Publications by authors named "M Selim Cakir"
Aim: Assessment of children's communicable disease status is effective in preventing child morbidity. This study aims to evaluate the infectious disease status of children aged 0-14 in Türkiye.
Methods: The research is a cross-sectional study conducted using the microdataset of the "Türkiye Health Survey 2022" obtained from the Turkish Statistical Institute.
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- - The study explores how leg dominance affects the choice of perforator flap donor sites for reconstruction surgeries using advanced imaging techniques to enhance preoperative planning.
- - In a sample of 40 patients, most (87.5%) were right-leg dominant, showcasing that the dominant leg typically has larger and more numerous perforators for certain flap types compared to the nondominant leg.
- - Results suggest that surgeons may benefit from prioritizing the dominant leg as a donor site, as it has better vascular characteristics and muscle thickness for improving surgical outcomes, although no significant differences were found in the subcutaneous tissue thickness.
This study aims to examine how the subcomponents and overall measurement of ecological footprint, as well as the use of information and communication technologies, affect health expenditures. For this study, the sample group consisted of the top 25 countries with the highest ecological footprint for the period 2000 to 2021. System GMM estimation results demonstrate that economic growth and ecological footprint have a positive impact on health expenditures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe hereby report a patient with ALK-positive histiocytosis with localized lung involvement. A 47-year-old woman presented with a solitary pulmonary nodule in the left upper lobe, 7 months after COVID infection. A well-defined 15 mm yellow mass was found in trisegmentectomy specimen.
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- The study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of antenatal corticosteroids (ANS) on male and female fetuses without anomalies, specifically regarding mortality and short-term health outcomes in infants born before 32 weeks of gestation.
- In analyzing 210 preterm infants, the results revealed that male infants exposed to ANS had a lower mortality rate (11%) compared to females (23%), but no significant differences were found in other health issues like intraventricular hemorrhage or respiratory distress syndrome, except for a higher rate of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in males.
- The research concluded that ANS does not influence mortality rates in female fetuses, suggesting future studies could explore personalized ANS treatment based on fetal sex.