How should professional psychiatric associations respond to a large-scale disaster?

Disasters pose unique challenges, triggering significant psychological and social crises with both short- and long-term impacts. In this article, we address the critical role of professional psychiatric associations (PPAs) in responding to large-scale disasters, emphasizing the operational model connected with the Psychiatric Association of Türkiye's (PAT) response to the 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye and Northern Syria. We propose the SOLIDARITE model, a structured response framework, which incorporates sustained preparedness, organized networks, resource libraries, on-site and remote interventions, and comprehensive disaster planning across early, middle, and long-term phases.

Conspicuous Peripheral Retinal Hemorrhages with a Relatively Preserved Posterior Pole in Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura.

Background: Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is a rare auto-antibody mediated disease of isolated thrombocytopenia (<100,000/μL) with normal haemoglobin levels and leukocyte counts. Only a small number of ITP cases have been reported with accompanying ophthalmological findings. Herein, we report an ITP case with demonstrative retinal haemorrhages.

Real-time PCR Detection of the Most Common Bacteria and Viruses Causing Meningitis.

Background: Central nervous system (CNS) infections require prompt diagnosis, as the clinical condition progresses rapidly and may lead to severe permanent sequelae or death. The causative agents include viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. In this study, samples with the diagnosis of CNS infection based on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) sent to us from other hospitals/labs, were studied by multiplex real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method.

Laminin alpha 2 enables glioblastoma stem cell growth.

Objective: Glioblastomas (GBMs) are lethal cancers that display cellular hierarchies parallel to normal brain. At the apex are GBM stem cells (GSCs), which are relatively resistant to conventional therapy. Interactions with the adjacent perivascular niche are an important driver of malignancy and self-renewal in GSCs.

Impairment of glioma stem cell survival and growth by a novel inhibitor for Survivin-Ran protein complex.

Purpose: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a devastating disease. Recent studies suggest that the stem cell properties of GBM contribute to the development of therapy resistance.

Experimental Design: The expression of Survivin and Ran was evaluated by immunohistochemistry with GBM tissues, and quantitative reverse transcriptase (qRT)-PCR and immunocytochemistry with patient-derived GBM sphere cultures.

[Novel agents in antiplatelet therapy].

Antiplatelet therapy is the cornerstone of management of acute coronary syndromes. Currently used antiplatelet drugs present several limitations that provoke new searches. These limitations include resistance, delay in the onset of action, risk for bleeding, variations in the individual response, and interaction with other medications (i.

Optical response of Ag-Au bimetallic nanoparticles to electron storage in aqueous medium.

Composition and structure dependence of the shift in the position of the surface plasmon resonance band upon introduction of NaBH4 to aqueous solutions of gold and silver nanoparticles are presented. Silver and gold nanoalloys in different compositions were prepared by co-reduction of the corresponding salt mixtures using sodium citrate as the reducing agent. After addition of NaBH4 to the resultant nanoalloys, the maximum of their surface plasmon resonance band, ranging between that of pure silver (ca.

Sickle cell anemia patient with sarcoidosis-associated inguinal lymph node and lung infiltration.

Sarcoidosis is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology, characterized by noncaseating granulomatous infiltration of any organ. Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is the homozygoid form of sickle cell disease (SCD), which includes a group of genetic disorders characterized by production of an abnormal hemoglobin S (HbS). There are a few case reports with coexistence of sarcoidosis and SCA.

Laparoscopic myotomy for oesophageal achalasia--adding an antireflux procedure is not always necessary.

Laparoscopy is the access of choice for functional surgery of the gastroesophageal junction, and oesophagocardiomyotomy, as the conventional surgical treatment of achalasia, is one of the favourable indications for laparoscopic surgery. Laparoscopic anterior myotomy technique is highly effective and secure for relieving dysphagia with minimal risk of gastroesophageal reflux. Fifteen patients with the diagnosis of achalasia were treated with laparoscopic anterior face oesophagocardiomyotomy without a concomitant antireflux procedure.

Results of the Mutaf procedure in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Operations to treat complicated gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) have become the third most commonly performed general surgical procedure in large pediatric centers, and many surgical techniques have come into use to prevent gastroesophageal reflux. This paper presents our experience with gastric tube cardioplasty, a new procedure described by Oktay Mutaf (Mutaf procedure). Eleven children with GERD were successfully operated on.

Nipple and areola diameter in Turkish pubertal girls.

The nipple and areola diameter of 498 girls aged 8-17 years were studied with the aim of finding measurable criteria for sexual maturation, including breast and pubic hair development during female puberty. All measurements were made holding a transparent ruler on both sides by the same observer. The smaller of the two measurements was used in the analysis.

Omphalitis in term and preterm appropriate for gestational age and small for gestational age infants.

To determine whether there is a difference on the historical and clinical characteristics of omphalitis among term and preterm appropriate for gestational age (AGA) and small for gestational age (SGA) infants, we prospectively investigated 85 newborns with bacteriologically proved omphalitis. Study groups were based on gestational age and being SGA. Preterm AGA infants had significantly lower mean age and neutrophil counts.

The effect of iatrogenic vas deferens injury on fertility in an experimental rat model.

The long-term result of accidental crushing of the vas deferens during inguinal surgery is unpredictable. It is stated that even a slight disturbance in the muscular layer or mucosa may endanger fertility. This study was designed to investigate the early and late histopathologic changes of iatrogenic injury on the vas and its effect on fertility in a rat model.

Penopubic flaps technique for the repair of epispadias with or without exstrophy: a preliminary report.

Six patients (average age, 2 1/2 years; range, 4 months to 8 years) with the exstrophy-epispadias complex and isolate epispadias were treated using an alternative method. An inverted U-shaped incision (with a length of approximately 3 to 5 cm and a width of approximately 0.7 to 1.

Pubertal development of Turkish boys in Elaziğ, eastern Turkey.

Data on pubertal development in 462 healthy, well-developed schoolboys from the cross-sectional study in Elaziğ, Eastern Turkey, are reported. Genital and pubic hair development are classified according to Marshall and Tanner, and Winter criteria. The initiation of genital development (the onset of puberty) was 11.

Low levels of selenium in mothers and their newborns in pregnancies with a neural tube defect.

Objective: Very few data are presented in the literature about selenium (Se) in human fetal development. The aim of this paper was to study the relationship between maternal and neonatal Se status and neural tube defects (NTDs).

Patients And Methods: Serum and hair samples were obtained from 20 nonpregnant women, 32 healthy mothers with normal newborns, and 28 mothers who had a newborn with NTD, and their newborns at delivery.

Prune-belly syndrome associated with omphalocele in a female newborn.

The authors report on a female newborn with prune-belly syndrome (PBS) in association with omphalocele. This case raises the total of omphalocele associated with PBS to seven. The authors suggest that this case lends support to the concept of PBS being caused by an early disturbance of mesodermal development in both the abdominal wall and the urinary tract.

Hydronephrotic type of bilateral multicystic dysplastic kidney. An unusual case.

25 year-old pregnant woman was admitted at week 29 of fetal development for routine ultrasonic evaluation of growth. Sonography of the fetal body revealed two cystic anechoic septated structures bilaterally. At autopsy of the stillborn neonate pathology confirmed congenital multicystic dysplastic kidney.

Maternal carriage and neonatal colonisation of group B streptococci in labour are uncommon in Turkey.

Group B streptococcus infection is an important cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality. We studied 114 women and their newborns to determine the relationship between maternal carriage and neonatal group B streptococcal colonisation. Rectal, cervical and vaginal swabs were taken at delivery.

Changing trend of neural tube defects in eastern Turkey.

Study Objective: The aim was to study the relationship between birth prevalence of neural tube defect (including anencephaly) in Eastern Turkey before and after the Chernobyl disaster.

Design: This was a prospective study of time trends in live births and stillbirths over the years 1985-1990. Medical and sociodemographic data were recorded for the mothers.