Effect of Adrenocorticotropic Hormone Stimulation on Ischemiamodified Albumin Levels .

Objective: Ischemia-modified albumin (IMA) formation is associated with increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, while increased cortisol leads to decreased ROS levels. We aimed to evaluate the effect of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) stimulation on IMA levels and whether the effect was dose-dependent or not.

Methods: A total of 99 subjects with normal ACTH test results were included in the study.

Status of Central Precocious Puberty Cases at the Onset of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Single-Center Experience.

Objective: The onset of puberty in children is occurring at an increasingly earlier ages. During the coronavirus 2019 pandemic, children experienced epidemic-related changes such as stress, sedentary lifestyle, and weight gain.

Materials And Methods: Auxological, clinical, endocrinological, and radiological data in the files of 57 patients who were given gonadotropin-releasing hormone analog therapy with the diagnosis of central precocious puberty between April 1 and July 1, 2019 (group 1) and April 1 and July 1, 2020 (group 2) were analyzed retrospectively.

Analysis and comparison of changing in thyroid hormones after percutaneous and surgical tracheotomy.

Objectives: To evaluate the effect of the surgical and percutaneous tracheotomy on the thyroid hormones and their comparisons.

Materials And Methods: Between January and May 2010, the surgical and percutaneous tracheotomy had been performed on 40 patients with respiration problems. The thyroid hormone levels were measured just before, after one and three hour of the operation and than these measurements were compared statistically.

Audiological and graft take results of cartilage reinforcement tympanoplasty (a new technique) versus fascia.

Our objective is to compare hearing and graft take results of temporal muscle fascia tympanoplasty and cartilage reinforcement tympanoplasty. Seventy seven patients are classified into two groups: Group 1 included 37 patients for whom cartilage graft, harvested from symba concha, is used as reinforcement under temporalis muscle fascia anteriorly and Group 2 included 40 patients for whom only temporalis muscle fascia is used in type 1 tympanoplasty. A pure-tone audiometry is done within 1 week prior to surgery and at 6 months postoperatively.