Genetic Burden and Outcome of Cystic Hygromas Detected Antenatally: Results of 93 Pregnancies from a Single Center in the Northern Region of Turkey.

Objective: Genetic burden, fetal malformations, and fetal outcomes of 93 fetuses with cystic hygroma (CH) are reported from a single center in Turkey.

Patients And Methods: Pregnancies, having a diagnosis of fetal CH, detected between January 2010 and October 2016, were included in the study except fetuses having increased nuchal translucency. Fetal age/gender, maternal age, the age of pregnancy, types of fetal malformations, karyotype, and outcomes were evaluated.

Probiotics are helpful in hepatic encephalopathy: a meta-analysis of randomized trials.

Background: Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a major complication of cirrhosis and is associated with decreased survival and increased health care utilization.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of probiotics in the management minimal hepatic encephalopathy HE (MHE) and overt HE (OHE) in comparison to no treatment/placebo and lactulose.

Methods: The main outcomes measured were mortality, improvement in MHE, progression to OHE in patients with MHE and hospitalization.

Hospitalized Patients with Cirrhosis Should Be Screened for Clostridium difficile Colitis.

Background: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is an important public health problem in hospitalized patients. Patients with cirrhosis are particularly at risk of increased associated morbidity, mortality, and healthcare utilization from CDI.

Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the pharmacoeconomic impact of CDI screening on hospitalized patients with cirrhosis.

Does surgical menopause affect sexual performance differently from natural menopause?

Introduction: Hysterectomy is the most common major gynecologic operation, together with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy in the majority of women over the age of 45.

Aim: To investigate whether surgical menopause affects female sexual performance differently from natural menopause.

Methods: The study included 121 women who had undergone surgical menopause and 122 women who had undergone natural menopause.

Increased serum heme oxygenase-1 levels as a diagnostic marker of oxidative stress in preeclampsia.

Objective: To evaluate the utility of serum biomarkers in the diagnosis of preeclampsia (PE) and also investigate possible correlation with pathogenesis of PE.

Methods: Maternal serum concentrations of heme oxygenase-1 (HO1) and N-myc downstream-regulated gene 1 (NDRG1) were measured at 27-34 weeks of gestation in a case-control study of 33 pregnant women diagnosed with PE and in 43 normotensive pregnant women without proteinuria. The Mann-Whitney U test and Spearman's correlation were used for statistical analysis.