Investigation of the Relationship Between Serum Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels with Genetic Polymorphisms, Gut Microbiota, and Nutrition.

To prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD), it is important to determine the factors that are associated with its development. High serum low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (LDL-C) levels are a modifiable prevention and treatment target known to contribute to the development of CVD, but the factors affecting blood cholesterol levels, including LDL-C, remain controversial. In this study, the factors (genetic, nutritional, and gut microbiota) thought to be effective on serum LDL-C levels were discussed from a holistic perspective, and the effects of the relationship between these factors on LDL-C levels were examined.

Computed Tomography Findings Affecting the Decision of Sternotomy in Substernal Goiter.

Objectives: Although thyroidectomy is completed with a cervical incision in most patients with substernal goiter (SG), sternotomies may be required occasionally. The purpose of this study is to examine computed tomography (CT) findings that may predict the need for sternotomy in SG surgery.

Methods: Neck-thoracic CT images of patients who underwent total thyroidectomy with the diagnosis of SG between 2013 and 2022 were retrospectively examined.

An unusual finding after adrenal surgery: a case series of adrenal schwannomas.

Adrenal schwannomas are rare benign tumors with no specific imaging and laboratory findings to diagnose preoperatively. Due to the limited number of cases in the literature, clinical, imaging, and pathological findings are presented in this study. Case 1 is a 61-year-old woman patient who has a 31-mm mass in the right adrenal gland.

Comparison of DaVinci Si and Xi robotic platforms for adrenal surgery. Effects on short term outcomes.

Objectives: To evaluate our experience and short term surgical outcomes between two robotic systems.

Methods: The present study retrospectively analyzed 38 cases, who underwent robotic adrenalectomy between 2012-2019 at our center. The patients were divided into Group Si (n=11) and Group Xi (n=27), and the results of these two groups were compared.

Risk factors affecting benign anastomotic stricture in anterior and low anterior resections for colorectal cancer: a single-center retrospective cohort study.

Purpose: Although not as life-threatening as anastomotic leakage, anastomotic stricture reduces the quality of life. The risk factors for such an important life complication have not been revealed. This article examines the risk factors affecting anastomotic strictures due to colorectal cancers.

The effect of COVID-19 process on patients with endocrinological disease in a pandemic hospital: What happened to the others?

Objective: To evaluate the effects of the pandemic process on those with an endocrinological disease that will require close follow-up from the last visit before the pandemic.

Materials And Methods: Patients of 3,903 with thyroid, calcium-bone metabolism, adrenal gland, pituitary diseases, and neuroendocrine tumor (NET) were retrospectively scanned. The remaining 855 (656 females and 199 males) patients with active disease or who still needed multidisciplinary approaches were included.

Comparison of urgent and elective thyroidectomy complications in Graves' disease.

Background: Surgical treatment of Graves' disease (GD) has increased risk for bleeding, hypothyroidism and recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) palsy compared to other benign thyroidectomy indications. Nevertheless, it can be done safely in high volume centers. In some particular cases (i.

Risk Factors for Conversion in Laparoscopic Totally Extraperitoneal Inguinal Hernioplasty.

Background: Conversion is a surgical concern because the surgical technique can change during surgery. Surprisingly, there is no study in the literature on the causes and risk factors leading to conversion in laparoscopic total extraperitoneal inguinal repair (TEP). There is also no consensus on the prevention and causes of this condition in TEP.

Hormonally Active Adrenal tumors; Challenges and Outcomes for Different Surgical Approaches.

Objective: The aim of this study is to compare the intraoperative and short-term outcomes of different surgical approaches for hormone active and non-functional adrenal masses.

Methods: The data of 206 patients who underwent adrenal gland surgery in our clinic between 2012 and 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. Pre-operative outpatient clinic records of the patients, imaging methods, laboratory results and surgery records, operation time (OT), amount of bleeding, duration of hospital stay, and complications were evaluated.

Clinical adaptation of auxiliary methods and multidisciplinary approach to changing trends in parathyroid surgery.

To examine the effects of multidisciplinary approach and adjunct methods, on the surgical strategy, complications and treatment success of parathyroid surgery.Patients, who were operated for primary hyperparathyroidism (n = 411) at our institution between 2012 and 2019 were reviewed retrospectively. Preoperative imaging studies, surgical method, additional diagnostic methods used during surgery, frozen section results, and histopathology findings, complications, persistence, and recurrence were examined.

Technological Advances Have Improved Surgical Outcome in Thyroid Surgery: Myth or Reality?

Aim: In this study, we aimed to investigate the effects of Ultrasonic Coagulation (UC), Bipolar Energy Sealing System (BESS), Intra Operative Nerve Monitoring (IONM) and surgical experience on the complications of thyroid surgery.

Method: The data of 1627 patients who underwent thyroid surgery for various indications in our department between 2009 and 2018 were analyzed retrospectively and the effects of different technological devices on complications were investigated.

Results: Transient recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) palsy was higher between 2009 and 2013, when IONM was not in routine use (p=0.

Monoclonal/polyclonal PAX-8, PTH and GATA3 immunohistochemistry in parathyroid lesions.

Background: Parathyroid gland (PG) is an endocrine organ which may display different immunohistochemical stainings with chief cells and oxyphilic cells in normal as well as hyperplasic/tumoral lesions.

Purpose: In this study, we aimed to identify the demographic properties and diagnostic value of the GATA3 antibody, which is a transcription factor in addition to PTH, and of PAX-8 (monoclonal and polyclonal) antibody.

Methods: We have analyzed in detail the cellular components and staining intensities of 46 adenomas all of which contained parathyroid rims, 12 hyperplasia and 5 adjacent non-neoplastic thyroidectomy materials (63 patients, 114 tissues).

Risk factors affecting failure of colonoscopic detorsion for sigmoid colon volvulus: a single center experience.

Purpose: Colonoscopic detorsion (CD) is the first treatment option for uncomplicated sigmoid volvulus (SV). We aim to examine the factors affecting the failure of CD.

Methods: The files of patients, treated after diagnosis of SV between January 2015 and September 2020, were retrospectively reviewed.

Association between Acute Pancreatitis and COVID-19: Could Pancreatitis Be the Missing Piece of the Puzzle about Increased Mortality Rates?

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 commenced in Wuhan China in 2019 and soon spread worldwide. SARS-CoV-2 enters the cell by binding to the ACE II receptor and begins viral replication. The effects and clinical findings of SARS-CoV-2 on the liver, kidney, heart, gastrointestinal (GI) system and especially lungs have been widely discussed.

Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on general surgical emergencies: are some emergencies really urgent? Level 1 trauma center experience.

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on general surgical emergencies as well as analyzing the effectiveness of measures taken in reducing the incidence of COVID-19 in patients and healthcare professionals.

Methods: Patients who underwent emergency surgery between the pandemic period of March 14th to May 15th 2020 and within the same period from the previous year were reviewed retrospectively. COVID-19 incidence in patients and health professionals working in the general surgery department during these periods was questioned.

Analysis of general surgery outpatient clinic admissions and operations during COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey: Reactions of 12728 patients.

Covid-19 pandemic is spreading rapidly in Turkey. We aimed to examine the numbers and demographic data of patients who applied to the general surgery outpatient clinics and operated in this process. Our primary outcome is to reveal the response of general surgery patients to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Emergency surgery of the abdominal wall hernias: risk factors that increase morbidity and mortality-a single-center experience.

Purpose: Morbidity and mortality are higher in urgently operated abdominal hernia cases compared to elective surgeries. The present study aims to investigate the factors that cause increased morbidity and mortality in emergency surgical operations.

Methods: The files of a total of 426 patients who were operated for non-reducible abdominal hernia between 2015 and 2020 were reviewed retrospectively.

Pure transoral robotic thyroidectomy; institutional adaptation and early results from a tertiary endocrine surgery centre.

Purpose: Novel thyroidectomy techniques have been described to minimize the visible scar. Hereby, we aim to present our experience with transoral robotic thyroidectomy (TORT) without axillary access.

Material And Methods: Between August 2018 and March 2019, six eligible patients were enrolled to undergo TORT.

Robotic transperitoneal adrenalectomy from inception to ingenuity: the perspective on two high volume endocrine surgery centers.

Background: With increased utilization of robotic technology, robotic adrenalectomy (RA) became popular in certain high-volume centers as an alternative to conventional laparoscopic adrenalectomy (LA). The aim of the present study was to evaluate clinical and surgical outcomes of RA in two high-volume centers in Turkey.

Methods: Between 2012 and 2019, consecutive patients who underwent robotic transperitoneal adrenalectomy in two referral centers for surgical endocrine diseases in Turkey were analyzed retrospectively.

Endocrine Surgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations from the Turkish Association of Endocrine Surgery.

The 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was initially seen in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. World Health Organization classified COVID-19 as a pandemic after its rapid spread worldwide in a few months. With the pandemic, all elective surgeries and non-emergency procedures have been postponed in our country, as in others.

Feasibility of Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System Classification in Predicting Thyroid Malignancy.

In this study, we aimed to evaluate the diagnostic value of thyroid imaging reporting and data system (TIRADS) in the estimation of malignancy and assess the concordance between TIRADS and the histopathology results of the postoperative specimens. Consecutive ultrasound imaging records of patients with multinodular goiter from January 2010 to December 2017 who underwent surgery were retrospectively reviewed. The risk of malignancy of each TIRADS category was determined, and correlation with pathology was assessed.

Effect of intraoperative neuromonitoring on efficacy and safety using sugammadex in thyroid surgery: randomized clinical trial.

Purpose: The use of nondepolarizing neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs) may affect intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) during anesthesia used during thyroid and parathyroid surgery.

Methods: The use of sugammadex was evaluated in a prospective clinical study during thyroid surgery. Between July 2018 and January 2019, 129 patients were prospectively randomized to either the sugammadex group (group B) or the control group (group A).

FICE in Predicting Colorectal Flat Lesion Histology.

Background And Objectives: Colonoscopy is the gold standard for detection of polyps and is preventive against colorectal cancers. Flat adenomas are small, superficial lesions and have a high rate of going undetected during conventional white-light endoscopy. This article adds to the scant body of literature in English regarding in vivo detection and diagnosis of flat adenomas using Fujinon intelligent color enhancement (FICE) system.