A Cross-Sectional Study Exploring the Impact of Violence on Healthcare Employees' Work Engagement and Meaningful Work.

Aim: This study aims to determine the prevalence of workplace violence against healthcare professionals and its effects on work engagement and meaningful work in healthcare settings.

Design: This study is designed as an analytical cross-sectional study.

Methods: This study surveyed 676 healthcare professionals in Turkiye between June and December 2022, using face-to-face and online methods.

Dilated sinuses of Valsalva subsequent to type A dissection surgery: Is reoperation inevitable?

Background: This study aims to investigate the dilation of sinus valsalva in patients who underwent aortic repair due to type A aortic dissection and to evaluate its progression.

Methods: Between January 2004 and December 2019, a total of 68 patients (50 males, 18 females; mean age: 54.2±10.

Successful surgical repair of critical ascending and descending aortic aneurysms at nine-year intervals in Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome: A case report.

Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome is an uncommon X-linked inherited disorder related to primary immunodeficiency, infections, eczema, and thrombocytopenia. A 21-year-old male patient with this syndrome underwent descending aortic aneurysm repair at the age of 12. The patient had ascending aortic aneurysm with aortic valve regurgitation and surgical aortic root replacement was performed.

Low-Level Vitamin D Is Associated with Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure.

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) frequently accompanies heart failure (HF), and causes exacerbation of symptoms and treatment failure in such patients. Vitamin D was recently suggested to be an important mediator of cardiovascular disease, including HF.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and AF in patients with chronic HF.

Evaluation of right ventricular function in early period following transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect.

Aims: There is limited data on alterations in novel right ventricular (RV) function indices like tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) and tricuspid annular systolic velocity (TASV) after transcatheter atrial septal defect (ASD) closure. We aimed to evaluate RV function by echocardiography (ECG) with these novel indices in early period in patients with secundum-type ASD that was closed percutaneously.

Methods: Patients were enrolled to study if they had secundum-type ASD that was suitable for percutaneous closure.

Relation between carotid intima-media thickness and aortic knob width in patients with essential hypertension.

Objective: The assessment of subclinical atherosclerosis is important in the evaluation of a hypertensive patient, as it provides information on the severity of the hypertension and the cardiovascular risk. The aim of this study was to determine the usefulness of the aortic knob width measured on chest radiography in the assessment of subclinical atherosclerosis in hypertensive patients.

Method And Results: A total of 126 consecutive hypertensive patients were enrolled.

Isolated persistent left superior vena cava with absent right superior vena cava in two cases.

Persistent left superior vena cava (LSVC) with absent right superior vena cava (RSVC) is a very rare congenital anomaly. Its isolated existence is even rarer. Persistent LSVC is usually asymptomatic and discovered incidentally.

Long-term efficacy and safety of once-daily enoxaparin plus warfarin for the outpatient ambulatory treatment of lower-limb deep vein thrombosis in the TROMBOTEK trial.

Objective: The present study was designed to evaluate the long-term efficacy and safety of once-daily enoxaparin plus warfarin for the outpatient ambulatory treatment of lower-limb deep venous thrombosis (DVT).

Methods: A total of 246 patients, comprising 128 men (mean age, 54.28±16.