Prevalence of Carotid Artery Calcification on Digital Panoramic Radiographs in Hemodialysis Patients on Kidney Transplant Waiting List.

Objectives: The detection of carotid artery calcification at an early stage is important to reduce the effects of cardiovascular disease in patients undergoing hemodialysis. This study sought to evaluate the prevalence of carotid artery calcification from panoramic radiographs of patients who were undergoing hemodialysis and to assess the relationship between such calcification and certain medical and periodontal parameters.

Materials And Methods: We evaluated 120 panoramic radiographs from patients who were undergoing hemodialysis for the presence of carotid artery calcification.

Relationship Among Coping Strategies, Quality of Life, and Anxiety and Depressive Disorders in Hemodialysis Patients.

Patients with hemodialysis face many physical and emotional stressors; yet little is known regarding coping strategies and their effects on patients' quality of life (QOL) and anxiety and depressive disorders. A total of 117 patients were enrolled in this cross-sectional study between October 2016 and April 2017. This study assessed QOL (Medical outcome short form 36-MOS 36), coping (Assessment Scale for Coping Attitudes-COPE) and psychiatric comorbidities in hemodialysis patients.

Postconditioning Ozone Alleviates Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury and Enhances Flap Endurance in Rats.

: Muscle-flap transferring is a routine approach utilized in reconstructive operations; however, flap morbidity is often a source of post-operative difficulty. Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury (IRI) is an important contributor to the viability of flaps after transferring. The goal of this research was for assess the probable useful impacts of ozone on flap survival in a rat muscle-flap design.

Choroidal thickness in patients with fibromyalgia and correlation with disease severity.

Purpose: To evaluate and compare choroidal thickness in patients with fibromyalgia (FM) and healthy controls.

Methods: In this prospective, cross-sectional study, forty eyes of 40 patients with FM and 40 eyes of 40 age- and sex-matched healthy subjects were enrolled. FM was diagnosed according to the American College of Rheumatology criteria.

Evaluation of Dry Eye Using Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography in Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease Undergoing Hemodialysis.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate dry eye parameters with conventional tests and tear meniscus with Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography (AS-OCT) in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Thirty-eight ESRD patients undergoing hemodialysis, and 40 healthy individuals were enrolled. An ocular surface disease index questionnaire (OSDI) was administered.

Evaluation of retrobulbar blood flow and choroidal thickness in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Purpose: To evaluate whether retrobulbar blood flow and choroidal thickness (CT) are affected in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and the relationship between these values.

Methods: We evaluated 40 eyes of 20 RA patients and 40 eyes of 20 healthy controls. The enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography, color Doppler imaging, was held.

Effect of fingolimod (FTY720) on choroidal thickness in patients with multiple sclerosis.

Objective: Using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT), to compare the choroidal thickness in a healthy population (group 1), with newly diagnosed multiple sclerosis (MS) patients (group 2), with MS patients who underwent β-interferon monotherapy (group 3) and MS patients who underwent fingolimod therapy for 1 year (group 4) METHODS: Twenty-five control subjects (25 eyes), 24 newly diagnosed (24 eyes) MS patients, 22 MS patients who underwent fingolimod monotherapy for 1 year (22 eyes), and 24 MS patients who underwent β-interferon monotherapy for 1 year (24 eyes) were included in this study. The control group consisted of age- and gender-matched healthy individuals. The choroidal thickness measurements were performed using a high-speed and high-resolution SD-OCT device.

Ozone Prevents Cochlear Damage From Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Guinea Pigs.

The cochlea is an end organ, which is metabolically dependent on a nutrient and oxygen supply to maintain its normal physiological function. Cochlear ischemia and reperfusion (IR) injury is considered one of the most important causes of human idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss. The aim of the present study was to study the efficacy of ozone therapy against cochlear damage caused by IR injury and to investigate the potential clinical use of this treatment for sudden deafness.

Relation Between Pulmonary Hypertension and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis.

Objectives: Pulmonary hypertension has been reported to occur in a considerable proportion of patients with end-stage renal disease. End-stage renal disease affects the health-related quality of life of patients. There is a lack of specific information on the relation between pulmonary hypertension and health-related quality of life in patients with end-stage renal disease in the literature.

Evaluation of choroidal and retinal thickness measurements in adult hemodialysis patients using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: To assess the effect of hemodialysis on retinal and choroidal thicknesses using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).

Methods: In this prospective interventional study, 25 hemodialysis patients (17 male, 8 female) were enrolled. All participants underwent high-speed, high-resolution SD-OCT (λ=840 mm; 26.

The protective effect of prophylactic ozone administration against retinal ischemia-reperfusion injury.

Introduction: Retinal ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury is associated with many ocular diseases. Retinal IR injury leads to the death of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), loss of retinal function and ultimately vision loss. The aim of this study was to show the protective effects of prophylactic ozone administration against retinal IR injury.

Mean platelet volume as a potential predictor of proteinuria and amyloidosis in familial Mediterranean fever.

This study aims to compare the mean platelet volume (MPV) levels in children and adults diagnosed with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) during attack-free periods in order to find out whether it reflects the emergence of microalbuminuria/proteinuria and the development of amyloidosis or not. The study consisted of 63 pediatric patients (group 1), 50 adult patients (group 2), 50 healthy children (group 3), and 43 healthy adults (group 4). Demographic data, age at diagnosis, duration of the disease and colchicine treatment, and FMF gene mutations were recorded, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate, C-reactive protein, fibrinogen, hemoglobin, white blood cell count, platelet count, MPV, blood urea nitrogen, creatine, albumin, and urine microalbumin and protein levels were evaluated.

Rhabdomyolysis-induced acute renal failure associated with legionnaires' disease.

Legionnaires' disease (LD) is a systemic infectious disease primarily involving the lungs. Rhabdomyolysis, with subsequent acute renal failure, is an infrequently recognized entity associated with high mortality rates in LD patients. As in the case presented herein, initial respiratory signs and symptoms may not be prominent.