Publications by authors named "Sedef Ozdal Kuran"
Background And Aim: Chronic liver disease is a risk factor for osteoporosis, osteopenia and bone fractures. In this study, prevalence and risk factors of osteoporosis and vitamin D deficiency and also their effects on survival were investigated in 218 patients with chronic liver disease.
Materials And Methods: Prevalence of osteoporosis and vitamin D levels was calculated.
Background And Objective: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and aspirin have antiaggregant properties and patients with pancreaticobiliary disease commonly use these drugs. We prospectively investigated whether aspirin and NSAIDs are associated with endoscopic sphincterotomy related hemorrhage.
Methods: Three hundred and eight patients who underwent sphincterotomy were sequentially recruited into this prospective case-control study.
Background/aims: It has been suggested that the presence of inflammation may accentuate the neuropsychologic alterations in hepatic encephalopathy (HE). The aim of the study was to investigate any association between alterations in plasma levels of the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-18 and HE.
Methodology: The study population included 63 patients with cirrhosis and 20 healthy controls.
Background/aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy, effects on survival and complications of self-expandable metal stent applications in patients with malignant gastroduodenal obstruction.
Methods: Twenty-five patients undergoing metal stent insertion due to malignant gastroduodenal obstruction between February 2005 and July 2009 were included in the present study. In all patients, self-expandable metal stent 22 mm in diameter was inserted under scopic guidance.
Background/aims: Gastroesophageal reflux disease is one of the most common gastrointestinal diseases of adulthood. Hypersensitive esophagus is a new term which defines patients with reflux symptoms, negative endoscopic findings and normal acid contact time on 24 hour pH analysis, although there is a convincing relationship between symptoms and acid reflux episodes on pH analysis- positive symptom index. In this study, the frequency of hypersensitive esophagus among patients with heartburn was determined and demographic findings, symptoms, manometric and pHmetric findings were compared among hypersensitive esophagus, non-erosive reflux disease, erosive reflux disease and normals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground/aims: Endoscopic treatment of biliary leakages after cholecystectomy, though widely accepted, has some restrictions. The efficacy and safety of endoscopic treatments in this patient group are evaluated in this study, and the problem of biliary stricture development in time after biliary ductal injuries is also emphasized.
Methods: Seventy-four patients (20 male, 54 female, mean age 50.
Background/aims: Dominant stricture of an extrahepatic bile duct is responsible for symptoms and an exacerbation of cholestasis in 15-20% of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of endoscopic treatment in this selected patient group.
Methods: Retrospectively, we evaluated 16 patients who were treated endoscopically due to elevation of serum biochemical liver tests and symptoms which were attributable to dominant bile duct strictures during the period 1990 to 2003.
We present a 78-yr-old man with appendicular metastases from pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Barium enema X-ray showed incomplete filling of a distended appendix in a patient with abdominal discomfort. Colonoscopic evaluation revealed firm nodules in appendicular orifice.
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