Work Productivity Loss in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients in Turkey.

Background: Beyond the medical treatment in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), there are other issues which influence the quality of life adversely. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of the IBD patients' illness on working and education life.

Method: The participants were invited to participate in the online survey from the Turkish Crohn's and Ulcerative Colitis Patient Association network.

Bacterial species and total bacterial load in the distal oesophagus in patients with and without clinical gastric reflux.

Aims: The purpose of this study is to compare distal oesophagus of persons with and without gastric reflux in terms of bacterial load and presence of certain bacterial species.

Methods And Results: Two biopsy specimens were obtained from the distal oesophagus at 5 cm above the gastroesophageal junction of each of the 50 patients (20 with normal oesophagus and 30 with reflux oesophagitis) under endoscopic examination and used for histological examination and DNA isolation. We used a real-time PCR-based assay to quantify the bacterial load and the presence of certain bacterial species from one of the biopsy samples.

VEGF receptor subtypes may serve as novel prognostic factors and putative indicators for anti VEGF receptor treatment response in renal cell carcinoma cases.

Purpose: Targeted therapies are novel treatment options for renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Of the target molecules investigated, vascular endothelial growth factor receptors (VEFGRs) were seldom evaluated. The current study investigated the prognostic significance of VEGFRs and IMP-3 as a potential prognostic markers.

Analysis of Non-Small Bowel Lesions Detected by Capsule Endoscopy in Patients with Potential Small Bowel Bleeding.

Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding cases in whom source cannot be identified after conventional upper and lower GI endoscopy are defined as potential small bowel bleeding. We aimed to search for lesions in the reach of conventional endoscopy in patients to whom video capsule endoscopy (VCE) had been applied for potential small bowel bleeding. 114 patients who had VCE evaluation for potential small bowel bleeding between January 2009 and August 2015 were retrospectively evaluated.

Clinicopathological characteristics and prognosis of patients according to recurrence time after radical nephrectomy for localized renal cell carcinoma: a multicenter study of Anatolian Society of Medical Oncology (ASMO).

Aim: We investigated the clinicopathological features in patients with recurrent RCC within 5 years or more than 5 years after nephrectomy and determined predictors of survival and response treatment after recurrence.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 144 patients with disease recurrence; 73 had recurrence more than 5 years after radical nephrectomy. We compared clinicopathological characteristics in patients with disease recurrence before vs.

Colorectal cancer in inflammatory bowel disease: results of the 3rd ECCO pathogenesis scientific workshop (I).

Epidemiological studies demonstrate an increased risk of colorectal cancer in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A detailed literature review was conducted on epidemiology, risk factors, pathophysiology, chemoprevention and outcomes of colorectal cancer (CRC) in IBD as part of the 3rd ECCO scientific pathogenesis workshop.

Importance of magnetic resonance imaging in patients with fibrocystic changes.

Introduction: A proper detection of atypical epithelial hyperplasia (component of FCC) without missing the coexistent malign disease is the main problem in evaluating the FCC-affected patients. For some patients, it is not enough to use only mammography and ultrasonography in pursuit or decision biopsy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be important in these patients.