Publications by authors named "Timucin Mermer"
Objective: To investigate the decisive role of preoperative serum thrombopoietin levels in the discrimination of benign and malignant ovarian pathologies and its value in the evaluation of treatment response.
Methods: Fifty patients with diagnoses of adnexal masses (25 benign, 25 malignant) were included in the study. Blood samples were collected from all cases preoperatively.
Objective: To investigate that endometrioma is an asymmetric disease with left lateral predisposition as compared to other benign ovarian cyst and also, whether endometrioma side is related with endometriosis severity.
Methods: Operative and histopathologic findings of 340 women who underwent cystectomy for treatment of endometriotic (n = 239) and nonendometriotic ovarian cysts (n = 101) by laparoscopy (n = 268) or laparotomy (n = 72) between January 2005 and August 2009 were evaluated retrospectively. We compared left and right sided distribution of endometriotic and nonendometriotic ovarian cysts, and we also investigated the extent of endometriotic foci, obliteration of pouch of Douglas and endometriosis stage according to the revised American Fertility Society classification of endometriosis to assess whether endometrioma side is related with the severity of endometriosis.
Background: Infertility is a major psychosocial crisis as well as being a medical problem. The factors that predict psychosocial consequences of infertility may vary in different gender and different infertile populations.
Objective: The primary purpose of this study was to investigate whether Turkish infertile couples had higher levels of depression and anxiety when compared to non-infertile couples.