Publications by authors named "Melike Elif Kalfaoglu"
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- Subacromial impingement syndrome is a common source of shoulder pain in older adults, with coracoacromial ligament (CAL) degeneration being a key indicator of this condition.
- The study aimed to analyze the connection between CAL thickness on MRI, the level of CAL degeneration observed during surgery, and the different types of rotator cuff tears in 560 patients.
- Results indicated that as CAL degeneration worsens, its thickness decreases, and patients with high-grade degeneration are likely to have more severe rotator cuff tears, suggesting that MRI can effectively predict this degeneration non-invasively.
Recently, several inflammatory markers, including the uric acid to HDL cholesterol ratio (UHR), triglyceride/HDL cholesterol ratio (THR), systemic inflammatory index (SII), and C-reactive protein to albumin ratio (CAR), have been reported to be associated with inflammatory conditions. However, their collective role in sacroiliitis has not been extensively studied. This study aims to investigate the general characteristics and inflammatory markers in patients with and without sacroiliitis, and to observe any differences in these parameters in subjects with active and chronic sacroiliitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe objective of this study is to assess the hepatic/renal and splenic/renal echointensity ratios in ultrasonography in patients with and without diabetic nephropathy. This retrospective study included patients with diabetes mellitus who underwent ultrasound examinations at our hospital between January 2023 and May 2023. Ultrasound examinations were conducted using renal cortical echogenicity and corticomedullary differentiation by using B-mode ultrasonography.
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