Effects of postoperative parenteral nutrition with different lipid emulsions in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery.

Purpose: This study was designed to investigate the effects of total parenteral nutrition (PN) using different lipid emulsions in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery.

Methods: Fifty-two patients were randomized to receive soybean oil + medium chain triglycerides (MCT) (group I), soybean oil + olive oil (group II), soybean oil + olive oil + fish oil (group III) as a lipid source. PN was started on postoperative day 1 and patients were maintained on PN for a minimum period of 4 days.

Applicability of the Gail model for breast cancer risk assessment in Turkish female population and evaluation of breastfeeding as a risk factor.

The Gail model is considered the best available means for estimating risk of breast cancer development, but it has not yet been applied systematically and validated in Turkish female population. This study was designed to evaluate the performance of the Gail model for Turkish female population. Additionally duration of breastfeeding was examined as a possible risk factor.

Nutritional risk of hospitalized patients in Turkey.

Background & Aims: We conducted a multicentre study to assess nutritional risk at hospital admission, hospital-associated iatrogenic malnutrition and the status of nutritional support in Turkish hospitals.

Methods: A database which allowed for online submission of hospital and patient data was developed. A nutritional risk screening system (NRS-2002) was applied to all patients and repeated weekly in patients with hospital stays greater than one week and no invasive procedures.

Papillary microcarcinomas of the thyroid gland and immunohistochemical analysis of expression of p53 protein in papillary microcarcinomas.

Background: Thyroid papillary microcarcinoma (TPM) is defined according to WHO criteria as a thyroid tumor smaller than 1-1.5 cm. TPMs are encountered in 0.

Effects of probiotics on radiation-induced intestinal injury in rats.

Objective: Radiotherapy is an important aspect of multimodal cancer therapy, but radiation-induced acute intestinal injury is a common and serious problem. Disruption of morphologic mucosal integrity and normal bacterial microflora after abdominal radiation leads to malabsorption and bacterial translocation.

Methods: Lactobacillus bulgaricus strain isolated from yogurt was given as a probiotic to rats subjected to radiotherapy.

Comparison of the complications of subtotal, near total and total thyroidectomy in the surgical management of multinodular goitre.

Purpose of the study is to compare complication rates of bilateral subtotal (BST), near total (NTT) and total thyroidectomy (TT) in a cohort of patients undergoing surgery for benign multinodular goitre (MNG). Seven hundred and fifty patients undergoing surgery for MNG were studied with a median follow-up of 53 months (range 18-102). There was no operative mortality in this group and no patients required urgent re-exploration for haematoma.

Alpha blockade in preoperative preparation of patients with pheochromocytomas.

Preoperative preparation in pheochromocytoma is usually performed by alpha-adrenergic blockers. We retrospectively reviewed the efficiency of phenoxybenzamine, prazosin, and doxazosin in preoperative preparation. Phenoxybenzamine was used for preoperative preparation of 21 pheochromocytoma patients, prazosin was used in 11 patients, and doxazosin was used in 17 patients.