Religious Coping Strategies of Mothers Who Lost Their Children to Cancer in Türkiye: A Qualitative Study.

Perceptions of death can greatly impact the ability to cope with grief, making it either easier or unbearable. Research on the importance of religion and spirituality in the field of oncology, particularly among parents who have lost a child to cancer, is still in its emerging stage. This study aimed to describe the religious coping strategies of Muslim mothers who lost their children to cancer.

Comparison of Capizzi and High-dose Methotrexate Approaches in the Treatment of Pediatric B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.

Childhood cancers, with leukemia at the forefront, comprise 97% acute leukemia and 3% chronic leukemia, with 75% of acute leukemias being of lymphoblastic origin. Over the past 50 years, survival rates have witnessed a remarkable increase, progressing from around 10% to achieving cure rates exceeding 90% in certain childhood ALL subgroups with the advent of combined therapies. Between 1999 and 2018, a total of 123 patients diagnosed with B-ALL were initially identified, but after applying exclusion criteria, 105 patients were included in the evaluation, who were treated with COG protocols at our center.

Repeated Radiosynovectomy in Haemophilia: Revealing Long-Term Effectiveness and Safety.

Introduction: Radiosynovectomy (RS), which uses beta particle-emitting radiocolloids, has proven highly effective in significantly reducing the occurrence of haemarthroses and breaking the cycle of bleeding and synovitis. This study now presents the long-term outcomes of repeated RS in individuals with haemophilia.

Materials And Methods: Repeated RS was administered to 48 joints in 37 people with haemophilia (PwHs) diagnosed with chronic haemophilic synovitis.

Retrospective analysis of hemophilia B in Turkey: identifying main characteristics and treatment options.

Background: Hemophilia B (HB), an X-linked recessive inherited bleeding disorder, exhibits a high prevalence among males.

Objectives: To present the first national cohort of persons with HB to define the demographics, clinical characteristics, and treatment patterns in Turkey.

Methods: This multicenter, retrospective study included 433 alive persons with HB registered in 35 centers between 1961 and 2018.

Desires vs. conditions: A qualitative study exploring the factors affecting the place of death of child with cancer in Turkey.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe factors affecting the place of death of children with cancer at the end of life.

Methods: The descriptive phenomenological approach was used. Eighteen mothers who lost their children to cancer participated in in-depth interviews.

Clinical characteristics, late effects and outcomes in pineoblastomas in children: a single center experience.

Background: Pineoblastomas (PB) are rare tumors of the central nervous system and are more common in children. There is no consensus about standard of care. The objective of this study is to analyze the outcome of children with PB.

Persons With Hemophilia of Generation Y and Their Relatives Attitudes and Expectations From Treatment.

This multicenter cohort study aimed to determine the attitudes and expectations of persons with hemophilia of Generation Y (PwH-Y) toward hemophilia and its treatment comparatively with the opinions of their non-hemophiliac relatives. The study was representative regarding quota-control variables of hemophiliacs registered to the provincial representatives of the Hemophilia Society of Turkey in 4 geographic regions and Istanbul. Sixty-four PwH-Y (62 males) and their 56 first-degree relatives (17 males; Generation X/baby boomers) were interviewed face-to-face using mixed data collection method.

Impact of the HEAD-US Scoring System for Observing the Protective Effect of Prophylaxis in Hemophilia Patients: A Prospective, Multicenter, Observational Study.

Objective: This study aimed to observe the preventive effect of prophylactic treatment on joint health in people with hemophilia (PwH) and to investigate the importance of integration of ultrasonographic examination into clinical and radiological evaluation of the joints.

Materials And Methods: This national, multicenter, prospective, observational study included male patients aged ≥6 years with the diagnosis of moderate or severe hemophilia A or B from 8 centers across Turkey between January 2017 and March 2019. Patients were followed for 1 year with 5 visits (baseline and 3, 6, 9, and 12 month visits).

Efficacy of tolterodine in children with overactive bladder.

Aim: Tolterodine is an anticholinergic drug used for the treatment of overactive bladder. We evaluated the effects of tolterodine on clinical symptoms and compared its efficacy with that of oxybutynin in terms of bladder capacity, bladder wall thickness, and post-void residual volume in children with overactive bladder.

Material And Methods: Twenty-six patients who were treated with tolterodine for overactive bladder (20 girls, mean age 8.

Prognostic factors of radiosynovectomy in haemophilia patients with inhibitors: Survival analysis in a 19-year period.

Introduction: People with haemophilia (PwH) with inhibitors have an increased risk of bleeding and early development of progressive arthropathy. Radiosynovectomy (RS) has been effective in dramatically reducing the frequency of haemarthroses. In the present study, the mid- and long-term results of the efficacy of RS in PwHs with inhibitors and prognostic factors that influence success and failure of RS were presented.

A Challenge for Hemophilia Treatment: Hemophilia and Cancer.

Background: The risk of developing cancer increases with age and also adverse environmental conditions. The same holds true in the aging people with hemophilia (PwH). Furthermore, cancer is an important challenge for physicians working in multidisciplinary hemophilia care centers.

Variant Guillain-Barré syndrome in a patient with Hodgkin lymphoma: AMSAN.

Lymphomas are solid tumors characterized by the malignant proliferation of lymphoid cells. Neurologic signs encountered in patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma can be due to the direct spread of tumor to the nervous system, secondary to chemotherapy or radiation, secondary to tumor mass compression, infectious causes and paraneoplastic syndromes. Paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes are rarely encountered in patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Evaluation of Unfavorable Cardiovascular and Metabolic Risk Factors in Children and Young Adults with Haemophilia.

Objective: Increased risk of unfavorable cardiovascular risk factors has been recognised in ageing patients with haemophilia (PwH), but needs further studies in younger patients. The purpose of this study was to assess obesity, hypertension (HT), metabolic variables, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome in young PwH.

Methods: Forty-eight haemophilia A and B patients and 35 age and sex matched healthy controls were included in the study.

Burkitt Leukemia With Precursor B-Cell Immunophenotype and Dual Translocation of t(14;18) and t(8;14) in a Child: Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Background: Burkitt leukemia (BL) with the precursor B-cell immunophenotype is a rarely reported condition. The prognosis of such patients is similar to that of classic BL. However, the combination of chromosomal translocations associated with bcl-2 and c-myc rearrangement has a poor prognosis.

Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Associated With Visceral Leishmaniasis.

This is the report of a 2-year-old boy who presented with fever, cytopenia, and splenomegaly. The patient was diagnosed with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) and treated with HLH-2004 protocol. Repeated bone marrow aspiration showed amastigotes on follow-up.

Heterogeneity of sleep quality in relation to circadian preferences and depressive symptomatology among major depressive patients.

Background: The current study aimed at investigating the latent dimensional structure of sleep quality as indexed by the seven components of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), as well as latent covariance structure between sleep quality, circadian preferences and depressive symptoms.

Methods: Two hundred twenty-five patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), with an average age of 29.92 ± 10.

The effects of individual biological rhythm differences on sleep quality, daytime sleepiness, and dissociative experiences.

Individuals who differ markedly by sleep chronotype, i.e., morning-type or evening-type also differ on a number of psychological, behavioral, and biological variables.