SARS-CoV-2 isolation and propagation from Turkish COVID-19 patients.

The novel coronavirus pneumonia, which was named later as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, namely SARS-CoV-2. It is a positive-strand RNA virus that is the seventh coronavirus known to infect humans. The COVID-19 outbreak presents enormous challenges for global health behind the pandemic outbreak.

Cardiovascular risk assessment with oxidised LDL measurement in postmenopausal women receiving intranasal estrogen replacement therapy.

Objective: To investigate the effect of intranasal estrogen replacement therapy administered to postmenopausal women alone or in combination with progesterone on markers of cardiovascular risk.

Methods: The study was conducted with 44 voluntary postmenopausal women. In group I (n = 15), the patients were treated with only intranasal estradiol (300 μg/day estradiol hemihydrate).

Lipid peroxidation in nuchal cord cases: implication for fetal distress.

Objective: To examine whether nuchal cord affects fetal lipid peroxidation and cord arterial blood gases, and thus to determine whether lipid peroxidation can show intrapartum distress.

Methods: Pregnant women giving birth to a baby with nuchal cord (n = 32) formed the study group and others without this condition made up the control group (n = 36). The maternal malondialdehyde levels (MDA) before and after delivery as well as fetal umbilical cord MDA and arterial blood gases were measured in both the groups.

Histopathologic findings in women with postmenopausal bleeding: implication for endometrial thickness and circulating levels of sex steroid hormones.

Objective: The aim of this study is to compare the relationship between estrone (E1), estradiol (E2), androgens, and prolactin blood levels on the one hand, and endometrial thickness and related histopathologic results on the other, in postmenopausal women admitted with uterine bleeding.

Methods: The study was conducted in Gazi University School of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinic with a total of 128 patients. The study group consisted of 64 postmenopausal patients admitted with uterine bleeding, whereas the control group consisted of 64 healthy postmenopausal women.

Ovarian wedge resection by minilaparatomy in infertile patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome: a new technique.

Objective: To determine the effects of ovarian wedge resection by minilaparotomy in infertile patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS).

Study Design: One hundred and thirty-four anovulatory patients with PCOS, who were previously treated with clomiphene citrate and gonadotropins and did not conceive were operated via minilaparotomy with microsurgical principles and ovarian wedge resection was performed on each subject. Pregnancy rates and adhesion formation were investigated retrospectively.

Serum leptin levels in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome.

Objective: To determine whether polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is related to leptin dysregulation.

Design: Prospective study.

Setting: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in a university hospital.