Heavy metal worker's pneumonoconiosis with lung parenchymal damage and Peripheral neuropathy: case report.

Heavy metals even at low concentrations can damage all systems in the human body from the cellular level by causing disruptions in DNA repair mechanisms, cell division and apoptosis. A 49-year-old man who had been working in the sanding and deburring department of a factory producing underground water pipes for 15 years, presented with complaints of effort dyspnea, cough and loss of strength in his left hand. Computed tomography of the lung revealed diffuse micronodular appearance in all zones in both lungs, subpleural nodule and bronchial dilatation.

Nailfold capillaroscopic changes of sleep apnea patients.

Background: Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS) have frequent association with comorbidities and this makes it an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Not only endothelial dysfunction, but also arterial stiffening, increased inflammatory mediators, oxidative stress after hypoxemia that develops due to OSAS, cause vascular pathologies in all diameters of vessels. Nail bed capillaroscopy is a simple, noninvasive, useful method to examine microcirculation and evaluate nail bed capillary abnormalities in diseases that cause vascular damage.

Serum Sulphate Levels in Hemodialysis Patients.

Objective: Sulphur, similar to phosphorus, is easily attached to organic compounds. The inadequate elimination of sulphate may cause high sulphate concentrations in hemodialysis (HD) patients because sulphate is low in free form in plasma. Although we are well aware of the accumulation of phosphorus in chronic dialysis patients, we do not have an adequate knowledge database about the sulphur compounds.

New pattern hair loss in young Turkish women; What's wrong in their daily life?

Background: The application of heat, used to straighten the typically coiled hair, has long been hypothesized to play a role in the etiologic factor for central centrifugal cicatricial alopecia (CCCA). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of thermal hair straightening on hair loss pattern in Asian women exist.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-five patients with hair loss who have been using hair straightening devices and 25 patients with telogen effluvium were enrolled in this prospective study.

Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitors (INSTIs) Resistance Mutations in HIV-1 Infected Turkish Patients.

Objectives: Integrase strand transfer inhibitor (INSTI) is a new class of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs designed to block the action of the integrase viral enzyme, which is responsible for insertation of the HIV-1 genome into the host DNA. The aim of this study was to evaluate for the first time INSTI resistance mutations in Turkish patients.

Methods: This study was conducted in Turkey, between April 2013 and April 2015 using 169 HIV-1-infected patients (78 ARV naive patients and 91 ARV-experienced patients).