Is Airway Management More Risky in Bariatric Surgery?

Purpose: Airway problems may be experienced more often during anesthesia management in bariatric surgery. In this prospective study, we aimed to compare the incidence of difficult ventilation and intubation between bariatric surgery and other surgeries.

Design: This was a case-control study.

The relationship between expectation, experience and perception of labour pain: an observational study.

The present study was aimed to assess the relationship between pain expectation before labour, labour pain and pain perception after the labour. Pregnant women were asked to rate their pain level on a standard continuous visual analogue scale at various time points. Pain expectancy (PE), labour pain (LP) and postpartum pain perception (PPP) scores were calculated.

Military Medical Students' Awareness and Practice Concerning Occupational Health and Safety.

This study aimed to investigate the awareness and practices of military medical students concerning occupational health and safety. In this cross-sectional study, a questionnaire composed of 20 open- and closed-ended questions was administered to medical students of the Gulhane Military Medical Faculty (n = 754). The response rate of the questionnaire was 82.

Safety of uneventful cesarean section in terms of hemorrhage.

Objective: Hemorrhage still continues to be reported as one of the leading causes of maternal mortality and morbidity. Intraoperative estimation of the blood loss seems to be complex and misleading as it is impaired by the amount of amniotic fluid and blood from the placenta. The present study was aimed to investigate the safety of intraoperative deciding on an uneventful cesarean section in a low risk patient population.

A prospective study to assess the clinical impact of interobserver reliability of sonographic measurements of fetal nuchal translucency and crown-rump length on combined first-trimester screening.

Objective: To examine the interobserver variability for fetal biometric parameters and to focus on how this variability affects the combined first-trimester screening test results.

Methods: Sixty-four singleton pregnancies who were scheduled for combined first-trimester screening were investigated. Two experienced sonographers performed all examinations at the same visit.

Blood loss in elective cesarean section: is there a difference related to the type of anesthesia? A randomized prospective study.

Objective: We aimed to compare the effect of general and spinal anesthesia on maternal blood loss in elective cesarean section (CS).

Material And Methods: This was a prospective randomized study and included 418 healthy pregnant women with a term uncomplicated singleton pregnancy between 37 and 41 weeks of gestation. The study participants were randomly divided into two groups: the general anesthesia group and spinal anesthesia group.

Fetal anterior abdominal wall thickness may be an early ultrasonographic sign of gestational diabetes mellitus.

Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate standard biometric measurements, such as biparietal diameter (BPD), femur length (FL), abdominal circumference (AC), estimated fetal weight (EFW) and anterior abdomen wall thickness (AAWT) in fetuses complicated by gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) at the time of GDM screening, and to compare the results with healthy pregnant controls.

Methods: A total of 124 pregnant women between 26 and 28 weeks' gestation were included in the study. These patients were divided into two groups based on their 75-g oral glucose tolerance test results.

The clinical significance of classical and new emerging determinants of adenomyosis.

Objective: The present study aims to analyze the diagnostic accuracy of clinical characteristics together with new emerging laboratory markers of adenomyosis.

Methods: This study was a retrospective analysis of clinical and laboratory characteristics of 99 women who underwent hysterectomies with (study group) or without (control group) a diagnosis of adenomyosis, 56 and 43 patients in each group, respectively.

Results: The women with adenomyosis were more likely to have younger age (OR = 1.

Influence of maternal body mass index on sonographic fetal weight estimation prior to scheduled delivery.

Aim: To investigate the possible effect of maternal obesity on the accuracy of sonographically estimated fetal weight in the third-trimester shortly before induction of labor and to compare the accuracy of the estimation between normal weight, overweight, and class I, class II and class III obese groups.

Methods: This was a prospective study of singleton pregnancies with sonographic fetal weight estimation prior to scheduled delivery. Women were classified according to current body mass index (BMI) into five categories: normal (BMI 18.

Evaluation of some physical hazards which may affect health in primary schools.

Aim: This study was performed with the objective to determine the levels of some physical hazards in primary schools.

Material And Methods: This study is a cross-sectional field survey. In this study which was conducted in 31 primary schools selected by appropriate sampling from the district of Keçiören of the province of Ankara, measurements related with temperature, light, electromagnetic field (EMF) and noise levels were done at hundreds of points.

TRAIL and TRAIL receptors in patients with laryngeal cancer.

Background: Tumor necrosis factor-related associated-inducing ligand (TRAIL) is a death ligand currently under clinical trials for laryngeal carcinoma.

Methods: Paraffin-embedded tissues from 40 patients with laryngeal carcinoma and 20 patients with benign laryngeal pathologies were retrospectively analyzed using immunohistochemistry in terms of distribution and intensity, and for final analysis of immunoreactivity of receptors, H-score was used. The study group was assessed in terms of localization, lymph node staging, tumor stage, overall survival, disease-free survival, locoregional control, perineural invasion, and vascular invasion.

Outcomes of trimodality approach in the management of T2N0M0 bladder cancer.

Aims And Background: The main objective of this study is to evaluate outcomes of bladder preservation treatment for patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Methods And Study Design: 38 patients with histologically proven muscle-invasive bladder cancer treated at our department between January 2008 and December 2013 were analyzed retrospectively. Age, gender, pathology, stage, 3-year overall survival, 3-year disease-free survival, radiotherapy (RT) dose, genitourinary and gastrointestinal toxicity scores and response evaluation of the patients were recorded.

Depression levels in patients with hyperemesis gravidarum: a prospective case-control study.

Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is a condition characterized by severe, intractable nausea and vomiting in early pregnancy. It affects about 0.3-2% of all pregnancies and is thought that HG is a multifactorial disease resulting from the combination of various unrelated conditions such as genetic, hormonal and psychiatric.

Indoor air quality in primary schools in Kecioren, Ankara.

Aim: To increase the awareness of environmental risk factors by determining the indoor air quality status of primary schools.

Materials And Methods: Indoor air quality parameters in 172 classrooms of 31 primary schools in Kecioren, Ankara, were examined for the purpose of assessing the levels of air pollutants (CO, CO2, SO2, NO2, and formaldehyde) within primary schools.

Results: Schools near heavy traffic had a statistically significant mean average of CO and SO2 (P < 0.

Coexistence of Epstein-Barr virus and Parvovirus B19 in tonsillar tissue samples: quantitative measurement by real-time PCR.

Objective: In this study, we aimed to investigate the presence and copy number of six different viruses in tonsillar tissue samples removed surgically because of chronic recurrent tonsillitis or chronic obstructive tonsillar hypertrophy.

Methods: In total, 56 tissue samples (tonsillar core) collected from 44 children and 12 adults were included in this study. The presence of viruses was investigated using a new TaqMan-based quantitative real-time PCR assay.

Changes in tear film, corneal topography, and refractive status in premenopausal women during menstrual cycle.

Purpose: To investigate the changes in a questionnaire based subjective symptomatology, tear film break-up time, tear volume, corneal topography, and refractive status in premenopausal women during menstrual cycle.

Methods: Seventeen premenopausal females and 15 healthy males were enrolled in this prospective study. After routine ophthalmologic examination, an ocular surface disease index questionnaire was administered, tear film break-up time (TBUT), and Schirmer I tests were performed.