Risk factors for acute symptomatic seizure in children with cerebral sinovenous thrombosis: Experience from a tertiary center.

Objective: To investigate the risk factors for acute symptomatic seizure (ASS) in children with Cerebral Sinovenous Thrombosis (CSVT) and to evaluate the effect of ASS on outcome.

Methods: Cross-sectional, single-center, hospital-based retrospective analysis of 42 children with neuroimaging-confirmed CSVT recorded between December 2009 and January 2023. ASS was defined as a seizure occurring within 7 days after CSVT.

Incidence and Risk Factors of Acute Kidney Injury in Pediatric Liver Transplant Patients: A Retrospective Study.

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) significantly contributes to the mortality and morbidity rates among pediatric liver transplant (LT) recipients.

Objective: Our study aimed to assess the potential factors contributing to AKI in pediatric LT patients and to analyze the impact of AKI on postoperative mortality and hospitalization duration.

Materials And Methods: About 235 pediatric LT patients under the age of 18 between the years 2015 and 2021 were evaluated retrospectively.

Evaluation of visceral adipose tissue thickness in precocious puberty.

Objective: Although there is a relationship between earlier onset of puberty and increased adiposity tissue. Publications in the literature on adiposis in patients with central precocious puberty (CPP) and visceral fat thickness (VFT) have conflicting results. So, in this study, we aimed to evaluate the relationship between sexual maturation and obesity in the development of early puberty and to examine their relationship with pelvic sonographic parameters.

Comparison of Urinary Tract Dilatation and Society of Fetal Urology systems in the detection of vesicourethral reflux and renal scar.

Purpose: The presence and degree of hydronephrosis is very important in the management of many diseases of the urinary tract. In this study, we aim to compare the sensitivity and specificity of 2 classification systems that are used for hydro-nephrosis grading in ultrasound, for reflux and scar detection. The classification systems were the Society of Fetal Urology (SFU) and Urinary Tract Dilatation (UTD).

Magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of the effects of cigarette and maras powder (smokeless tobacco) on lumbar disc degeneration.

Objective: The main aim of this study was to investigate and compare the effects of the use of Maras powder and cigarettes on lumbar disc degeneration.

Paients And Methods: This study included 87 adult patients who presented at our hospital with a complaint of mechanical low back pain and underwent lumbar magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Patients meeting the inclusion criteria were divided into three groups.

Relationship between increased carotid artery stiffness and idiopathic subjective tinnitus.

Tinnitus is defined as perception of sound with no external stimulus, and can separate into pulsatile and non-pulsatile types. Arterial stiffness is a parameter that can predict the cardiovascular event and associated with incidence of stroke. It has been shown that increased arterial stiffness may lead to microvascular damage in brain.

Increased epicardial adipose tissue thickness on transthoracic echocardiography in patients with Behçet disease.

Objectives: Owing to the fact that the potential frequency of endothelial dysfunction and early atherosclerosis might be higher in Behçet disease, characterized by acute and chronic inflammatory attacks, it may lead to impairment in flow-mediated dilatation and an increase in epicardial adipose tissue thickness. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate whether epicardial adipose tissue thickness and brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation as markers of early atherosclerosis and endothelial dysfunction were associated with Behçet disease.

Methods: Thirty-five patients with Behçet disease and 35 healthy volunteers were included in this study.

Evaluation of vertebral artery involvement by Doppler sonography in patients with Behçet disease.

Objectives: Neurologic lesions in Behçet disease are most frequently observed in areas supplied by the vertebrobasilar system. We aimed to evaluate possible vertebral artery involvement by Doppler sonography in patients with Behçet disease.

Methods: Forty-five patients with Behçet disease and 29 healthy volunteers had Doppler sonography of the vertebral arteries.

Assessment of atrial electromechanical delay in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome in both lean and obese subjects.

Aim: Even though polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is characterized by increased inflammatory activity and insulin resistance, there is no clinical data about whether risk of atrial fibrillation are increased in these patients. We aimed to evaluate atrial conduction parameters predicting atrial involvement in this patient group.

Methods: The study population comprised 50 women 18-40 years of age who had been diagnosed with PCOS.