Publications by authors named "Salman Yilmaz"

Article Synopsis
  • - This study investigated how microRNAs might influence the effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in treating schizophrenia, aiming to identify changes in these molecules before and after treatment.
  • - Researchers analyzed blood samples from eight patients with schizophrenia and eight healthy controls using microarray-based profiling, revealing alterations in 681 microRNAs post-ECT but failing to find significant differences in specific ones through further testing.
  • - The findings are preliminary and suggest a need for more research to understand the epigenetic mechanisms at play in ECT's therapeutic effects, as current knowledge on this topic is limited.
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Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) emerged in the last months of 2019 and caused a pandemic effecting the whole world. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of COVID-19 has changed by various mutations since the day it was first identified, causing the pandemic to continue. Age, male gender, obesity, and comorbidity, which are general risk factors for COVID-19, can also cause prolonged PCR positivity.

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Objective: In Turkey, the fourth wave of SARS-CoV-2 started in December 2021 and peaked in mid-January 2022. Afterward, peaks were seen in the number of COVID-19 cases because of Omicron BA.2 and BA.

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Background: Widespread and effective use of molecular diagnostic tests is indispensable for protecting public health and containing the severe respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. More than 1 year into the pandemic, as resources have reached a point of depletion, grouping samples in pools of certain sizes appears to be a reasonable method to reduce both the costs and the processing time without necessitating additional training, equipment, or materials.

Aims: To assess whether the pooling strategy that was used in past outbreaks and is used in blood tests prior to transfusion for screening large populations can also be used in SARS CoV-2 tests.

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Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the promoter methylation status of Rasassociated domain family 1A (RASSF1A), O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT), Phosphatase with tensin homology (PTEN) and Suppressor of cytokine signaling 3 (SOCS3) tumor suppressor genes and evaluate the clinical utility of these genes as noninvasive, blood-based epigenetic biomarkers for the diagnosis of Prostate Cancer (PCa).

Method: A total of 41 consecutive patients and 10 healthy control groups were enrolled in the study. Pyrosequencing was performed to analyze the methylation levels of the promoter regions of the four tumor suppressor genes in patients compared to healthy controls.

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Background: Primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP) is a disease characterized by the accumulation of air in the pleural space between the lung and thoracic wall. It is more common in young, tall, thin, and asthenic men. A family history was reported for approximately 11.

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Objectives: To assess the safety and efficacy of electrosurgical bipolar vessel sealing during vaginal hysterectomy in morbidly obese patients MATERIAL AND METHODS: A total of 105 morbidly obese patients who underwent vaginal hysterectomy due to benign gynecologic pathologies between January 2010 and April 2017 were included in the study. Patients were divided into two groups according to whether conventional suture ligation technique (n = 64) or electrosurgical bipolar vessel sealing (n = 41) were used during vaginal hysterectomy. The surgical procedure was performed with the same technique in both study groups.

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Background: Animal studies have shown that nicotine affects the peristalsis of the ureter. The aim of the study is to analyze the effect of smoking on spontaneous passage of distal ureteral stones.

Methods: 88 patients in whom distal ureteral stone below 10 mm diameter diagnosed with helical computerized tomography enhanced images were reviewed.

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Introduction: The aim of the present study is to determine the preoperative and operative factors associated with bleeding in percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PNL) operations where tract dilatation was formed by balloon dilators.

Material And Methods: A total of 378 patients underwent PNL in our department between 2003 and 2008. After excluding missing data 310 patients were included in the study in whom nephrostomy tract dilatation was performed using balloon dilators.

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