Publications by authors named "B Kayaaslan"
A New Laboratory Tool for COVID-19 Severity Prediction, CENIL Score.
Diagnostics (Basel)
November 2024
Background/objectives: Several studies investigated the risk factors for severe COVID-19-related outcomes. Early identification and proper treatment of COVID-19 patients who may develop severe pneumonia are crucial. The aim of this study was to detect the importance of the laboratory parameters for risk prediction of severe pneumonia in COVID-19 patients.
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- Cardiovascular disease (CVD) significantly affects people living with HIV (PLWH), with this study finding a diagnosed CVD prevalence of 10.8% among 1425 participants aged 40-75.
- The assessment utilized five different risk evaluation tools, revealing that 42.8% of participants had a high 10-year risk of CVD, while 71.7% were classified as high- to very high-risk using the SCORE2 tool.
- The findings stress the need for better cardiovascular health monitoring and highlighted that current utilization of lipid-lowering therapy is inadequate, despite a large number of PLWH being eligible for such treatment per recent guidelines.
Objective: This study aimed to investigate whether human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection affects carotid and brachial artery wall thickness and whether measurement of this thickness contributes to traditional cardiovascular risk scoring in individuals living with HIV.
Materials And Methods: The patient group included people living with HIV who were followed up in the infectious disease clinic, and the control group included patients without HIV. In both groups, carotid artery intima-media thickness (cIMT) was measured with B-mode ultrasonography (B-USG).
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- The study examined whether inhaled corticosteroids affect the severity and mortality of COVID-19 pneumonia among patients with chronic asthma and COPD.
- It was a retrospective observational study, comparing two groups: one that used inhaled corticosteroids and one that did not, finding no significant difference in pneumonia severity between the groups.
- Key risk factors for mortality included increasing age, mechanical ventilation, severe pneumonia, interstitial lung disease, and the use of prone position, while inhaled corticosteroid use did not correlate with increased severity or mortality.
Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the infections following musculoskeletal injuries in earthquake survivors, offering a future clinical point of reference for the handling of musculoskeletal injuries resulting from earthquakes.
Patients And Methods: In this single-center retrospective observational study, 225 earthquake survivors (120 females, 105 males; median: 39 years; range, 18 to 94 years) admitted between February 2023 and April 2023 were evaluated. Patients with musculoskeletal injuries and patients who had at least one month of follow-up data were included in the study.