Publications by authors named "Merve Sinem Oguz"
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- * A total of 50 IPF patients participated, providing data on demographics, pulmonary function, and quality of life measures, with results showing an average oxygen saturation recovery time of about 136 seconds post-6MWT.
- * Findings revealed that longer recovery times correlated significantly with worse prognostic markers, indicating that as disease severity increases (measured by GAP and CPI scores), the recovery from exertion becomes slower.
In this article, Early Career Task Force Group members of the Turkish Thoracic Society summarize the European Respiratory Society 2020 virtual congress. Current developments in the field of respiratory diseases were compiled with the addition of sessions specific to coronavirus disease 2019 this year. Almost all of the congress sessions were examined, and the important and striking results of the congress were highlighted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn COVID-19-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome, the lungs are incapable of filling with sufficient air, leading to hypoxemia that results in high mortality among hospitalized patients. In clinical trials, low-molecular-weight heparin was administered via a specially designed soft-mist inhaler device in an investigator initiated, single-center, open-label, phase-IIb clinical trial. Patients with evidently worse clinical presentations were classed as the "Device Group"; 40 patients were given low-molecular-weight heparin via a soft mist inhaler at a dose of 4000 IU per administration, twice a day.
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