Identifying predictors of persistent post-earthquake dizziness among adolescents after the 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye: A cross-sectional, multicenter study.

Objective: The impacts of earthquakes on the mental health of individuals have been well-documented. Additionally, individuals frequently report experiencing dizziness akin to seasickness or carsickness. This phenomenon, termed "post-earthquake dizziness syndrome" (PEDS), has garnered increasing attention due to its unclear etiology.

Pineal gland volume in children with intellectual disability.

Objective: Pineal gland volume (PGV), which is associated with sleep and circadian rhythm, is known to be changed in some psychiatric disorders such as major depression, mood disorders and schizophrenia. This study aimed to compare the PGV of children with mild and moderate intellectual disability (ID) and healthy children.

Methods: This multicentre retrospective study included 40 children with ID (patient group), aged 6-12 years and 40 age- and sex-matched healthy children (control group).

Comparative Histopathological Analysis of Nasal Osteotomy Techniques in a Rabbit Model.

Nasal osteotomy is a crucial step in rhinoplasty, explicitly addressing the open roof deformity in nasal bones. This study aimed to assess and compare the recovery patterns associated with 4 distinct osteotomy techniques in a rabbit model. Twenty white New Zealand rabbits weighing 2.

Sociodemographic Characteristics, Anxiety, Depression Levels, and Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Hospitalized COVID-19-Positive Children and Adolescents.

This study aimed to investigate anxiety, depression levels, and emotional/behavioral problems of children and adolescents while being treated in the COVID-19 unit. The present study included 50 children who were COVID-19 positive, aged 7-18 years, and 50 age- and gender-matched healthy controls. The sociodemographic data form and Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale-Child Version (RCADS-C) were applied to all children, and all families were asked sociodemographic data form, Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale-Parent Version (RCADS-P), and Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ).

Decreased levels of L-selectin and platelet-endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 in children with autism spectrum disorder.

Objective: This study aimed to ascertain the serum levels of selectins (E, L, P) and platelet-endothelial adhesion molecule-1 (PECAM-1) in preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and to establish a comparison with the levels observed in healthy controls.

Methods: The study included 34 children aged 2-7 years diagnosed with ASD (ASD group) and 34 randomly selected healthy children matched for age and sex to the ASD group. The children were free of any genetic or physical disease, clinically active infection, or medication use.

The Tricellufuse Technique for Closing Nasal Septal Perforations.

Nasal septal perforation (NSP) is a structural anomaly that affects the mucosa, cartilage, and bone of the nasal septum, often stemming from septoplasty as the primary cause. Spontaneous healing of a perforated septum is rare, and typically the healing process is observed until it is determined that the condition is stable and no longer deteriorating, at which point surgical intervention is considered. Numerous surgical techniques have been proposed for NSP repair.

Visualizing hydrogen peroxide and nitric oxide dynamics in endothelial cells using multispectral imaging under controlled oxygen conditions.

The complex interplay between hydrogen peroxide (HO) and nitric oxide (NO) in endothelial cells presents challenges due to technical limitations in simultaneous measurement, hindering the elucidation of their direct relationship. Previous studies have yielded conflicting findings regarding the impact of HO on NO production. To address this problem, we employed genetically encoded biosensors, HyPer7 for HO and geNOps for NO, allowing simultaneous imaging in single endothelial cells.

Fascia Lata-Fat Island Graft in Septal Perforation Repair.

To measure the success of the fascia lata-fat island graft technique in septal perforation repair as measured by nasal endoscopic examination. This study presents the results of using fascia lata-fat island, a different graft technique, for the repair of septal perforations, offering an alternative to this challenging procedure. This retrospective study assesses nasal septal perforation repair using the fascia lata-fat island graft technique performed by a single surgeon.

Prognostic Significance of the Strong Ion Gap in Patients in Medical and Surgical Intensive Care Units.

Background This study aimed to analyze acid-base imbalance by assessing the arterial blood gas (ABG) samples of the medical and surgical intensive care unit (ICU) patients by the Stewart approach and demonstrate the advantages of this method in delineating the acid-base status in cases where Henderson-Hasselbalch, anion gap, and base excess cannot optimally depict the imbalance and create recognition in the clinicians in this regard.  Methodology Adult (i.e.

A Novel Technique for Septal Perforation Repair: Fascia Lata Graft.

Background: Nasal septal perforation (NSP) is an anatomical defect involving the mucosa, cartilage/bone of the nasal septum, most commonly caused by septoplasty. Spontaneous healing of a perforated septum is rare; instead, it tends to worsen over time. Several surgical approaches have been described for NSP repair.

functional outcome in late adolescence/early adulthood of patients with autism spectrum disorder and its relationships with parental burnout and depression: A preliminary multi-center, cross-sectional study.

The aim of this study is to determine the functioning of adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) diagnosed in childhood and depression and burnout levels among their parents. A total of 261 adults with ASDs and their parents were recruited for the study. Both parents completed the Beck Depression and Maslach Burnout Inventories and reported the functioning of their adult offspring with ASDs.

The Effects of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (LSG) on Obesity-Related Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: a Prospective Observational Study from a Single Center.

Purpose: The objective of the study is to evaluate the effects of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) on mid- to long-term regulation of blood glucose in patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) MATERIALS AND METHODS : In this prospective and observational single-center study, a total of 234 patients with obesity and a diagnosis of T2DM who underwent LSG between 2015 and 2020 were evaluated. The demographics and laboratory data, consisting of body mass index (BMI), glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c%), and fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and total weight loss (TWL%), were compared preoperative and postoperative at 12 and 18 months and annual follow-up for seven consecutive years.

Results: The mean age of 234 patients (female(n)/male(n):191/43) included in the study was 44.

Retrospective Evaluation of a Novel Nasal Tip Suture Technique.

Nasal tip surgery is a crucial aspect of rhinoplasty in which suture techniques play a significant role. Early suturing techniques focused primarily on repositioning alar cartilage remnants after they had undergone significant resection. The size, contour, and orientation of the medial and lateral crura are primary factors in creating a tip shape.

Automatic Diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder with Continuous Wavelet Transform and Convolutional Neural Network.

Objective: The attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has a negative impact on the child's educational life and relationships with the social environment during childhood and adolescence. The connection between temperament traits and The attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has been proven by various studies. As far as we know, there is no machine learning study to diagnose.

Impact of Gestational Weight Gain on Maternal and Perinatal Outcomes After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of gestational weight gain (GWG) after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) on maternal and perinatal outcomes according to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendations.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective, multicenter, observational study of pregnant women who had undergone LSG between 2012 and 2021 was conducted. According to the IOM criteria, GWG was grouped as insufficient, appropriate, and excessive.

Nitric oxide biosensor uncovers diminished ferrous iron-dependency of cultured cells adapted to physiological oxygen levels.

Iron is an essential metal for cellular metabolism and signaling, but it has adverse effects in excess. The physiological consequences of iron deficiency are well established, yet the relationship between iron supplementation and pericellular oxygen levels in cultured cells and their downstream effects on metalloproteins has been less explored. This study exploits the metalloprotein geNOps in cultured HEK293T epithelial and EA.

Towards fully automated detection of epileptic disorders: a novel CNSVM approach with Clough-Tocher interpolation.

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder requiring specialists to scrutinize medical data at diagnosis. Diagnosis stage is both time consuming and challenging, requiring expertise in detection of epileptic seizures from multi-channel noisy EEG data. It is crucial that EEG signals be automatically classified in order to help experts detect epileptic seizures correctly.

Complexities of the chemogenetic toolkit: Differential mDAAO activation by d-amino substrates and subcellular targeting.

A common approach to investigate oxidant-regulated intracellular pathways is to add exogenous HO to living cells or tissues. However, the addition of HO to the culture medium of cells or tissues approach does not accurately replicate intracellular redox-mediated cell responses. d-amino acid oxidase (DAAO)-based chemogenetic tools represent informative methodological advances that permit the generation of HO on demand with a high spatiotemporal resolution by providing or withdrawing the DAAO substrate d-amino acids.

A Co-Culture-Based Multiparametric Imaging Technique to Dissect Local HO Signals with Targeted HyPer7.

Multispectral live-cell imaging is an informative approach that permits detecting biological processes simultaneously in the spatial and temporal domain by exploiting spectrally distinct biosensors. However, the combination of fluorescent biosensors with distinct spectral properties such as different sensitivities, and dynamic ranges can undermine accurate co-imaging of the same analyte in different subcellular locales. We advanced a single-color multiparametric imaging method, which allows simultaneous detection of hydrogen peroxide (HO) in multiple cell locales (nucleus, cytosol, mitochondria) using the HO biosensor HyPer7.

Diagnostic Performance of Erythropoietin and Erythropoietin Receptors Levels in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Objective: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a heterogeneous, highly heritable, a common childhood neurobehavioural disorder resulting from complex gene-gene and gene-environment interactions. The erythropoietin (Epo)/erythropoietin receptors (EpoR) system turned out to have additional important functions in nonhematopoietic tissue. In this study, we aimed to investigate the levels of Epo and and EpoR, and also their diagnostic values in children with ADHD.

Effect of Impairment on the Prevalence and Comorbidities of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in a National Survey: Nation-Wide Prevalence and Comorbidities of ADHD.

Objective: This study aimed to determine the prevalence and comorbidities of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by evaluating a large-scale nation-wide sample of children.

Method: The inclusion criterion was being enrolled as a 2nd, 3rd, or 4th-grade student. A semi-structured diagnostic interview (K-SADS-PL), DSM-IV-Based Screening Scale for Disruptive Behavior Disorders, and assessment of impairment (by both parents and teachers) were applied to 5,842 participants.

The Effects of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy on Glucose Metabolism in Patients with a Body Mass Index below 35 kg/m².

Objectives: The prevalence of obesity and its associated comorbidities are increasing all over the world. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy has become the most common bariatric surgery in the world today, especially in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes mellitus, which is one of the effective surgical methods. The present study aims to investigate the effects on glucose metabolism in patients following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.