Evaluation of the effect of chiropractic manipulative treatment on oxidative stress in sacroiliac joint dysfunction.

Objectives: This study aims to investigate the effect of chiropractic manipulative treatment on sacroiliac joint dysfunction (SIJD) and its relationship to oxidative stress (OXS) parameters.

Patients And Methods: Thirty-three patients diagnosed with SIJD (20 males, 13 females; mean age 36.3±9.

Changes in the choroidal thickness in reproductive-aged women with iron-deficiency anemia.

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the potential significance of the central macular thickness (foveal thickness-FT) and choroidal thickness (CT) in the eyes of patients with iron-deficiency anemia, the most common form of the anemia, via enhanced-depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI-OCT). We also investigated whether such changes might serve as an early indicator of underlying hematological disease.

Methods: This prospective clinical study compared 96 female patients with iron-deficiency anemia and 60 healthy female control subjects.

The involvement of nitric oxide in the physiopathology of hepatoportal sclerosis.

Background And Aim: Hepatoportal sclerosis (HPS) is a clinical syndrome of unspecified etiology depicted by enlarged spleen and portal hypertension in the lack of other chronic liver disease findings, hematological disorders or any infectious disease in the liver. Nitric oxide (NO) molecule has many important functions in human body including phagocytosis in macrophages, neural transmission and endothelial relaxation. Although there is no data in literature that depicts the role of NO in HPS pathogenesis, this study was conducted in order to evaluate the potential role of NO in patients with HPS.

Evaluation of serum TWEAK concentration in patients with acute pancreatitis.

Background And Aim: Tumor necrosis factor-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK) is a member of the tumor necrosis factor super family of structurally-related cytokines. The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic and prognostic role of serum TWEAK concentration in patients with acute pancreatitis.

Methods: Twenty four patients with acute pancreatitis and 24 consecutive healthy age- and sex-matched control subjects were included in the study.

The effect of ursodeoxycholic acid treatment on epidermal growth factor in patients with bile reflux gastritis.

Background/aims: Study was performed to evaluate the effect of ursodeoxychlic acid treatment on epidermal growth factor, which is secreted in response to mucosal injury and is also a factor in the protection and healing of gastric mucosal injury in patients with bile reflux gastritis following cholecystectomy.

Methods: Thirty-one dyspeptic patients who had previously undergone cholecystectomy were included in the study. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed before and after a six week ursodeoxychlic acid treatment period and a biopsy was taken.

[A case of acute pancreatitis due to Weil's disease].

Leptospirosis, the most common vasculitic zoonosis in the world, is characterized with jaundice and acute renal failure. However, pancreatitis is an uncommon complication of leptospirosis. In this report, an acute pancreatitis case due to Weil's disease has been presented.

[Case report: a brain hydatid cyst].

Hydatid cyst is a zoonotic infection caused by larval stage of Echinococcosis granulosus. Although any organ may be involved, bone, brain and heart involvements are uncommon. The brain involvement rate varies from 1% to 3% in hydatid disease.

[Case report: brucellosis complicated by epididymo-orchitis and paravertebral abscess].

Brucellosis which is a zoonotic infection involving many systems, is widespread in Turkey. Although muscular and skeletal system involvements are common, genitourinary system complications (epididymo-orchitis) are observed rarely. Brucellosis accompanied by abscess formation in the vertebra is generally seen in the elderly and patients with chronic diseases, while epididymo-orchitis in young patients.

[Antibody levels to diphtheria in various community segments].

The aim of this study was to detect the immune status of our population against diphtheria. For this purpose, the levels of diphtheria IgG antibodies in various age groups were investigated in 150 subjects aged over 20 years old, by using ELISA method. The positive immunity rate against diphtheria was found 62%, while there was no statistically significant difference between the rates of males (66.