Gender differences in severity of sickle cell diseases in non-smokers.

Objective: To find out gender differences in severity of sickle cell diseases (SCDs) in non-smokers.

Methods: Three groups of SCDs patients on the basis of red blood cell (RBC) transfusions were included. Less than 10 units in their lives were kept in Group-1, Ten units of higher in Group-2 and 50 units or higher as the Third Group.

Gender differences in patients with metabolic syndrome in coronary artery interventions.

Aim: We tried to understand whether or not there was a gender difference in coronary artery interventions in coronary heart disease (CHD) cases in the present study.

Methods: The study was performed in two phases. The first phase was performed at the Internal Medicine Polyclinic of the Dumlupinar University between August 2005 and March 2007.

The relation of fragmented QRS with tissue Doppler derived parameters in patients with b-thalassaemia major.

Purpose: The most important complication encountered in patients with b-thalassaemia major is degenerative fibrosis developing as a result of iron accumulation in myocardial tissue. Dysfunction pursues this accumulation. Recently, presence of fragmented QRS (fQRS) in ECG has been regarded as a predictor of myocardial fibrosis.

Effects of erdosteine on acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity in rats.

We investigated the effects of erdosteine on acetaminophen (APAP)-induced hepatotoxicity in rats. Superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px), AST (aspartate aminotransferase), and ALT (alanine transaminase) activities, and malonyldialdehyde (MDA) and nitric oxide levels as oxidant/antioxidant biochemical parameters were investigated with light microscopic evaluation in adult female Wistar Albino rats. APAP administration produced a decrease in hepatic SOD, CAT, and GSH-Px activities, and coadministration of erdosteine (150 and 300 mg/kg) resulted in increases in the activities.

[Evaluation of parasitology laboratory results of a group of people older than 15 years of age in Kutahya].

This research has been based on microscopic examination of stool specimens taken from 675 persons older than 15 years of age. The examinations were conducted in Parasitology Laboratory of the Dumlupinar University Hospital. Laboratory examinations of stools were done with native and formalin-ethyl acetate sedimentation methods.

[Evaluation of parasitological laboratory results of a group of people older than 15 years of age in Kutahya].

This research has been based on microscopic examination of samples of stool specimens taken from 675 persons older than 15 years of age. The examinations were conducted in the Parasitological Laboratory of the Dumlupinar University Hospital. Laboratory examinations of stools were done with native and formalin-ethyl acetate sedimentation methods.