Altered gut microbiota in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease: an age-sex matched case-control study.

Objective: The investigations related to how gut microbiota changes the brain-gut axis in idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) attract growing interest. We aimed to determine whether gut microbiota is altered in PD patients and whether non-motor symptoms of PD and disease duration had any relation with alterations of microbiota profiles among patients.

Methods: Microbial taxa in stool samples obtained from 84 subjects (42-PD patients and 42-healthy spouses) were analyzed using 16S rRNA amplicon-sequencing.

Resistant gram-negative infections in a pediatric intensive care unit: a retrospective study in a tertiary care center.

Aim: Healthcare-associated infections cause increased morbidity and mortality in intensive care units. In this study, it was aimed to compare infections with multi-drug resistance and extended drug resistance, while evaluating the characteristics of resistant Gram-negative infections in the pediatric intensive care unit in our university hospital.

Material And Methods: In this study, pediatric patients who were found to have Gram-negative infections during hsopitalization in the pediatric intensive care unit in our faculty between January 2011 and December 2015, were evaluated retrospectively.

Morbidity associated with patient positioning in extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy of distal ureteral calculi.

In 115 patients with 123 distal ureteral stones located below the lower border of the sacroiliac joint, in situ extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) was performed with a Siemens Lithostar Lithotriptor. Our initial experience with the prone position in 8 out of 49 cases did not reveal stone fragmentation and on the final treatment sessions shock waves were allowed to enter via the obturator or sciatic foramen whilst the patients were in the supine position, in order to compare the results of treatments performed in both positions. The mean number of treatment sessions per patient, mean number of shock waves per treatment sessions, mean shock voltage per session and mean fluoroscopy time per session were significantly lower in the supine group than in the prone group (p < 0.