Compassion as a Source of Satisfaction and Fear in Professionals Who Work With People.

Background: Compassion satisfaction and fear of compassion affect the mental health of professionals who work with people. In addition, each of these two variables can be important indicators of the quality of the services such professionals provide.

Methods: This study examines compassion as a source of satisfaction and fear among 293 professionals work with people, including 158 teachers, 57 police officers, 45 nurses and 44 imams.

Can we reduce oxidative stress with liver transplantation?

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the levels of lipid peroxidation (MDA) and antioxidants such as reduced glutathione (GSH), catalase (CAT) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) in the blood serum of patients with cirrhosis and liver transplantation.

Methods: In this study, serum malondialdehyde acid (MDA) levels, superoxide dismutase (SOD), reduced glutathione (GSH), and catalase (CAT) activities were measured spectrophotometrically and compared to the results of the healthy control group.

Results: SOD, CAT and GSH activities were significantly decreased in the patient groups compared to the healthy control group (p<0.

A Rare Presentation of Transfusional Hemochromatosis: Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism.

Hemochromatosis is a disease caused by extraordinary iron deposition in parenchymal cells leading to cellular damage and organ dysfunction. β-thalassemia major is one of the causes of secondary hemochromatosis due to regular transfusional treatment for maintaining adequate levels of hemoglobin. Hypogonadism is one of the potential complications of hemochromatosis, usually seen in patients with a severe iron overload, and it shows an association with diabetes and cirrhosis in adult patients.

An interesting cause of hyperandrogenemic hirsutism.

Mild clinical signs of hyperandrogenism such as hirsutism may appear during the menopausal transition as part of the normal aging process, but the development of frank virilization suggests a specific source of androgen excess. We report a case of a 68-year-old woman with signs of virilization that had started 6 months before. Clinical analyses revealed high levels of serum testosterone for a postmenopausal woman.

Life-threatening hypophosphatemia and/or phosphate depletion in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a rare case report.

Acute severe hypophosphatemia can be life threatening and is associated with mortality and impaired cardiac and respiratory function. Several conditions including decreased absorption or increased urinary phosphate excretion, shifts from the extracellular to intracellular compartments, and phosphate consumption by rapidly proliferating cells are known to induce moderate to severe acute hypophosphatemia. Although hypophosphatemia and/or phosphate depletion in patients with acute or chronic myeloid leukemia have been reported in the literature, hypophosphatemia due to acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is very rare.