The outcome of peripartum cardiomyopathy patients-single center experience.

Objective: Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) diagnosis made by excluding identifiable causes of heart failure (HF) and occurs end of the pregnancy or during the postpartum period of five months. It presents a clinical HF spectrum with left ventricular systolic dysfunction.

Background: The purpose of this study is to retrospectively evaluate the clinical characteristics, cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging features, and end-points consisting of left ventricle recovery, left ventricular assist device implantation, heart transplantation, and all-cause mortality.

Characteristics and Outcomes of Psychiatric Inpatients With Severe Mental Illness and COVID-19: Experience From a COVID-19-Specific Acute Psychiatric Ward in Istanbul.

Recent studies indicated that psychiatric inpatients with severe mental illness (SMI) are at a greater risk of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19. However, there is still little data about the impact of comorbid COVID-19 infection on the course and outcome of acute exacerbations in this population. We conducted a prospective historically matched case control study.

Psychiatric emergency visit trends and characteristics in a mental health epicenter in Istanbul during COVID-19 lockdown.

Background: We aimed to explore the impact of the preventive measures and partial lockdown to the psychiatric emergency department (PED) visits during COVID-19 pandemic in a mental health epicenter in Istanbul.

Methods: A total of 5839 patients admitted to PED during the lockdown period (LP) between March 30 and May 31, 2020, were enrolled in this retrospective cohort study. Data of these patients were compared to those of patients in the same period in 2019 between April 1 and June 2, 2019 (non-LP).

Surgical treatment of Ebstein anomaly in pediatric patients: A 10-year single-center study.

Objective: We report the early and long-term results of the strategies and surgical methods used in our center to treat pediatric patients who underwent surgical intervention to correct Ebstein anomaly (EA) in our center.

Materials And Methods: In our study, a consecutive sample of 29 patients who underwent surgery for EA between February 2011 and February 2020 in our center were evaluated retrospectively.

Results: The 29 patients underwent a total of 40 operations.

Seroprevalence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among health care workers from three pandemic hospitals of Turkey.

COVID-19 is a global threat with an increasing number of infections. Research on IgG seroprevalence among health care workers (HCWs) is needed to re-evaluate health policies. This study was performed in three pandemic hospitals in Istanbul and Kocaeli.

Cardiac resynchronization therapy in paediatric patients with congenital heart disease: single centre with 10 years of experience.

Objectives: In recent years, cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has also started to be performed in the paediatric and CHD population. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of CRT in children with CHD.

Patients And Methods: Patients with CHD who underwent CRT treatment in our paediatric cardiology clinic between January, 2010 and January, 2020 were included in the study.

Adverse drug reactions associated with concurrent acute psychiatric treatment and Covid-19 drug therapy.

Objective: Psychiatric patients are at increased risk of contamination, morbidity, and mortality associated with COVID-19, together with potentially more pronounced adverse effects. We present and discuss the adverse effects observed in an acute psychiatric clinic that has admitted COVID-19 patients during the first three months of the pandemic in Turkey.

Methods: The COVID-19 treatment schemes were formed in accordance with the national and regional guidelines at the time of admittance, which were mainly based on the use of hydroxychloroquine and other drugs.

The effects of Vasoactive-Ventilation-Renal score on pediatric heart surgery.

Objective: The effects of Vasoactive-Ventilation-Renal (VVR) score on the evaluation of pediatric heart surgery results were investigated in this study.

Methods: This retrospective study included children younger than 18 years of age who were operated for congenital heart disease between was July 1- December 31 2018. Patients who needed ECMO support at the first postoperative 72 hours were not included in the study group.

Short- and midterm outcomes of aortic arch reconstruction: Beating heart versus cardiac arrest.

Objectives: We aimed to compare the short- and midterm results of perfusion strategies used for arch reconstruction surgery.

Material And Methods: One hundred and seventy-three consecutive patients who underwent aortic arch reconstruction surgery for transverse arcus hypoplasia between January 2011 and February 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were divided into two groups, as beating heart (BH) group and cardiac arrest (CA) group.

Surgical Strategies and Results for Repair of Pulmonary Atresia with Ventricular Septal Defect and Major Aortopulmonary Collaterals: Experience of a Single Tertiary Center.

Objective: To evaluate surgical management and results of patients with pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect with major aortopulmonary collateral arteries (PA/VSD/MAPCAs).

Methods: We reviewed a consecutive series of patients with PA/VSD/MAPCAs between January 2012 and October 2018. Study patients were separated into Group A, efficient MAPCAs; Group B, hypoplastic MAPCAs; Group C, severe hypoplastic MAPCAs at all divisions; and Group D, distal stenosis at most MAPCAs divisions.

Predictors of a complicated course after surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot.

Background: In this study, we aimed to evaluate the patient and surgical factors affecting prolonged hospital stay and major adverse events after surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot and to identify the predictors of a complicated course after surgical repair.

Methods: A total of 170 consecutive patients (96 males, 74 females; median age 12 months; range, 1 to 192 months) who underwent surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot between January 2015 and April 2018 were retrospectively reviewed. A mechanical ventilation duration of >24 h, an intensive care unit stay of >3 days, and a hospital stay of >7 days were considered as prolonged.

Oxidant-antioxidant levels in patients with bladder tumours.

Purpose: We have aimed to determine whether oxidants-antioxidants play a role in the etiopathogenesis of bladder tumour by measuring their levels in the serums of patients with bladder tumour.

Material Method: Thirty patients with bladder tumour with superficial bladder tumour and 27 normal healthy volunteers were included in the study. Four cc of venous blood was taken from these patients and volunteers in the control group and centrifuged at 5000 rpm for 10 minutes and divided into serum and plasma.

Epicardial Pacemaker in Neonates and Infants: Is There a Relationship Between Patient Size, Device Size, and Wound Complicatıon?

We aimed to investigate the complications after epicardial pacemaker (PM) implantation in neonates and infants and their relationship with factors such as device size and patient size. Between May 2010 and July 2018, 55 patients under 1 year of age who underwent epicardial PM placement were retrospectively evaluated. PM-related complications requiring rehospitalization were determined as wound site problems requiring surgical intervention, battery pocket infection, battery pocket dehiscence without infection, PM removal, relocation of the PM system, and replacement of the PM system with another system.

Use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in postcardiotomy pediatric patients: parameters affecting survival.

Aim: We aimed to investigate the risk factors affecting survival after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation use in pediatric postcardiotomy patients.

Methods: One hundred thirty-three consecutive patients who underwent surgery for congenital heart disease who needed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support were retrospectively analyzed.

Results: In all, 3,082 patients were operated, of which 140 patients (4.

Levels of serum trace elements in patients with Peyronie.

The etiology of the disease of Peyronie is not certainly known. However, penile micro traumas are thought to be important in the pathogenesis of Peyronie's disease (PD) in genetically predisposed individuals. In this study, we aimed to determine the relationship of some trace element and heavy metals with PD.

The Prolidase Activity, Oxidative Stress, and Nitric Oxide Levels of Bladder Tissues with or Without Tumor in Patients with Bladder Cancer.

This study was designed to evaluate the malondialdehyde (MDA), glutathione (GSH) and nitric oxide (NO) levels, and also prolidase, glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), superoxide dismutase (SOD) enzyme activities in malignant and benign cancers of bladder tissue. A total of 59 patients admitted to our clinic due to microscopic or macroscopic haematuria, were prospectively included in the study. Because of some reasons (no request to participate in the study, the inability to reach, other malignancies, alcohol consumption, metabolic disease), eight patients were excluded from study.

The effectiveness of extra-scrotal fixation following manual detorsion for testicular torsion: a pilot study in a rabbit model.

Introduction: To investigate the effectiveness of manual detorsion (MD) and applicability of extra-scrotal fixation for testicular torsion in a rabbit model.

Material And Methods: Twelve New Zealand male rabbits were randomized into six groups of two rabbits each. A single-side testicular torsion (TT) model (different degrees, time and sides) was performed in all groups except the Sham group.

A Novel Experimental Method for Penile Augmentation Urethroplasty With a Combination of Buccal Mucosa and Amniotic Membrane in a Rabbit Model.

Objective: To investigate the results of penile urethral reconstruction using amniotic membrane (AM) and buccal mucosa (BM) grafts, and the simultaneous use of both in a rabbit model.

Materials And Methods: A total of 28 male rabbits were divided into 4 groups according to grafting style: group 1 (AM), group 2 (BM), group 3 (BM + AM), and group 4 (sham). A standardized urethral defect was created in the 3 initial groups.

Oxidative DNA Damage to Sperm Cells and Peripheral Blood Leukocytes in Infertile Men.

BACKGROUND Oxidative DNA damage is associated with male infertility. The aim of this study was to evaluate the oxidative DNA damage of sperm cells and blood leukocytes and to determine the levels of MDA and NO levels in seminal and blood plasma of idiopathic infertile men. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study enrolled 52 patients, including 30 infertile and 22 fertile men.

Comparison of shockwave frequencies of 30 and 60 shocks per minute for kidney stones: a prospective randomized study.

Objective: One of the factors that determines the treatment success of shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) is the frequency of the shockwaves during the procedure. This study compared the efficacy and pain perception of shockwave frequencies at 30 versus 60 shocks/min for kidney stones.

Materials And Methods: From August 2013 to May 2015, 160 patients with solitary, radiopaque kidney stones were randomized to SWL at 30 shocks/min (group 1) or 60 shocks/min (group 2), with 80 patients in each group.

Do anxiety, stress, or depression have any impact on pain perception during shock wave lithotripsy?

Introduction: The most important adverse effect during shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) is pain perception. In this study, we evaluated the effect of anxiety, stress, and depression on pain perception during SWL.

Methods: From November 2013 to December 2014, 189 consecutive patients undergoing SWL for kidney stones were evaluated prospectively.

Atypical Testicular Torsion: We Must be Cautious in the Course of Manual Detorsion.

Testicular torsion is a common important urological emergency. Testicles usually undergo various degrees of rotation in a medial (inward) direction. Manual detorsion is a critical maneuver, allowing to prevent testis viability in patients with delay to get into the operation room.

Assessment of sexual functions in partners of women with complaints of urinary incontinence.

Aim: Investigation of the erectile functions in partners of women with urinary incontinence problems.

Materials And Methods: Sexually active female patients over the age of 18 years with complaints of urinary incontinence (n=30) (Group-1), and without urinary incontinence (n=30) (Group-2, controls) were included this study. Evaluation of the patients were done at Erzincan Mengücek Gazi Training and Research Hospital's urology outpatient clinic between June 2012 and January 2013.

Fournier's gangrene: Causes, presentation and survival of sixty-five patients.

Objective: To report our experience with Fournier's Gangrene (FG) over the past eight years and evaluate the predisposing factors which affect the mortality.

Methods: Sixty-five patients who were admitted to emergency surgical unit of our institution presenting with FG between January 2006 and August 2014 were included. The anatomical site of infective gangrene, predisposing factors, etiological factors, and outcomes were retrospectively reviewed.