Has the Covid-19 Pandemic increased the complication rate in patients with acute appendicitis?

Aim: The aim of this study is to compare the numbers of patients, clinical outcomes, and complication rates of acute appendicitis before and after COVID-19 pandemic in our clinic.

Material And Method: This is a retrospective clinical study. Patients of 19 to 88 years of age that underwent emergency surgery with the diagnosis of acute appendicitis at Ankara City Hospital Department of General Surgery between 11 December 2019 and 11 June 2020 were included.

Appendiceal neuroendocrine neoplasia: analysis of 50 patients.

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the clinical, surgical, and pathological findings of appendiceal neuroendocrine neoplasms (ANNs).

Materials And Methods: The demographic, clinical, surgical, and pathological characteristics of 50 patients with ANN were analyzed. The patients were also classified as Group 1 (< 40 years, n = 37) and Group 2 (≥ 40 years, n = 13), and compared each other in terms of all parameters.

Does COVID-19 increase the incidence of spontaneous rectus sheath hematoma?

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic started to affect Turkey in March 2020. In this study, we retrospectively investigated spontaneous rectus sheath hematoma (S-RSH) in patients with COVID-19 presenting with acute abdominal pain during the ongoing pandemic.

Methods: The demographic characteristics, laboratory findings, length of hospital stay, and treatment processes of COVID-19 cases with S-RSH detected between March and December 2020 were recorded.

Social and physical neighbourhood characteristics and loneliness among older adults: results from the MINDMAP project.

Background: Loneliness is associated with several adverse mental and physical health outcomes in older adults. Previous studies have shown that a variety of individual-level and perceived area-level characteristics are associated with loneliness. This study examined the associations of objectively measured social and physical neighbourhood characteristics with loneliness.

Gender, marital and educational inequalities in mid- to late-life depressive symptoms: cross-cohort variation and moderation by urbanicity degree.

Background: Although ageing populations are increasingly residing in cities, it is unknown whether depression inequalities are moderated by urbanicity degree. We estimated gender, marital and educational inequalities in depressive symptoms among older European and Canadian adults, and examined whether higher levels of urbanicity, captured by population density, heightened these inequalities.

Methods: Harmonised cross-sectional data on 97 826 adults aged ≥50 years from eight cohorts were used.