Publications by authors named "S Bilaceroglu"

Article Synopsis
  • - The study investigates the impact of different vaccination statuses on ICU admission rates among hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Izmir, Turkey, emphasizing the effectiveness of vaccination in preventing severe disease.
  • - Conducted from January 2021 to March 2022, the retrospective analysis included over 2,100 patients, showing that 19.3% required ICU care, and a higher percentage of ICU patients were unvaccinated (57%).
  • - Findings indicated that being unvaccinated significantly increases the risk of ICU admission, making vaccination a critical factor in reducing severe outcomes from COVID-19.
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Purpose: The aim of this study is to determine the diagnostic performances of pleural procedures in undiagnosed exudative pleural effusions and to evaluate factors suggestive of benign or malignant pleural effusions in tertiary care centers.

Methods: This was a multicenter prospective observational study conducted between January 1 and December 31, 2018. A total of 777 patients with undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion after the initial work-up were evaluated.

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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19), which causes a pandemic in the world, has started to appear in turkey since march 2020. Healthcare workers are at the top of the groups most at risk for covid-19 infection, which can have a negative impact on psychological state.

Objectives: It was aimed to evaluate anxiety and depression levels among healthcare workers.

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Background And Objective: Endosonography with intrathoracic nodal sampling is proposed as the single test with the highest granuloma detection rate in suspected sarcoidosis stage I/II. However, most studies have been performed in limited geographical regions. Studies suggest that oesophageal endosonographic nodal sampling has higher diagnostic yield than endobronchial endosonographic nodal sampling, but a head-to-head comparison of both routes has never been performed.

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