Publications by authors named "I Karaoglan"
Article Synopsis
- Cardiovascular disease (CVD) significantly affects people living with HIV (PLWH), with this study finding a diagnosed CVD prevalence of 10.8% among 1425 participants aged 40-75.
- The assessment utilized five different risk evaluation tools, revealing that 42.8% of participants had a high 10-year risk of CVD, while 71.7% were classified as high- to very high-risk using the SCORE2 tool.
- The findings stress the need for better cardiovascular health monitoring and highlighted that current utilization of lipid-lowering therapy is inadequate, despite a large number of PLWH being eligible for such treatment per recent guidelines.
Heparin Binding Protein in Early Differential Diagnosis of Bacterial Meningitis.
Indian J Clin Biochem
January 2024
Heparin-binding protein is a serine protease that is mobilized rapidly from emigrating polymorphonuclear leukocytes that acts as a chemoattractant activator of monocyte and macrophages. We investigated the potential role and efficacy of serum and cerebrospinal fluid heparin binding protein in differentiating bacterial meningitis from tuberculosis and viral meningitis. A case diagnosed with acute bacterial meningitis (n:37), viral meningitis (n:30) and tuberculous meningitis (n:30) was included in this study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To investigate peripheral and central olfactory pathways using cranial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients.
Materials And Methods: The cranial MRI images of 37 HIV-infected adult patients and 37 adults without HIV infection having normal cranial MRI results were included in the study. In both groups, olfactory bulb (OB) volume and olfactory sulcus (OS) depth; and insular gyrus and corpus amygdala areas were measured using cranial MRI.
Objectives: To examine the possible association of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and depression on sleep quality in people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PWLHIV).
Methods: Adult PWLHIV were included in this prospective, cross-sectional, case-control study. Our study was completed with 99 patients and 80 control subjects.
Background: Rapid initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces the transmission of HIV infection in the community. This study aimed to determine whether rapid ART initiation is effective compared to standard ART treatment in our country.
Methods: Patients were grouped based on time to treatment initiation.