Successful Treatment of Aortic Coarctation in an Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant with Balloon Angioplasty.

In our case report, we present a case of successful antegrade balloon angioplasty performed via the femoral vein on a 980-gram neonate with severe coarctation of the aorta. Upon reviewing the literature, we found no cases of balloon angioplasty for coarctation performed via the femoral vein in infants with a lower birth weight than in our case. Our aim is to underline that each patient may require individual evaluation and management options.

Cardiac effects of COVID-19 infection in children.

Background: It is known established that the cardiac effects of COVID-19 infection are associated with poor prognosis and high mortality rates in infected patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the cardiac effects of COVID-19 infection in paediatric patients and identify the correlations between clinical and laboratory data and the degree of cardiac involvement.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective data analysis was conducted on 64 paediatric patients at Gazi University Department of Pediatrics who were treated as inpatients with a diagnosis of COVID-19.

Evaluation of handgrip strength in children with pulmonary hypertension.

Background: Handgrip strength is a crucial indicator of upper extremity muscular strength and is vital for monitoring disorders like cardiac diseases that restrict a patient's physical activity and result in muscle atrophy. The aim of our study was to evaluate whether muscle strength loss is present in patients with pulmonary hypertension and whether this test can be an alternative to 6-minute walk test.

Materials And Methods: The study included 39 healthy children who were admitted to the outpatient clinic and 16 children with a diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension who were being followed in our centre.

Early Echocardiographic Findings of Pulmonary Hypertension-specific Therapy in Children.

Objective: Echocardiography is a very useful tool for the diagnosis and evaluation of pulmonary hypertension (PH). This study was planned to investigate whether echocardiographic (ECHO) data of patients with PH are effective in the follow-up and course of treatment.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of the data from 26 PH patients was performed.

Different Ecological Niches of Poisonous in Central and Marginal Distribution Ranges-Another Contribution to a Better Understanding of Balkan Endemic Nephropathy.

L. is a perennial herbaceous plant distributed throughout Europe, Asia Minor and Caucasus. It has been used as a medicinal plant since antiquity but not in recent times because it contains poisonous aristolochic acid, causing progressive kidney failure.

Electrocardiographic measurements in children with pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease and undergoing kidney replacement therapy.

Cardiovascular diseases are the main causes of morbidity in children with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Electrocardiography (ECG) can provide important information about cardiac functions and parameters associated with sudden cardiac death. This study aims to evaluate the potentially dangerous changes in CKD and kidney replacement therapies by ECG and to determine the value of ECG in predicting cardiovascular outcome compared with echocardiography.

Comparison of echocardiographic aortic stiffness index measurements and pulse wave velocity measurements in obese and overweight children.

Background: Aortic/arterial stiffness is a reliable, independent predictor and a risk factor for cardiovascular mortality. Arterial stiffness is assessed by pulse wave velocity and echocardiography. The purpose of this study is to analyse aortic/arterial stiffness in patients using echocardiographic and pulse wave velocity techniques.

Successful treatment of two cases of acute myocarditis with colchicine.

Colchicine is an FDA-approved medicine that has been used for many years to prevent and treat gout flares as well as familial mediterranean fever. It is also used off-label to treat pericarditis, calcium pyrophosphate illness, and Behçet's syndrome. There are additional studies on the use of colchicine, which is accepted as the standard treatment for pericarditis in adults, post-pericardiotomy syndrome, post-operative and post-ablation atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disorders, prior to percutaneous coronary procedures, and myocarditis.

Subcutaneous use of treprostinil in pediatric pulmonary hypertension patients: A report of three cases.

Treprostinil was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for use in the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension in 2002. Intravenous or subcutaneous treprostinil is used in pulmonary arterial hypertension patients in the functional classes of II-IV to alleviate exercise-related symptoms, or in cases where epoprostenol treatment should be reduced due to side effects. In this article, we describe three pediatric cases of pulmonary arterial hypertension in whom subcutaneous treprostinil was used.

Evaluation of thymopoiesis in healthy Turkish children aged 0-6 years.

Background: Early diagnosis and effective treatment serve as life-saving procedures for primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) which are very common and a major public health problem in Turkey. Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is constitutively a T-cell defect in which naïve T-cell development is defective due to the mutations in genes responsible for the T cell differentiation and insufficient thymopoiesis. So, assessment of thymopoiesis is very important in the diagnosis of SCID and several combined immune deficiencies (CIDs).

Coexistence of transposition of the great arteries, coarctation of the aorta, and bilateral pulmonary artery hypoplasia.

Transposition of the great arteries is the most common cyanotic CHD in newborns. This CHD, in which the aorta arises from the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery from the left ventricle, is often accompanied by one or several defects such as atrial septal defect or patent foramen ovale, ventricular septal defect and patent ductus arteriosus, which allow the transition between both parallel circulations. Rarely, the disease may be accompanied by left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (subpulmonary obstruction) and coarctation of the aorta.

Scale-dependent intraspecific competition of Taurus cedar ( A. Rich.) saplings in the Southern Turkey.

Better understanding of the competitive interaction at the early development stages of the stand is crucial to help schedule silvicultural treatments for young stands and for the better management of the future stands. We used scale-dependent analysis to improve our understanding of sapling dynamics in the pure Taurus cedar ( A. Rich.

Recent land-use and land-cover changes and its driving factors in a fire-prone area of southwestern Turkey.

During the last decades, contrasted trends in forest fires among countries around the Mediterranean basin have been observed. In the northern/western countries, Land Use-Land Cover (LULC) changes led to more hazardous landscapes, with consequent increases in fires. This contrasted with fire trends in southern/eastern countries.

Germination sensitivity to water stress in four shrubby species across the Mediterranean Basin.

Mediterranean shrublands are generally water-limited and fire-driven ecosystems. Seed-based post-fire regeneration may be affected by varying rainfall patterns, depending on species sensitivity to germinate under water stress. In our study, we considered the germination response to water stress in four species from several sites across the Mediterranean Basin.

Land use pattern at Alacam mountainous range land (submediterranean-Turkey) due to edaphic and physiographical factors.

Soil degradation is perceived as a major threat in the Mediterranean region due to land use pattern and projected climate change. As the high altitudinal mountainous lands are sensitive lands, the land use patterns atAlaçam mountains were investigated in this study. The assessment of land use distribution is arranged with the altitude, exposure, slope and bedrock parameters.

Comparison of soil and forest floor properties of floodplain and surrounding forests in Igneada, Turkey.

In this study some soil and forest floor characteristics of floodplain forest, thermophile forest and sand dune were investigated at Igneada, Turkey. In this context, surface soil samples were analyzed and compared to each other in the extension of soil physical, chemical properties and as plant nutrition environment. To investigate the soil characteristics soil samples were collected from 48 sampling point.