Association of vascular endothelial growth factor-C, plasma angiotensinogen and left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with hemodialysis.

Introduction: This study aims to examine the relationship between fluid overload, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor C (VEGF-C), plasma Angiotensinogen (pAGT), and echocardiography findings in hemodialysis patients.

Methods: This was a single-center, cross-sectional study. Patients were divided into two groups according to mid-week inter-dialytic weight gain (mIDWG): (1) mIDWG ≤3% and (2) mIDW >3%.

Perspective of Turkish Medicine Students on Cancer, Cancer Treatments, Palliative Care, and Oncologists (ARES Study): a Study of the Palliative Care Working Committee of the Turkish Oncology Group (TOG).

Cancer is one of the most common causes of death all over the World (Rahib et al. in Cancer Res 74(11):2913-2921, 2014; Silbermann et al. in Ann Oncol 23(Suppl 3):iii15-iii28, 2012).

Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification Presented with Impulse Control Disorder.

Primary familial brain calcification (PFBC), also referred to as Idiopathic Basal Ganglia Calcification (IBGC) or "Fahr's disease," is a clinical condition characterized by symmetric and bilateral calcification of globus pallidus and also basal ganglions, cerebellar nuclei, and other deep cortical structures. It could be accompanied by parathyroid disorder and other metabolic disturbances. The clinical features are dysfunction of the calcified anatomic localization.

Two brothers with bardet-biedl syndrome presenting with chronic renal failure.

Bardet-Biedl Syndrome (BBS) is a rarely seen autosomal recessive transfer disease characterised by retinal dystrophy, obesity, extremity deformities, mental retardation, and renal and genital system anomalies. BBS shows heterogenic transfer. To date, 18 genes (BBS1-18) and 7 BBS proteins have been defined as related to BBS.

Caring of ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients in rural community hospital settings: determinants of in-hospital mortality.

Objective: Cardiovascular disease contributes more than three quarters of all cardiovascular deaths worldwide. Adherence to myocardial infarction (MI) guidelines might not be possible in many rural hospitals. We aim to share our three-year experience in rural settings regarding to ST-elevation MI (STEMI) patients particularly by focusing on determinants of in-hospital mortality.