Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on diagnosis and treatment access of patients with viral hepatitis in Turkey.

Introduction: We aimed to evaluate access to diagnosis, treatment and follow-up in patients with viral hepatitis during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methodology: Patients who started treatment for hepatitis B and hepatitis C were included in the study and analyzed in two periods: before-pandemic and during-pandemic. Indication for treatment and frequency of laboratory follow-up was obtained from hospital records.

Assessment of Serum Resistin and Plasma Calprotectin Levels as Biomarkers of Inflammation in Patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever Disease.

Objective: While several inflammatory markers are known to increase in familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) disease cases, the need remains for diagnostic tests specific for FMF that monitor inflammatory activity. We aimed to investigate resistin and calprotectin levels during both attack and attack-free periods of FMF disease and evaluate their use as novel biomarkers of inflammation in patients with FMF.

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional study included 68 male patients diagnosed with FMF and 20 healthy individuals as controls.

Prediagnosis of soft tissue infection that was finally diagnosed as pyoderma gangrenosum of ulcerative colitis.

Pyoderma gangrenosum is a rare disorder characterized by inflammatory and ulcerative skin lesions. In this case report, we aimed to present our patient who had a prediagnosis of soft tissue infection and skin ulcers, and was eventually diagnosed with ulcerative colitis-associated pyoderma gangrenosum. A 30-year-old female patient was admitted to the emergency department with skin lesions on her kneecap and lower neck.

Lipase elevation on admission predicts worse clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19.

Background And Objectives: Hyperlipasemia is highly prevalent among coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of lipase activity, measured at the time of admission, on the clinical course and mortality in COVID-19 patients.

Methods: The population of this study comprised 12,139 patients who were hospitalized due to COVID-19 between June 2020 and June 2021 in a pandemic hospital.

Gastric neuroendocrine neoplasms: A review.

Gastric neuroendocrine neoplasms (g-NENs) or neuroendocrine tumors are generally slow-growing tumors with increasing incidence. They arise from enterochromaffin like cells and are divided into four types according to clinical characteristic features. Type 1 and 2 are gastrin dependent, whereas type 3 and 4 are sporadic.

Ultrasonographic assessment of femoral cartilage thickness in patients with Helicobacter pylori infection.

Objectives: Helicobacter pylori is a major cause of gastritis and a potential trigger of inflammatory disease. The effect of H pylori infection on distal femoral cartilage has yet to be evaluated. The aim of this study was to evaluate femoral cartilage thickness in patients with H pylori infection and to find whether this infection affects femoral cartilage thickness.

Associations between Gilbert's syndrome and personality characteristics.

Objective: Gilbert's syndrome (GS) is a benign genetic disorder that is characterized by intermittent mild jaundice in which the liver doesn't process bilirubin properly. The aim of this study was to determine whether GS patients have a different personality structure and if there are associations between properties of temperament and character and total bilirubin levels.

Methods: A total of 1665 young male individuals aged from 19 to 30 who were admitted for occupational examinations were included in this study.

Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects of Enhanced Personal Protective Equipment.

Background And Aims: Personal protective equipment (PPE) decreases the risk of disease contagion, and because of the COVID-19 pandemic, enhanced PPE (EPPE) is widely used during endoscopic procedures including endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of EPPE on ERCP success parameters compared to standard PPE (SPPE).

Methods: ERCP procedures were evaluated retrospectively and ERCP outcomes were compared for similar time periods as before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Physician awareness of hepatitis C virus among different departments.

Aim Of The Study: To determine the anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) positivity in our region and to evaluate physician awareness of HCV among different inpatient and outpatient departments in a tertiary reference center in Turkey.

Material And Methods: This retrospective study was conducted between January 2017 and January 2020. The patients tested for anti-HCV for any reason were enrolled from the data of all patients admitted to our hospital, which is the reference center of the region.

Evaluation of serum CXC chemokine ligand 16 (CXCL16) as a novel inflammatory bio- marker or familial Mediterranean fever disease.

Background/aim: Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a disease that is mainly diagnosed with clinical features. Several well- known inflammatory markers increase in FMF. However, there is still a need for diagnostic tests for specifying FMF and monitoring inflammatory activity.

Ultrasonographic Assessment of Knee Cartilage Thickness in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis: Decreased Femoral Cartilage Thickness May Be an Indicator of Extraintestinal Manifestation in Patients with Mild Activity Ulcerative Colitis.

Objectives: Ulcerative colitis is a systemic inflammatory disease which primarily involves the gut but presented by numerous extraintestinal manifestations. The effect of ulcerative colitis on knee cartilage has not been evaluated up to the present. In the current study, we aimed to investigate the possible relationship between the presence of ulcerative colitis and femoral cartilage thickness.

treatment in Turkey: Current status and rational treatment options.

According to the TURHEP study, the prevalence of in Turkey is 82.5%. After FDA approval in 1995, many countries have used standard triple therapy (proton pump inhibitor 40 mg b.

Presepsin:albumin ratio and C-reactive protein:albumin ratio as novel sepsis-based prognostic scores : A retrospective study.

Objective: To investigate the prognostic value of the presepsin:albumin ratio and C‑reactive protein:albumin ratio in patients with sepsis in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Methods: A total of 228 (129 males and 99 females) patients with newly diagnosed sepsis were included in the study. The relationship between the C‑reactive protein:albumin ratio, presepsin:albumin ratio, clinicopathologic parameters, and overall survival were investigated.

Drug-induced Liver Injury Caused by Phenprobamate: Strong Probability Due to Repeated Toxicity.

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality. DILI can even cause acute liver failure and the need for liver transplantation. Identifying DILI may be particularly difficult because it is actually an exclusion diagnosis and individuals are usually exposed to several drugs during a lifetime.

Pentoxifylline has favorable preventive effects on experimental chronic pancreatitis model.

To investigate the protective efficacy of pentoxifylline through biochemical parameters and histopathological scores in a caerulein- and alcohol-induced experimental model of chronic pancreatitis in rats. A model of chronic pancreatitis with caerulein and alcohol was created in female rats of the genus Sprague Dawley. Pentoxifylline was administered in doses of 25 mg/kg (low dose) and 50 mg/kg (high dose) as a protective agent.