Effects of Orange Oil Aromatherapy on Pain and Anxiety During Invasive Interventions in Patients With Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplants.

Invasive interventions, such as peripheral intravenous cannula, port needle placement, and blood collection, are often required for both inpatient and outpatient follow-up patients with hematological malignancies and hematopoietic stem cell transplants. This prospective, randomized controlled experimental study assessed the effect of orange oil inhalation used in aromatherapy on pain and anxiety levels in invasive interventions with hematological malignancies and hematopoietic stem cell transplants. It was conducted prospectively with 80 patients with hematological malignancies who were treated in the adult bone marrow transplant unit and adult hematology service of a private hospital between May 2021 and April 2022.

The effect of climatic and seasonal factors on the microbial keratitis profile.

Purpose: To compare retrospective data on microbial keratitis (MK) from two different climatic regions in Turkey over 11 years.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included patients diagnosed with presumed MK at two referral centers.

The Radiation Dose Absorbed by Healthy Parenchyma Is a Predictor for the Rate of Contralateral Hypertrophy After Unilobar Radioembolization of the Right Liver.

Purpose: To investigate the predictors of contralateral hypertrophy in patients treated with unilobar transarterial radioembolization (TARE) with yttrium-90-loaded resin microspheres due to unresectable right-liver tumors.

Methods: Patients who underwent right unilobar TARE with resin microspheres between May 2019 and September 2021 were screened retrospectively. Contralateral hypertrophy was evaluated by calculating the kinetic growth rate (KGR) in 8-10 weeks after TARE.

gsem: A Stata command for parametric joint modelling of longitudinal and accelerated failure time models.

Background: The number of studies using joint modelling of longitudinal and survival data have increased in the past two decades, but analytical techniques and software shortcomings have remained. A joint model is often used for analysis of a combination of longitudinal sub-model and survival sub-model using shared random effects. Cox regression commonly referring to the survival sub-model, should not be used when proportional hazards assumptions are not satisfied.

White-matter changes in early and late stages of mild cognitive impairment.

Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is characterized by cognitive deficits that exceed age-related decline, but not interfering with daily living activities. Amnestic type of the disorder (aMCI) is known to have a high risk to progress to Alzheimer's Disease (AD), the most common type of dementia. Identification of very early structural changes in the brain related to the cognitive decline in MCI patients would further contribute to the understanding of the dementias.