Quality evolution of laparoscopic cholecystectomy videos over two decades: a comparative study of YouTube and WebSurg.

Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is one of the most commonly performed surgeries worldwide. With the rise of online platforms like YouTube and WebSurg, surgical videos have become popular educational tools. However, the quality of these videos varies, raising concerns about their reliability.

The liminal experience of awaiting for a cadaveric kidney donation: "I would not wish it on even my enemy!".

This study aims to explore the concept of liminality in the lives of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients in Turkiye who are undergoing dialysis while awaiting kidney transplants. The research focuses on how patients experience this transitional state, being between life stages, and how they cope with the uncertainty of their condition while aspiring for a transplant. The research involved in-depth, semi-structured interviews and participant observations of 34 dialysis patients who had been registered on the national organ waiting list for over five years.

Navigating Cultural Challenges in Transplant Surgery: Insights from Turkish Surgeons.

To achieve expertise, transplant surgeons in Turkiye undergo rigorous training, including medical school, residency, compulsory service, and extensive training in transplant surgery. Despite their high academic and clinical knowledge level, success in transplant surgery heavily depends on cultural competency. Through semi-structured interviews with 21 transplant surgeons specializing in kidney and liver transplants in Ankara, this study reveals how health illiteracy, culture, and folklore create significant barriers.

Percutaneous cholecystostomy as a bridge therapy in the geriatric age group with acute cholecystitis.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of percutaneous cholecystostomy (PC) in the geriatric patients with acute cholecystitis.

Materials And Methods: The records of geriatric patients with high surgical risk who underwent percutaneous cholecystostomy for acute cholecystitis were reviewed retrospectively.

Results: The median age of 134 patients who underwent percutaneous cholecystostomy was 77 (65-98) years and 63.

Effects of 5-fluorouracil released from different prosthetic meshes on post-operative adhesion formation in rats.

Objective: Post-operative adhesion is a common problem in abdominal surgery. Especially, foreign materials are strong stimulus for the development of adhesions. The aim of this study was to investigate whether drug release material coated prosthetic mesh decreases intra-abdominal adhesion formation or not.

Effect of Extractum cepae, heparin sodium and allantoin combination (Contractubex) on adhesion and fibrosis after neck surgery (thyroidectomy) in rats.

Objective: Reoperative thyroid surgery is technically difficult process with increased complications due to the adhesions and fibrosis caused by the previous surgery. In this experimental animal model, we planned to investigate the effect of Contracttubex, a mixture of Extractum cepae, Heparin sodium and Allantoin, on adhesion and fibrosis after neck surgery (thyroidectomy).

Methods: The current study is an experimental animal model of post-thyroidectomy adhesion.

Comparison of intraoperative biliary anastomosis stenting technique in living-donor liver transplantation: Review of 41 patients.

Background: Biliary fistula is one of the most important complications in liver transplantation. Complications can vary from simple local peritonitis to death, and various techniques have been described to prevent them. In this study, we compared two different stenting methods used in biliary tract anastomosis in living-donor liver transplantation.

Effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on rats with post-operative ileus.

Background: Post-operative ileus (POI) is a type of bowel dismotility causing accumulation of gas and fluid. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) has been frequently used for medical applications such as pain treatment and nervous stimulation. In this experimental animal model of POI, our aim is to investigate the effects of TENS on POI, and to demonstrate histopathological changes in rat intestine after TENS application.

MATRA-A: A study on massive transfusion.

Background: We use massive transfusion in various clinical conditions and it is associated with high mortality. Although some massive transfusion protocols improve patient outcomes, the clinical circumstances requiring it are not well defined.

Methods: MATRA-A is a multicenter retrospective study.

[Mortality prediction ability of phycians in intensive care units of Turkey (MOPAP)].

Introduction: Intensive care physicians are increasingly involved in decision making about the prognosis of intensive care unit ICU patients. With this study; we aimed to evaluate the power of clinician foresight at prediction of mortality in patient at triage to intensive care and patient follow-up.

Materials And Methods: This study was conducted in ICUs located in various geographical regions of Turkey between January 1, 2017-April 30, 2017.

New Findings on Autoimmune Etiology of Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis: Serum IL-17, IL-22 and IL-23 Levels of Patients.

Background: Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis (IGM) is a benign chronic inflammatory breast disease that mimics breast cancer, and the etiopathogenesis has not yet been fully evaluated. Autoimmunity has received the most focus as a possible etiology. Our aim in this prospective clinical study was to investigate the possible association between the cytokines, interleukin IL-17, IL-22, IL-23 and IGM.

Role of Intraoperative Nerve Monitoring in Postoperative Muscle and Nerve Function of Patients Undergoing Modified Radical Mastectomy.

This study aimed to postoperatively evaluate the effects of intraoperative neural monitoring (IONM) on muscles and nerves in patients who underwent modified radical mastectomy (MRM). In the 11 patients included in the study, nerves were determined and protected by nerve monitoring during the axillary dissection (IONM group). In another 11 patients, nerve monitoring was not performed; however, protection of the same nerves was attempted through careful nerve dissection (cautious nerve dissection [CND] group).

Spontaneous perforation of pyometra: A rare cause of acute abdomen and sepsis.

Pyometra, the accumulation of purulent material in the uterine cavity, is a rare gynecological condition whose etiology is impaired drainage of the uterine cavity. It is uncommon in premenopausal age and occurs mainly in older and postmenopausal women. Clinical signs of pyometra are vaginal discharge, postmenopausal bleeding, and lower abdominal pain.

CT-guided tractography is a safe and complementary diagnostic tool in the management of penetrating abdominal trauma.

Background/objective: Despite extensive published research, the surgical approach to penetrating abdominal trauma patients is still under debate. Computed tomography-guided tractography (CTT) is an imaging modality in which water soluble iodinated contrast medium is administered into the site of the injury in the CT unit. The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of the CTT.

Mortality determiners for fall from height cases.

Background: The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of body mass index (BMI) and trauma severity score systems on the mortality rates of patients undergoing surgery due to falls from height.

Methods: This retrospective study included 45 consecutive adult patients with multitrauma who were admitted and operated on due to a fall from height between January 2008 and December 2016. Patients were divided into mortality and recovery groups (n=10 and n=35, respectively).

The effect of lateral pectoral nerve sparing technique and radiotherapy on the pectoralis major muscle applied with modified radical mastectomy.

Background/objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate with electromyography (EMG) the effect of lateral pectoral nerve sparing technique (LPNST) and radiotherapy (RT) on the lateral pectoral nerve (LPN) in patients applied with modified radical mastectomy (MRM).

Methods: The study included 66 patients who underwent MRM surgery. The patients were separated into 2 groups as those applied with LPNST and those who underwent standard surgery (Control group).

Comparison of Intraabdominal and Trocar Site Local Anaesthetic Infiltration on Postoperative Analgesia After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.

Objective: This study aimed to compare the efficacy of local anaesthetic infiltration to trocar wounds and intraperitoneally on postoperative pain as a part of a multimodal analgesia method after laparoscopic cholecystectomies.

Methods: The study was performed on 90 ASA I-III patients aged between 20 and 70 years who underwent elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. All patients had the same general anaesthesia drug regimen.

[The effect of clinical, laboratory and radiologic results on treatment decision and surgical results in patients admitted to the emergency department with blunt abdominal trauma due to traffic accident].

Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of clinical, laboratory and radiological results on treatment decision and surgical results in patients with blunt abdominal trauma, who were admitted to the emergency department due to traffic accident.

Methods: Two hundred and twenty-two patients with blunt abdominal trauma were included into this retrospective study. Pearson chi square, Mann-Whitney U test and logistic regression methods were used for statistical analysis.

Cystic schwannoma of the axillary region: imaging findings of a rare disease. Case report.

Schwannomas are well capsulated, benign, and slowly growing tumors which originate from Schwann cells of peripheral nerve sheath. The incidence of schwannomanas in the axillary region is not common. This rarity causes misdiagnosis at the radiological evaluation.

Initial experience on utility of gadobenate dimeglumine (Gd-BOPTA) enhanced T1-weighted MR cholangiography in diagnosis of acute cholecystitis.

Purpose: To investigate the feasibility of the use of gadobenate dimeglumine (also known as Gd-BOPTA) -enhanced T1-weighted MR cholangiography in diagnosis of acute cholecystitis.

Materials And Methods: This prospectively designed institutional review board-approved HIPAA-compliant study was done between January and November 2007. We included 11 consecutive patients (7 male, mean age 59 years) who presented to the emergency room with acute right upper quadrant pain and with equivocal physical examination and/or ultrasound findings.

[Non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia in a chronic dialysis patient: a case report].

We report non-occlusive mesenteric ischemia (NOMI) in a patient with hemodialysis-dependent chronic renal failure who presented with acute onset of abdominal pain. On abdominal computed tomography (CT) and CT angiography, pneumatosis intestinalis of the small intestine and mesenteric venous gas were found with patent superior and inferior mesenteric arteries. CT also showed bowel wall thickening with fat stranding at terminal ileum.

Intestinal involvement in Wegener's granulomatosis.

Wegener's granulomatosis is a necrotizing vasculitis that may affect any viscera. Gastrointestinal involvement is rather uncommon. We present a case of Wegener's granulomatosis with multiple small bowel ulcers and a single ileal perforation.

Re-evaluation of axillary skip metastases in the era of sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer.

Purpose: To investigate whether skip axillary metastases are really skip metastases or a continuation of level I micrometastases in invasive breast cancer, and to determine whether there are any factors predisposing to skip metastases.

Methods: We reviewed 568 consecutive patients with breast cancer who underwent complete axillary lymph node dissections (ALND) between January 1998 and December 2004. For patients with skip axillary lymph node metastases, resectioning and immunohistochemical staining of the remaining part of paraffin blocks from level I lymph nodes were done to determine whether there were any micrometastases in this group of lymph nodes.