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Association of Serum Visfatin Levels with Coronary Artery Disease and Biochemical Parameters in Patients Undergoing Maintenance Hemodialysis

Background: Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with end-stage kidney disease receiving maintenance hemodialysis. Visfatin is a pro-inflammatory adipokine involved in metabolic and inflammatory pathways; however, its relationship with es...

Acute ischemic stroke despite NOAC therapy in atrial fibrillation

Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) can occur in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) despite treatment with non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs). This study evaluated clinical, treatment-related, inflammatory, and echocardiographic factors associated with...

Phytochemical Profiling and Biological Activities of Stachys cataonica Bhattacharjee et Hub.-Mor. Extracts: An LC–MS/MS-Based Approach

The genus Stachys L. genus is in the Lamiaceae family; comprises many numerous medicinally important taxa traditionally used in Anatolia for nutritional and therapeutic purposes. Many Stachys taxa Stachys species have been employed in folk medicine for respiratory, gastrointestin...

Clinical Characteristics, Disease Activity and Severity of Thyroid Orbitopathy at Presentation to a Tertiary Referral Center

Objectives: To present the clinical characteristics of patients with thyroid orbitopathy at initial presentation to a tertiary care center and to determine the disease activity and severity of thyroid orbitopathy at the time of referral.Materials and Methods: This retrospective o...

Internalised abortion stigma among women obtaining legal abortion in Türkiye

The purpose of this study was to examine the degree of internalized abortion stigma among women receiving legal abortion services and to evaluate whether these stigma levels vary based on sociodemographic factors. This cross-sectional study included a population of women who had...

Dysplastic Nevus Terminology in Contemporary Literature: A Descriptive Content Analysis

Background: The term dysplastic nevus (DN) remains included in current World Health Organization classification and embedded in routine diagnostic practice, despite longstanding debate regarding its diagnostic reproducibility, biological specificity, and clinical relevance. Howev...

Beyond the Group Mean: Individual Response Heterogeneity in Social Appearance Anxiety, Anxiety and Interpersonal Functioning Following Aesthetic Surgery—A Prospective Controlled Study

Background/Objectives: The psychological consequences of elective aesthetic surgery are usually evaluated by comparing group means, an approach that is insensitive to change that differs in direction across individuals. This prospective controlled study examined both group-level...

The Aggregate Index of Systemic Inflammation and Risk of Perforation, Mortality, and Surgery in Ileus

Abstract This article aims to evaluate the relationship between the aggregate index of systemic inflammation (AISI) and the occurrence of perforation, the likelihood of surgical management, and in-hospital mortality in patients with ileus, and to assess its diagnostic performance...

Yield of Low Serum Vitamin B12 Results in General Pediatric Outpatient Practice: Age-Specific Patterns and Associations with Testing Indications and Recorded Clinical Features

Background/Objectives: Serum vitamin B12 testing is frequently ordered in pediatric outpatient practice, either routinely or incidentally as part of broad laboratory panels or in response to symptoms and nutritional concerns; however, how the yield of low serum vitamin B12 result...

A Smartphone-Assisted Schirmer Strip for Rapid Dual Colorimetric Sensing of Tear Glucose and pH Level

Abstract Although tear biomarkers are routinely determined using various clinical methods, most current techniques are complex, time-consuming, and require expensive equipment. Therefore, point-of-care (POC) testing is attracting considerable attention for rapid and noninvasive a...

Limited Discriminatory Performance of Preoperative Systemic Inflammatory Indices for Tumor Stage Assessment in Gastric Cancer: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Background:Systemic inflammatory indices are widely investigated as accessible biomarkers in gastric cancer, primarily for prognostic assessment.Their ability to discriminate tumor stage before treatment remains uncertain.This study evaluated the diagnostic performance of preoper...

Retinal Microvascular and Peripapillary Profiles in Mild Autonomous Cortisol Secretion Versus Nonfunctioning Adrenal Adenomas

Background/Objectives: Mild autonomous cortisol secretion (MACS) is associated with increased cardiometabolic morbidity, but its relationship with the retinal microcirculation is unknown. We compared retinal and peripapillary microvascular parameters between MACS and nonfunctioni...

Popular Post-Exercise Recovery Methods: Popularity Versus Scientific Evidence (A Critical Narrative Review)

Post-exercise recovery is central to sustaining athletic performance and optimizing training adaptations. In recent years, numerous recovery methods have become popular in both sport science and applied practice; however, their popularity often does not parallel their scientific...

Association of fetal venous diameter and volume flow measurements with late‐onset fetal growth restriction: A prospective case–control study

OBJECTIVE: This study investigates the diagnostic utility of venous diameter (d) and volume flow (Q) measurements of the umbilical vein (UmbV), ductus venosus (DV), inferior vena cava (IVC), and subdiaphragmatic vestibulum (SDV) in fetuses with late-onset fetal growth restriction...

Serum FGF-21 levels and stature in children and adolescents with celiac disease on a gluten-free diet

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate stature in patients with celiac disease (CD) adherent to a gluten-free diet (GFD), determine the prevalence of growth hormone deficiency (GHD), and assess the associations between stature and serum insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), insulin-like growth...

Perceived Organizational Support and Nurses' Job Performance: The Indirect Roles of Burnout and Quiet Quitting

Perceived organizational support is an important organizational resource that may shape nurses' psychological well-being, workplace engagement, and performance-related outcomes. This study examined the relationship between perceived organizational support and nurses' job performa...

Comparative Prognostic Value of the Preoperative Prognostic Nutritional Index and Gustave Roussy Immune Score After Curative-Intent Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer

Background/Objectives: We compared the prognostic performance of preoperative prognostic nutritional index (PNI) and Gustave Roussy Immune Score (GRIm-s) after curative-intent gastrectomy. Methods: This retrospective cohort included 168 patients, including five postoperative in-h...

Early-Onset Gitelman Syndrome With Normomagnesemia and Absence of Metabolic Alkalosis: Expanding the Phenotypic Spectrum

AbstractGitelman syndrome is an autosomal recessive tubulopathy caused by SLC12A3 mutations and typically presents with hypokalemia, metabolic alkalosis, and hypomagnesemia. However, atypical phenotypes are increasingly recognized. We report a four-year-old child with recurrent h...

Asymmetric Choroidal Vascular Remodeling Following Temporal Inverted Internal Limiting Membrane Flap Surgery: A Retrospective Longitudinal Study

Purpose To evaluate regional changes in choroidal thickness (CT) and choroidal vascularity index (CVI) in the nasal and temporal macula following temporal inverted internal limiting membrane (ILM) flap surgery for macular hole (MH).Methods In this retrospective longitudinal obser...

The reliability of an artificial intelligence tool, ‘Decision Trees’, in emergency medicine triage

Abstract Purpose: Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a significant challenge worldwide. Triage systems categorize patients according to the urgency of their clinical conditions to ensure patient safety and minimize the risk of clinical errors. The aim of this study was to...