New Graduate Nurses' Approaches to Death and Dying Patients and the Relationship Between Death Anxiety and Death Awareness: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: One of the challenges experienced by new graduate nurses during the transition into practice is caring for dying patients. This study aimed to determine new graduate nurses' approaches to death and dying patients and the relationship between death anxiety and death awareness.

Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted with 226 new graduate nurses in Istanbul, Türkiye.

Frailty in older Turkish cancer patients undergoing post-surgical adjuvant chemotherapy.

Background: Understanding the frailty levels of older patients undergoing surgery and chemotherapy will contribute to timely and reliable care practices and improve care outcomes.

Aims: To determine the frailty of cancer patients who received chemotherapy treatment after surgery.

Methods: This descriptive study included 192 Turkish patients aged over 60 years who received chemotherapy after surgery for cancer.

[Examination of social media and technology use of mothers in breastfeeding period in a region of Turkey].

Objective: The aim of this study is to examine the social media and technology use of mothers during breastfeeding.

Method: Descriptive cross-sectional study. The study was carried out with mothers who brought their children for follow-up in the pediatric outpatient clinics of a public hospital, a university hospital and a private hospital located in Turkey.

The relationship between nurse-nurse collaboration and work readiness among new graduate nurses.

Background: Communication and collaboration with colleagues are crucial for new graduate nurses (NGNs) because of the adaptation to both the healthcare system and professional role. Therefore, working units with effective collaboration among nurses may increase new graduates' work readiness.

Aim: This study aimed to determine the relationship between the perceptions of nurse-nurse collaboration and the work readiness level among NGNs.

What Neonatal Intensive Care Nurses Have Experienced in COVID-19 Pandemic in Turkey.

Neonatal intensive care nurses have faced additional difficulties in adapting to a new work environment with a stressful situation brought about by the pandemic. The aim of this study is to evaluate the experiences of nurses working in neonatal intensive care units during the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Experiences were determined using phenomenology, a form of qualitative research.

Nurse-physician collaboration, intention to leave job, and professional commitment among new graduate nurses.

Background: The quality of communication and collaboration with colleagues, managers, and physicians affects the intention to leave a job and the profession for new graduate nurses (NGNs). New graduates have difficulties communicating and collaborating with physicians, especially.

Aim: This study aimed to determine the relationship between the attitudes of nurse-physician collaboration and the levels of intention to leave the current job and professional commitment among NGNs.

Effectiveness of lavender inhalation aromatherapy on pain level and vital signs in children with burns: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Burns are a source of pain, which cannot be fully treated with medications.

Objectives: This study aims is to test the effectiveness of lavender oil inhalation aromatherapy applied before dressing change on vital signs and pain levels of children with burns.

Design: This randomized controlled study was held between May 2018 and May 2019.

Determination of problems experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic by individuals receiving hemodialysis treatment.

Background: Patients receiving hemodialysis treatment are among the risk groups during the COVID-19 pandemic. They must cope with many factors simultaneously like anxiety about being ill, social isolation, inadequate information about protective precautions, and the need to attend regular treatment.

Objectives: This study was performed with the aim of determining problems experienced by individuals receiving hemodialysis treatment during the pandemic.

A catastrophic nightmare of the interventional cardiologist: Iatrogenic left main artery dissection and longitudinal stent deformation.

Iatrogenic left main coronary artery dissection is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication of invasive coronary procedures. The newer generation drug eluting stents have shown a greater safety and efficacy compared to first generation drug eluting stents. We report a 60-year-old woman with iatrogenic left main coronary artery dissection who failed bailout stenting and underwent coronary artery bypass grafting.

Competitive Coronary Flow between the Native Left Anterior Descending Artery and Left Internal Mammary Artery Graft: Is It a Surrogate Angiographic Marker of Over-or-Unnecessary Revascularization Decision in Daily Practice?

Overdiagnosis and overtreatment are often thought of as relatively recent phenomena in modern medicine, influenced by a contemporary combination of technology, specialization, payment models, marketing, and supply-related demand. Several investigators have reported discrepancies between the angiographic and functional severity of coronary angiographic stenosis. However, the visual anatomic assessment of the coronary lesion severity continues in daily practice.

Dynamic Systolic Compression of the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery by a Postinfarction Dyskinetic Left Ventricular Aneurysm.

Dynamic systolic compression of the coronary arteries is almost always due to the existence of myocardial bridging that is most commonly localized in the middle segment of the left anterior descending coronary artery. However, it has rarely been reported in patients with pericardial adhesions, tumor, foreign body, or pseudoaneurysms. Only rare case reports exist regarding dynamic coronary compression by a dyskinetic left ventricular aneurysm.

Nucleation, Growth, and Bundling of GaN Nanowires in Molecular Beam Epitaxy: Disentangling the Origin of Nanowire Coalescence.

We investigate the nucleation, growth, and coalescence of spontaneously formed GaN nanowires in molecular beam epitaxy combining the statistical analysis of scanning electron micrographs with Monte Carlo growth models. We find that (i) the nanowire density is limited by the shadowing of the substrate from the impinging fluxes by already existing nanowires, (ii) shortly after the nucleation stage, nanowire radial growth becomes negligible, and (iii) coalescence is caused by bundling of nanowires. The latter phenomenon is driven by the gain of surface energy at the expense of the elastic energy of bending and becomes energetically favorable once the nanowires exceed a certain critical length.

Chemerin as an independent predictor of cardiovascular event risk.

Currently, coronary artery disease (CAD) is considered a major ailment in humans with widespread prevalence. CAD also accounts for high mortality rates around the world that involves several known risk factors. Chemerin is a novel adipokinine that is associated with inflammation and adipogenesis.

Contact dermatitis after implantable cardiac defibrillator implantation for ventricular tachycardia.

Pacemaker contact sensitivity is a rare condition. Less than 30 reports of pacemaker skin reactions have been described. We report a 57-year-old woman who underwent an implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD) implantation for ventricular tachycardia.

Spontaneous rectus sheath hematoma in a patient treated with apixaban.

Apixaban, a non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants, is a Factor Xa inhibitor that is prescribed for the treatment of non valvular atrial fibrillation. Rectus sheath hematoma is a rare but significant complication of oral anticoagulant treatment. The important causes of rectus sheath hematoma include treatment with anticoagulants, hematologic diseases, trauma, intense physical activity, coughing, sneezing and pregnancy.

Azathioprine-induced atrial fibrillation.

Azathioprine, a purine analogue that competitively inhibits the biosynthesis of purine nucleotides, is used in a wide range of conditions. Although its side-effects are well known, cardiac side effects like paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF) are based on only a few case reports. We describe here the case of a 55-year-old woman with primary biliary cirrhosis who presented a first-detected, symptomatic AF 2 h after azathioprine therapy which resolved after discontinuation of the drug with no predisposing factors for supraventricular arrhythmias (systemic hypertension, diabetes or coronary artery disease).

Ventricular fibrillation development following atrial fibrillation after the ingestion of sildenaphil in a patient with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

Complications in the accessory pathway in Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome could cause different clinical conditions by inducing different arrhythmias. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of these arrhythmias and is important as it causes life-threatening arrhythmias. It is known that some drugs, underlying cardiac diseases, and the number of accessory pathways, cause a predisposition to this condition.

Investigating the Effects of Smoking on Young Adult Male Voice by Using Multidimensional Methods.

Objectives: Smoking is one of the most common harmful habits in the world, especially common among young adult male population in Turkey. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of smoking on the young adults' male voice using multidimensional voice assessment methods.

Study Design: This is a case-control study.

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.

The effect of gender on the early results of coronary artery bypass surgery in the younger patients' group.

Introduction: In this retrospective study, we aimed to determine the risk factors for coronary artery bypass surgery in patients under 45 years of age, and evaluate the early postoperative results and the effect of gender.

Methods: A total of 324 patients under 45 years of age who undergone on-pump coronary artery bypass surgery between April 12, 2004 and January 10, 2012 were included to the study. Patients divided into groups as follows: Group 1 consisted of 269 males (mean age 41.

Association between Plasma Fibrinogen Level and Saphenous Vein Graft Patency.

Background: Fibrinogen is related to the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. The inflammatory process in atherosclerosis may cause an increase in plasma fibrinogen level. Therefore, in this study we proposed to investigate whether plasma fibrinogen is associated with the patency of saphenous vein graft in patients at least 1 year after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery.

Evaluation of MMP-9 and TIMP-1 Levels of the Patients with Nasal Polyposis After Corticosteroid Therapies.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of intrapolyp, systemic and local corticosteroid treatment modalities on MMP-9 and TIMP-1 level in polyp tissues. This study included 71 patients and five groups. Group A treated with oral methylprednisolone, Group B, treated with topical steroid spray, Group C treated with intralesional triamcinolone acetonide, Group D patients with nasal polyposis who has not given any medication, Group E had surgery for concha bullosa without nasal polyp disease.

Early postoperative results for females undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass surgery: comparison of the pre- and postmenopausal periods.

Purpose: In this retrospective study, we investigated the demographic data and evaluated our early postoperative results of premenopausal and postmenopausal females who underwent coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG).

Methods: A total of 730 female patients who underwent CABG between April 2004 and January 2012 were included in the study. Patients were divided into two groups based on whether they were pre- (group 1) or postmenopausal (group 2).

Factors influencing the use of ambulance among patients with acute coronary syndrome: results of two centers in Turkey.

Objective: In this study, we aimed to identify the factors influencing the use of ambulance among patients admitted to two Turkish hospitals with acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

Methods: Overall, 330 with a mean age of 55±13 years, hospitalized patients with ACS at 2 different hospitals were included in this prospective cohort study. The factors influencing the use of ambulance hospital were investigated through a questionnaire.