Yedikule Teaching Hospital

Beyond Screening Populations: Context-Dependent Performance of Lung Cancer Risk Assessment Strategies in a Diagnostically Enriched Cohort

Background/Objectives: Lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography has been shown to reduce disease-specific mortality, but optimal strategies for identifying high-risk individuals remain debated. This retrospective, single-center cohort study examined the context-dep...

SOFA-2 vs. SOFA and early warning scores for short-term mortality in older adults with sepsis in the emergency department

SOFA-2 was developed to update the SOFA score for contemporary clinical practice, but its performance in older adult emergency department (ED) patients with sepsis is uncertain. We evaluated SOFA-2 for short-term mortality prediction and compared it with SOFA and commonly used ea...

Clinical characteristics, diagnostic challenges, and management of pulmonary actinomycosis: a 10-year retrospective cohort study

Pulmonary actinomycosis (PA) is a rare and diagnostically challenging infection because its clinical and radiological manifestations are nonspecific and often mimic malignancy and other chronic pulmonary diseases. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical, radiological, diagnosti...