Enthesitis and its relationship with disease activity, functional status, and quality of life in psoriatic arthritis: a multi-center study.

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an inflammatory arthritis with distinct phenotypic subtypes. Enthesitis is assigned as a hallmark of the disease, given its significant relations to disease activity and quality of life. Our objective is to evaluate the prevalence of enthesitis and its association with some clinical parameters, particularly quality of life, using data from a national registry.

Investigation of risk factors, topographic location and stroke mechanisms of unilateral isolated and posterior cerebral ARTERY thalamic infarcts.

Background And Purpose: In this study, we aimed to examine the risk factors, topographic features and stroke mechanisms of acute ischemic unilateral infarcts of thalamus.

Methods: Patient with isolated thalamic infarct and those with posterior cerebral artery (PCA) infarction who were admitted to our hospital between January 2014 and January 2017 with acute unilateral thalamic infarction (TI) were included in this study (isolated thalamic infarction/ isolated TI; thalamic and posterior cerebral artery infarction/PCA+TI). Demographic characteristics and vascular risk factors of the patients were determined.

Evaluation of the effects of neural therapy in patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia.

Objectives: This study aims to compare the effects of neural therapy and exercise on pain, quality of life, depression, anxiety, and functioning status in patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS).

Patients And Methods: This multi-center study included a total of 72 patients (60 females, 12 males; mean age: 39.2±9.

Effects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Existential Psychotherapy and Supportive Counselling on Facial Emotion Recognition Among Patients with Mild or Moderate Depression.

Objective: This study compared the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), existential psychotherapy (ExP) and supportive counseling (SUP) on facial emotion recognition among mildly and moderately depressed patients.

Methods: 21 patients for CBT, and 20 each for ExP and SUP groups with 60 healthy controls were investigated. Eight consecutive weekly sessions and following two monthly boosters were performed.

Illusion or reality? How 3-dimensional optical coherence tomography overcomes the limitations of angiography: OCT-guided percutaneous coronary intervention of left main stem disease involving LAD/LCx bifurcation.

Angiography is still the workhorse imaging approach for the vast majority of percutaneous coronary revascularization (PCR) cases. However, the limitations of angiographic guidance for coronary procedures have been well established. This case report demonstrates how 3-dimensional optical coherence tomography (3D OCT) can change the treatment strategy, which, had only the angiography results been considered, seemed to be straightforward.

Neuroimaging depression and anxiety in essential tremor: A diffusion tensor imaging study.

Objective: Patients with essential tremor (ET) may exhibit non-motor features, including those that are neuropsychiatric. Depression and anxiety are the most common among these. This study aims to investigate the possible relationship between microstructural brain changes and symptoms of depression and anxiety in ET.

Temperament and character differences of patients with polycystic ovary syndrome.

Aim: There is an unclear relationship between Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and psychiatric disorders including anxiety and depression. We aimed to evaluate temperamental and personal characteristics of patients with PCOS.

Methods: Fifty patients with PCOS and 41 healthy controls were included in the study.

Unprecedented recurrence of carpal tunnel syndrome by metaplastic synovial cyst in the carpal tunnel.

Metaplastic synovial cyst (MSC) is a benign cystic lesion observed after surgical intervention and recurrent skin trauma. Because of its rarity, the etiology is not fully understood. The most emphasized etiologic factors are recurrent surgical procedures and cutaneous pathologies, which cause cutaneous fragility and abnormal wound formation.

Turkish League Against Rheumatism (TLAR) Recommendations for the Pharmacological Management of Rheumatoid Arthritis: 2018 Update Under Guidance of Current Recommendations.

Objectives: This study aims to report the assessment of the Turkish League Against Rheumatism (TLAR) expert panel on the compliance and adaptation of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) 2016 recommendations for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in Turkey.

Patients And Methods: The EULAR 2016 recommendations for the treatment of RA were voted by 27 specialists experienced in this field with regard to participation rate for each recommendation and significance of items. Afterwards, each recommendation was brought forward for discussion and any alteration gaining ≥70% approval was accepted.

Evaluation of oral health status of children in pretreatment and after treatment for 18 month.

Objective: Dental caries is an important public health issue worldwide. In developing countries preventive dentistry is not common; hence, oral and dental health problems continue to generate serious economic and social issues. The aim of this study was to assess oral health and the incidence of dental caries in systemically healthy children aged 3-14 years, provide education on oral hygiene motivation, conduct the necessary preventive and restorative procedures, and reassess caries development at the 6-, 12-, and 18-month post-treatment follow-up.

Patterns of Altered Corneal Sensation in Patients With Chronic Migraine.

Objective: Migraine is a central sensitization disease characterized by recurrent unilateral headache. The aim of this study was to evaluate corneal sensitivity and associated findings in patients with migraine.

Methods: In this study, we included 58 patients with migraine (52 female and 6 male, mean age: 32.

Investigation of alexithymia and levels of anxiety and depression among patients with restless legs syndrome.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine alexithymia among restless legs syndrome (RLS) patients, compare with healthy controls, and argue the clinical inferences of this relationship. We searched for anxiety and depression and their clinical outcomes among patients and searched whether the results are similar to previous studies.

Patients And Methods: Eighty-seven RLS patients and 88 age, gender, and educationally matched healthy controls were assessed in Bezmialem Foundation University Hospital.

Neutrophil Elastase Inhibitor Increases Flap Survival in Experimental Degloving Injuries.

Objectives: Degloving hand injuries have generally been viewed as among the most difficult of injuries to manage due to the extensive nature of associated damage. The traditional approach to the circumferentially degloved segment of problematic flap viability has been to resuture the flap and to wait and see. However, the waiting period or the specific hemorheological protocol remains uncertain.

Neural precursor cell-expressed developmentally down-regulated 4-like: a new biomarker in the pathophysiology of endometrial cancer.

Objectives Endometrial cancer is the most frequent tumor of the female genital tract. Ubiquitin is a small protein (8.5 kDa) found in all eukaryotic cells, binds to substrate proteins via a three-phase enzymatic pathway referred to as ubiquitination and plays an important role in cellular stability.

Axial Spondyloarthritis and Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease in Two Siblings: A Rare Cooccurrence.

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most frequently occurring hereditary kidney disease, and axial spondyloarthritis (SpA) is one of the most frequently occurring rheumatic diseases. Treatment-related decisions for axial SpA may pose a challenge in case of renal involvement. The authors describe two siblings with cooccurrence of these two diseases.

Infectious complications in morbidly adherent placenta treated with leaving placenta : a cohort series and suggested approach.

The aim of this study is to assess the clinical and microbiological features of infections in patients with morbidly adherent placenta (MAP) treated by leaving placenta (LPIS). Retrospective analysis of MAP cases who were treated by LPIS between 2 May 2010 and 15 March 2017. The inclusion criteria were gestational age at or above 24 weeks, prenatal diagnosis, elective operation, and complete data.

Effect of statins on sirtuin 1 and endothelial nitric oxide synthase expression in young patients with a history of premature myocardial infarction.

Objective: The present study was an investigation of the effect of statins on the expression of circulating sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) and endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) proteins, and on the distribution of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the SIRT1 gene in patients with a history of premature myocardial infarction (PMI).

Methods: A total of 108 patients who had suffered from a premature ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) under the age of 45 years were enrolled in this study. While 79 patients had been taking statins since the index event, 29 patients had discontinued statin treatment after hospital discharge due to noncompliance or insufficient information about the importance of continuous statin therapy in post-MI patients.

Organisational silence among nurses and physicians in public hospitals.

Aims And Objectives: To define the underlying reasons that lead physicians and nurses who provide patient care and treatment, to maintain silence in their work and how they perceive the consequences of such silence in public hospitals.

Background: The concept of organisational silence is described as employees' avoidance of stating his/her opinions, thoughts and suggestions, which would improve the organisation and enable it to provide better processes or services. This concept has been examined more frequently in the international literature in the past decade, and it has drawn attention as one of the most important barriers to employees' contributions to their organisation.

Evaluation of the Effect of Topical Application of Nigella sativa on Acute Radiation-Induced Nasal Mucositis.

The goal of this study was to demonstrate the effect of radiotherapy (RT) on nasal mucosa in rats and to evaluate the radioprotective effects of the topical application of black seed oil (Nigella sativa [NS]) to treat acute radiation-induced nasal mucositis.A total of 18 rats were randomized into 3 groups, with 6 animals per group. The rats in group 1 were topically administered saline in the nasal cavity after sham irradiation.

Immunocytoexpression profile of ProExC in smears interpreted as ASC-US, ASC-H, and cervical intraepithelial lesion.

Aims: We aimed to investigate the immunocytoexpression profiles of a novel assay ProEx C for topoisomerase II alpha (TOP2A) and minichromosome maintenance protein 2 (MCM2) in abnormal interpreted smears.

Settings And Design: Screening programs with Papanicolaou smear and high risk group human papilloma virus testing have yielded a dramatic reduction of cervical cancer incidence. However, both of these tests have limited specificity for the detection of clinically significant cervical high grade lesions.

The use of complementary medicine in patients with diabetes.

Objective: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a growing health problem with serious complications. The chronic and progressive nature of the disease often leads patients to use complementary and integrative medicine. The present study aimed to investigate the frequency of use of alternative medicine by patients with DM and the products used.

Clinical and angiographic outcomes at more than 1 year after treatment of chronic total occlusions with the everolimus-eluting bioresorbable vascular scaffold.

Objective: Treatment of chronic total occlusion (CTO) with everolimus-eluting bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS) is safe and effective at short-term follow-up (FU). The current study investigated clinical and angiographic outcomes after treatment of CTO with BVS at >1 year.

Methods: Thirty patients who underwent successful recanalization of 35 CTOs were included in this study.

A Six Sigma Trial For Reduction of Error Rates in Pathology Laboratory.

Objective: A major target of quality assurance is the minimization of error rates in order to enhance patient safety. Six Sigma is a method targeting zero error (3.4 errors per million events) used in industry.

Should Core Needle Biopsy be Used in the Evaluation of Thyroid Nodules?

Fine needle aspiration (FNA) is the first choice in thyroid nodules suspected of harboring malignancy on sonography in routine practice. However, sampling with core needle biopsy (CNB) is also being used, especially in cases with repeated nondiagnostic/indeterminate diagnoses. The aim of this study was the retrospective evaluation of CNB samples.