Comparison of Shoulder-Arm Complex Pain, Function, and Scapular Dyskinesia in Women With and Without Unilateral Lymphedema After Breast Cancer Surgery.

Introduction: Lymphedema is the most important complication seen after breast cancer surgery. The study aimed to evaluate pain, shoulder-arm complex function, and scapular function in women who developed lymphedema after breast cancer surgery and to compare these with women without lymphedema.

Materials And Methods: Fifty women with lymphedema (age, 54.

Role of intermittent pneumatic compression in the treatment of breast cancer-related lymphoedema: a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: To evaluate the role of intermittent pneumatic compression in the treatment of breast cancer-related lymphoedema.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Physical medicine and rehabilitation clinic at a university hospital.

Effects of deep heating provided by therapeutic ultrasound on demyelinating nerves.

[Purpose] Physiotherapeutic heating agents are classified into two groups: superficial-heating agents and deep-heating agents. Therapeutic ultrasound is a deep-heating agent used to treat various musculosketal disorders. Numerous studies have attempted to determine the impact of ultrasound on healthy nerve conduction parameters.

[Sleep quality in patients with ankylosing spondylitis].

Introduction: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic, inflammatory rheumatic disease characterized by the inflammation of the pelvis and spine that results in a restriction in the mobility of the spine. Due to the altered posture and nocturnal inflammatory pain, sleep disturbances are likely to occur in patients with AS.

Objective: This cross-sectional study aimed at determining the differences between the patients with AS and healthy controls in sleep quality, as well as assessing the relationship between the sleep quality and disease activity.

Plantar pressure distribution in patients with ankylosing spondylitis.

Background: Ankylosing spondylitis is one of the most common inflammatory rheumatic diseases and is associated with alterations in posture. The aim of this study was to investigate the pedobarographic changes among ankylosing spondylitis patients, in an attempt to understand whether the alterations in the posture affect the plantar pressure distribution.

Methods: The study population consisted of 38 patients with ankylosing spondylitis and 33 healthy volunteers.

Is magnetotherapy applied to bilateral hips effective in ankylosing spondylitis patients? A randomized, double-blind, controlled study.

This double-blind, randomized controlled study was conducted with the aim to investigate the effect of magnetic field therapy applied to the hip region on clinical and functional status in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients. Patients with AS (n = 66) who were diagnosed according to modified New York criteria were enrolled in this study. Patients were randomly divided in two groups.

Frequency of Early-Stage Lymphedema and Risk Factors in Postoperative Patients with Breast Cancer.

Objective: Lymphedema is a chronic major complication that is seen frequently post-operatively and has negative effects on quality of life. In our study, determining the early-stage postoperative lymphedema frequency and specifying the risk factors in its development has been aimed.

Materials And Methods: One hundred one cases that were operated on for breast cancer were evaluated regarding the 12-month control of their clinical specifications, histopathological specifications, and specifications related with the surgical intervention retrospectively.

Antioxidant status in patients with osteoporosis: a controlled study.

Objective: We aimed to investigate serum antioxidant enzymes and nitric oxide (NO) levels in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis (OP) and in healthy controls; and to determine the relationship between these enzymes, NO and clinical parameters in this present study.

Methods: Forty-five postmenopausal women fulfilling OP diagnostic criteria of World Health Organization (WHO) and 42 postmenopausal healthy women without OP were enrolled. Patients in the study population were selected among individuals that were not pre-diagnosed or pre-treated for OP.

Angio-oedema in a patient treated with etanercept for rheumatoid arthritis.

In the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, specific drugs targeting disease-related proinflammatory cytokines such as tumour necrosis factor-alpha have been observed to show a positive impact on the clinical course of the disease. One of these drugs, etanercept, is a recombinant soluble fusion protein of tumour necrosis factor-alpha type 2 receptor. Although it has many well-established side effects, up to date there has not been any report of angio-oedema in the literature.

Serum antioxidants and nitric oxide levels in fibromyalgia: a controlled study.

We proposed to assess antioxidant status and nitric oxide in fibromyalgia (FM) patients in comparison to healthy controls. Additionally, the association between the serum antioxidant levels and clinical findings in FM patients was also investigated. Thirty-seven FM patients and 37 healthy controls were enrolled in this study.

The relationship between serum trace element levels and clinical parameters in patients with fibromyalgia.

We examined the association between serum trace elements and clinical findings such as number of sensitive tender points, severity of fatigue and functional status in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). Thirty-two patients diagnosed as having FM according to the ACR 1990 criteria and 32 normal healthy controls (NHC) were included in this study. The demographic data, disease duration, number of tender points and accompanying symptoms (fatigue, sleep disorders, headache, paresthesia, irritable bowel syndrome, sicca symptoms, Raynaud's phenomena) of the patients were noted.