Peri-operative blood transfusion in elective major surgery: incidence, indications and outcome - an observational multicentre study.

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.

Early effects of modern electroconvulsive therapy on subjective memory in patients with mania or depression.

Context: Although electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is considered a very effective tool for the treatment of psychiatric diseases, memory disturbances are among the most important adverse effects.

Aims: This study aimed to assess prospectively early subjective memory complaints in depressive and manic patients due to bilateral, brief-pulse ECT, at different stages of the treatment, compare the associations between psychiatric diagnosis, sociodemographic characteristics, and ECT characteristics.

Settings And Design: This prospective study was done with patients undergoing ECT between November 2008 and April 2009 at a tertiary care psychiatry hospital of 2000 beds.

Effects of contractubex on the prevention of postoperative peritoneal adhesion.

Background: There are numerus techniques and agents in use for reducing peritoneal adhesion formation. But in this research we believe this is the first research to reveal that contractubex (allium cepae, sodium heparin, and allantoin mixture) is reducing formed peritoneal adhesions. So it may be used to reduce the number of re-laparotomies/re-laparoscopies caused by peritoneal adhesions related complications.

DNA sequence analysis of cagA 3' motifs of Helicobacter pylori strains from patients with peptic ulcer diseases.

The Helicobacter pylori cagA gene is a major virulence factor that plays an important role in gastric pathologies. DNA sequence data for the cagA 3' region of Western isolates differ markedly in their EPIYA motifs from those of East Asian isolates. An increase in the number of these motifs is known to be associated with gastric cancer.

A new approach for decreasing postoperative peritoneal adhesions: preventing peritoneal trauma with soybean oil.

Background: Covering peritoneal surfaces with soybean oil may decrease peritoneal adhesions by preventing peritoneal trauma.

Method(s): Forty female albino Wistar rats were divided into four equal groups. In Group 1, soybean oil only (0.

Effectivity of qualitative urinary trypsinogen-2 measurement in the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis: a randomized, clinical study.

Background: There is no any definite diagnostic test for acute pancreatitis. In the present study we investigated the value of the qualitative urinary trypsinogen-2 measurement in the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis by an immuno-chromatographic dipstick test.

Methods: A prospective, randomized, clinical trial was planned on 99 patients (53 male, 46 female; male/female : 1.

Polypropylene mesh covered colonic anastomosis. Results of a new anastomosis technique.

Background: The morbidity and mortality rates of anastomosis leakage of the gastrointestinal system, are high. In this study we covered the colonic anastomosis with polypropylene mesh on the safety of the anastomosis was investigated.

Methods: Twenty female albino rabbits were divided into two groups.

Complications of intestinal milking: experimental model.

Background: Intestinal milking is a frequently used method in abdominal surgery for various purposes; although it is frequently used for eliminating distension, moving faeces, bezoar or other foreign objects proximal or distal, there are no experimental or prospective studies in the surgical literature with respect to complications of the method. The purpose of the present study was to investigate complications of the milking process in an experimental model.

Methods: Forty-four outbred, 8-month old Wistar albino male rats with weights ranging between 195 and 225 g were used.

The effect of diaphragmatic peritoneal lymphatics on peritoneal adhesions: an experimental study.

In this study, we examined the effect of diaphragmatic peritoneal lymphatic function on the formation of peritoneal adhesions. A two phased design was used in fifty-two Wistar albino female rats. In the first phase (n = 12), the effects of diaphragmatic peritoneum damage model on the cecum and the terminal ileum were evaluated.

Efficacy of local adrenalin injection during sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus excision.

Background: The most commonly preferred treatment method for sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus disease is surgery. Peroperative and postoperative hemorrhages may develop frequently because of the increased vascularity of the region. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of adrenalin, a potent vasoconstrictor agent, on pilonidal sinus operations in comparison to a control group.

When should quality of life be measured after radical cystectomy?

Aim: In this prospective study our aim was to establish the time it takes cystectomized patients' to adapt to their new health status.

Materials And Method: A total of 68 patients, having radical cystectomy for bladder cancer (64 males and 4 females) were enrolled in the study. The mean age of the group was 55.