Pediatric crush-related acute kidney injury and risk factors: a single center experience.

Background And Objectives: Crush injury, the most important trauma complication encountered in earthquake victims, occurs as a result of prolonged compression of muscle mass. Crush syndrome, resulting from crush injury, and acute kidney injury (AKI) are the most common causes of in-hospital deaths after earthquakes. The aim of this study is to convey our experience after the devastating Turkey-Syria earthquake and to identify the risk factors of crush syndrome and crush-related AKI.

Optical coherence tomography angiography in healthy children: normative data and age-related changes in microvascular structure of the optic disk and macula.

Purpose: To determine normative data and reference ranges according to age groups by measuring the foveal avascular zone (FAZ), superficial capillary plexus vascular density (SCP-VD), deep capillary plexus vascular density (DVP-VD), radial peripapillary capillary plexus vessel density (RPC-VD), and peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (ppRNFL) in healthy children and to determine the age and sex-related changes of these values.

Methods: This prospective study included data from 370 eyes of 370 healthy children (202 girls, 168 boys) aged 7-18 years. Participants were divided into four groups according to their age.

Post-exposure Rabies Prophylaxis for Children in Southern Turkey.

Objective: To evaluate the prophylaxis practices used on children with animal exposures in a major southern city of Turkey, close to the Syrian border.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Emergency and Outpatient departments, Adana City Training and Research Hospital, Turkey between September 2017 and September 2018.