Predictive value of immature granulocyte percentage and neutrophil lymphocyte ratio in terms of prognosis in the course of acute pancreatitis.

Aim: We aimed to investigate the role and importance of immature granulocyte percentage and neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio in the etiology, diagnosis and follow-up of acute pancreatitis (AP) in patients tentatively diagnosed with AP in the emergency department. We evaluated these factors alongside other established markers proven effective in the diagnosis and follow-up of AP.

Material And Methods: A total of 139 patients with a tentative diagnosis of acute pancreatitis who were hospitalized and followed up in the gastroenterology clinic in 2021‒2022 were included in the study.

Gastric intestinal metaplasia: Long-term follow-up results.

Baackground: Precancerous lesions are the most commonly cited factor in gastric cancer etiology. The sequence of events in intestinal-type gastric carcinogenesis is considered to be chronic gastritis, atrophy, intestinal metaplasia (IM), dysplasia, and carcinoma, respectively. Early diagnosis and treatment of advanced precursor lesions and gastric cancer is possible by identifying and monitoring patients with such premalignant lesions.

Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy feeding is beneficial in patients with advanced dementia.

Background And Objectives: We aimed to show the long-term results of patients who received percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes and to evaluate the usefulness of this method in advanced dementia patients, which is considered to be of controversial benefit in the literature. Therefore, we compared three groups of patients: advanced dementia patients fed via PEG, stroke patients fed via PEG and advanced dementia patients not fed via PEG.

Methods And Study Design: In total, 305 files of patients who underwent PEG implantation were screened retrospectively, and 283 were analyzed.

Is SCUBE1 helpful to predict the arterial thrombotic risk in patients with multi-ple myeloma: a preliminary study.

Background: Signal peptide-CUB-EGF-like domain-containing protein 1 (SCUBE1) is expressed in vascular endothelium and human platelets. SCUBE1 levels are increased in acute arterial thrombosis. Multiple myeloma patients are also at increased risk of arterial thrombotic events.

The effect of epicardial adipose tissue thickness with irritable bowel syndrome.

Objective: To investigate the association of epicardial adipose tissue thickness with irritable bowel syndrome.

Methods: This case-control and observational study was conducted in Recep Tayyip Erdogan University between January and December 2014, and comprised patients of irritable bowel syndrome and healthy controls who underwent a complete transthoracic echocardiographic examination as well as measurements of epicardial adipose tissue. They were screened for psychiatric or organic bowel diseases for the sake of precise diagnosis.