Publications by authors named "Meltem Yazla"
Objectives: This study aimed to monitor the change in the rate of hepatitis B infections in Şırnak, a province in south-eastern Turkey, and to determine the rate of immunization for hepatitis B in this region after the national immunization program covered hepatitis B.
Materials And Methods: This retrospective study included patients born in 1998 or after and applied to different outpatient clinics in the province between April 2017 and June 2018. Patients in this study were screened for HBsAg and anti-HBs for various reasons.
We aimed to explore the prevalence of prolonged symptoms, pulmonary impairments and residual disease on chest tomography (CT) in COVID-19 patients at 6 months after acute illness. In this prospective, single-center study, hospitalized patients with radiologically and laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 were included. A high proportion of the 116 patients reported persistent symptoms (n = 54; 46.
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- A study was conducted to develop a new risk score, named SAD-60, to predict mortality in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, involving 1,013 participants with an average age of 60.5 years.
- The research found that factors like oxygen saturation, albumin levels, D-dimer, and age were significant predictors of in-hospital death, with 12.2% of patients dying.
- The SAD-60 score demonstrated a better predictive ability for mortality than existing scores such as CURB-65, NEWS2, and qSOFA, suggesting it could be a valuable tool in clinical settings.
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- - The study compared clinical, laboratory, and radiological findings between confirmed COVID-19 patients (338) and unconfirmed ones (282) at a single center, involving a total of 620 patients.
- - Confirmed COVID-19 patients had more frequent close contacts with positive cases, and symptoms like myalgia and dyspnea, along with lower blood cell counts, were significant indicators of infection in the univariate analysis.
- - The study concluded that while routine blood tests can help differentiate COVID-19 from other respiratory ailments early on, PCR tests remain essential for an accurate COVID-19 diagnosis.
We aimed to determine the prognostic values of the National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2) and laboratory parameters during the first week of COVID-19. All adult patients who were hospitalized for confirmed COVID-19 between 11 March and 11 May 2020 were retrospectively included. Overall, 611 patients were included.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe aimed to determine the predictors of intensive care unit (ICU) admission or death in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia. This retrospective, single-center study included patients aged ≥18 years who were diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia (laboratory and radiologically confirmed) between March 9 and April 8, 2020. The composite endpoint was ICU admission or in-hospital mortality.
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