Low back pain and kinesiophobia in pregnant women.

Background: During pregnancy, many pregnant women experience lumbopelvic pain due to mechanical, systemic, and hormonal reasons and this pain and fear of movement (kinesiophobia) causes daily life limitations.

Objective: To examine low back pain (LBP), kinesiophobia, disability, and related conditions that develop together during pregnancy.

Methods: The was a cross-sectional and analytical study.

Copper/Zinc Ratio Can Be a Marker to Diagnose Ectopic Pregnancy and Is Associated with the Oxidative Stress Status of Ectopic Pregnancy Cases.

It was aimed to evaluate serum zinc and copper levels and oxidative stress parameters in ectopic pregnancy cases, healthy pregnant women, and healthy non-pregnant women. In this cross-sectional case-control study, 30 patients diagnosed with tubal ectopic pregnancy in the gynecology clinic of a tertiary hospital constituted the study group. A healthy pregnant control group (n = 30) was formed of age, body mass index (BMI), and gestational week-matched subjects, and a healthy non-pregnant control group (n = 30) was formed of age and BMI-matched women.

Serum amphiregulin and cerebellin-1 levels in severe preeclampsia.

Purpose: Preeclampsia is a form of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and defined as the presence of new-onset hypertension and proteinuria or other end organ damage occurring after 20-week gestation. Preeclampsia can be a destructive process that can cause maternal and infant mortality. The exact etiopathogenesis of preeclampsia is still undefined.

The role of omentin in early pregnancy losses.

This prospective case-control study aimed to investigate the role of omentin, an anti-inflammatory adipokine in early pregnancy losses. The study comprised 47 women with spontaneous miscarriage at a gestational age of 8-12 weeks and 36 healthy pregnant women, matched for age, body mass index and gestational age, gravdity and parity. A significant negative correlation was determined between plasma omentin concentrations and body weight (= -0.

The serum level of soluble CXCL16 is increased in preeclampsia and associated with hepatic/renal damage.

Objective: To compare the serum level of the chemokine, CXCL 16, in preeclamptic and healthy pregnant patients.

Methods: This prospective case control study was conducted between January and December 2018 in a tertiary level hospital. The study group was formed of 70 pregnant women diagnosed with preeclampsia, and the control group was formed of 70 healthy pregnant women matched to the study group in respect of age, gestational week and body mass index (BMI).

The role of G protein-associated estrogen receptor (GPER) 1, corin, raftlin, and estrogen in etiopathogenesis of intrauterine growth retardation.

The aim of the present study was to detect the role of G protein-associated estrogen receptor (GPER) 1, corin, raftlin and estrogen in etiopathogenesis of intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR). The present study was designed prospectively between January 2017 and May 2018. The study group included 32 patients with unexplained IUGR and 32 healthy pregnant women who gave birth at term among the patients who referred to obstetrics clinic of a tertiary reference hospital.

The role of osteopontin in the pathogenesis of placenta percreta.

Objective: This study aims to determine how the expression of osteopontin is altered in the placenta percreta by compar-ing osteopontin expression in normal placentas and placenta percreta tissues.

Material And Methods: Placental tissues from hysterectomy materials which were histopathologically diagnosed with placenta percreta (study group, n = 20) and placental tissues obtained from normal term pregnancies (control group, n = 20) were immunohistochemically stained with osteopontin antibody. The groups were compared with respect to the intensity of cytoplasmic staining for osteopontin.

Analysis of the factors determining the type of surgical procedure in mature cystic teratomas.

Objectives: It was aimed to evaluate which factors determine the surgical procedure selected by surgeons for cases with mature cystic teratoma (MCT).

Material And Methods: This study included 50 cases with histopathologically proven MCT between January 2011 and August 2016 at a tertiary reference hospital. Data related to demographic and clinical characteristics were retrieved from medical records.

Use of Gelatin Sponge Affects Postoperative Morbidity In Cesarean Section Patients.

BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine the effects of use of a local hemostatic gelatin sponge (GS) on postoperative morbidity in patients undergoing cesarean section (CS). MATERIAL AND METHODS The records of 318 patients who underwent CS surgery were retrospectively evaluated. Group 1 consisted of 59 patients with gelatin sponge (GS) applied, and Group 2 consisted of 259 patients with no GS applied.

Pre-implantation genetic screening among women experiencing recurrent failure of in vitro fertilization.

Objective: To determine the efficiency of pre-implantation genetic screening (PGS) among women scheduled to undergo intracytoplasmic sperm injection who had experienced recurrent in vitro fertilization (IVF) failure.

Methods: The present retrospective cohort study reviewed the medical records of consecutive women who had experienced recurrent IVF failure and had presented at a private IVF facility in Trabzon Province, Turkey, to undergo intracytoplasmic sperm injection between May 1, 2012, and December 31, 2014. Patient data and perinatal outcomes were compared between patients who underwent PGS and those who did not.

Increased oxidative stress is associated with insulin resistance and infertility in polycystic ovary syndrome.

Objectives: The present study aims to investigate the role of oxidant-antioxidant status in young women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

Material And Methods: Seventy-one women with PCOS and 53 healthy controls are compared in aspect of demographic characteristics, biochemical data, hormones, and oxidant-antioxidant status.

Results: The PCOS group had significantly lower zinc, higher malondialdehyde and gluthathione peroxidase and lower serum catalase levels than the control group (p = 0.

Is elective single-embryo transfer a viable treatment policy in in vitro maturation cycles?

Objective: To compare the clinical outcome of single-embryo transfer (SET) with double-embryo transfer (DET) in in vitro maturation (IVM) cycles performed in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and to determine which factors predict those outcomes.

Design: A retrospective analysis.

Setting: Private assisted reproduction center.

Correlation between transvaginal ultrasound measured endometrial thickness and histopathological findings in Turkish women with abnormal uterine bleeding.

Aim: The present study aims to determine how transvaginal ultrasonography and histopathological examination findings are correlated in a cohort of premenopausal and postmenopausal Turkish women with abnormal uterine bleeding.

Methods: This is a retrospective review of 350 Turkish women who underwent transvaginal ultrasonography and suction curettage as a result of abnormal uterine bleeding.

Results: Sonographic appearance of the endometrium was normal in 244 patients (69.

Comparison of postoperative vaginal length and sexual function after abdominal, vaginal, and laparoscopic hysterectomy.

Objective: To compare vaginal length and sexual function after total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH), total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH), and vaginal hysterectomy (VH).

Methods: The present cross-sectional study at a single center in Turkey compared vaginal length and sexual function among women who received TLH, TAH, VH, or no surgery (groups 1, 2, 3, and 0, respectively) between January 2011 and April 2014. All women underwent hysterectomy for benign reasons at least 3months before the study and were sexually active.

Misoprostol versus misoprostol and foley catheter combination in 2nd trimester pregnancy terminations.

Objective: The efficacy and safety were assessed of a misoprostol regimen used alone or in combination with foley catheter for second trimester pregnancy termination.

Methods: A retrospective examination was made of the records of patients who underwent pregnancy termination at 14-24 weeks of gestation in our university hospital between January 2011 and June 2014. Records were available for patients 378 who underwent terminations.

A comparison of two techniques of uterine closure in caesarean section.

Objective: To compare the results of two different techniques of uterine closure in caesarean section operations in which assistant surgeons participated.

Methods: A total of 765 patients were separated into two groups.In Group1(n = 380), the assistant surgeon, while pulling the suture in a caudal direction with the left hand, held the uterine wall from the joined site with the right hand to prevent upward tension of tissue.

First trimester examination of fetal nasal bone in the Turkish population.

Aim: The present study aims to assign the reference values for nasal bone length (NBL) screened at 11-14 weeks of pregnancy in the Turkish population, determining whether the NBLs specified for Caucasians can be validated for Turkish people.

Materials & Methods: The values of NBL were investigated in a total of 415 singleton fetuses that had Turkish parents and normal neonatal outcome. Sonographic measurements of NBL were done on a transabdominal midsagittal plane at 11-14 weeks' gestation.

Complete mole coexistent with a twin fetus.

Introduction: Complete hydatiforme mole with coexisting live fetus (CMCF) is a rare entity. Management for this rare twin pregnancy still remains undetermined. We report the delivery of a healthy baby coexisting with complete mole as twins.

The effects of betamethasone treatment on clinical and laboratory features of pregnant women with HELLP syndrome.

Aim: The present study aims to investigate the effects of betamethasone treatment on clinical outcome and laboratory data of pregnant women diagnosed with HELLP (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelet count) syndrome.

Methods: A prospective, randomized and placebo-controlled clinical trial was undertaken in a total of 60 pregnant women with HELLP syndrome who were treated at the perinatology department of the study center between January 2005 and February 2008. Betamethasone treatment (intramuscular injection of 12 mg in every 24 h) was given to 30 subjects while remaining 30 subjects received placebo.