Pulmonary Evaluation of Earthquake Victims Followed Up in the Intensive Care Unit After the 2023 Turkey Kahramanmaras Earthquakes.

Introduction And Study Objective: In Turkey, a total of 269 earthquakes took place from 1900 through 2023. The most devastating earthquakes in terms of casualties and extensive destruction occurred at 4:17am and 1:24pm local time on February 6, 2023 with the epicenters located in Pazarcik (Kahramanmaras) and Ekinozu (Kahramanmaras) and magnitudes of 7.7Mw and 7.

The prevalence and polysomnographic characteristics of treatment-emergent central sleep apnea with obstructive sleep apnea.

Purpose: To investigate the prevalence of treatment-emergent central sleep apnea (TECSA) in individuals with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) during continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) titration and assess their polysomnographic characteristics.

Methods: A total of 116 patients with OSAS who underwent full-night CPAP titration at the Sleep Laboratory of Adana City Research and Education Hospital from September 2017 to January 2018 were recruited for the study. The patients' polysomnographic data related to respiratory events and sleep stages were reviewed in a retrospective manner.

Diagnostic value of plasma lysosphingolipids levels in a Niemann-Pick disease type C patient with transient neonatal cholestasis.

Objectives: Niemann-Pick disease type C (NPC) is a lysosomal storage disease due to impaired intracellular lipid trafficking caused by biallelic pathogenic variants in or genes. NPC is classified according to the age of onset of neurological manifestations. Cholestatic liver disease can be transient or lead to liver failure.

A practical means of evaluating the prognosis of acute pancreatitis, as measurement of carotid artery intima-media thickness.

Background And Study Aims: Factors such as age, obesity, diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia that cause adverse prognosis in acute pancreatitis also cause an increase in carotid intima-media thickness. In this study, we aimed to investigate the usability of the measurement of carotid intima-media thickness, which is an easy to apply, cost-effective means of measurement applied to the patients, in predicting AP prognosis, apart from the criteria currently utilized to predict AP prognosis.

Patients And Methods: 101 patients diagnosed with acute pancreatitis were prospectively enrolled into the study.

Combination of oral vancomycin and intra-colonic vancomycin: Successful treatment of complicated pseudomembranous colitis in a child patient.

The infection-related disease varies from mild diarrhoea to pseudomembranouscolitis. Although infection is commonly considered to be a hospital-acquired infection, a significant number of cases are community acquired. Community-acquired infection can exhibit itself as ileus or toxic megacolon.

Is There a Relationship between Patellofemoral Alignment and Osgood-Schlatter Disease? A Case-Control Study.

This study was aimed to investigate the role of anatomic variations in patellofemoral alignment in patients with or without Osgood-Schlatter disease (OSD) and to determine the potential anatomic risk factors that may play role in the etiology. This prospective observational case-control study was conducted on two groups of adolescent patients. Group 1 comprised patients who were diagnosed as having OSD and group 2 consisted of an equal number of age-matched patients who presented to the outpatient clinic with traumatic knee injury and underwent knee radiographic examination but without a diagnosis of OSD.

Serum Galectin 7 is Not Useful to Predict Abortion in the First Trimester.

Objective: Galectins are animal lectins that bind to surface glycoproteins expressed at the fetal-maternal interface. The aim of this prospective case-control study was to investigate the possible relationship between levels of maternal serum galectin-7 and threatened abortion (TA) and to determine whether serum galectin-7 had any prognostic value.

Methods: This prospective study was conducted between August 2014 and February 2015.