Evaluation of clinical features and laboratory findings in critical intensive care unit patients with severe coronavirus disease-19 who underwent extracorporeal cytokine adsorption.

Aim: To evaluate the inflammatory parameters and oxygenation in severe coronavirus disease-19 patients who underwent extracorporeal cytokine adsorption (CA).

Methods: Patients who underwent extracorporeal CA for cytokine storm were included in the study. The changes in oxygenation, laboratory parameters, and mortality rates were investigated.

Relationship of Gamma-glutamyl Transferase Levels at Diagnosis with Clinicopathological Features in idiopathic IgA Nephropathy.

Objective: To compare clinicopathologic features of idiopathic IgA nephropathy in terms of serum gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) levels.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Department of Nephrology and Department of Pathology, Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, from January 2010 to January 2021.

A new parameter predicting steroid response in idiopathic IgA nephropathy: a pilot study of pan-immune inflammation value.

Objective: In this pilot study, we aimed at investigating the predictive power of pan-immune inflammation value (PIV) on response rates at 6 months in idiopathic IgA nephropathy (IgAN) patients who started steroids.

Patients And Methods: The study was conducted with patients diagnosed with idiopathic IgAN and treated with 3-6 months of conservative treatment and steroid therapy started because proteinuria was above 1 g/day. Patients with proteinuria lower than 0.

The novel predictor of metabolic risk in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome: could it be the visceral adiposity index?

Objective: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrinological disorder in women of reproductive age, often accompanied by high androgen levels, irregular menstrual cycles and polycystic ovaries. In addition, patients with PCOS also present with an increase in abdominal adipose tissue and insulin resistance. Recently, the gender-specific mathematical formulation called visceral adiposity index (VAI) has been widely used in assessing cardiometabolic risk.

Can mean platelet volume predicts renal outcome in acute on chronic kidney disease?

Introduction: This study aimed to investigate the role of mean platelet volume (MPV) in predicting renal outcome in acute kidney injury (AKI) developing on pre-existing chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Methods: The patients whose first hemodialysis program was initiated in our center were divided into two groups as those who were taken to the scheduled dialysis program after discharge and those who were not dialysis-dependent. Groups were compared in terms of demographic characteristics, and laboratory parameters including MPV.

Effects of COVID-19 lockdown strategies on emergency medical services.

Introduction: The aim of this study is to evaluate the change in the number of EMS cases by comparing the lockdown period, the non-lockdown period, and the pre-pandemic period.

Methods: In our study, 3 periods of EMS cases were compared to evaluate the effect of lockdown. The first period (Period A) included in the study was the lockdown period (01-12-2020 and 31-01-2021.

Can Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII) be a prognostic factor of Bell's palsy patients?

Objective: Recent studies showed that the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and that platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) can be used as inflammatory markers in Bell's palsy. In this study, the aim is to investigate a novel inflammatory index, the Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII), defined as SII = platelets × neutrophils/lymphocytes, in Bell's palsy patients.

Study Design: Retrospective.

Worker safety and injury severity analysis of earthmoving equipment accidents.

Introduction: Research on construction worker safety associated with construction equipment has mostly focused on accident type rather than injury severity and the embedded factor relationships. Significant variables and their effects on the degree of injury are examined for earthmoving equipment using data from OSHA. Four types of equipment, backhoe, bulldozer, excavator, and scraper are included in the study.

The protective effect of tadalafil on IMA (ischemia modified albumin) levels in experimental renal ischemia-reperfusion injury.

Introduction: To investigate the effect of the tadalafil in experimental renal I/R injury and to evaluate these changes with IMA (nonspesific early biomarker of ischemia), NO and MDA levels.

Materials And Methods: Twenty four female Wistar rats were randomly divided into 3 groups (n=8): Group I, sham; Group II, 60 min I/R; Group III, 60 min I/R plus tadalafil. Tadalafil was administered via an orogastric tube (10 mg/kg) 24 h prior to the procedure.

Effects of low sleep quality on sexual function, in women with fibromyalgia.

Sexual dysfunction is a common experience in women with fibromyalgia. However, the physiopathology of this association is unclear. We aimed to evaluate whether sleep disturbance has an influence on sexual function in women with fibromyalgia.

A rare cause of testicular metastasis: upper tract urothelial carcinoma.

Metastatic testicular cancers are rare. Primary tumor sources are prostate, lung, and gastrointestinal tract for metastatic testicular cancers. Metastasis of urothelial carcinoma (UC) to the testis is extremely rare.

A retrospective series of gut aspergillosis in haematology patients.

Gut invasive aspergillosis is an extremely rare infection in immunocompromised patients. The goal of this retrospective multicentre study is to report on cases of gut aspergillosis in haematology patients, including clinical presentation, risk factors, and outcome. Twenty-one patients from nine centres were identified.

Endobronchial tuberculosis complicated with Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia and empyema in a child.

Childhood tuberculosis might have unusual clinical presentation. A seven-year-old female patient was admitted with fever and pleural effusion. Her pneumonia resolved following 21-day treatment period.