Objectives: This study aims to investigate the relationship between the interferon-gamma receptor 1 (IFNGR1) polymorphism and susceptibility to lung sarcoidosis.
Patients And Methods: The study included a total of 55 patients (13 males, 42 females; mean age: 46.5±9.
Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis
March 2023
Objective And Aim: Sarcoidosis, a multisystemic granulomatous disease, generally results in a lower quality of life (QoL) because of its unexpected course and diverse clinical symptoms. The Sarcoidosis Health Questionnaire (SHQ) evaluates the QoL for people with sarcoidosis in terms of their health. This study set out to validate the SHQ in a group of Turkish sarcoidosis patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The aim of this study is to determine the diagnostic performances of pleural procedures in undiagnosed exudative pleural effusions and to evaluate factors suggestive of benign or malignant pleural effusions in tertiary care centers.
Methods: This was a multicenter prospective observational study conducted between January 1 and December 31, 2018. A total of 777 patients with undiagnosed exudative pleural effusion after the initial work-up were evaluated.
Objective: To evaluate the utility of neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) determined at initial diagnosis in predicting advanced disease stage and discriminating between active and stable disease in sarcoidosis.
Methods: A total of 465 patients with biopsy-proven sarcoidosis (age: 47 years, 70.5% females) were included in this retrospective cross-sectional study.
Introduction: The search for biomarkers that could help in predicting disease prognosis in the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) outbreak is still high on the agenda.
Objective: To find out the efficacy of D-dimer and mean platelet volume (MPV) combination as a prognostic marker in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with bilateral infiltration.
Materials And Methods: Study design: Retrospective observational cohort.
Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992)
December 2021
Objective: The study aimed to investigate the use of Neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio, C-reactive protein/albumin ratio, controlling nutritional status, and prognostic nutritional index immune, inflammatory, and malnutrition markers Metabolic syndrome+ in sarcoidosis patients, as an early-stage marker.
Method: This is a single-center and cross-sectional study that determines the association of Metabolic syndrome in patients with sarcoidosis. Patients were evaluated based on the National Cholesterol Education Program's Adult Treatment Panel III criteria.
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of inflammatory markers determined during admission among patients with sarcoidosis with chronic and remission groups.
Methods: This study was designed as retrospective single-center study. Patients with sarcoidosis without treatment and who had at least two years of follow-up were included in this study.
Background And Aims: Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disease with frequent cardiac involvement, albeit manifest cardiac disease is rare. Though epicardial coronary arteries are not frequently involved, microvascular disease is rather common in both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. The mechanism of microvascular involvement has not been elaborated yet.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBACKGROUND Serum uric acid (sUA) levels were previously found to be correlated with hypoxic states. We aimed to determine the levels of sUA and sUA/creatinine ratios in stable COPD patients and to evaluate whether sUA level and sUA/creatinine ratio can be used as predictors of exacerbation risk and disease severity. MATERIAL AND METHODS This cross-sectional study included stable COPD patients and healthy controls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The most important and difficult task when it comes to reducing tobacco-related morbidity and mortality is to convince smokers to quit and to maintain their abstinence. This study aimed to determine the smoking relapse rate and factors related to relapse in subjects who participated in a smoking cessation program and completed a 1-y follow-up in our center.
Methods: The study included 550 subjects who applied to a smoking cessation clinic from June 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011 and completed the 1-y follow-up.
Aim of our study was to investigate the sensitivity of transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) and its contributions to conventional diagnostic methods (CDM) in the endobronchial lesions of the patients who underwent TBNA during fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) and had final diagnosis of lung cancer. Bronchoscopy records of 1194 patients, who underwent FOB for uncertain lung cancer in our clinic, were reviewed retrospectively. Eighty-one patients with final histopathological diagnosis of primary lung cancer who underwent TBNA, were included to study.
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