Publications by authors named "A Kaya Bilge"
Mortality and Associated Factors in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis Associated Pulmonary Hypertension with and without Interstitial Lung Disease: A Long-Term Follow-up Study.
Mod Rheumatol
October 2024
Objectives: We aimed to analyze the prevalence, mortality, and prognostic factors in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) with or without interstitial lung disease (ILD).
Methods: The associations between mortality and demographics, transthoracic echocardiography, right heart catheterization (RHC), pulmonary functional parameters at baseline, and treatment modalities in two groups; patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH, PH without significant ILD) and PH + ILD were evaluated.
Results: The mean age of the patients was 56.
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- * A total of 50 IPF patients participated, providing data on demographics, pulmonary function, and quality of life measures, with results showing an average oxygen saturation recovery time of about 136 seconds post-6MWT.
- * Findings revealed that longer recovery times correlated significantly with worse prognostic markers, indicating that as disease severity increases (measured by GAP and CPI scores), the recovery from exertion becomes slower.
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- Alexithymia is the difficulty in identifying and describing emotions, which was studied in relation to speech comprehension, particularly looking at the mismatch between emotional tone (prosody) and literal meaning in spoken narratives.
- In two experiments, participants were categorized by their alexithymia levels and tested on their ability to recognize emotions in scenarios where the emotional tone either matched or mismatched the literal meaning, showing slower response times and lower accuracy in recognition during incongruent conditions.
- Interestingly, while high alexithymia individuals performed similarly to low alexithymia individuals overall in recognizing emotions, they did accurately recognize anger regardless of congruence, suggesting complex dynamics in how people with different emotional processing abilities understand emotional discourse.
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- The research involved 80 children aged 5-12 undergoing adenotonsillectomy, divided into two groups: one where kids chose the accompanying parent and another where parents chose.
- Results showed no significant difference in ED scores or incidence between the two groups, but children in the group that chose their parent reported lower anxiety levels during anesthesia induction.
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is driven by pathologies associated with increased metabolism such as pulmonary revascularization, vasoconstriction and smooth muscle cell proliferation in pulmonary artery wall. 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18FDG-PET) is an imaging technique sensitive to glucose metabolism and might be considered as a non-invasive method for diagnosis due to significant role of inflammation in idiopathic pulmonary artery hypertension (IPAH) and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). The present study aimed to investigate the role of PET/CT imaging of patients with IPAH and CTEPH as an alternative diagnosis method.
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