Publications by authors named "Ferda Selcuk"

Objectives: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative progressive disease of central nervous system that mostly affects young adults. (1) Because of involvement of spinal cord and brain, lower urinary dysfunction symptoms are commonly encountered. MS patients mostly show overactive bladder symptoms like urgency, frequent daytime urination, and urgency incontinence.

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Background: Vaccination is an efficient strategy to control the COVID-19 pandemic. In north Cyprus, vaccine distribution started with CoronaVac followed by BNT162b2, and ChAdOx1 vaccines. An option to obtain a third booster dose with BNT162b2 or CoronaVac was later offered to people fully inoculated with CoronaVac.

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Clinical pilates exercises have been shown to improve balance. Our study aims to compare effects of clinical Pilates and conventional physiotherapy exercises on balance and postural control in Parkinson's disease patients. Forty patients were randomly assigned into either clinical Pilates (CLP) or conventional physiotherapy (COP) group.

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The aim of the present report is to show the effects of a clinical pilates-based physiotherapy training program on physical functioning, including balance ability, flexibility, muscle strength, and pain severity in a case with Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS). A 43-year-old female with a 3-year history of SPS participated in the study. Clinical pilates training exercises were performed two times per week during 8 weeks.

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The aim of this study was to evaluate respiratory muscle strength, respiratory functions and quality of life in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and compare the results with the healthy volunteers. The study included a group of 24 patients diagnosed with MS (16 women, 8 men) with an EDSS score of ≤ 5, who were without clinical respiratory impairment. MS patients were compared with the healthy volunteer group (16 women, 8 men).

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Background: We present the case of a 65-year-old female with sudden-onset involuntary mouth opening, deviation of the jaw, facial grimacing, and tongue movements that started 6 months prior to her admission.

Case Report: She was diagnosed with oromandibular dystonia. Differential diagnosis of oromandibular dystonia and various etiologies were investigated.

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Patient: Female, 47 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Traumatic bilateral abducens • unilateral hypoglossal nerve palsy

Symptoms: Diplopia Medication: - Clinical Procedure: - Specialty: Neurology Objective: Rare disease.

Background: Incidence of unilateral abducens palsy from head trauma has been reported to be as high as 1% to 2.7%, but bilateral abducens nerve palsy is extremely rare.

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Miller Fisher Syndrome is characterised by the classical triad of ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, and areflexia. Ophthalmoparesis without ataxia, without areflexia, or with neither have been attributed as atypical forms of MFS. We report two patients with MFS who had tonic pupils and raised anti-GQ1b antibody titres.

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Brucellosis is an endemic zoonotic disease in which neurobrucellosis occurs in 5-10% of cases. Variable clinical and radiological manifestations of neurobrucellosis can mimic those of other diseases. In this report, we present unusual clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in a patient with neurobrucellosis and unilateral abducens nerve palsy.

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