Relationship between adiponectin and copeptin levels with long-term cardiovascular mortality in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction after percutaneous coronary intervention.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine adiponectin and copeptin levels that might be prognostic for cardiovascular mortality (CvsM) in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients who had percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Methods: Patients who underwent PCI between November 2010 and April 2011 were enrolled and followed for more than eight years. The baseline, demographic and angiographic findings, in-hospital follow up, laboratory results including adiponectin and copeptin levels, and echocardiographic data of the patients were evaluated.

Major and minor salivary gland cancers: A multicenter retrospective study.

Background: Most of the studies on salivary gland cancers are limited for various reasons such as being single-center, small number of patients, including only major or minor SGCs, or only including epidemiological data.

Methods: A total of 37 medical oncology clinics from different regions of Turkey participated in this retrospective-multicenter study. The analyzed data included clinical and demographical features, primary treatment, metastasis localizations, and treatments and includes certain pathologic features.

The relationship between H2FPEF score and contrast induced nephropathy in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction.

In the present study, we aimed to investigate the relationship between H2FPEF score and Contrast Induced Nephropathy (CIN) in patients with myocardial infarction with ST segment elevation (STEMI). A total of 355 patients who had been diagnosed with ST elevation-myocardial infarction and undergone primary coronary angioplasty were retrospectively included in the study. The patients were divided into two groups according to the presence of CIN and these groups were compared in terms of baseline characteristics and laboratory findings.

A very rare cause of sudden cardiac arrest in children: triadin knockout syndrome.

Unlabelled: Triadin knockout syndrome has been defined as a disease with transient long QT, T wave abnormalities, and extremely severe fatal cardiac arrhythmias in young children. In this report, we wanted to share the characteristics of our two cases who presented with sudden cardiac arrest and were diagnosed with triadin knockout syndrome.

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Prognostic factors of ado-trastuzumab emtansine treatment in patients with metastatic HER-2 positive breast cancer.

Background: Ado-trastuzumab emtansine is an antibody-drug conjugate that combines the cytotoxic activity of emtansine with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-targeted antitumor features of trastuzumab.

Objective: We conducted a study of metastatic breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab emtansine. By evaluating progression-free survival, overall survival, and response rates, we aimed to find prognostic factors of trastuzumab emtansine treatment.

Association between copeptin and contrast-induced nephropathy in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the predictive value of copeptin levels in the development of contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN).

Methods: A total of 274 patients diagnosed with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and who had undergone primary percutaneous coronary intervention were included in the study. The patients were divided into two groups according to the presence (CIN+) or absence (CIN-) of CIN.

Effect of heroin on right ventricular cardiac performance.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of heroin addiction, which is an important social and health problem, on right cardiac function.

Methods: A total of 85 individuals were included in the study. The study group comprised 45 patients smoking heroin and the control group was 40 healthy individuals with no drug addiction.

Current status of HIV/AIDS-syphilis co-infections: a retrospective multicentre study.

Objective: Treponema pallidum and HIV are transmitted frequently through sexual contact, these agents with epidemiological similarities co-infect the same host. The current number of HIV-infected cases in Turkey is increasing. For this reason, we aimed to reveal the characteristics of syphilis in HIV/AIDS cases.

The predictive value of PRECISE-DAPT score for arrhythmic complications in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction.

Objective: To investigate the predictive value of the PRECISE-DAPT score for the development of arrhythmias in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention.

Method: A total of 706 patients with a diagnosis of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction who underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention were enrolled to the study. The patients were divided into two groups according to the PRECISE-DAPT score (PRECISE-DAPT score ≥25 and PRECISE-DAPT score <25).

Relationship between paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and a novel electrocardiographic parameter P wave peak time.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the relationship between a novel electrocardiographic (ECG) parameter P wave peak time (PWPT) and classic P wave parameters with atrial fibrillation (AF).

Methods: A total of 140 individuals, including 70 patients with AF history and 70 healthy individuals without AF as the control group were included in the study. These groups were compared in terms of demographic characteristics, laboratory findings and ECG parameters.

Performance of HAS-BLED and CRUSADE risk scores for the prediction of haemorrhagic events in patients with stable coronary artery disease.

We aimed to compare the power of the HAS-BLED and CRUSADE risk scores in predicting in-hospital bleeding events in patients with stable coronary artery disease undergoing elective coronary angiography. A total of 405 consecutive patients were included in the study. The mean HAS-BLED score was significantly higher (p < 0.

Biomarkers of nondipper hypertension in prehypertensive and hypertensive patients.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the relation of gamma glutamyl transferase (GGT), neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) with nondipper hypertension. This study included a total of 409 patients. Patients were grouped into hypertension, prehypertension and normotensive groups, according to their clinical blood pressure.

A novel mutation of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL1RN) in a DIRA patient from Turkey: Diagnosis and treatment.

Sözeri B, Gerçeker-Türk B, Yıldız-Atıkan B, Mir S, Berdeli A. A novel mutation of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL1RN) in a DIRA patient from Turkey: Diagnosis and treatment. Turk J Pediatr 2018; 60: 588-592.

A new approach: oblique excision and primary closure in the management of acute pilonidal disease.

Aim: To compare incision and drainage with oblique excision and primary closure in the treatment of pilonidal abscesses.

Materials And Methods: In this prospective study, one of two surgeons at the same hospital performed incision and drainage as the treatment method for patients presenting with pilonidal abscesses. (Group A).

The comparison of modified early warning score with rapid emergency medicine score: a prospective multicentre observational cohort study on medical and surgical patients presenting to emergency department.

Objective: There are a few scoring systems in emergency departments (ED) to establish critically ill patients quickly and properly and to predict hospitalisation. We aim to compare the efficacy of Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) and Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS) on in-hospital mortality, and as predictor of hospitalisation in general medical and surgical patients admitted to ED.

Methods: This is a prospective, multicentre and observational cohort study.