Manual vs. automatic assessment of the QT-interval and corrected QT.

Aims: Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is challenging to predict. Electrocardiogram (ECG)-derived heart rate-corrected QT-interval (QTc) is used for SCD-risk assessment. QTc is preferably determined manually, but vendor-provided automatic results from ECG recorders are convenient.

Challenges and Changes of the Breast Cancer Screening Paradigm.

Since four decades mammography is used for early breast cancer detection in asymptomatic women and still remains the gold standard imaging modality. However, population screening programs can be personalized and women can be divided into different groups based on risk factors and personal preferences. The availability of new and evolving imaging modalities, for example, digital breast tomosynthesis, dynamic-contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), abbreviated MRI protocols, diffusion-weighted MRI, and contrast-enhanced mammography leads to new challenges and perspectives regarding the feasibility and potential harms of breast cancer screening.

The efficacy of gamma knife radiosurgery in patients with trigeminal neuralgia: The initial experience of the Bezmialem Vakif University.

Background: Gamma knife stereotactic radiosurgery is, compared with surgical treatment, a less invasive treatment option for patients with trigeminal neuralgia (TN).

Aim: In this report, we analyzed the effect and safety of gamma knife radiosurgery performed in patients with TN.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed patients who underwent gamma knife radiosurgery for TN between June 2014 and January 2017.

A rare case of sclerosing meningioma with immunohistochemical features.

To identify histological types of Meningiomas', immunohistochemically markers are used. We present Phosphohistone-H3 (PHH-3) staining for the first time. The patient's case notes were retrospectively reviewed.

Bone age in children with obstetrical brachial plexus palsy: effect of peripheral nerve injury on skeletal maturation.

The purpose of this retrospective study was to analyze the effect of peripheral nerve injury on the skeletal maturation process. The bone ages of the affected and unaffected hand-wrists of 42 children with obstetrical brachial palsy were determined according to the Greulich and Pyle atlas. In 23 patients, the bone ages of the both sides were identical (bone-age-symmetrical group), in 19 patients the bone age of the affected side was delayed (bone-age-delayed group).

Efficacies of papaverine and sildenafil in the treatment of erectile dysfunction in early-stage paraplegic men.

The aim of the study was to determine which vasoactive agent was more efficacious for erectile dysfunction (ED), intracavernosal papaverine or oral sildenafil, in paraplegic men within the first year after injury by using a penile color Doppler ultrasound as a quantitative imaging method and to determine the association between responses to these two vasoactive agents and factors such as neurological lesion level and lesion severity. A total of 31 male in-patients with spinal cord injury, aged over 18 years, and with neurological lesions below the T6 level within the first year after injury with ED were included. Visual and auditory sexual stimulus (VASS) on day 1 (group 1), VASS with 25 mg intracavernosal papaverine (group 2) and after a wash-out period of papaverine on day 2, and VASS with 50 mg oral sildenafil on day 5 (group 3) were administered to each patient.

Shoulder pain in hemiplegia: results from a national rehabilitation hospital in Turkey.

Objective: Shoulder pain is a common complication after stroke that can limit the patients' ability to reach their maximum functional potential and impede rehabilitation. The aim of our study was to examine the occurrence of hemiplegic shoulder pain in a group of Turkish patients and clarify contributing factors such as glenohumeral subluxation, reflex sympathetic dystrophy, tonus changes, motor functional level, limitation in shoulder range of motion, thalamic pain, neglect, and time since onset of hemiplegia. The effect of shoulder pain on the duration of rehabilitation stay was also identified.