Does contrast media volume affect long-term survival in patients with chronic kidney disease?

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between survival and related features in patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing cardiac catheterization and coronary angiography.

Material And Methods: Three hundred and seven consecutive patients with an estimated glomerular filtration rate (e-GFR) less than 60 ml/min/1.73 m undergoing coronary angiography were enrolled in the study.

Lenalidomide Induced Late-Onset Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

A 77-year-old man with multiple myeloma (MM) presented with shortness of breath to the emergency department. He also had history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic pulmonary embolism and nephrectomy due to malignancy 10 years ago. He had been treated for 9 months with lenalidomide because of MM.

Is this a simple drug eruption to be discharged?

'Erythema Multiforme associated with Phenytoin And Cranial radiation Therapy' (EMPACT) is a very rare clinic situation and classified in EM-like drug reactions. It can be easily misdiagnosed as acute urticaria or drug eruption in ED. Initial symptoms may resemble a simple skin problem, but diagnosing and early hospitalization of the patients can be lifesaving.

Treatment in carbon monoxide poisoning patients with headache: a prospective, multicenter, double-blind, controlled clinical trial.

Background: There is a lack of specificity of the analgesic agents used to treat headache and underlying acute carbon monoxide poisoning.

Objective: To compare effectiveness of "oxygen alone" vs "metoclopramide plus oxygen" vs "metamizole plus oxygen" therapy in treating carbon monoxide-induced headache.

Design: A prospective, multicenter, double-blind, controlled trial.

A Review of Melatonin, Its Receptors and Drugs.

After a Turkish scientist took Nobel Prize due to his contributions to understand clock genes, melatonin, closely related to these genes, may begin to shine. Melatonin, a hormone secreted from the pineal gland at night, plays roles in regulating sleep-wake cycle, pubertal development and seasonal adaptation. Melatonin has antinociceptive, antidepressant, anxiolytic, antineophobic, locomotor activity-regulating, neuroprotective, anti-inflammatory, pain-modulating, blood pressure-reducing, retinal, vascular, anti-tumor and antioxidant effects.

Characteristics of Patients Who Admitted to the Emergency Department Because of Burns Due to Dens Liquids Such as Hot Milk/Oil.

Objective: Burn is the tissue damage on body caused due to various reasons. Although all burns caused by hot liquids are investigated as scalding burns, dense liquid burns (DLB) caused by such as milk and oil are different from other burns. The aim of this study was to report the properties of DLB.

Comparison of Intravenous Morphine Versus Paracetamol in Sciatica: A Randomized Placebo Controlled Trial.

Objective: The objective was to compare intravenous morphine and intravenous acetaminophen (paracetamol) for pain treatment in patients presenting to the emergency department with sciatica.

Methods: Patients, between the ages of 21 and 65 years, suffering from pain in the sciatic nerve distribution and a positive straight leg-raise test composed the study population. Study patients were assigned to one of three intravenous interventions: morphine (0.

Diagnosing isolated nasal fractures in the emergency department: are they missed or overdiagnosed? Ten years experience of 535 forensic cases.

Aim: Nasal bone is the most common broken bone of the face. Incorrect assessments of nasal trauma are frequently encountered in forensic evaluations. Here, we aimed to determine the reasons and frequency of erroneous assessments of nasal trauma in emergency department (ED).

The utility of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in Kounis syndrome.

Introduction: Current diagnostic measurements used to assess myocardial involvement in Kounis syndrome, such as electrocardiography (ECG), cardiac enzymes, and troponin levels, are relatively insensitive to small but potentially significant functional change. According to our review of the literature, there has been no study using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) on Kounis syndrome except for one case report.

Aim: To identify the findings of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (CE-MRI) in patients with Kounis syndrome (KS) type 1.

Can we distinguish stroke and stroke mimics via red cell distribution width in young patients?

Introduction: Discrimination of stroke and stroke mimics is problematic in young patients. The aim of the study was to determine whether arterial ischemic stroke and stroke mimics can be differentiated via the red cell distribution width (RDW) value in young patients.

Material And Methods: In this retrospective cross-sectional study, a total of 236 patients hospitalized at the neurology ward were investigated.

Diagnostic Accuracy of Neutrophil/Lymphocyte Ratio, Red Cell Distribution Width and Platelet Distribution Width in Ovarian Torsion.

The main aim of this diagnostic case-control study of 136 patients with ovarian cysts (44 patients with ovarian torsion and 92 controls) was to determine the diagnostic value of haematologic inflammatory markers (neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio [NLR], red cell distribution width [RDW] and platelet distribution width [PDW]) for torsioned ovarian cysts. The presence of a torsioned ovarian cyst was identified by a 1.18-fold increase in the NLR (95%CI: 1.

Spontaneous reduction of ileoileal adult intussusception after blunt abdominal injury.

This is the first case report of an adult who had spontaneous reduction of ileoileal intussusception occurred after punching to the abdomen. A 40-year-old man was brought to our emergency department by ground ambulance due to pounding and punching a few hours ago. Physical examination showed multiple dermabrasions on his face, abdomen, and lower extremities.

The role of vagal nerve root injury on respiration disturbances in subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Aim: We examined whether there is a relationship between vagal nerve root injury and the severity of respiration disorders associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH).

Material And Methods: This study was conducted on 20 rabbits. Experimental SAH was induced by injecting homologous blood into the cisterna magna.

Familial Mediterranean fever gene mutations in north-eastern part of Anatolia with special respect to rare mutations.

We aimed to determine the frequency of mutations, carrier rates and the association of rare mutations with Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) symptoms. There is a need to evaluate as many different populations as possible in order to determine either specific rare mutations or a range of disease-associated mutations. The demographic data and FMF symptoms related to MEFV gene mutations were collected from 731 participants.

Dual-source computed tomography may define cardiac contusion in patients with blunt chest trauma in ED.

We report a 20-year-old woman with blunt chest trauma because of a motor vehicle injury who has traumatic asphyxia and hypotension. The diagnosis of blunt cardiac injury was put by using dual-energy computed tomography in the emergency department because other laboratory and imaging modalities were useless. After hospitalization in intensive care unit, she was treated with supportive and antiedema therapy.

Spotted lipid sign floating on the blood to differentiate obscured open fractures from simple wound lacerations.

Open fractures are not so obvious sometimes, and in the case of multiorgan injuries, they may be misdiagnosed in emergency department. Here, we report a 48-year old man with motor vehicle crash injury. There were ominous facial, vertebral, thoracic, and abdominal injuries as well as distal femoral shaft fracture and multiple skin lacerations in different parts of the body in the initial examination.