Evaluation of clinical features and laboratory findings in critical intensive care unit patients with severe coronavirus disease-19 who underwent extracorporeal cytokine adsorption.

Aim: To evaluate the inflammatory parameters and oxygenation in severe coronavirus disease-19 patients who underwent extracorporeal cytokine adsorption (CA).

Methods: Patients who underwent extracorporeal CA for cytokine storm were included in the study. The changes in oxygenation, laboratory parameters, and mortality rates were investigated.

Relationship of Gamma-glutamyl Transferase Levels at Diagnosis with Clinicopathological Features in idiopathic IgA Nephropathy.

Objective: To compare clinicopathologic features of idiopathic IgA nephropathy in terms of serum gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) levels.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Department of Nephrology and Department of Pathology, Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, from January 2010 to January 2021.

Can mean platelet volume predicts renal outcome in acute on chronic kidney disease?

Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the role of mean platelet volume (MPV) in predicting renal outcome in acute kidney injury (AKI) developing on pre-existing chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Methods: The patients whose first hemodialysis program was initiated in our center were divided into two groups as those who were taken to the scheduled dialysis program after discharge and those who were not dialysis-dependent. Groups were compared in terms of demographic characteristics, and laboratory parameters including MPV.

Can Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII) be a prognostic factor of Bell's palsy patients?

Objective: Recent studies showed that the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and that platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) can be used as inflammatory markers in Bell's palsy. In this study, the aim is to investigate a novel inflammatory index, the Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII), defined as SII = platelets × neutrophils/lymphocytes, in Bell's palsy patients.

Study Design: Retrospective.