Impact of telephonic interviews on persistence and daily adherence to insulin treatment in insulin-naïve type 2 diabetes patients: dropout study.

Objective: The objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of sequential telephonic interviews on treatment persistence and daily adherence to insulin injections among insulin-naïve type 2 diabetes patients initiated on different insulin regimens in a 3-month period.

Methods: A total of 1,456 insulin-naïve patients with type 2 diabetes (mean [standard deviation, SD] age: 56.0 [12.

Factors influencing young urologists' productivity and academic career choice.

Objective: The objective of this study is to identify the variables that affect young urologists' productivity and academic career choice.

Patients And Methods: We have conducted an internet-based national survey for urologists randomly sampled from the database of Turkish Urological Association and 110 physicians completed this survey. Participants were asked to answer three-page questionnaire including 37 questions, which takes around 5 min to complete.

Microchimerism in alopecia areata.

Background: Autoimmunity is the main etiopathogenetic factor in alopecia areata. Microchimerism is the existence of allogeneic DNA in a living creature. There are variable studies investigating the role of microchimerism on the etiopathogenesis of autoimmune diseases.

Giant rhinophyma: Excision with coblation assisted surgery.

An 83-year-old man presented with an unusually severe case of rhinophyma. Giant rhinopyhma is very rare in literature. The giant lesion was widely excised using sharp surgical incision and coblation assisted surgery.

Laparoscopic treatment of hydatid cyst of the spleen without splenectomy: report of a case.

Laparoscopic surgery is going to be the first-line operative technique for a variety of benign spleen lesions in selected patients. The anatomic location of the lesions is more important than another peculiarity in the laparoscopy. A 38-year-old woman presented with left-sided abdominal discomfort.