Performance of the Wells and Revised Geneva scores for predicting pulmonary embolism.

Objective: The objective of the study was to compare two scoring methods to predict the risk of pulmonary embolism (PE) as diagnosed with computed tomography angiography (CTA) and/or CT venography (CTV).

Methods: Prospectively over a 8-month period, emergency department patients and hospital inpatients with suspected PE were consecutively examined and their Wells and Revised Geneva scores calculated to stratify them into a risk group for PE probability. Then all patients were examined with CTA and CTV to determine the presence or absence of PE, as diagnosed by experienced radiology staff physicians.

Use of emergency departments by elderly patients in a city of Western Turkey.

Objective: To evaluate the reasons behind the demographic characteristics of patients presented to emergency departments.

Methods: The entire patient records of all the hospitals' emergency departments in the city of Eskisehir were retrospectively assessed in this study. The study was conducted between the years 1998 and 2000.

Ingested gastrointestinal foreign bodies: predisposing factors for complications in children having surgical or endoscopic removal.

A retrospective study was performed to determine the predisposing factors associated with the complications of ingested gastrointestinal (GI) tract foreign bodies (FBs) in children who had surgical or endoscopic removal. The study was performed in 161 children who had endoscopic or surgical removal. The clinical data were evaluated in two groups.

[Relationships among ultrasonographic and demographic, clinical, laboratory findings of patients with acute cholecystitis].

Background: To evaluate correlations among ultrasonographic, demographic, clinical and laboratory findings of patients with acute cholecystitis.

Methods: The patients older than 17 years of age with acute colecystitis admitted to the general surgery clinics between January 1991 and December 2000 were evaluated and compared in terms of various parameters.

Results: 336 (female, 212; male, 124) patients were included in the study.

Mushroom poisonings in children in Central Anatolia.

The aim of this study was the analysis of mushroom poisonings (MP) in children in Central Anatolia. Cases younger than 18 y-of-age, who presented and were diagnosed as MP between January 1991 and December 2002 were evaluated for gender, age, presenting month, city of residence, first noticed symptoms, vital signs, laboratory studies, hospitalization period and outcome. Sixty-four cases were enrolled; 36 were female (56.

[Acute appendicitis in pregnancy].

Background: Review of our cases of appendicitis with pregnancy.

Methods: Between june 1990 and may 2001, eighteen cases were investigated, retrospectively.

Results: Six patients were in first trimester, 10 in second trimester and 2 in third trimester.