Publications by authors named "F Ture-Ozdemir"
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to explore the connection between activity impairment and salivary gland involvement in patients with primary Sjogren's syndrome (pSS) to enhance patient empowerment.
- - Involving 86 pSS patients, researchers collected data using various questionnaires and clinical exams to analyze relationships using mediation and moderation methods.
- - Results showed that higher dryness and oral health scores were linked to greater activity impairment, with fatigue and pain levels further influencing this relationship, particularly in patients without saliva reduction.
A higher incidence of gastrointestinal diseases has been well established in patients with rosacea. However, no screening tool has been introduced for gastrointestinal disease development in rosacea. Fecal calprotectin (FC) is a calcium-binding protein, mainly derived from polymorpho-nuclear cells, such as neutrophils.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction And Objectives: A crucial issue when appraising the performance of non-invasive markers is the limitations of the reference standard they are compared to. Digital image analysis (DIA) was suggested as a reproducible approach expressing fibrosis numerically as a proportionate area (PA) (%). We aimed to evaluate ELF test with direct reference to PA (%), thereby explore the improvement in accuracy to discriminate significant fibrosis which may actually have been underestimated by categorical pathological staging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To evaluate associations between salivary gland ultrasonography (SGUS) and clinical characteristics, disease activity and outcome in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS).
Methods: The parotid and submandibular salivary glands were examined by ultrasonography using two different scoring systems proposed by Hocevar et al. and Milic et al.
Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the dynamics of pentraxin 3 (PTX3) compared with procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) in patients with suspicion of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).
Materials And Methods: We designed a nested case-control study. This study was performed in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit of a tertiary care academic university and teaching hospital.