Technique to reduce blood loss during open abdominal myomectomy: transverse or vertical incision?

Objective: To determine if there is a difference between uterine incision techniques (vertical vs. transversal) in terms of clinical results.

Methods: All women with leiomyomas who underwent open abdominal myomectomy (n=61) between March and August 2016 at the Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinic at the Women's Health Research and Training Hospital Zekai Tahir Burak were included, and the clinical results were included and prospectively reviewed.

The Effects of Antenatal Steroid Treatment on Preterm Infants' Early Laboratory Analysis.

Objectives: We assessed the effects of antenatal steroid treatment on preterm laboratory analysis conducted in the first 24 hours of life.

Methods: Medical records of inborn preterm infants whose gestational age was ≤32 weeks were retrospectively reviewed in this study. Preterm infants whose mothers received antenatal betamethasone treatment of either 12 mg or 24 mg and who did not were divided into two groups.

Brain Volumes of very Low Birth Weight Infants Measured by Two-dimensional Cranial Ultrasonography: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Background: Cranial ultrasonography is the main neuroimaging technique for very low birth weight infants. Low brain volume is associated with poor neurologic outcome. This study aimed to calculate brain volumes of preterm infants with two-dimensional measurements of cranial ultrasonography.

Effect of two different early rescue surfactant treatments on mortality in preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome.

Introduction: Although current evidence suggests that initial dose of 200 mg/kg poractant alfa reduces mortality in the treatment of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), these data were obtained in a highly heterogeneous group of patients and neither of them addressed mortality as primary outcome.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of poractant alfa and beractant on mortality when administered as early rescue surfactant therapy in very preterm infants.

Methods: We retrospectively evaluated preterm infants followed in our unit between May 2017 and November 2018 whose gestational age (GA) was ≤28 weeks and received surfactant within the first 2 hours of life.

Hearing screening failure rate in newborn infants with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.

Objective: The objective of this study was to establish the local incidence of hearing screening failure rate in newborns with all three stages of hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE).

Methods: This retrospective cohort study was undertaken in a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit. Medical records and hearing secreening test results were collected for two years.

Turkish Neonatal Society guideline on prevention and management of bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

Scientific and technological advances in perinatology and neonatology have led to an increased rate of survival and decreased incidences of various neonatal morbidities. However, the incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia has remained almost the same for years in very-low-birth-weight preterm infants. Although bronchopulmonary dysplasia is the leading cause of chronic respiratory morbidity in small preterms, no substantial improvement has been achieved in prevention and treatment strategies to date.

Anatomic structure of the internal iliac artery and its educative dissection for peripartum and pelvic hemorrhage.

The abdominal aorta is divided into two parts (right and left) at the level of the fourth-fifth lumbar vertebra and called the common iliac artery. Anterior to the sacroiliac joint, common iliac arteries are divided into external and internal iliac arteries. The external iliac artery supplies the lower limb, and the internal iliac artery is the major vascular supply of the pelvis.

Pregnancy in papillary thyroid cancer survivors.

Objective: To evaluate “papillary thyroid carcinoma-pregnancy” interaction among cancer survivors.

Material And Methods: The clinical records of 8 pregnant women who received treatment for papillary thyroid cancer before their pregnancy were evaluated. Clinical features, pregnancy/perinatal outcomes and high-risk factors were compared with 45 controls who were randomly assigned from the institutional perinatal medicine database.