Publications by authors named "A Kuzu"
(1) Background: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 6.3 million intrauterine fetal deaths occur every year. The most common method of diagnosing perinatal death and taking early precautions for maternal and fetal health is a nonstress test (NST).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cancer in both women and men. Microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) CRC is a molecular subgroup and has distinct clinical and pathologic features from microsatellite stable (MSS) CRC. Studies have suggested an association between hereditary antigens in ABO blood group system and the risk of developing various cancers but the relationship between blood groups and MSI-H CRC has not been investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcute appendicitis during coronavirus disease 2019 in Türkiye: Changes in clinical approach, treatment, and diagnosis modalities: A retrospective and cohort study.
Ulus Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg
December 2022
Article Synopsis
- The study investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the management of patients with acute appendicitis, comparing practices before and during the pandemic.
- It included a review of 8,972 patients from multiple centers to analyze differences in diagnosis, treatment approaches, and post-treatment outcomes between the pre-pandemic (Jan-Apr 2019) and pandemic (Jan-Apr 2020) periods.
- Findings showed an increase in non-operative follow-up requests and higher rates of open surgery during the pandemic, but no direct correlation was found between pandemic restrictions and the severity of acute appendicitis cases.
Objective: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic affected the healthcare systems worldwide. In this study, we aimed to examine the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on injury-related visits.
Materials And Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of 7648 injury-related pediatric emergency department visits between March 11 and June 30, 2018, 2019, and 2020, and com- pared the total number of visits, triage levels, distributions of injury mechanisms, and admission rates during the pandemic in 2020 to the same period in 2018 and 2019.
In the era of personalized medicine, small-molecule inhibitors have become key to targeting many malignancies. Multiple hematologic malignancies are driven by small-molecule pathways that are seemingly ripe for such targeting. In this case report, we present a patient who was treated with a mitogen-activated extracellular signal-regulated kinase (MEK) inhibitor for what was originally diagnosed as a histiocytic sarcoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF