Publications by authors named "O Ilkay Ozdamar"

Objective: (s): This study aims to evaluate the changes in temporal auditory processing skills in children who underwent bilateral ventilation tube insertion (VTI) due to Otitis Media with Effusion (OME) and the effect of these changes on speech comprehension in noisy environments.

Methods: This is a case-control study. In total, 60 children were included in the study in two groups.

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Objectives: The study aimed to identify the interactions among treatment protocols and oral ulcer activity related factors in patients with Behçet's syndrome (BS) using the Classification and Regression Tree (CART) algorithm.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 979 patients with BS were included from16 centres in Turkey, Jordan, Brazil and the United Kingdom. In the CART algorithm, activities of oral ulcer (active vs.

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Objective: To find the frequency of hearing loss in newly diagnosed patients with fibromyalgia (FM), and the factors affecting it.

Study Design: Descriptive study. Place and Duration of the Study: Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Goztepe Prof.

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Objectives: Hearing loss has been described in patients with radiographic axial spondyloarthropathies (R-AxSpA) but has not been studied in patients with non-radiographic axial spondyloarthropathies (NR-AxSpA); accordingly, the aim of the study was to compare hearing loss in patients with NR-AxSpA, R-AxSpA, and healthy individuals.

Patients And Methods: This cross-sectional observational study was conducted with 68 participants (30 males, 38 females; mean age: 39.8±7.

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This study investigated whether trophoectoderm (TE) biopsy adversely impacts serum β-human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) level on the 15th day of embryo transfer (ET), delivery week and birthweight, between biopsied and unbiopsied embryo groups, in a cohort of women who delivered a singleton baby, following frozen-thawed ET. All women having had a live birth after blastocyst ETs following frozen ET cycles with preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) were included. A control group was selected among women who had a live birth following single frozen blastocyst transfer without PGT-A at the same period in our clinic One hundred fifteen and 173 cycles with- and without-PGT, respectively, were included.

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