New Anthropometric Measurements: Relationship to Thyroid Functions in Euthyroid Obese Subjects.

Introduction Body mass index (BMI) is unable to make a distinction between muscle mass and fat mass. Therefore, new anthropometric measurements, such as a body shape index (ABSI), body round index (BRI), and body adiposity index (BAI), have been formulated in recent years. Many studies have reported a correlation between BMI and thyroid function.

Incidentally Detected Gastrointestinal Wall Thickness on Abdominal Computed Tomography; What Does it Mean for Endoscopy?

Background: The clinical significance of gastrointestinal wall thickening (GWT) on abdominal computed tomography (CT) is not certain, yet. Despite the need for clinical guidelines describing the importance and evaluation of GWT on a CT scan, there have been few studies evaluating these incidental imaging abnormalities. The aim of this study is to endoscopically evaluate certain etiologies that cause incidental GWT found on CT.

Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy: Are Auxiliary Methods Necessary?

Objective: To determine the success rate of minimally invasive parathyroidectomies (MIPs) with preoperative scintigraphy and ultrasonography, and to assess whether these imaging modalities are sufficient.

Study Design:  Observational study.

Place And Duration Of Study:   Department of General Surgery, University of Health Sciences, Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey between March 2017 and December 2019.

Percutaneous cholecystostomy instead of laparoscopy to treat acute cholecystitis during the COVID-19 pandemic period: single center experience.

Background: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) is the accepted standard treatment for acute cholecystitis (AC) in patients eligible for surgery. Percutaneous cholecystostomy (PC) can provide a permanent treatment for high-risk patients for surgery or act as a bridge for later surgical treatment. This study is an evaluation of the use of PC during the current coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic at a single hospital.

Different approaches in diagnosis, follow-up and treatment of acute biliary pancreatitis: Results of attitude survey.

Background: Acute biliary pancreatitis is one of the most frequently encountered diseases among general surgeons in emergency surgical diseases. Differences in diagnosis and treatment management of these patients, varying from physician to physician, are common in clinical practice. We aimed to present these differences and discuss the results in the light of current guidelines in the literature.

Night Eating Syndrome According to Obesity Groups and the Related Factors.

Objective: To find the frequency of night eating syndrome (NES) in different obesity groups and to determine related factors.

Study Design: Descriptive cross-sectional study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Department of Family Medicine, Outpatient Clinics, University of Health Sciences, Kartal Dr.

The effect of parathyroidectomy on quality of life in primary hyperparathyroidism: evaluation with using sf-36 and phpqol questionnaire.

Quality of life (QoL) typically improves with a parathyroidectomy (PTx) in cases of primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT), but the effect of surgery on QoL is not yet fully understood. This study evaluated the impact of PTx on health-related QoL (HRQoL). Patients who underwent PTx for PHPT between January 2016 and December 2019 were asked to complete the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and the Primary Hyperparathyroidism Quality of Life (PHPQoL) questionnaire before surgery and 1 year later.

An Important Gallbladder Pathology Mimicking Gallbladder Carcinoma: Xanthogranulomatous Cholecystitis: A Single Tertiary Center Experience.

Background: Xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis (XGC) is an uncommon, focal, or diffuse destructive inflammatory disease of the gallbladder mimicking or being together with the gallbladder carcinoma. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of patients with XGC as a single tertiary center experience in the light of literature.

Materials And Methods: Data about 34 patients with XGC identified after evaluating 2212 cholecystectomy specimens between January 2013 and December 2018 in a single tertiary center were documented to determine demographics (sex, age), clinical symptoms and findings, biochemical and imaging clues and operative findings, duration of hospitalization, postoperative complications, and histopathologic results.

Laparoscopic to Open Cholecystectomy: The Risk Factors and the Reasons; A Retrospective Analysis of 1950 Cases of a Single Tertiary Center.

Purpose: We investigated the reasons, rates, and risk factors for the conversion to open cholecystectomies (CTOC) by statistical analysis with the demographic properties.

Materials And Methods: Demographic properties (age and sex), abdominal operations, and intraoperative and postoperative reasons for cholecystectomies were analyzed in 1950 patients.

Results: The patients included 1540 (79%) women and 410 (21%) men (F/M=3.