[Multicentric Screening of Local Antibiotic Resistance in Uncomplicated Urinary System Infections: 1850 Patients from 37 Centers].

This study was aimed to identify the most frequently observed pathogens in uncomplicated urinary tract infections from outpatient urinary isolates obtained across seven different geographical regions in Türkiye and to determine whether the antibiotic resistance rates of these pathogens differ significantly between these regions. The study included patients aged 18 to 65 years who were diagnosed with uncomplicated urinary tract infections and had positive urine cultures from March 2021 to August 2022, across 37 different centers in Türkiye. The participating centers were selected based on their use of the disk diffusion method, in line with the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST) guidelines, to ensure standardization of urine culture data.

Comparison of the postoperative effects of the erector spinae plane block and local infiltration analgesia in patients operated with lumbotomy surgery incision: Randomized clinical study.

Background: Our aim was to observe the effects of local infiltration analgesia (LIA) or erector spinae plane block (ESPB) methods, which we applied preemptively in patients who were scheduled for surgery with a lumbotomy surgical incision and on intraoperative remifentanil consumption, and to compare the postoperative numerical rating scale (NRS), morphine demand, consumption, and pain degrees.

Methods: Sixty American Society of Anesthesiologists I to III patients aged 18 to 75 years who were due to be operated on with a lumbotomy surgical incision were included in the study. The present study was conducted via prospective, randomized controlled, double-blind trials.

Ribosome-binding protein-1 (RRBP1) expression in prostate carcinomas and its relationship with clinicopathological prognostic factors.

Introduction: Studies in recent years have shown that ribosome-binding protein-1 (RRBP1) is expressed at high rates in many cancers and that it may be a potential prognostic biomarker. The objective of the present study is to determine the RRBP1 expression level in prostatic carcinoma and neighboring non-neoplastic prostate tissue, the relationship between its expression level with prognostic factors, and the role of RRBP1 in the development of prostate cancer.

Materials And Methods: The study included 45 patients who were diagnosed with prostatic carcinoma and underwent radical prostatectomy in our center between the years 2010 and 2021.

Testes Parenchymal Shear Wave Elastography Findings in Varicocele.

Objective: To investigate the testicular parenchymal changes in patients with varicocele using shear wave elastography (SWE).

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Department of Radiology, Hatay Mustafa Kemal, School of Medicine, Hatay, Turkey, between June and August 2021.

Elastographic evaluation of the effect of sickle cell anemia on testicles: a prospective study.

To quantitatively determine testicular tissue stiffness values using shear wave elastography (SWE) in males that have sickle cell anemia (SCA) and to evaluate the relationship between elastography results and semen analysis parameters and hormone levels. Fifty patients diagnosed with SCA and followed up in the hematology outpatient clinic were evaluated in the urology outpatient clinic as the study group. In addition, there were 88 patients without any SCA-related complaints in the control group.

A novel enema method can prevent infectious complications of transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy: A single-centre experience.

Background: TRUS biopsy is the preferred method for diagnosing prostate cancer, but it can cause infectious complications that arise with the contribution of fluoroquinolone resistance. We aimed to explore the potential protective effect of a second rectal enema before biopsy.

Methods: From January 2015 to December 2020, 419 patients were assessed retrospectively.

Bariatric surgery has positive effects on patients' and their partners' sexual function: A prospective study.

Background: Obesity has been associated with severe conditions and sexual dysfunction. Bariatric surgery has effects positively patients' sexual function.

Objectives: To assess the effect of bariatric surgery on sexual functions of couples.

Glomerular hyperfiltration in hypogonadotropic hypogonadic patients: Overlooking a cache?

Purpose: To investigate renal function in idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadic (IHH) patients by measuring glomerular filtration rate (GFR) using modification of diet in renal disease formula, and determine whether there is any relationship between GFR and testosterone levels.

Methods: Thirty-three patients with IHH and 37 healthy control subjects participated in this study.

Results: The IHH group showed statistically significant higher GFR and proteinuria with respect to the control group (163.

EEG abnormalities during treatment with tadalafil, a phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor.

Objective: Tadalafil is a selective phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE-5) inhibitor approved for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. Less is known about the electroencephalography (EEG) effects of PDE-5 inhibitors, and the present study, therefore, examined the risk of EEG abnormalities associated with tadalafil.

Method: EEG recordings from 35 erectile dysfunction patients taking tadalafil (20 mg) were graded for severity of EEG abnormalities (at admission, 2 and 48 hours after tadalafil administration).

Preventive effect of rolipram, a phosphodiesterase 4 enzyme inhibitor, on oxidative renal injury in acute ascending pyelonephritis model in rats.

Objectives: To evaluate the effects of rolipram, a phosphodiesterase 4 enzyme inhibitor, on Escherichia coli-induced renal oxidative damage in an acute pyelonephritis (PYN) rat model.

Methods: A total of 35 male Wistar albino rats were randomly divided into 7 groups (n = 5) as follows: control (uninfected), PYN 24 hours, PYN 48 hours, PYN 72 hours, PYN + rolipram 24 hours, PYN + rolipram 48 hours, and PYN + rolipram 72 hours. Ascending PYN was induced in the study groups by E.

Long-term effect of varicocele repair on intratesticular arterial resistance index.

Purpose: To investigate the long-term effect of varicocele repair on ipsilateral intratesticular arterial resistance index (RI) using color Doppler sonography (CDS).

Methods: A total of 26 infertile patients with left varicocele who underwent a testicular artery and lymphatic-sparing subinguinal varicocelectomy were examined with CDS for intratesticular flow parameters before and at least 6 months after surgery. We also evaluated preoperative and postoperative semen parameters.

The analgesic efficacy of preoperative versus postoperative lornoxicam in varicocele repair.

Study Objective: To determine whether intravenous injection of lornoxicam 30 minutes before skin incision provides better pain relief after varicocelectomy than postoperative administration of lornoxicam.

Design: Prospective, double-blind, randomized clinical investigation.

Setting: Operating room and postoperative recovery area.

Periprostatic nerve blockage reduces postoperative analgesic consumption and pain scores of patients undergoing transurethral prostate resection.

Introduction: To evaluate the effects of periprostatic bupivacaine administration on pain control and analgesic consumption after transurethral prostate resection (TURP).

Materials And Methods: The study included 40 male patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia who underwent TURP, and they were divided randomly into two groups. All patients were operated under general anesthesia.

Incidence of the retroaortic left renal vein in patients with varicocele.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence of the retroaortic left renal vein (RLRV) in patients with varicocele.

Methods: The left renal vein was ultrasonographically investigated for the presence of the RLRV in 140 patients with varicocele and a control group of 137 age-matched patients. The main diagnostic criteria for varicocele were the presence of a varicose vein with a diameter of 3 mm or larger at rest and with a reflux lasting more than 2 seconds during the Valsalva maneuver.

Protective effects of caffeic acid phenethyl ester, vitamin C, vitamin E and N-acetylcysteine on vancomycin-induced nephrotoxicity in rats.

The objective of this study was to compare the beneficial effects of caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE), vitamin C, vitamin E and N-acetylcysteine on vancomycin-induced nephrotoxicity. Thirty rats were randomly devided into six groups: (i) control; (ii) vancomycin, 200 mg/kg administrated via intraperitoneal route; (iii) vancomycin plus CAPE-vancomycin with 10 micromol/kg CAPE; (iv) vancomycin plus vitamin C-vancomycin (intraperitoneally) with 200 mg/dl vitamin C in drinking water; (v) vancomycin plus vitamin E-vancomycin with 1000 mg/kg body weight vitamin E (intramuscularly); and (vi) vancomycin plus N-acetylcysteine-vancomycin with 10 mg/kg body weight (intraperitoneally) of N-acetylcysteine. Vancomycin treatments were started 1 day after the first administrations of these agents and continued for 7 days.

Caffeic acid phenethyl ester suppresses oxidative stress in Escherichia coli-induced pyelonephritis in rats.

Although oxidative damage is known to be involved in inflammatory-mediated tissue destruction, modulation of oxygen free radical production represents a new approach to the treatment of inflammatory diseases. Caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE), an active component of propolis from honeybee hives, has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. For that reason, we aimed to investigate the efficiency of CAPE administration in preventing oxidative damage in pyelonephritis (PYN) caused by Escherichia coli.

Effect of 1-deamino 8-D-arginine vasopressin spray on nasal cytology and mucociliary clearance in patients with nocturnal enuresis.

Objective: To determine any possible adverse effect of 1-deamino 8-D-arginine vasopressin (DDAVP) spray on nasal cytology and mucociliary clearance in patients with nocturnal enuresis.

Methods: Twenty-two children aged 6-16 enrolled in the study. Epithelial surface cells samples were taken from the nasal mucosa and mucociliary clearance time was calculated before and 1 and 6 months after administration of DDAVP spray.

The effect of caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE) on histopathological changes in testicular ischemia-reperfusion injury.

Testicular torsion causes an enhanced formation of reactive oxygen species which contributes to the pathophysiology of ischemia-reperfusion injury in the testis. We evaluated here the effect of caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE), a new antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent on histopathological changes in testicular ischemia-reperfusion injury. Adult male Wistar rats were divided into six groups of five each: control group 1 (n=5), sham operation group 2 (n=5), torsion/detorsion (T/D) group 3 (n=5), T/D+saline group 4 (n=5), T/D+CAPE group 5 (n=5) and T/D+CAPE group 6 (n=5).

A comparison of four different alpha1-blockers in benign prostatic hyperplasia patients with and without diabetes.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the intensity of lower urinary tract symptoms in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) with and without diabetes. We also determined whether alpha1-blockers improve subjective and objective symptoms similarly in these patients.

Material And Methods: The study subjects comprised 281 patients (60 with diabetes and 221 non-diabetics with clinically diagnosed BPH) who were treated with alpha1-blockers (doxazosin, terazosin, alfuzosin and tamsulosin).

Protective effect of L-carnitine on renal ischaemia-reperfusion injury in the rat.

This study was designed to investigate the effect of L-carnitine in ischaemia and reperfusion of the rat kidney. Rats were randomly allocated into three groups. Group I (control group; n = 6) received no treatment.