Evaluation of readability levels of online patient education materials for female pelvic floor disorders.

Most women hesitate to seek help from healthcare providers as they find it difficult to share complaints of involuntary leakage or vaginal prolapse. Hence, they often refer to the websites of national and/or international bodies' patient education materials (PEMs), which are considered the most reliable sources. The crucial factor that determines their usefulness is their readability level, which makes them "easy" or "difficult" to read, and is recommended, not to exceed the sixth grade level.

An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Surgical Treatment Methods Used for Cervical Spondylosis.

Aim: To evaluate the preoperative and postoperative clinical and radiological findings of patients treated surgically for cervical spondylosis.

Material And Methods: The patients included in the study (n=32) were divided into three groups according to their preferred surgical approach. These surgical approaches are posterior cervical laminectomy, posterior cervical laminectomy plus fusion, and anterior approach.

Use of noninvasive volume assessment methods to predict acute blood loss in spontaneously breathing volunteers.

Objective: The use of noninvasive volume assessment methods to predict acute blood loss in spontaneously breathing patients remains unclear. We aimed to investigate changes in the pleth variability index (PVI), vena cava collapsibility index (VCCI), end-tidal carbon dioxide (EtCO2), pulse pressure (PP), and mean arterial pressure (MAP) in spontaneously breathing volunteers after acute loss of 450 mL blood and passive leg raise (PLR).

Methods: This prospective observational study enrolled healthy volunteers in the blood donation center of an academic hospital.

The efficacy of rotational pharmaco-mechanical thrombectomy in patients with acute iliofemoral deep vein thrombosis: Is the standard treatment of deep vein thrombosis changing?

Objective: In this study, we aimed to evaluate the efficiency of rotational thrombectomy device in pharmaco-mechanical thrombolysis for symptomatic acute ilio-femoral deep vein thrombosis.

Materials And Methods: Between August 2013 and May 2018,82 patients with acute deep vein thrombosis comprising the iliofemoral segment whom underwent Pharmaco-mechanical thrombolysis were evaluated retrospectively. The Cleaner thrombectomy device was used.

Assessment of anxiety and health-related quality of life in patients with lower extremity peripheral arterial occlusive disease.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of chronic occlusive vascular disease on anxiety with adverse outcome with health-related quality of life (HRQoL).

Material And Methods: Three hundred and thirty-five patients who were treated for peripheral arterial occlusive disease were enrolled in this study. 187 patients who had undergone percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and 148 patients who had one or more surgical revascularizations enrolled in the study.

Off-pump ascending aorta or aortic arch to descending aorta bypass with a pericardial roll for the treatment of critically ill infants with interrupted aortic arch.

Aim: Standard surgical treatment of the interrupted aortic arch with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass is risky especially in critically ill babies. In this manuscript, we present the results of off-pump pericardial roll bypass for the treatment of aortic interruption.

Material And Methods: The technique was applied in nine critically ill infants between July 2011 and December 2019.

Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio and platelet to lymphocyte ratio are associated with cryptogenic stroke in patients with patent foramen ovale.

Introduction: Although most ischaemic strokes are due to cardioembolism, about 25-40% of strokes are cryptogenic. Patent foramen ovale has been associated with cryptogenic stroke; however, the precise mechanism of this association has not been demonstrated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between inflammatory markers and cryptogenic stroke in patients with patent foramen ovale.

The Efficacy of Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty on the Limb Salvage and Recovery of Symptoms in Patients With Buerger's Disease With Critical Limb Ischemia.

Introduction: Buerger's disease, or thromboangiitis obliterans, is associated with limb-threatening chronic arterial lesions. In this study, we sought to investigate the efficacy of the percutaneous transluminal angioplasty method for the treatment of critical limb ischemia (CLI) in patients with Buerger's disease in our modest cohort.

Methods: Patients diagnosed with CLI secondary to Buerger's disease who underwent percutaneous transluminal angioplasty between May 2014 and June 2017 were retrospectively investigated.