Evaluation of patients with acute pancreatitis associated with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19); The importance of lipase/lymphocyte ratio in predicting mortality.

Background: SARS-CoV-2 is the cause of a pandemic with high mortality. In the present study, the effects of the lipase/lymphocyte ratio on mortality were investigated in cases diagnosed with Covid-19 and acute pancreatitis.

Methods: A total of 21 patients who were diagnosed with Covid-19 and acute pancreatitis, 34 patients who were not diagnosed with COVID-19 but diagnosed with acute pancreatitis, and 55 healthy control groups were divided into 3 groups and included in the study retrospectively.

A new biomarker in severe pneumonia associated with coronavirus disease 2019: hypoalbuminemia. A prospective study.

Background: Effective triage and early detection are very important for controlling and treating coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Thus, the relationships between hypoalbuminemia and other acute-phase reactants in such cases need to be evaluated.

Objectives: To investigate the importance of albumin levels in cases of severe pneumonia due to COVID-19.

Dynamic Thiol/Disulphide Homeostasis in Acute Urticaria.

Background: Urticaria is an unknown, sudden, and itchy skin disease that is recognized with redness, swelling, and is sometimes seen with angioedema. It is classified as acute or chronic, depending on the duration of symptoms. Thiols in plasma are powerful antioxidants that physiologically eliminate free radicals.

Dynamic thiol/disulfide homeostasis as oxidative stress marker in diabetic ketoacidosis.

Background/aim: The aim of present study was to investigate the dynamic thiol/disulfide homeostasis as oxidative stress marker in diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).

Materials And Methods: A total of 77 participants consisting of 32 patients with DKA and 45 healthy volunteers were included in the study. Thiol/disulfide homeostasis (TDH) [total thiol-native thiol/disulfide changes] were measured in both groups (patient group and control group) using a brand new method developed by Erel and Neselioglu.

The thiol-disulphide homeostasis in patients with acute pancreatitis and its relation with other blood parameters.

Background: Acute pancreatitis is a common disease seen in emergency departments because of abdominal pain. The present study aims to evaluate the relation between measurements of thiol-disulfide parameters in patients diagnosed with acute pancreatitis and other blood parameters.

Methods: A total of 56 (56%) patients, who were admitted to the emergency department, and 44 (44%) healthy volunteers participated in this study.

Concurrent Spontaneous Sublingual and Intramural Small Bowel Hematoma due to Warfarin Use.

Introduction. We present a case of concurrent spontaneous sublingual and intramural small bowel hematoma due to warfarin anticoagulation. Case.

Subcutaneous Emphysema, Pneumomediastinum, and Pneumorrhachis after Cocaine Inhalation.

Introduction. The most prominent complications of cocaine use are adverse effects in the cardiovascular and central nervous systems. Free air in the mediastinum and subcutaneous tissue may be observed less frequently, whereas free air in the spinal canal (pneumorrhachis) is a very rare complication of cocaine abuse.

Posttraumatic pneumocephalus-induced bilateral oculomotor nerve palsy.

Bilateral third nerve palsy often points to the involvement of its nucleus. Third nerve palsy as a result of posttraumatic nuclear involvement is an extremely rare condition. A 23-year-old man presented with a depressed skull fracture after acute head trauma and had Glasgow Coma Scale Score of 9.