Publications by authors named "Duygu Mergan"
Objective: To compare the frequency of oesophageal foreign bodies during the month of Eid-ul-Adha with other months.
Methods: This retrospective study was conducted at YüzüncüYil University Hospital, Van, Turkey, during 2012-16, and comprised individuals who were treated for bone and/or meat fragments lodged in the oesophagus. The number of hospital admissions with diagnosis of oesophageal foreign bodies during Eid-ul-Adha episodes were extricated and compares with similar date for the other months.
Objective: Elevated serum Mac 2-binding protein (M2BP) levels have been observed in some cancers. As far as we know, its importance has not been investigated in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). The investigated problem of this study was to evaluate whether there was a difference between ESCC patients and the control group in terms of M2BP.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Hydatid cysts are sometimes confused with different pathologies, and problems arise in their diagnosis and treatment. In this study, cases that are followed up with a diagnosis of lung malignancy and that are detected to have hydatid cysts were retrospectively examined.
Material And Methods: Seven patients with hydatid cysts whose clinical and radiological features were consistent with lung malignancy were retrospectively examined between 2010 and 2014 regarding sex, age, symptoms, diagnostic methods, surgical procedures performed, and postoperative complications.
Unlabelled: Common sociocultural behavior and common hygienic habits may lead lead to the existence of parasites in many people living in the same environment. The main objective of this study was to investigate the incidence of disease in individuals sharing the same living space.
Methods: A total of 102 individuals with no previous diagnosis of hydatid cyst and sharing the same living space with 40 patients and who were operated on between 2007 and 2011 were included in the study.
Objective: Hydatid cyst disease is a parasitic disease caused by the tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus. This disease may cause atypical clinical and radiological features and complications that cause difficulties in diagnosis. Misdiagnoses may result in delay in treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Should videothorascopic surgery be the first choice in isolated traumatic hemothorax? A prospective randomized controlled study].
Ulus Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg
March 2011
Background: In this study, patients with hemothorax due to blunt or penetrating thorax trauma and treated by tube thoracostomy were compared with the patients treated by videothoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in order to determine whether VATS can be the first choice in treatment.
Methods: Sixty patients with hemothorax due to trauma were examined prospectively. Thirty patients with isolated hemothorax and treated by tube thoracostomy were classified as Group I (50%), and 30 patients treated by VATS were classified as Group II (50%).
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for malignant pleural effusions.
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev
August 2011
Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in the diagnosis and treatment of malignant pleural effusions (MPE) and to assess the results and complications of the procedure.
Methods: A total of 61 patients with the diagnosis of malignant pleural effusion were assessed retrospectively between 2004 - 2010, 25 women (40.9%) and 36 men (59.
Background: Although the incidence has declined over the past years in societies with high socioeconomic status, bronchiectasis is still an important health problem in our country.
Aim: To review and present our cases undergoing surgery for bronchiectasis in the past 12 years and their early and late term postoperative outcomes and our experience in bronchiectasis surgery and the effect of morphological type on the prognosis.
Methods: The medical records of 62 cases undergoing surgical resection for bronchiectasis in the Clinics of Thoracic and Pediatric Surgery were evaluated retrospectively.
Some mineral, trace element and heavy metal concentrations in lung cancer.
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev
October 2011
Objective: We aimed to determine the relationship between some mineral, trace element and heavy metal levels in the patients of lung cancer by measuring serum levels of copper (Cu), lead (Pb), zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), cadmium (Cd), manganese (Mn), magnesium (Mg).
Methods: A total of 50 lung cancer and human health (30 lung cancer and 20 healthy human) were included in the study. Venous blood samples of each lung cancer were obtained, and serum Cu, Pb, Zn, Fe, Cd, Co, Mn, Mg levels were analysed by Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer measurements.
Erythrocyte catalase and carbonic anhydrase activities in lung cancer.
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev
October 2011
Aim: To study the relationship between the pathogenesis of lung cancer and antioxidant status and acidic media by measuring the activities of erythrocyte catalase (CAT) and carbonic anhydrase (CA).
Methods: A total of 26 patients with lung cancer and 15 healthy individuals were included in the study. The CAT and CA activities of erythrocytes were defined.
Objective: Increase in reactive oxygen metabolites (ROM) and free radicals is an important cause of cell injury. In this study, we investigated whether determination of ROM in pleural fluids of patients with malignant and non-malignant pleural effusions can be used as a tumor marker indicating malignant effusions in the differential diagnosis.
Methods: Sixty subjects with exudative pleural effusion and 25 healthy individuals as the control group were included in the study.