Disastrous Complications Following Rhinoplasty: Soft Tissue Defects.

Background: Rhinoplasty has become one of the most frequently performed worldwide aesthetic procedures thanks to the successful results obtained by plastic surgeons. In this study, soft tissue defects, encountered as an undesirable and fearsome complication following rhinoplasty, its causes and precautions are presented by authors.

Materials And Methods: Eight patients operated between December 2015 and December 2018 were enrolled in this study.

The effects of Maras powder use on patients with migraine.

Background: It is accepted that smoking often triggers migraine. However, studies evaluating the relationship between the use of smokeless tobacco and migraine are limited, and there is no clear consensus on the subject. In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the relationship between migraine and Maras powder, which is the most common smokeless tobacco in Turkey.

Analysis of the Effect of Locally Applied Bovine Collagen Sponge and Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Seroma Development in Rats Undergone Mastectomy and Axillary Dissection.

Purpose: Seroma is the most frequently seen complication after the mastectomy and axillary dissection. The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of locally applied bovine collagen sponge and adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells on seroma development in rats that undergone mastectomy and axillary dissection.

Materials And Methods: Wistar albino rats, were randomly divided into 3 groups (n = 10 per group).

Oxidative Stress Biomarkers and Adenosine Deaminase over the Alopecic Area of the Patients with Alopecia Areata.

Background: Alopecia areata (AA) is an autoimmune, T-cell mediated, and chronic inflammatory disorder. The pathological mechanisms of disease are unclear, but oxidative stress may be involved. To our knowledge, no studies have examined the oxidative stress levels or biomarkers within the lesional area and skin surface in patients with AA.

Family planning choices in couples using contraception without knowing they are infertile: should newly-wed men undergo a routine spermiogram?

Introduction: Newly-weds choose to use contraception either to spend the first years of their marriage more freely, because of economic reasons or because of the increase in working career women. We studied the reasons for infertility and the rate of contraception use in the first years of marriage among couples with primary infertility and evaluated the use of a spermiogram as a screening test in newly-wed men.

Subjects And Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 302 couples with primary infertility who were treated at our infertility clinic were included in the study.

Estradiol plus drospirenone therapy increases mammographic breast density in perimenopausal women.

Objective: To investigate the effects of 17β-estradiol 1mg plus drospirenone 2mg (E2/DRSP) treatment on mammographic breast density in perimenopausal women.

Study Design: In this prospective study, 80 healthy perimenopausal women aged 41-49 years were enrolled and assigned to either E2/DRSP (n=40) or a control group (n=40). Mammograms were performed at baseline and after 12 months of treatment.

Adolescent pregnancies and obstetric outcomes in southeast Turkey: data from two regional centers.

Purpose Of Investigation: To evaluate adolescent pregnancy and obstetric outcomes.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study was performed by analysis of patient files and birth records of pregnant women who delivered in two cities in Southeast Anatolia, Turkey. Pregnant women aged 19 years old and younger were included in the study group.

Fresh autologous transplantation of ovarian cortical strips to the anterior abdominal wall at the pfannenstiel incision site.

Objective: To describe an open surgical technique for transplanting fresh ovarion tissue to the anterior abdominal wall at the incision site and to determine whether ovarian function would be restored after transplantation.

Design: Case study.

Setting: Academic medical center.

Effects of intranasal estradiol treatment on serum lipoprotein(a) and lipids in hysterectomized women.

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of intranasal estradiol on lipid metabolism and lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] levels. A prospective comparative study was designed: 49 hysterectomized, healthy postmenopausal women received intranasal 17beta-estradiol (E2; 300 microg/day). Blood samples were collected at baseline and at the end of the 3 and 6 months of therapy.