Comparison of shoulder Magnetic Resonance Imaging findings between patients with stage 4 chronic kidney disease and hemodialysis patients with healthy controls.

Background: Shoulder involvement is frequently observed in chronic renal disease (CRD) and hemodialysis patients.

Objective: Our aim is to compare shoulder Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) findings of stage 4 CRD patients naive to dialysis, hemodialysis patients and healthy controls.

Methods: Twenty hemodialysis patients with shoulder pain (Group 1), 30 hemodialysis patients without shoulder pain (Group 2), 20 patients with stage 4 CRD (Group 3) and 30 healthy controls (Group 4) were enrolled.

Analysis of factors associated with mortality in major burn patients.

Objective: Major burn injury is a type of trauma that still has high morbidity and mortality rates at all age groups. There is no consensus on the provided guidelines regarding the prediction of the severity of the victims. It is sometimes not easy to have sophisticated clinical and blood monitoring for developing countries.

Analysis of factors associated with mortality in major burn patients.

Objectives: Major burn injury is a type of trauma with high morbidity and mortality rates at all age groups. There is no consensus on the provided guidelines regarding the prediction of severity of the victims. Not being accessible to sophisticated clinical and blood monitoring in developing countries, it remains a challenge for them.

Comparison of bilateral transversus abdominis plane block and wound infiltration with bupivacaine for postoperative analgesia after cesarean delivery.

Objective: The study aimed to compare efficacy, safety, pain intensity and analgesic consumption in patients receiving either bilateral transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block or wound infiltration with bupivacaine after cesarean delivery (CD).

Material And Methods: A total of 216 parturient women undergoing CD under general anesthesia were randomly allocated into five groups: i) controls (group 1), ii) TAP placebo (group 2), iii) TAP (group 3), iv) wound infiltration placebo (group 4), and, v) wound infiltration (group 5). Pain intensity was assessed using a visual analogue scale (VAS).

Comparison of disability and quality of life between patients with pediatric and adult onset paraplegia.

Objective: To investigate the factors that affect disability and quality of life in patients with spinal cord injuries (SCIs) and to compare the degree of disability and quality of life in patients with SCI according to over and under 18 years of age when their injury occurred.

Design: Cohort study.

Setting: Two academic hospitals in Istanbul, Turkey.

Unenhanced 3D turbo spin echo MR angiography of lower extremity arteries: comparison with 128-MDCT angiography.

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the feasibility and diagnostic power of unenhanced 3D turbo spin echo MR angiography sequence (a technique based on subtraction of corresponding images acquired in diastole and systole, Syngo Native Space-Siemens healthcare) to identify peripheral artery disease (PAD).

Materials And Methods: Thirty patients (619 arterial segments in total) suspected with PAD and who were assessed with lower extremity MDCT angiography were examined starting from the level of aortic bifurcation for both lower extremities by 3D native space MR angiography. Two readers assessed the image quality of native space MR angiography and number of lesions, their degrees of stenosis and localizations.

Painful and painless shoulder magnetic resonance imaging comparisons in hemodialysis patients and correlation with clinical findings.

Background: Shoulder pain is frequently observed in haemodialysis patients.

Objective: To compare haemodialysis patients with or without shoulder pain in terms of shoulder motion ranges, β2 microglobulin levels and magnetic resonance imaging findings.

Methods: Forty-three patients undergoing dialysis were enrolled, of which 23 patients had explicit shoulder pain at night, which appeared during dialysis.

Preoperative Evaluation of Axillary Lymph Nodes in Malignant Breast Lesions with Ultrasonography and Histopathologic Correlation.

Purpose: Our aim is to define the sonographic criteria for assessing involved axillary nodes and to evaluate the accuracy of axillary ultrasound in the staging workup of individuals with breast cancer.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-five patients with breast cancer were prospectively evaluated with preoperative ultrasonography (US) to determine the presence of axillary lymph node metastasis. We determined whether there was axillary lymph node metastasis after axillary lymph node dissection or sentinel lymph node biopsy.

Anatomic variations of popliteal artery: Evaluation with 128-section CT-angiography in 1261 lower limbs.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the variations in popliteal artery branching in a large population on computed tomography angiography (CTA) using a 128-section configuration.

Materials And Methods: A total of 652 patients (532 men, 120 women) with a mean age of 61.7±18.

Effect of arteriovenous fistula and usage of arm with fistula on bone mineral density in hemodialysis patients.

We aimed to determine the incidence of osteoporosis in hemodialysis patients, to evaluate the differences due to arteriovenous fistula on bone mineral density (BMD) and to investigate whether usage of arm with fistula has an effect on BMD. In this cross-sectional study, 96 patients with chronic renal disease undergone to dialysis were included. Place of fistula (radial and brachial) and dominant hand were recorded.

Assessment of Pineal Gland Volume and Calcification in Healthy Subjects: Is it Related to Aging?

Purpose: The human pineal gland is a small neuroendocrine organ which produces melatonin. The main goal of this study was to provide a reference range for pineal volume in all age groups and to determine calcified and noncalcified tissue and their proportions, which may be a reflection of melatonin production in all age groups, by using very thin computerized tomography (CT) slices.

Materials And Methods: A total of 167 outpatients had undergone cranial CT.

Jejunal Diverticulosis Presented with Acute Abdomen and Diverticulitis Complication: A Case Report.

Background: Jejunal diverticulosis is a rare, usually asymptomatic disease. Its incidence increases with age. If symptomatic, diverticulosis may cause life-threatening acute complications such as diverticulitis, perforation, intestinal hemorrhage and obstruction.

The sensitivity of MR colonography using dark lumen technique for detection of colonic lesions.

Background/aims: To assess the detectability of the lesions with magnetic resonance (MR) colonography using dark lumen technique that had been detected on conventional colonoscopy.

Materials And Methods: A total of 38 patients who were suspected to have a colorectal mass between April 2008 and June 2010 were included in this prospective study. Warm tap water was administered via a rectal tube to the patients in prone position.