Decreasing the Uterine Blood Flow with Electroacupuncture: Bidermatomal and Monodermatomal Applications.

Background: Previously we demonstrated a uterine fibroma case in which the decrease in the uterine artery blood flow was obtained with bidermatomal electroacupuncture (EA). A prospective study was conducted to validate the efficacy of bidermatomal and monodermatomal EA applications.

Methods: Ten healthy women participated 3 times for 3 steps of the study.

Sciatic neuroendometriosis: Magnetic resonance imaging defined perineural spread of endometriosis.

Catamenial sciatic radiculopathy resulting from endometriosis is a rare presentation of a common disease in which the pathogenesis of pain is still under debate. A 32-year-old woman presented complaining of infertility, catamenial sciatica, and pelvic and gluteal pain. Magnetic resonance imaging showed endometriotic infiltration of the left proximal lumbosacral plexus, sacral nerve track, sciatic nerve at the sciatic notch and pudendal nerve along the iliococcygeus muscle, together with left endometrioma and deep infiltrating endometriosis lesions.

Repair of critical size defects using bioactive glass seeded with adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells.

Bioactive glass has been demonstrated as a biocompatible bone substitute. However bone healing process can be prolonged due to late resorption of the material. Adipose derived stem cells (ASC) have osteogenic differentiation potential and hence can be a cell source for bone regeneration.

Susceptibility-weighted magnetic resonance imaging for the evaluation of deep infiltrating endometriosis: preliminary results.

Background: Knowledge of the precise sites of deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) lesions is essential for preoperative workup and treatment. Susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) has high sensitivity for blood products and have recently been applied in abdominal imaging.

Purpose: To determine the value of SWI in the diagnosis of DIE.

Prevalence of dynamic magnetic resonance imaging-identified pelvic organ prolapse in pre- and postmenopausal women without clinically evident pelvic organ descent.

Background Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is an imaging tool that can be used to evaluate and stage pelvic organ prolapse (POP). Greater understanding of the incidental detection of POP in asymptomatic patients is needed. Purpose To evaluate the prevalence of dMRI-detected POP in pre-and postmenopausal women who were imaged for reasons unrelated to pelvic floor dysfunction.

Shear wave elastography in placental dysfunction: comparison of elasticity values in normal and preeclamptic pregnancies in the second trimester.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine whether shear wave elastography of the placenta differs between normal pregnancies and pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia between 20 and 23 weeks' gestation.

Methods: A prospective study was performed with 204 consecutive singleton pregnancies that had routine anomaly scanning between 20 and 23 weeks' gestation. One hundred twenty-nine of these patients were examined with shear wave elastography; 101 women who had clinically normal pregnancies with normal fetal biometric measurements and normal deliveries without any perinatal complications formed group A, and 28 women who had a clinical diagnosis of early-onset preeclampsia before anomaly scanning formed group B.

Coexistence of aplasia cutis and nevus psiloliparus--report of a novel case.

Nevus psiloliparus is a type of mesodermal nevus of the scalp classically seen with encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis. The close association between nevus psiloliparus and aplasia cutis congenita is called didymosis aplasticopsilolipara. Although typically associated with neurologic, ocular, and skeletal findings, didymosis aplasticopsilolipara can be seen without the context of encephalocraniocutaneous lipomatosis.

Strain elastography in placental dysfunction: placental elasticity differences in normal and preeclamptic pregnancies in the second trimester.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to determine if the Strain elastography (SE) of the placenta measured in the second trimester differs between normal pregnancies and pregnancies complicated by preeclampsia (PE).

Methods: 219 singleton pregnancies who had routine anomaly scanning between the 20th and 23rd weeks of gestation were included in this observational study. Women with either posterior placentations (n = 63) or other obstetric pathologies (n = 12) were excluded from the study, leaving 144 pregnant women for the evaluation of strain ratio with SE.

Effects of levothyroxine treatment on insulin sensitivity, endothelial function and risk factors of atherosclerosis in hypothyroid women.

Objectives: Contradictory results are encountered in literature regarding the effects of hypothyroidism on the risk factors of atherosclerosis. We aimed to explore the changes in atherosclerotic risk factors and insulin sensitivity before and after levothyroxine replacement therapy in women with primary hypothyroidism and compare with that of healthy controls.

Patients And Methods: Twelve patients (mean age of 34±11.

Evaluation of asymptomatic venous disease by venous Doppler ultrasonography in patients with Behcet's disease without overt thrombosis.

One of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in Behcet's disease (BD) is vascular involvement. Limited data suggest a high prevalence of venous insufficiency (VI) and some cases of asymptomatic thrombosis in BD. In this study, we aimed to investigate asymptomatic venous disease by venous Doppler ultrasonography (US) prospectively in patients with BD, without known vascular disease.

Decreasing bleeding due to uterine fibroid with electroacupuncture.

Objective: To report the usefulness of electroacupuncture (EA) for the management of menorrhagia due to submucous uterine fibroid.

Design: Case report.

Setting: University hospital.

Effect of night symptoms and disease severity on subjective sleep quality in children with non-cystic-fibrosis bronchiectasis.

Background: Night-time symptoms and hypoxemia during sleep may affect sleep quality in children with chronic lung disease such as bronchiectasis. Poor sleep quality may impair growth, learning, and emotional development of children. Our aim was to assess the sleep quality and associated factors in children with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis.

Transarterial glue embolization in iatrogenic renovascular injuries.

Iatrogenic injuries of the intrarenal arterial system include pseudoaneurysms and fistulas. They can cause hematuria and life-threatening hemodynamic instability, and therefore should be treated promptly. Endovascular treatment is recommended for these cases due to its effectiveness.

Point- and frequency-specific response of the testicular artery to abdominal electroacupuncture in humans.

Objective: To clarify the role of the abdominal acupuncture points and the frequency of short-term electroacupuncture (EA) stimulation on testicular blood flow (TBF) in humans.

Design: A prospective, randomized study.

Setting: University hospital, Department of Radiology, ultrasound unit.

Association between inflammatory markers in induced sputum and clinical characteristics in children with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis.

To study clinical, radiological and laboratory features of children with non-cystic fibrosis (non-CF) bronchiectasis (BE) and the association between symptom scores, spirometry, high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) findings and inflammatory markers in induced sputum in these children. Twenty-seven children with steady-state non-CF BE were cross-sectionally evaluated by symptom scores, pulmonary function tests, anatomic extension and severity scores of BE in HRCT and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and interleukin-8 (IL-8) levels in induced sputum. There were 16 girls and 11 boys.

Sonographic measurement of kidney size in geriatric patients.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the value of absolute and relative renal length (ARL and RRL, respectively) measurements in determining variations in normal kidney size related to sex, body height, and increasing age among patients older than 60 years.

Methods: Kidney sizes were prospectively measured sonographically in patients older than age 60 years. Longitudinal renal lengths (ARLs) were measured, and the RRLs were calculated by dividing the ARL by the body height.