Publications by authors named "Nilay Ermantas"

Extranodal-multiorgan involvement is rarely presented in diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography findings of a 22-year-old female patient with supra/infra-diaphragmatic nodal and skeletal involvements and thyroid, pancreas, right breast, bilateral renal, and ovarian involvements were presented.

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A significant association between lymphomas and HLA alleles has been shown in previous studies. However, the frequency of HLA alleles and haplotypes has not been studied in Turkish lymphoma patients. We studied HLA-A, -B, -DRB1 alleles and haplotypes in 80 adult lymphomas and 360 unrelated normal subjects by PCR-SSOP method using Luminex technology.

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Objective: The soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) is a soluble form of the urokinase plasminogen activator receptor expressed in various immune and cancer cells. The levels of suPAR have been demonstrated to correlate with prognosis in various cancers. This study was intended to investigate serum suPAR levels and their effect on prognosis in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

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Hypothyroidism causes a tendency for cardiovascular diseases. It was recently shown that thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) attenuates fibrinolysis and also fibrin-plasminogen interaction by the removal of lysine and arginine residues from fibrin monomers. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of overt hypothyroidism on the levels of TAFI antigen (TAFI Ag) and TAFI activity (TAFIa).

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We aimed to evaluate the prevalences of self-reported anxiety and depression symptoms in hematological malignancy patients and to determine the association between the presence of these disorders and the results of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-30 (EORTC QLQ-C30). One hundred and forty patients with a diagnosis of a hematological malignancy completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the General Health Questionnaire. Patients with higher anxiety scores were more frequently inpatients, had higher EORTC general symptom scores, and they had lower cognitive, emotional, social functioning and global quality of life (QoL) scores (all p values <0.

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Antiphospholipid syndrome is an autoimmune disease that is characterised by tendency to thrombosis, obstetrical and hematological complications. Corticosteroids may be useful for therapy of some features of this syndrome, such as thrombocytopenia. Nocardia is an important opportunistic infectious agent in immunocompromised hosts, i.

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