The Effect of Photochromic Contact Lenses on Pupil Size.

Objectives: Photochromic contact lenses (PCL) are designed to increase the comfort of patients, in bright light conditions. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of PCL on pupil size.

Methods: The study was conducted with 30 patients who were admitted to the contact lens department.

Development of the Thirst Discomfort Scale: A Validity and Reliability Study.

Background: Thirst is a sensation associated with a dry mouth and the desire or craving to drink water. Surgical patients are among those hospitalized individuals who are at high risk of developing both osmotic and hypovolemic thirst.

Objectives: To develop a new measurement tool for evaluating the thirst-related discomfort of surgical patients and to assess its validity and reliability.

The effect of natural surfactants on the development of postoperative intraabdominal adhesion.

Background/aim: The development of postoperative adhesion after abdominal surgery is sometimes a severe problem. Our study investigates the effectiveness of exogenous surfactant application in preventing adhesion development in the experimental adhesion model.

Materials And Methods: This randomized-controlled interventional study was carried out in the animal laboratory of Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University between March 1 and March 31, 2020.

Numerical and experimental dataset for a retrofitted data center.

This article provides experimental and numerical data for the flow and thermal distributions inside an air-cooled data center. The experimental data contains the exhaust temperature profile obtained from an experimental campaign and the numerical data contains OpenFOAM and script files for the simulation of the thermal structure based on the experimental study. Experimental measurements were conducted using temperature sensors located at the rear of the rack under a working scenario of 2 kW.

(E)-1-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)-3-(substituted-phenyl)prop-2-en-1-ones: Synthesis, In Vitro Cytotoxic Activity and Molecular Docking Studies.

A series of chalcone compounds (2-11) were designed and synthesized to determine their cytotoxic effects. The structures of 2-11 were fully characterized by their physical and spectral data. The in vitro cytotoxic effects of 2-11 were evaluated against human ovarian cancer (A2780), breast cancer (MCF-7) and prostate cancer (PC-3 and LNCaP) cell lines.

Synthesis and spectroscopic characterizations of hexakis[(1-(4'-oxyphenyl)-3-(substituted-phenyl)prop-2-en-1-one)]cyclotriphosphazenes: their cytotoxic activity, theoretical analysis and molecular docking studies.

The hexachlorocyclotriphosphaze compound was reacted with excess (E)-(1-(4'-oxyphenyl)-3-(substituted-phenyl)prop-2-en-1-ones to produce hexakis[(1-(4-oxyphenyl)-3-(substituted-phenyl)prop-2-en-1-one)]cyclotriphosphazenes . The structures of products were confirmed using elemental analysis, FT-IR, MS spectral analysis as well as P, H and C-APT NMR techniques and their thermal properties determined by TGA and DSC techniques. The HOMO-LUMO energy gap and chemical reactivity identifiers were calculated and HOMO and LUMO images were viewed.

Low radiation dose computed tomography coronary angiography: evaluation of the variations in coronary arteries.

Objective: Despite attempts to decrease the radiation dose, coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) generally uses higher doses than computed tomography scans of other organs. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence of the variations of the coronary arteries using the adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction technique to perform low-dose coronary computed tomography (CTA).

Methods: Diagnostic CCTA scans were performed in 3433 patients (from November 2010 to January 2015) using an Optima CT660 (GE Healthcare, USA) 64-slice and analyzed retrospectively.

Arteriovenous fistula between descending aorta and left inferior pulmonary vein: Closure with vascular plugs.

Echocardiography revealed systemic artery to pulmonary venous fistula, a rare vascular anomaly, in a 20-month-old girl, and multislice computed tomography angiography (CTA) was performed to rule out congenital heart disease. Normal bronchial connection and pulmonary vasculature were observed in the lung. The fistula drained through the left inferior pulmonary vein to the left atrium leading to a left-to-left shunt.

Effect of subminimal inhibitory concentrations of three fluoroquinolones on adherence of uropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli.

The effect of subinhibitory concentrations (1/2-1/32 x MIC) of ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin and levofloxacin on the adherence of three strains of Escherichia coli (a mannose-resistant haemagglutinating clinical isolate, a non-haemagglutinating clinical isolate and the mannose-resistant haemagglutinating ATCC 25922 strain) were studied. Ciprofloxacin had the lowest MIC values but only the 1/2 MIC concentration inhibited adherence of mannose-resistant haemagglutinating strains after exposure to subMIC values. Significant inhibition of adherence was observed with 1/4 x MIC ofloxacin for both haemagglutinating isolate (27096) and the ATCC strain.