Publications by authors named "Sabahat A Ecder"
Article Synopsis
- Latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) screening is essential for solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients, but many centers in Turkey are not adequately performing these screenings.
- In a study involving 766 SOT patients, 46.9% tested positive for LTBI, but only about half of those treated were registered, and there was a low completion rate of treatment.
- The findings highlight the need for better TB risk assessment and adherence to national guidelines to improve pre-transplant care for SOT recipients in Turkey.
Background: Training is essential for the safe and uncomplicated placement of hemodialysis catheters. This study explores the learning curve of this procedure.
Methods: In this prospective study, 60 patients who needed emergency hemodialysis without vascular access were included.
Introduction: Hemodialysis (HD) patients have increased risk for short-term adverse outcomes of COVID-19. However, complications and survival at the post-COVID-19 period have not been published extensively.
Methods: We conducted a national, multicenter observational study that included adult maintenance HD patients recovered from confirmed COVID-19.
The diagnosis of arterial hypertension has traditionally been based on measurements of blood pressure (BP) in the clinic. However, home or ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) is reported to correlate better with target organ damage than clinic BP readings. The other potential advantage of out-of-clinic BP measurement is the detection of both white-coat hypertension (WCHT) and masked hypertension (MHT).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObesity is one of the most important metabolic diseases around the world. There are no reliable and inexpensive methods to evaluate obesity. All of the anthropometric measurements used have some limitations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImmunoglobulin M nephropathy is an uncommon glomerular disease and a relatively less recognized clinico-immunopathological entity in the domain of glomerulonephritis, often thought to be a bridge between minimal change disease and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. It is characterized by asymptomatic hematuria, episodes of macroscopic hematuria and proteinuria. Corticosteroids remain the mainstay of therapeutic strategies for such patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common hereditary kidney disease. It accounts for 5-10% of patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The aim of this multicenter study was to investigate the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with ADPKD.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Our aim was to determine the association of paraoxonase (PON1), superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) activities and malondialdehyde (MDA) concentration, with lipoprotein and homocysteine (Hcy) concentrations in chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Methods: We examined 60 patients with CKD (35 men and 25 women), aged 52.7 -/+ 3.