Predictive value of qsofa in early mortality risk stratification in acute pulmonary embolism.

Background: Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index (PESI) and simplified PESI (sPESI) methods are used in the evaluation of patients with suspected acute pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE).

Objectives: This study aimed to provide a rapid mortality risk stratification in patients with acute pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) immediately after admission without relying on laboratory data by using quick sequential organ failure assessment (qSOFA), a three-parameter scoring system with proven efficiency used for swift prediction of organ dysfunction, and compare it with Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index (PESI) and simplified PESI (sPESI).

Methods: This study included outpatients and inpatients diagnosed with acute PTE in our clinic and whose PESI, sPESI and qSOFA scores were calculated for early mortality risk classification.

Effect of tocilizumab on intensive care patients with Covid-19 pneumonia, a retrospective cohort study.

Background: In this study, the efficacy of an IL-6 antagonist, Tocilizumab, administered in the early period was studied in intensive care patients with COVID-19 pneumonia followed by hypoxic and systemic inflammation not receiving mechanical ventilation support.

Methods: Patients with COVID-19 pneumonia who have signs of hypoxia and systemic inflammation and/or who have acute bilateral infiltrates on chest radiograph and who received tocilizumab treatment were compared with the patients who received standard medical therapy. Patients who were followed up with COVID-19 pneumonia and respiratory failure between March 2020 and March 2021 were retrospectively evaluated in the study.

Diagnostic Value of Radiographic Characteristics of Mediastinal and Hilar Lymph Nodes in Sarcoidosis.

Objective: In this study, it was aimed to investigate the diagnostic value of thorax computed tomography, which is a non-invasive method, in diagnosing sarcoidosis.

Materials And Methods: In our Faculty of Medicine, Department of Chest Diseases between January 1, 2013, and July 1, 2019, the data of 816 patients who underwent endobronchial ultrasonography for mediastinal lymph node sampling and other sampling methods, such as mediastinoscopy, thoracotomy, etc., if the histopathological diagnosis could not be reached, were retrospectively screened and 192 patients (sarcoidosis: 62, non-sarcoidosis: 130 patients) who met the inclusion criteria were included in the study.

Fungal culture results and clinical effects of bronchoscopy specimens.

Introduction: Early isolation of the fungal pathogen and early initiation of treatment affect mortality and morbidity rates. The purpose of this study was to reveal the frequency of determination of fungal pathogens in bronchoscopy unit patients.

Materials And Methods: The study was designed retrospectively.

[The cost of pulmonary thromboembolism treatment].

Introduction: Primary aim of this study is to determine the financial burden of Vitamin K Antagonists (VKA), low molecular weight heparins (LMWH) and new oral anticoagulants (NOAC) which are used in the treatment of the pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE). Secondary aim is to show long term complications of the treatment options.

Materials And Methods: The patients who are diagnosed with PTE between May 2016 and March 2018 at Faculty of Medicine Karadeniz Technical University Hospital were observed prospectively.

Can artificial intelligence distinguish between malignant and benign mediastinal lymph nodes using sonographic features on EBUS images?

Aims: This study aimed to develop a new intelligent diagnostic approach using an artificial neural network (ANN). Moreover, we investigated whether the learning-method-guided quantitative analysis approach adequately described mediastinal lymphadenopathies on endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) images.

Methods: In total, 345 lymph nodes (LNs) from 345 EBUS images were used as source input datasets for the application group.

Prognostic value of red cell distribution width and echocardiographic parameters in patients with pulmonary embolism.

Introduction: Pulmonary embolism (PTE) is a common cardiovascular emergency. We aimed to predict mortality in the acute phase and to assess the development of pulmonary hypertension in the chronic period with the combined use of red cell distribution width (RDW) and echocardiography (ECHO) for the prognosis of PTE.

Material And Methods: Cases diagnosed with acute PTE were prospectively monitored in our clinic.

Syncope as a subject of the risk assessment of pulmonary thromboembolism to be used for: A cross-sectional study.

Introduction: Syncope is infrequent in pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) yet might be indicative of haemodynamic instability. The prognostic role of syncope in PTE has not been well documented.

Objectives: In this study, the association between risk classification of the European Society of Cardiology and syncope was investigated in the normotensive PTE patients.

Does the Incidence and Mortality of Pulmonary Thromboembolism Change Over the Years?

Objectives: In the last 20 years, with the use of computed tomography (CT) angiography, the number of patients diagnosed with pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) has increased. At the same time, data show that pulmonary embolism mortality has also reduced in this duration.

Material And Methods: In this study, we analyzed records of patients with PTE (using ICD's) in the hospital automation system from 2001 to 2013.

[Bilateral total lung lavage in a patient with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis].

Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare pulmonary disease characterised by alveolar accumulation of surfactant composed of proteins and lipids. Three main categories of PAP have been defined depending on the aetiology: primer/idiopathic, neonatal/congenital, secondary and exogenous/environmental exposure. Radiologically diffuse ground glass opacities, interlobular and intralobular septal thickening is seen.

Prognostic Value of Uric Acid for Pulmonary Thromboembolism.

Background: Pulmonary thromboembolism is a serious cardiovascular condition with considerable morbidity and mortality. Clinical studies have indicated that hyperuricemia is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular events. The aim of this study was to investigate possible value of the serum levels of uric acid (UA) in predicting 30-d pulmonary thromboembolism-related mortality.

Diagnostic value of suPAR in differentiating noncardiac pleural effusions from cardiac pleural effusions.

Introduction: Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) is a newly discovered inflammatory biomarker. suPAR has not been previously studied in differentiating noncardiac pleural effusion (PF) from cardiac PF. The aim of our study was to assess the diagnostic value of suPAR in PF.

Prognostic value of red cell distribution width in patients with sarcoidosis.

Background: Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous disorder of unknown etiology. There are no data on the indications for specific tests or optimal frequency for monitoring of the disease activity in sarcoidosis.

Methods: Complete blood counts, demographics and pulmonary function data from sarcoidosis patients evaluated between 2006 and 2012 were collated retrospectively.

Predictive value of troponins and simplified pulmonary embolism severity index in patients with normotensive pulmonary embolism.

Background: To investigate whether 2 cardiac troponins [conventional troponin-T(cTnT) and high sensitive troponin-T(hsTnT)] combined with simplified pulmonary embolism severity index (sPESI), or either test alone are useful for predicting 30-day mortality and 6 months adverse outcomes in patients with normotensive pulmonary embolism(PE).

Methods: The prospective study included 121 consecutive patients with normotensive PE confirmed by computerized tomographic(CT) pulmonary angiography. The primary end point of the study was the 30-day all-cause mortality.

General Characteristics and Prognostic Factors of Pneumonia Cases Developed During Pandemic (H1N1) Influenza-A Virus Infection in Turkey.

Objective: Unlike seasonal influenza, seen in previous years, the strain identified in the 2009 influenza-A pandemic involved high mortality. In this study, prognostic factors and general characteristics of pneumonia cases developed in Turkey during the H1N1 pandemic between October 2009 and January 2010 were analyzed.

Study Design: Multicenter retrospective study.

Adult inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the trachea: case report and literature review.

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the trachea is a rare benign tumor in adults. It is mostly seen before the age of 16. We describe a 20-year-old female patient who presented with stridor.

Relationship between cardiac troponin-T and right ventricular Tei index in patients with hemodynamically stable pulmonary embolism: an observational study.

Objective: The role of increased troponin level in risk stratification of acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is well documented. However, relation between right ventricular (RV) myocardial performance (Tei) index and cardiac troponin-T (cTn-T) has not been well investigated. The purpose of this observational prospective study was to assess the relationship between the RV Tei index and cTn-T in patients with acute normotensive PE.

Predictive factors for fatality in pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infected patients.

Objective: To determine predictive fatality criteria based on clinical and laboratory findings on admission to hospital in patients diagnosed with pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection.

Methods: The study was conducted at the School of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey. Demographic, clinical, and laboratory data for hospitalized cases with a diagnosis of A (H1N1) virus infection between October 2009 and May 2010 were analyzed retrospectively.

[Fondaparinux treatment in heparin induced thrombocytopenia:a case report].

Heparin induced thrombocytopenia is a serious complication of heparin therapy that has a high levels of morbidity and mortality due to thrombotic complications. Heparin induced thrombocytopenia usually develops between days 5 and 14 (inclusive) following initiation of heparin. When heparin induced thrombocytopenia is suspected, heparin should be discontinued and treatment with a direct thrombin inhibitor should be initiated.

Prognostic significance of PaO2/PaCO2 ratio in normotensive patients with pulmonary embolism.

Introduction: Risk stratification remains controversial in patients with normotensive pulmonary embolism (PE). The debate has recently focused right ventricular dysfunction detected by echocardiography or spiral computed tomography (CT) and cardiac biomarkers.

Objectives: The utility of the PaO(2)/PaCO(2) ratio to predict the short-term prognosis of PE is not currently known and that is the aim of the present study.

C-reactive protein alone or combined with cardiac troponin T for risk stratification of respiratory intensive care unit patients.

Background: Mortality is high among patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs). Several prognostic markers have been described in such patients, but the literature contains no data comparing C-reactive protein (CRP) and cardiac troponin T (cTn-T), nor of a combination of CRP and cTn-T in the same patient group in the ICU.

Methods: This was a retrospective electronic data review of patients who presented to the emergency department for respiratory reasons between December 2007 and December 2009 and in whom CRP and cTn-T levels were measured.

Effect of early or delayed administration of warfarin with heparin on thrombosis in pulmonary thromboembolism.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of early or delayed warfarin administration with unfractionated heparin (UFH) on coagulation parameters in pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE).

Patients And Methods: This study was performed between November 2006 and July 2007. Thirty-three patients with PTE were sequentially slotted to early (n = 16) and delayed (n = 17) warfarin treatment groups.

Cloninger's temperament and character dimension of personality in patients with asthma.

Objective: Psychosocial factors have been implicated as being important in the onset and/or exacerbation of asthma. This study was performed to evaluate the personality profiles of asthma patients.

Method: Ninety-five asthmatic, 98 psoriatic patients, and 96 healthy controls completed the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI).