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Large-for-Size Liver Transplant: A Single-Center Experience
(2015)
Objectives: The ideal ratio between liver transplant graft mass and recipient body weight is unknown, but the graft probably must weigh 0.8% to 2.0% recipient weight. When this ratio > 4%, there may be problems due to ...
Results of Liver Transplant in Elderly Patients: A Single Center Experience
(2015)
Objectives: With the increased life span, the need for liver transplant for elderly patients also increased in the world. In this study, we reviewed our experience to determine the outcomes and problems of patients aged > ...
Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of Liver Biopsy Following Liver Transplant
(2015)
Objectives: Liver biopsy is a diagnostic tool for liver pathology after liver transplant. However, biopsy can cause life-threating complications. There is limited knowledge about efficacy and complications of liver biopsy ...
Decision Analysis in Quest of the Ideal Treatment in Adult Spinal Deformity Adjusted for Minimum Clinically Important Difference
(2020)
BACKGROUND: Surgery appears to yield better results in adult spinal deformity treatment when fixed minimum clinically important difference values are used to define success. Our objective was to analyze utilities and ...
The History of Liver Transplantation in Turkey
(2014)
Liver transplantation is the definitive treatment for end-stage liver diseases. The first successful liver transplant was performed in the United States by Thomas Starzl in 1967. The first successful solidorgan transplant ...
Mycoplasma hominis profile in women: Culture, kit, molecular diagnosis, antimicrobial resistance, and treatment
(2019)
Objectives: Mycoplasma hominis (M.hominis) infections are sexually transmitted and usually associated with urogenital and respiratory diseases. The aim of our study was to (i) detect M. hominis in the vaginal and urine ...
Do diabetic patients who undergo transtibial amputation receive adequate treatment?
(2019)
AIMS: To determine if patients who undergo below-knee amputation (BKA) for intractable wounds caused by diabetes complications receive adequate treatment before surgery.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study included a total ...
Turkish neonatal society guideline on the neonatal pain and its management
(2018)
Pain control is an important ethical issue to be considered and constitutes the basis of treatment in premature and term newborns. The inadequacy of pain control in these infants in neonatal intensive care units leads to ...
Brown Tumor of the Thoracic Spine : First Manifestation of Primary Hyperparathyroidism
(2015)
Brown tumors also called as osteoclastomas, are rare nonneoplastic lesions that arise in the setting of primary or secondary hyperparathyroidism. Parathyroid adenomas or hyperplasia constitute the major Brown tumor source ...
Biphasic Pulmonary Blastoma Associated with Cerebral Metastasis
(2016)
Pulmonary blastoma is a very rare malignant tumor of the lungs. A biphasic pulmonary blastoma was histologically diagnosed by a characteristic finding as it was mainly constituted of immature tumor tissue that had both ...