Echocardiography
March 2022
Cardiology Department, Ereğli Echomar Hospital, Zonguldak, Turkey.
Background: The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between the diameters and collapsibility indices of coronary sinus (CS) and inferior vena cava (IVC) and invasively measured right atrial pressure (RAP), and to determine whether these parameters have predictive value on RAP.
Methods: A total of 136 patients undergoing right heart catheterization due to pulmonary arterial hypertension were included in the study prospectively. CS diameters, IVC diameters, CS collapsibility index (CSCI), and IVC collapsibility index (IVCCI) were measured by echocardiography before catheterization.
J Pediatr Hematol Oncol
January 2022
Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Akdeniz University Medical Faculty, Antalya, Turkey.
Background: Studies on the increased body iron load in patients with thalassemia major have thoroughly demonstrated the problems caused by iron overload. In patients who undergo hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) as curative therapy, iron overload continues long after transplantation. There are few pediatric studies on chelation therapy in the posttransplant period.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Gynecol Cancer
December 2021
Department of Hematology, Antalya Training and Research Hospital, Antalya, Turkey.
Support Care Cancer
March 2022
Department of Medical Oncology, Sanko University, Gaziantep, Turkey.
Purpose: Febrile neutropenia resulting from chemotherapy is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in cancer patients. We had previously published the associates of the risk of febrile neutropenia, and this study now extends and modifies the previous model as well as tests its external validity.
Methods: We have recruited documented febrile neutropenia cases with solid tumors, in addition to a selected control group of cancer patients from one institution treated between 2015 and 2019.
Int J Clin Oncol
March 2022
Medical Oncology, Liv Hospital, Istinye Universty, Ankara, Turkey.
Background: Atezolizumab (ATZ) has demonstrated antitumor activity in previous studies in patients with metastatic platinum-resistant urothelial carcinoma. However, the response rate of ATZ was modest. Therefore, finding biologic or clinical biomarkers that could help to select patients who respond to the immune checkpoint blockade remains important.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTransplant Proc
September 2021
Akdeniz University Medical Faculty, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Antalya, Turkey.
Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in serum levels of S100β, neuron-specific enolase, glial fibrillary acidic protein in living donors and recipients after kidney transplantation.
Methods: We enrolled 56 patients into the study. Of these, 27 underwent donor nephrectomy (group D), and the remaining 29 underwent kidney transplantation (recipient, group R).
J Clin Immunol
November 2021
Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Hematol Oncol
October 2021
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology, Koç University Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey.
The AETHERA trial reported an increased progression-free survival (PFS) when brentuximab vedotin (BV) was used as maintenance therapy in high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) after autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). Thus, we aimed to determine the impact and safety of BV as maintenance after ASCT in real-world patients. Seventy-five patients with relapsed/refractory HL started on BV consolidation therapy after ASCT due to high risk of relapse, between January 2016 and July 2019, from 25 institutions, were included in the study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Clin Oncol
August 2021
Medical Oncology, Necmettin Erbakan University Meram Medical Faculty, Konya, Turkey.
Hum Reprod
May 2021
Academic Unit of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Neurosciences, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, Maternal and Child Health (DINOGMI), University of Genova, Genova, Italy.
Turk J Gastroenterol
February 2021
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Afyon Saglik Bilimleri University Medical Faculty, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey.
Background: In this study, we aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of sofosbuvir-based therapies in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C in real-world clinical practice.
Methods: Data from patients with chronic hepatitis C treated with SOF/LDV ± RBV or SOF/RBV in 31 centers across Turkey between April 1, 2017, and August 31, 2018, were recorded in a nationwide database among infectious disease specialists. Demographics, clinical, and virological outcomes were analyzed.
Arch Orthop Trauma Surg
June 2022
Department of Anatomy, Akdeniz University Medical Faculty, Antalya, Turkey.
Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the morphological variations in the cross-sectional anatomy of the meniscus between similar-sized matched menisci.
Materials And Methods: Knee MRI of 329 patients with intact menisci were retrospectively reviewed, and the meniscal length (ML), meniscal width (MW), and cross-sectional dimensions (meniscal height and width) of the anterior, posterior horns, and the corpus were measured. Patients with similar-sized menisci who had less than 1 mm difference in ML and MW were matched.
Objective: Differential diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is important among fibrotic interstitial lung diseases (ILD). This study aimed to evaluate the rate of IPF in patients with fibrotic ILD and to determine the clinical-laboratory features of patients with and without IPF that would provide the differential diagnosis of IPF.
Material And Methods: The study included the patients with the usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern or possible UIP pattern on thorax high-resolution computed tomography, and/or UIP pattern, probable UIP or possible UIP pattern at lung biopsy according to the 2011 ATS/ERS/JRS/ALAT guidelines.
Hippokratia
January 2021
Department of General Surgery, Akdeniz University Medical Faculty, Antalya, Turkey.
Background: The purpose of the retrospective study was to identify the impacts of different solutions on the electrocardiogram and cardiovascular changes. Moreover, the differences between these solutions were analyzed by examining their impacts on rat ventricular cardiomyocytes.
Methods: Eighty renal transplant patients were evaluated retrospectively.
Clin Transplant
March 2021
Department of Medical Microbiology, Division of Medical Virology, Akdeniz University Medical Faculty, Antalya, Turkey.
Background: The spectrum of human adenovirus (HAdV)-related disease is broad, and the virus acts on many organs and systems in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) recipients. We aimed to evaluate the effect of HAdV-DNA positivity with clinical and laboratory findings 4 months after HSCT.
Methods And Results: We retrospectively investigated HAdV-DNA in 153 HSCT recipients (≤18 years) by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (RealStar; Altona Diagnostics).
Life Sci
February 2021
Pamukkale University Medical Faculty Department of Physiology, Denizli 20160, Turkey. Electronic address:
Aims: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of metabolic abnormalities. Anatomically restructuring of the gastrointestinal system has recently been an important subject of research in the treatment of MetS and closely related diseases. The aim of this study is to ensure the remission of parameters that define MetS by ileal interposition (IT) and to examine the effect of IT on plasma total GLP-1 and pancreatic GLP-1R expression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSaudi J Kidney Dis Transpl
October 2021
Department of Nephrology, Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Pediatr Transplant
March 2021
Department of Pediatric Hematology & Oncology, Akdeniz University Medical Faculty, Antalya, Turkey.
The aims were to investigate the incidence of BKV infection and the presence of HC in pediatric patients undergoing HSCT. Twenty-four children patients (M/F: 17/7) undergoing HSCT in a single center over a period of 1 year were included in the study. The presence of BKV DNA was determined by quantitative real-time PCR in plasma and urine samples at the following times: before transplantation, twice a week until engraftment time, and weekly for + 100 days.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMed Ultrason
February 2021
Department of Radiology, Akdeniz University, Medical Faculty, Antalya, Turkey.
Microb Pathog
December 2020
Department of Medical Microbiology, Division of Medical Virology, Akdeniz University Medical Faculty, Antalya, Turkey. Electronic address:
Background: High viral loads are observed in Torque Teno Virus (TTV) infection after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). We aimed to analyze the kinetics of plasma TTV-DNA load in pediatric patients who received immunosuppressive therapy and developed infection complications in the first 100 days after HSCT.
Methods: As a patient group; 113 plasma samples taken from 33 pediatric HSCT recipients at a time interval after transplantation and as a control group; 38 plasma samples from 38 children without known chronic disease were included in the study.
Blood Transfus
July 2020
Department of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation, Van Yuzuncu Yil University Medical Faculty Dursun Odabası Medical Center, Van, Turkey.
Background: Patients' demographic and epidemiological characteristics, local variations in clinicians' knowledge and experience and types of surgery can influence peri-operative transfusion practices. Sharing data on transfusion practices and recipients may improve patients' care and implementation of Patient Blood Management (PBM).
Materials And Methods: This was a multicentre, prospective, observational, cross-sectional study that included 61 centres.
Transplant Proc
April 2021
Akdeniz University Medical Faculty, Department of General Surgery, Antalya, Turkey.
Background And Aims: This study aimed to evaluate plasma neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and S100β levels in orthotopic liver transplantation.
Materials And Methods: A total of 56 patients who underwent orthotopic liver transplantation were divided into 3 groups. Healthy donors (group D), end-stage liver failure (ESLF) patients (recipient, group R), and ESLF patients diagnosed with hepatic encephalopathy (HE, group HE).
Noro Psikiyatr Ars
June 2020
Department of Psychiatry, Serik State Hospital, Antalya, Turkey.
Introduction: Current evidence suggests that pro-inflammatory cytokines, particularly tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α) may play an important role in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder (BD). Our study aims to compare BD patients and controls in terms of serum TNF-α, soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 and soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor 2 (sTNF-R1, sTNF-R2) levels in different phases of BD.
Methods: Eighty-three patients with BD type 1 (27 manic, 22 depressive and 34 euthymic) and twenty-nine healthy controls were included in the study.
BMJ Open
March 2020
Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Marmara University Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey.
Objectives: Regorafenib improved overall survival in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) refractory to standard therapies in two randomised, phase III trials, but has not been evaluated in Turkey. REGARD evaluated the safety and efficacy of regorafenib in Turkish patients with treatment-refractory mCRC.
Design: Open-label, single-arm, phase IIIb study conducted between July 2013 and April 2015.
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