center between January 2016 and May 2020. Demographic features, obstetric and neonatal outcomes were analyzed according to age groups and Vitamin D use.

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