Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences
Volume 48, Number 4 (2018)
Cover and Contents
Articles
Takayasu arteritis: an update
GÖKHAN KESER, KENAN AKSU, and RAFİ HANER DİRESKENELİ
Pages 681-697
Polycythemia vera: diagnosis, clinical course, and current management
YAHYA BÜYÜKAŞIK, RIDVAN ALİ, MUHLİS CEM AR, MEHMET TURGUT, AKİF SELİM YAVUZ, and GÜRAY SAYDAM
Pages 698-710
Comparison between laparoscopy and laboratory tests for the diagnosis of tuberculous peritonitis
BO HUANG, DE JUN CUI, YING REN, BIN HAN, DA PING YANG, and XUN ZHAO
Pages 711-715
Effects of epidural morphine and levobupivacaine combination before incision and afterincision and in the postoperative period on thoracotomy pain and stress response
GÜLER AYŞE BARUT, MEHTAP TUNÇ, ŞAZİYE ŞAHİN, FATMA ULUS, and HİLAL SAZAK
Pages 716-723
Relationship of serum HLA-B alleles and TNF-? with rheumatic heart disease
MUSTAFA AZMİ EYİOL, ÇAĞRI YAYLA, SERKAN ÜNLÜ, ABDURRAHMAN TUFAN, MUSTAFA CEMRİ, MEHMET RIDVAN YALÇIN, and NURİ BÜLENT BOYACI
Pages 724-729
Antibiotic treatment outcomes in community-acquired pneumonia
AYKUT ÇİLLİ, ABDULLAH SAYINER, BURCU ÇELENK, AYŞIN ŞAKAR COŞKUN, OĞUZ KILINÇ, ARMAĞAN HAZAR, ANIL AKTAŞ SAMUR, SEZAİ TAŞBAKAN, GRANT W. WATERER, YAVUZ HAVLUCU, ÖZNUR KILIÇ, FATMA TOKGÖZ, and UĞUR BİLGE
Pages 730-736
Effect of intraoperative infusion of sufentanil versus remifentanil on postoperativeshivering in Korea: a prospective, double-blinded, randomized control study
KI TAE JUNG, KEUM YOUNG SO, IN GOOK JEE, and SANG HUN KIM
Pages 737-743
Predictors of mortality in cancer patients who needintensive care unit support: a two center cohort study
ÖZLEM EDİBOĞLU, SAMİ CENK KIRAKLI, ÖZLEM YAZICIOĞLU MOÇİN, GÖKAY GÜNGÖR, CEYDA ANAR, PINAR ÇİMEN, NALAN ADIGÜZEL, CÜNEYT SALTÜRK, MERİH KALAMANOĞLU BALCI, ZUHAL KARAKURT, and DURSUN ALİZOROĞLU
Pages 744-749
Cytoplasmic abnormalities of mature oocytes have a significant effect on fertilization inBologna poor responders
HALENUR BOZDAĞ, ESRA AKDENİZ, BELGİN DEVRANOĞLU, MURAT HAKSEVER, BÜLENT EMRE BİLGİÇ, and HÜSEYİN TAYFUN KUTLU
Pages 750-758
Detection of CCND1, C-MYC, and FGFR1 amplification using modified SYBR Green qPCR and FISH in breast cancer
ASAAD AZARNEZHAD, MINA TABRIZI, FIROZEH JAVAN, and PARVIN MEHDIPOUR
Pages 759-767
Effects of volume-controlled equal ratio ventilation with recruitment maneuver andpositive end-expiratory pressure in laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: a prospective,randomized, controlled trial
BAHATTİN TUNCALI, VARLIK EROL, and PINAR ZEYNELOĞLU
Pages 768-776
Efficacy and safety of lenalidomide and dexamethasone in patients with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma: a real-life experience
NUR SOYER, PÜSEM PATIR, AYŞE UYSAL, MUSTAFA DURAN, HATİCE DEMET KİPER ÜNAL, İSABEL RAİKA DURUSOY ONMUŞ, MURAT TOMBULOĞLU, FAHRİ ŞAHİN, MAHMUT TÖBÜ, FİLİZ VURAL, and GÜRAY SAYDAM
Pages 777-785
What has changed in the utility of pediatric EEG over the last decade?
LEMAN TEKİN ORGUN, EBRU ARHAN, KÜRŞAD AYDIN, TUNZALE RZAYEVA, TUĞBA HIRFANOĞLU, and AYŞE SERDAROĞLU
Pages 786-793
The impact of donor and recipient KIR genes and KIR ligands on the occurrence of acutegraft-versus-host disease and graft survival after HLA-identical sibling hematopoieticstem cell transplantation
Seyed Ahmad Hoseinian, Davood Jafari, Mehdi Mahmoodi, Kamran Alimoghaddam, Mohammadreza Ostadali, Azita Talebzadeh Bonakdar, Arron Munggela Foma, Mir Saeed Yekaninejad, and Ali Akbar Amirzargar
Pages 794-804
Reliability and validity of the Turkish version of Pain Assessment Checklist for Seniorswith Limited Ability to Communicate (PACSLAC-T)
ÖZNUR BÜYÜKTURAN, BUKET BÜYÜKTURAN, AYSU YETİŞ, MEHMET İLKİN NAHARCI, and NURAY KIRDI
Pages 805-810
The validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Leicester Cough Questionnairein COPD patients
FİKRET KURHAN, TUĞBA GÖKTALAY, YAVUZ HAVLUCU, SEÇİL SARI, AYŞE ARZU YORGANCIOĞLU, PINAR ÇELİK, and AYŞIN ŞAKAR COŞKUN
Pages 811-816
Detection of the differences in the apparent diffusion coefficient values in differenthistopathological types of malignant breast lesions and comparison of cellular region/stroma ratio and histopathological results
NEVİN KÖREMEZLİ KESKİN, PINAR BALCI, IŞIL BAŞARA AKIN, ESRA YAVUZ GÜRKAN, ALİ İBRAHİM SEVİNÇ, MERİH GÜRAY DURAK, and AYÇA ERŞEN DANYELİ
Pages 817-825
Rising stars of DPLD survival: FVC and exercise desaturation (a single-center study)
AYPERİ ÖZTÜRK and OYA KAYACAN
Pages 826-832
Effect of intravitreal bevacizumab on macular thickness: exploring serum and vitreousproangiogenic biomarkers in patients with diabetic macular edema
TAYYABA GUL MALIK, SYED SHOAIB AHMED, ROQUYYA GUL, MUHAMMAD KHALIL, ABRAR AHMED MALIK, and MASOOM KHAN
Pages 833-839
Hand functions in systemic lupus erythematosus: a comparative study with rheumatoidarthritis patients and healthy subjects
SONGÜL BAĞLAN YENTÜR, ZEYNEP TUNA, OĞUZHAN METE, AHMET GÖKKURT, NURTEN GİZEM TORE, HAMİT KÜÇÜK, BERNA GÖKER, and DERAN OSKAY
Pages 840-844
Peripheral arterial disease increases the risk of multidrug-resistant bacteria andamputation in diabetic foot infections
PINAR AYSERT YILDIZ, TUĞBA ÖZDİL, MURAT DİZBAY, ÖZLEM GÜZEL TUNÇCAN, and KENAN HIZEL
Pages 845-850
Ketamine dosing for sedation during repeated radiotherapy sessions in children
OYA YALÇIN ÇOK, HATİCE EVREN EKER, and ANİŞ ARIBOĞAN
Pages 851-855
Methodology of a new inflammatory arthritis registry: TReasure
UMUT KALYONCU, ETEM KORAY TAŞCILAR, ALİ İHSAN ERTENLİ, HÜSEYİN EDİZ DALKILIÇ, CEMAL BES, ORHAN KÜÇÜKŞAHİN, TİMUÇİN KAŞİFOĞLU, NİLÜFER ALPAY KANITEZ, HAKAN EMMUNGİL, GEZMİŞ KİMYON, NAZİFE ŞULE YAŞAR BİLGE, SERVET AKAR, MEHMET PAMİR ATAGÜNDÜZ, SÜLEYMAN SERDAR KOCA, and AŞKIN ATEŞ
Pages 856-861
Reference values of anthropometric measurementsin healthy late preterm and term infants*
BETÜL SİYAH BİLGİN, ÖZGÜN UYGUR, DEMET TEREK, ÖZGE ALTUN KÖROĞLU, MEHMET YALAZ, METE AKISÜ, MUHSİN ÖZGÜR ÇOĞULU, and NİLGÜN KÜLTÜRSAY
Pages 862-872
The in vitro effect of antimicrobial photodynamic therapy onCandida and Staphylococcus biofilms
ÖZLEM GÜZEL TUNÇCAN, AYŞE KALKANCI, ELİF AYÇA ÜNAL, OLKAR ABDULMAJED, MERVE ERDOĞAN, MURAT DİZBAY, and KAYHAN ÇAĞLAR
Pages 873-879
Repaglinide inhibits cyclosporine A-induced renal tubular toxicityby affecting apoptosis and Bax and Bcl-2 expression
Jin LI, Hui LI, QI XIONG LI, and Ying XUE
Pages 880-885
Octreotide ameliorates dermal fibrosis in bleomycin-induced scleroderma
SİBEL OYUCU ORHAN, AHMET TEKTEMUR, NEVZAT GÖZEL, İBRAHİM HANİFİ ÖZERCAN, SERVET YOLBAŞ, AHMET YILDIRIM, EBRU ÖNALAN, and SÜLEYMAN SERDAR KOCA
Pages 886-891
Ginger (Zingiber officinale) prevents severe damage to the lungs due to hyperoxia andinflammation
ATİLLA ÇİFCİ, CÜNEYT TAYMAN, HALİL İBRAHİM YAKUT, HALİT HALİL, ESRA ÇAKIR, UFUK ÇAKIR, and SALİH AYDEMİR
Pages 892-900
Editors
- Editor-in-Chief
- Prof. Dr. Murat KEKİLLİ Gazi University
- Associate Editors-in-Chief
- Prof. Dr. Selim ARICI Ondokuz Mayis University
- Prof. Dr. Kürşat ALTINBAŞ Selçuk University
- Prof. Dr. Zehra Sema ÖZKAN Kırıkkale University
