Publications by authors named "B Karakas"
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- Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) enhances survival rates in breast cancer patients by improving the rate of pathologic complete response (pCR), but research on blood-based indexes to predict pCR has produced mixed results.
- A study of 304 patients used various blood indexes, including neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratios (NLR), pan-immune inflammation values (PIV), and lactate dehydrogenase-albumin ratios (LAR), to assess their relationship with pCR and overall survival.
- Results showed that PIV was the most significant predictor of pCR, while a high LAR was associated with increased recurrence risk and poor disease-free survival, revealing crucial insights for breast cancer treatment strategies.
Objective: Cognitive problems in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is generally overlooked in the presence of disabling headache and threat to visual function. The aim of this study was to search for cognitive deficits in patients with IIH using neuropsychologic tests in addition to P300 potential recordings to assess cognition related brain activity.
Methods: Fifty IIH patients were examined using Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test, Stroop Test and Visual Aural Digit Span Test to measure different domains of cognition at the time of diagnosis.
Background: Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) plays a dominant role in migraine. This prospective study was designed to investigate CGRP levels in patients with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) and compare the results of migraine patients and healthy controls (HC). As a second objective, CGRP levels obtained from IIH patients defining sustained headache after the resolution of papilledema were compared with those not defining post-IIH headache.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResults of combat medic junctional tourniquet training: a prospective, single-blind, randomized, cross-over study.
Ulus Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg
January 2024
Background: Bleeding remains the leading cause of potentially preventable deaths both in military and civilian pre-hospital trauma settings. Conventional extremity tourniquets do not control bleeding if an iliac artery or a common femoral artery is injured. Stopping junctional bleeding is particularly challenging and requires the use of specifically designed junctional tourniquets.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMutations in / in head and neck cancer result in abnormal cell growth. Progenitor cells, bulk tumor cells, and head and neck cancer stem cells (HN-CSCs) may all harbor these mutations. Nevertheless, whether mutations in HN-CSCs have an impact on clinical outcomes is unknown.
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