After the autopsy, the patient was diagnosed with COVID-19 disease and his death was because the complications of the disease which more essential was the thrombosis in the pulmonary vessels. The doctor was protecting himself by all the protecting equipment from gown, face mask and gloves but after few days, his test of COVID-19 with PCR came positive and he is now under...
Ochronosis is the black discoloration of connective tissues seen with alkaptonuria, a metabolic disorder. Alkaptonuria is a rare autosomal recessive metabolic disorder caused by the lack of homogentisic acid oxidase enzyme. Alkaptonuria causes degenerative changes in cartilage, intervertebral disc and other tissues. The patients operated due to lumbar disc herniation in...
COVID-19 disease triggering extreme acute respiratory illness is becoming more common globally and increasing quite quickly with surprisingly high death levels among patients in certain countries with elevated infection rates and are more common and aggressive in the countries that are not committing to the prevention rules and recommendations from the mask and hand washing. In...
Milia is a benign superficial keratinous cyst originates from sebaceous collar of vellus hairs or eccrine ducts. Primary milia may be a component of many genodermatosis. In this case report, we are presenting a family with Bazex-Dupré-Chistol syndrome.
In the same family, the SARS-COV-2 virus is more virulent than the other virus, and it is known in many patients that it causes extreme symptoms ranging from high-grade fever, cough, dyspnea, to gastrointestinal and hematological symptoms. The extreme inflammatory state secondary to Covid‐19 may lead to a severe imbalance in hemostasis as found recently in a condition of...
Objective: Acute appendicitis management delays results in perforation and increases the morbidity and mortality. Studies have reported a 20% perforation rate, and 2-30% negative laparotomy whose diagnoses are made by symptoms and physical examination. By using anamnesis, clinical signs-symptoms and inflammatory parameters to reduce the diagnosis time, complications, and...
Objective: Effects of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors on liver function and glucose metabolism in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) have not been well determined. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of vildagliptin on liver functions and hepatic steatosis and also to evaluate efficacy and safety of vildagliptin in NAFLD patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus...
Objective: It is known that malnutrition in acute ischemic stroke(AIS) patients is closely related to poor prognosis. The clinical and prognostic significance of the prognostic nutritional index (PNI), defined by Onodera et al, in patients with AIS has not yet been exhibited clearly. For this reason, our aim in this study is to determine the effect of PNI on short-term mortality...
Objective: Epilepsy is a crucial brain disorder that seizures could cause a neuronal loss in the hippocampus. Oxidative stress has an important role in the pathology of this way. The aim of this study was to investigate the neuroprotective effect of captopril, on pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) induced epileptic seizures in SH-SY5Y cell line. Method: In this XTT cell viability assay...
Objective: COVID-19 pandemia resulted in substantial alterations in health care demand and delivery. The aim of this study is to investigate presentations and treatment strategies of acute coronary syndromes during COVID-19 pandemia. Method: The patients presented with acute coronary syndrome between March 10 2020-June 1 2020 and in the same trimeframe in 2019 were analysed...
Objective: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the calls made to 112 Emergency Call Center in Edirne and to identify the problems experienced by the employees. Method: The universe of this study consisted of Edirne 112 Emergency Call Center employees (N = 233). The research was carried out as cross-sectional and descriptive. The surveys were distributed to all employees on a...
Objective: Erectile dysfunction is defined as the incomplete failure of penile erection for satisfying sexual intercourse. Its incidence is quite high in male patients over 65 years of age. Many diseases, such as Diabetes Mellitus, obesity, and psychiatric diseases, affect erectile dysfunction. In our study, we aimed to show the relationship between chronic viral hepatitis and...
Objective: Cancer is a difficult disease to cure that it affects the individual physically, emotionally, and socially, and reduces the quality of life and threatens life. Successful chemotherapy and general care depends on patient participation.This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between autonomy levels and problem-solving skills of chemotherapy patients...
Objective: This study evaluates the loss of balance and fall risk in patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), and assesses their relationship with disease activity, functional status, spinal mobility, quality of life and enthesitis score. Method: Included in the study were 50 AS patients who were diagnosed in accordance with the modified New York criteria, and 50 healthy...
Objective: The use of traditional and complementary medicine (TCM) methods in our country in relation to our cultural background increases day by day. For this reason, it is important to raise awareness among medical faculty students, who are future physicians, regarding TCM. Our goal in this study is to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and behavior of Sivas Cumhuriyet...
Objective: Monitoring CBC subsets, particularly eosinophils. and inflammation markers, during admission and treatment of severe COVID-19 patients, can reveal key indicators of disease progression and stage to provide a basis for diagnosis and treatment for clinicians. Method: Our study is a retrospective case-control study. After taking aproval of Ministry of Health and Ethics...
Objective: There is an important relationship between positive self-esteem, developed empathy skills and liking of children in nurses and physicians. This descriptive study aims to evaluate the relationship between self-esteem, empathy skills and liking of children in pediatric nurses and pediatricians. Method: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted with 105...
Conversion Disorder (CD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by the presence of one or more neurological or vegetative symptoms that cannot be better explained by any organic pathology. CD can mimic many organic diseases. Therefore, general medical diseases, neurological and psychiatric disorders should be considered in the differential diagnosis. It is not always easy to...
Abstract Acute dystonic reaction which is described as involuntary muscle spasms and contractions including neck, chin, eye and mouth muscles is an extrapyramidal adverse effect. Acute dystonic reactions are rarely seen with atypical antipsychotics. In this study, we present a case of an aripiprazole-induced oculogyric crisis in an 11 years old girl who diagnosed with mild...
Objective: Mastocytosis is a heterogeneous clinical phenotype spectrum characterized by the accumulation of mast cells in various organs. Cutaneous mastocytosis is the skin bounded form of this spectrum. Diffuse Cutaneous Mastocytosis (DCM) is a rare type of cutaneous mastocytosis that accounts for only 1 to 5% of all cases. The aim of this study is to report the molecular...
Objective: As in many parts of the world, palliative healthcare systems were initially established for the care of cancer patients, but expanded in time to cover other patients, as well. The aim of this study was to compare cancer and non-cancer patients receiving palliative care in the city of Çanakkale, Turkey, in terms of their clinical and demographic data, treatment times...
Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate whether Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) can predict the risk of fibrocystic breast disease in women applied to the Gynecology&Obstetrics outpatient clinic. Method: This retrospective study was conducted from January 2018 to February 2020 on 269 women. The subjects were divided into two groups as...
Objective: Starting in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, COVID-19 which was defined as a severe acute respiratory syndrome has become a global epidemic in a short period of time. Burn is a type of trauma during which the immune system is weakened due to changes in the leukocyte-lymphocyte distribution in the clinical presentation of blood, decreased chemotaxis and phagocytosis...
Abstract Objectives The aim of this study was to determine the value of blood gas parameters in predicting return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in patients with in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA). Methods Adult patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest, and with blood gas analysis obtained on the first 10 min of CPR were included in the study. Patients were divided into...
Background Diabetes is an important disease with a frequency of 7.2% that leads to mortality and morbidity and impairs quality of life. The prevalence of skin symptoms in diabetes is 30% and a significant proportion of these are skin infections. The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of onychomycosis and tinea pedis in patients with diabetes mellitus compared...