Living Donor Liver Transplantation: The Optimal Curative Treatment for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Even Beyond Milan Criteria.

Introduction: Liver transplantation offers the most reasonable expectation for curative treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma. Living-donor liver transplantation represents a treatment option, even in patients with extended Milan criteria. This study aimed to evaluate the outcomes of hepatocellular carcinoma patients, particularly those extended Milan criteria.

Adult living donor liver transplantation from donors with Gilbert's syndrome: Is it safe?

Backgrounds: We evaluate whether it is safe to accept donors with Gilbert's syndrome (GS) for a living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) or not. This study is the first controlled study to be conducted.

Methods: Between January 2004 and May 2014, 600 LDLTs which used right lobe liver grafts were performed in our center.

Splenic Artery Transposition for Arterial Reconstruction in Living Donor Liver Transplantation.

Purpose: In living donor liver transplantation, poor compatibility of the recipient hepatic artery remains a technical challenge. Here, we analyzed our 14 years of experience with extra-anatomic hepatic artery reconstruction.

Methods: Between July 2004 and December 2018, there were 1063 liver transplantations at our center.

Comorbidity Index as a Selection Tool for Living Donor Liver Transplantation in Elderly Patients.

Background: Previously published data have shown that age alone is not a contraindication for living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). However, careful evaluation is needed to identify the patients who are unlikely to benefit from LDLT. We hypothesized that the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) could be used as one of the criteria for risk stratification in elderly patients undergoing LDLT.

Normal Primary Graft Function Despite Early Hepatic Artery Thrombosis After Living-Donor Liver Transplant.

Objectives: Early hepatic artery thrombosis is rare but devastating in living-donor liver transplant recipients. In this study, our aim was to evaluate the results of all patients with early hepatic artery thrombosis at our center.

Materials And Methods: Between October 2004 and November 2015, 841 patients underwent liver transplant for end-stage liver disease at our center.

Polymorphisms in the Growth Differentiation Factor 5 (GDF 5) Gene in Knee Osteoarthritis.

Objective: To identify the frequency of the rs143383 SNPin the GDF5 gene, which is located in the 5'-untranslated region of Turkish population with knee osteoarthritis (OA).

Study Design: Acase-control study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Orthopedics and Traumatology Department, Bozok University Medical Faculty, Yozgat, Turkey, from 2012 to 2014.

Graft-to-recipient weight ratio threshold adjusted to the model for end-stage liver disease score for living donor liver transplantation.

The graft-to-recipient weight ratio (GRWR) is an important selection criterion for living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). The generally accepted threshold is known to be 0.8%.

Liver transplantation for homozygote familial hypercholesterolemia: the only curative treatment.

FH is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder characterized by increased TC and LDL level, which leads to xanthomas, atherosclerosis, and cardiac complications even in childhood. The treatment options are diet, medical treatment, lipid apheresis, and LT. The aim of our study was to analyze our data of patients with FH.

Living Donor Liver Transplantation in Patients 70 Years or Older.

Introduction: Previous published studies have shown that age is not a contraindication for deceased donor liver transplantation. The data about elderly recipient after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) is unsatisfactory. The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome of the LDLT with recipients aged 70 years or older.

The effects of regular hot black tea consumption on nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the possible relationship between oral consumption of hot black tea and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal carriage in a mid-sized town population in central Anatolia.

Patients And Methods: Nasal swabs were taken from a total of 109 subjects (53 females, 56 males; mean age 34.4 years; range 18 to 65 years) including 55 non-tea drinkers and 54 subjects consuming more than 10 cups of tea a day.

A Qualitative Study on Factors that Influence Turkish Medical Students' Decisions to Become Family Physicians After the Health Transformation Programme.

Background: In Turkey, general practitioners were authorized to work as family physicians without specialization, within the scope of the Health Transformation Programme, due to inadequate number of family medicine specialists since 2004. With this new implementation Family Medicine specialty became a less preferable option for medical students.

Aims: The study was to investigate the perspectives of medical students and understand the issues to choose Family Medicine specialty as a career option.

Efficacy of treatment with glucosamine sulfate in patients with knee effusion due to osteoarthritis.

Objective: Evaluation of anti-inflammatory effect of Glucosamine sulfate (GS) versus diclofenac sodium (DS) in effusion of osteoarthritic knees.

Methodology: In this study, patients were included in this study from 2007-2010 based on American College of Rheumatology criteria with OA and physical examination in effusion of osteoarthritic knees. The patients were divided into two groups.

Aspiration and methylprednisolone injection to the cavity with IV cannula needle in the treatment of volar wrist ganglia: New technique.

Objective: There are several types of treatment modalities for wrist ganglions. The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of cyst aspiration and methyl prednisolone acetate injection with double IV cannula rather than sharp pointed needle, as a new technique in the treatment of volar ganglia.

Methodology: The study involves total of 19 patients who received treatment by aspiration and methyl prednisolone injection into the cavity.

Teenage patients with ingrown toenails: treatment with partial matrix excision or segmental phenolization.

Background: Ingrown toenails (IT) is a very common problem leading to significant associated morbidity. The articles related to phenolization for matrix removal in teenagers with IT are not enough in the foot surgery literature.

Aims: To compare the postoperative recovery periods, complication rate, and tolerability of partial matrix excision and segmental phenolization in teenagers with IT.

Preoperative medical treatment in patients undergoing diabetic foot surgery with a Wagner Grade-3 or higher ulcer: a retrospective analysis of 52 patients.

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are one of the most important complications in people with diabetes mellitus. The present study was aimed to retrospectively review the efficacy of at least 1-week medical treatment before any surgical intervention in patients with Grade-3 and higher DFU according to Wagner's classification. A total of 52 patients (36 males and 16 females) hospitalized and treated between June 2006 and February 2009 and had initially received therapeutic treatment (local wound care, antibiotic therapy and blood glucose regulation) for a period of at least 1 week were included in the study.