Umut Ata Ugras

Effectiveness of elastic therapeutic taping in pain management after median sternotomy: A randomized controlled trial

To evaluate the effectiveness of elastic therapeutic taping on postoperative pain, functional mobility, sleep quality, analgesic consumption, and length of hospital stay in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) via median sternotomy. In this prospective, rand...

Beyond Echocardiography: Multimodality Imaging of a Mitral Valve Blood Cyst in Cryptogenic Stroke

ABSTRACT Mitral valve blood cysts are rare, benign lesions in adults. A 52‐year‐old female presenting with acute ischemic stroke was found on echocardiography to have a thin‐walled, mobile, 1.2 × 2.4 cm cystic mass on the posterior mitral leaflet, along with hypertrophic obstruct...