RDW Predicts Fibrosis in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B Having Persistently Normal ALT Levels.

Background: There are studies on the determination of hepatic fibrosis with noninvasive markers but data about liver biopsy results and noninvasive markers in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) are limited. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between pathological findings and noninvasive markers, and to determine the marker that predicts fibrosis in patients with consistently normal serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels, diagnosed with CHB and undergoing liver biopsy.

Methods: A total of 122 patients with CHB, 29 of them with HbeAg (+), aged 30 years and older, HBV DNA > 2000 IU / ml, and serum ALT levels measured four times in the last year, were consistently normal, and 93 of them with HbeAg (-) were included in the study.

A retrospective study of pregnant patients with acute pancreatitis.

Objective: Acute pancreatitis is a rare disease in pregnant patients. Although it may have serious maternal and fetal consequences, morbidity and mortality rates have decreased recently due to appropriate and rapid treatment with earlier diagnosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate pregnant patients diagnosed with acute pancreatitis.

Predictors of 30-day mortality in patients diagnosed with hepatic encephalopathy on admission to the emergency department.

Background: The aim of this study is to compare the laboratory findings and disease severity scores of patients diagnosed with hepatic encephalopathy (HE) in the emergency department (ED) to predict 30-day mortality.

Method: The patients over 18 years old and diagnosed HE in the ED of a tertiary hospital were included in the study. Demographic and clinical characteristics, laboratory parameters, predisposing causes and outcomes of the patients included in the study were recorded in the data form.

Liver Stiffness Is Markedly Decreased After Chronic Hepatitis C Treatment.

Aim: The aim of the study was to demonstrate the liver stiffness (LS) change in chronic hepatitis C (CHC) patients obtained by elastography point quantification technique in before and after antiviral treatment (AVT).

Material And Methods: This prospective study included 84 patients diagnosed with CHC who had not previously received treatment for CHC and who had an indication for using direct-acting AVT. Necessary measurements were recorded with noninvasive liver fibrosis (LF) examinations.

Monocyte/High-Density Lipoprotein Ratio Is an Indicator of Activity in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis.

Background: In patients with ulcerative colitis, endoscopic and clinical indices are used to assess the disease activity. In addition, stud- ies have been carried out for easier and cheaper markers in recent years. For this purpose, we evaluated the monocyte/high-density lipoprotein ratio of the disease activity.

Should lactate be added to Tokyo criteria for the evaluation of patients with acute cholangitis?

Background: Tokyo guidelines (TG13/18) are used for the severity assessment of acute cholangitis (AC). Lactate is a clinical marker of tissue hypoxia and disease severity, independent from blood pressure.

Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between blood lactate level and TG13/18 criteria in patients diagnosed with AC.

Serum Elabela level is related to endoscopic activity index in patients with active ulcerative colitis.

Background: In ulcerative colitis patients, Elabela levels and the relation of Elabela with laboratory parameters is unknown.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the serum Elabela levels in UC patients and its relationship with other clinical and laboratory findings.

Methods: Forty-three patients with UC and 40 healthy controls (group I) similar in age and gender were included in the study.

Lactate Level Predicts Mortality in Patients with Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding.

Background And Objectives: The aim of this study was to show whether the level of lactate in venous blood compared with the Glasgow-Blatchford Bleeding Score (GBS), in patients diagnosed with upper gastrointestinal system (UGI) bleeding in the emergency department, will help to predict the need for transfusion and prognosis.

Materials And Methods: Patients with UGI bleeding who were admitted to the emergency department were included in the study. The parameters age, gender, referral complaints, comorbidities, lactate levels in venous blood, GBS, endoscopy findings, length of hospital stay, transfusion amount, and outcome of patients were recorded in the data collection form.

Update on the effect of age on acute pancreatitis morbidity: a retrospective, single-center study.

Introduction: Acute pancreatitis (AP) is one of the urgent diseases of gastroenterology. Due to the growth of the elderly population, the frequency of the disease in the elderly population is also increasing.

Aim: To evaluate the contributing factors of mortality in geriatric patients (age ≥ 65 years) and non-geriatric (age < 65 years) patients.

Retrospective analysis of cases with an ectopic opening of the common bile duct into duodenal bulb.

Background: Ectopic opening of the common bile duct (EOCBD) is a very rare entity. It has been reported in the 3rd or 4th portion of the duodenum, pyloric canal, duodenal bulb, and the stomach.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical characteristics, laboratory values and imaging studies of patients with EOCBD into the duodenal bulb retrospectively.

New predictor of acute necrotizing pancreatitis: Red cell distribution width.

Background: Acute pancreatitis (AP) is inflammation of the pancreas of various severity ranging from mild abdominal pain to mortality. AP may be classified as acute interstitial edematous pancreatitis (AEP) or acute necrotizing pancreatitis (ANP), according to the revised Atlanta criteria. Most of the patients with AP are AEP (75-85% of patients), while 15-25% of patients have ANP.

Plasma Thrombin-activatable Fibrinolysis Inhibitor Levels Correlate with the Disease Activity of Ulcerative Colitis.

Objective Patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) are at an increased risk for thromboembolic events, particularly in patients with extensive and active disease. To date, a few studies have been published on the role of thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) in UC. However, there are no reports in the literature investigating the effect of UC treatment on plasma TAFI levels.

Evaluation of Stump Pressure in Three Types of Appendectomy: Harmonic Scalpel, LigaSure, and Conventional Technique.

Introduction And Objective: Appendectomy is one of the most common operations carried out by general surgeons. The recent introduction of the alternative energy-based devices in surgery and their use in the laparoscopic appendectomy shortened the duration of operations, but these devices are used generally for meso dissection. These devices did not receive wide acceptance among surgeons as there is not enough evidence confirming their use in appendicular lumen operations.