Neuraxial anesthesia after local anesthesia for management of percutaneous vertebroplasty complication during vertebroplasty.

Percutaneous vertebroplasty is a relatively safe, simple and commonly performed interventional procedure for the management of vertebral compression fractures. However, serious complications are rarely reported in the procedure. Those are pulmonary embolism, severe infection, paraplegia and an occurrence of a new fracture in an adjacent vertebra after vertebroplasty.

[Neuraxial anesthesia after local anesthesia for management of percutaneous vertebroplasty complication during vertebroplasty].

Percutaneous vertebroplasty is a relatively safe, simple and commonly performed interventional procedure for the management of vertebral compression fractures. However, serious complications are rarely reported in the procedure. Those are pulmonary embolism, severe infection, paraplegia and an occurrence of a new fracture in an adjacent vertebra after vertebroplasty.

A variant allele of the Mediterranean-fever gene increases the severity of gout.

Background: Gout is a clinical syndrome that occurs as an inflammatory response to increased concentration of uric acid and monosodium urate crystals. Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a hereditary autoinflammatory disease with autosomal recessive inheritance. The Mediterranean fever (MEFV) gene is responsible for FMF and encodes pyrin that suppresses the inflammatory response.

An evaluation of the functional and radiological results of percutaneous vertebroplasty versus conservative treatment for acute symptomatic osteoporotic spinal fractures.

Purpose: This study aimed to compare the results of the two different treatment regimens (percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV) and conservative treatment (CT)) regarding to efficacy, quality of life, functional and radiological results in patients with acute osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVF).

Methods: The study comprised 83 patients who presented with complaints of OVF associated with osteoporosis and were treated with CT (37) or PV (46). All patients were evaluated according to preoperative and postoperative visual analogue scale (VAS), Oswestry disability index (ODI) and plain radiographs.

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor and isolated anterior tibial muscle metastasis as first recurrence.

In the presented case, we report gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) in a patient using adjuvant imatinib in whom isolated metastasis to anterior tibial muscle as first recurrence was diagnosed. A 66-year-old woman was diagnosed with GIST on October 2012 and was followed up with adjuvant imatinib until June 2014. In this time, there was a nodular and fixed lesion with 1.

The determination of apoptosis rates on articular cartilages of ovariectomized rats with and without alendronate treatment.

Osteoporosis (OP) is a major health problem characterized by compromised bone strength. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a joint disease that progresses slowly and is characterized by breakdown of the cartilage matrix. Alendronate (ALN), a nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate (BIS), inhibits bone loss and increases bone mineralization, and has been used clinically for the treatment of OP.

Treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures with percutaneous vertebroplasty under local anesthesia: clinical and radiological results.

Background: Vertebroplasty (VP) is a commonly used method for the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral fractures (OVF). The aim of this study is to analyze retrospectively the efficacy of PV in symptomatic osteoprotic spine fractures.

Methods: Patients with symptomatic osteoporotic spine fractures were included in our study.

Synaptosomal-associated protein 25 (Snap-25) gene polymorphism frequency in fibromyalgia syndrome and relationship with clinical symptoms.

Background: SNAP-25 protein is contributory to plasma membrane and synaptic vesicle fusions that are critical points in neurotransmission. SNAP-25 gene is associated with behavioral symptoms, personality and psychological disorders. In addition, SNAP-25 protein can be related to different neurotransmitter functions due to its association with vesicle membrane transition and fusion.

[Does application time of alendronate sodium effect the spinal fusion in ovariectomized rats?].

Objectives: In this experimental study the effect of alendronate (Aln) sodium on spinal fusion, that was given preoperatively or postoperatively, was compared both mechanically and histologically in ovariectomized rats. The research question was "Does application time of alendronate sodium effect the spinal fusion in ovariectomized rats?''.

Materials And Methods: Fifty female Wistar rats with a mean weight of 200 g and an average age of 12 weeks were ovariectomized according to the standard procedure.