Effect of socio-cultural factors on spontaneous abortion in Burdur, Turkey: A population based case-control study.

Objective: To determine the sociocultural factors that have effect on spontaneous abortion in Burdur, Turkey.

Methods: Study was designed as case-control study. The case group consist of 257 women whose pregnancies ended with spontaneous abortion.

Pediatric small bowel transplantation: A single-center experience from Turkey.

Background/aims: Small bowel transplantation (SBTx) is a treatment option for patients with serious parenteral nutrition-related problems in intestinal failure. İzmir Tepecik Training Research Hospital Organ Transplantation Center is still the only pediatric intestinal transplant center in Turkey.

Material And Methods: This study was approved by the local ethics committee.

Effect of Social Factors on Cesarean Birth in Primiparous Women: A Cross Sectional Study (Social Factors and Cesarean Birth).

Background: P Cesarean delivery rates have been increasing throughout the world. Parallel to the developments in the world the cesarean rate in Turkey has risen to 48.1% in 2013.

Mesenchymal stem cell therapy in patients with small bowel transplantation: single center experience.

Aim: To study the effects of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy on the prevention of acute rejection and graft vs host disease following small bowel transplantation.

Methods: In our transplantation center, 6 isolated intestinal transplants have been performed with MSC therapy since 2009. The primary reasons for transplants were short gut syndrome caused by surgical intestine resection for superior mesenteric artery thrombosis (n = 4), Crohn's disease (n = 1) and intestinal aganglionosis (n = 1).

A retrospective analysis of long-term graft survival in 61 pediatric renal transplant recipients: a single-center experience.

Background: Although short-term renal allograft survival in children has improved over the years, long-term graft outcomes remain unclear. In this study we report the characteristics and other variables that impact long-term kidney graft survival in children.

Material And Methods: Records of 61 pediatric kidney transplant recipients (mean age: 14±3 years) performed at our institution between 1995 and 2011 were evaluated.

The effects of preoperative immunosuppressive therapy on ischemia and reperfusion (I/R) injury in healthy rats.

Purpose: Warm-ischemia-induced injuries might be encountered during renal transplants from cadavers and healthy donors. Toll-like receptors (TLR) in ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury are one of the indicators of intracellular injury pathways. The intensity of ischemic injury is directly proportionate to high TLR levels.