Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences
Volume 51, Number 2 (2021)
Cover and Contents
Articles
Consensus recommendations for botulinum toxin injections in the spasticitymanagement of children with cerebral palsy during COVID-19 outbreak
EBRU YILMAZ YALÇINKAYA, NAİME EVRİM KARADAĞ SAYGI, ÖZDEN ÖZYEMİŞCİ TAŞKIRAN, NALAN ÇAPAN, ŞEHİM KUTLAY, BİRKAN SONEL TUR, ÖZLEM EL, ECE ÜNLÜ AKYÜZ, SÜDA TEKİN, DEMET OFLUOĞLU, MURAT ZİNNUROĞLU, PINAR AKPINAR, TUĞÇE ÖZEKLİ MISIRLIOĞLU, BERRİN HÜNER, and AHMET HAKAN NUR
Pages 385-392
Vertebral compression fractures: Still an unpredictable aspect of osteoporosis
FATMA YEŞİM KUTSAL and GİZEM OLGU ERGİN ERGANİ
Pages 393-399
Dopamine transporter SPECT imaging in Parkinson's disease and parkinsoniandisorders
ÜMİT ÖZGÜR AKDEMİR, HATİCE AYŞE TOKÇAER BORA, and LÜTFİYE ÖZLEM ATAY
Pages 400-410
Outcome of noncritical COVID-19 patients with early hospitalization and early antiviraltreatment outside the ICU
NURSEL ÇALIK BAŞARAN, OĞUZ ABDULLAH UYAROĞLU, GÜLÇİN TELLİ DİZMAN, LALE ÖZIŞIK, TAHA KORAY ŞAHİN, ZAHİT TAŞ, AHMET ÇAĞKAN İNKAYA, SEVİLAY KARAHAN, ŞEHNAZ ÖZYAVUZ ALP, ALPASLAN ALP, GÖKHAN METAN, IŞKIN PINAR ZARAKOL, GÜLAY SAİN GÜVEN, ŞERİFE GÜL ÖZ, and ARZU TOPELİ İSKİT
Pages 411-420
Characteristics and mortality determinants of COVID-19 patients undergoinghemodialysis
SAVAŞ SİPAHİ, HAMAD DHEİR, AYSEL TOÇOĞLU, MELİKE BEKTAŞ, SEYYİD BİLAL AÇIKGÖZ, AHMED CİHAD GENÇ, FULDEM MUTLU, MEHMET KÖROĞLU, ALİ FUAT ERDEM, and OĞUZ KARABAY
Pages 421-427
Clinical course of COVID-19 disease in immunosuppressed renal transplant patients
HAMAD DHEİR, SAVAŞ SİPAHİ, SELÇUK YAYLACI, ESMA SEDA ÇETİN, AHMED BİLAL GENÇ, NECATTİN FIRAT, MEHMET KÖROĞLU, GÜRKAN MURATDAĞI, YAKUP TOMAK, KEZBAN ÖZMEN SÜNER, ÖMER FARUK ATEŞ, and OĞUZ KARABAY
Pages 428-434
Cerebral hemodynamic alterations in patients with Covid-19
ALİ RIZA SONKAYA, BİLGİN ÖZTÜRK, and ÖMER KARADAŞ
Pages 435-439
Characteristics and outcomes of critically ill patients with covid-19 in Sakarya, Turkey: asingle centre cohort study
HAVVA KOCAYİĞİT, KEZBAN ÖZMEN SÜNER, YAKUP TOMAK, GÜRKAN DEMİR, İBRAHİM KOCAYİĞİT, SELÇUK YAYLACI, YUSUF AYDEMİR, MEHMET KÖROĞLU, OĞUZ KARABAY, MEHMET HALİL ÖZTÜRK, and ALİ FUAT ERDEM
Pages 440-447
The predictive and diagnostic accuracy of long pentraxin-3 in COVID-19 pneumonia
AHMED BİLAL GENÇ, SELÇUK YAYLACI, HAMAD DHEİR, AHMED CİHAD GENÇ, KUBİLAY İŞSEVER, DENİZ ÇEKİÇ, HAVVA KOCAYİĞİT, ERDEM ÇOKLUK, ALPER KARACAN, MEHMET RAMAZAN ŞEKEROĞLU, HANDE TOPTAN, and ERTUĞRUL GÜÇLÜ
Pages 448-453
Factors affecting mortality in geriatric patients hospitalized with COVID-19
RABİA BAĞ SOYTAŞ, DAMLA ÜNAL, PINAR ARMAN, VEYSEL SUZAN, TUĞÇE EMİROĞLU GEDİK, GÜNAY CAN, BORA KORKMAZER, RIDVAN KARAALİ, ŞERMİN BÖREKÇİ, MERT AHMET KUŞKUCU, HAKAN YAVUZER, ÜLEV DENİZ ERDİNÇLER, and ALPER DÖVENTAŞ
Pages 454-463
The necessity of treating asymptomatic bacteriuria with antibiotics in the perioperativeperiod of joint arthroplasty: a metaanalysis.
SAYED ABDULLA JAMI, JIAN DANG SHI, ZHANWEN ZHOU, and CHANG HAO LIU
Pages 464-472
Sural nerve harvest for infants: integrated with information based on anatomicaldissections
MUSTAFA BÜYÜKMUMCU, ANIL DİDEM AYDIN KABAKÇI, DUYGU AKIN SAYGIN, MEHMET TUĞRUL YILMAZ, and MUZAFFER ŞEKER
Pages 473-482
Retrospective analysis of the effect of breast surgery on body posture in patients withearly-stage breast cancer after cancer treatment (VENUS study)(Breast cancer and body posture)
ÖZGÜR TANRIVERDİ, AHMET OZAN ÇETİN, and ALİ ALKAN
Pages 483-489
Identification of novel TUBB1 variants in patients with macrothrombocytopenia
ZİHNİ ONUR ÇALIŞKANER, ABDULLAH ABDUL WAHEED, MERVE TUZLAKOĞLU ÖZTÜRK, YEŞİM OYMAK, UYGAR HALİS TAZEBAY, MEHMET NEJAT AKAR, AYTEN KANDİLCİ, and DİDEM ÖZKAN
Pages 490-500
Reliability and validity of the National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis SymptomIndex questionnaire in the Turkish Population
ALPER COŞKUN, UTKU CAN, FATİH TARHAN, ÖVÜNÇ KAVUKOĞLU, and KAMİL FEHMİ NARTER
Pages 501-507
Risk factors for evisceration in gynecological oncology surgeries
FATİH KILIÇ, GÜNSU KİMYON CÖMERT, MEHMET ÜNSAL, İSMET ÇİĞDEM KILIÇ, CANER ÇAKIR, DİLEK YÜKSEL, MUSTAFA ALPER KARALÖK, OSMAN TÜRKMEN, and AHMET TANER TURAN
Pages 508-517
Angiographic prostatic arterial anatomy in a Turkish population with benign prostatichyperplasia
FATMA GONCA ELDEM, FIRAT ATAK, OSMAN ÖCAL, ALİ CANSU BOZACI, AHMET GÜDELOĞLU, and BORA PEYNİRCİOĞLU
Pages 518-522
Pattern of systemic antibiotic use and potential drug interactions: evaluations through apoint prevalence study in Ankara University Hospitals
İREM AKDEMİR KALKAN, GÜLE ÇINAR, AYSEL PEHLİVANLI, FATİH ÜRKMEZ, İZEL EZGİ TOPALOĞLU, BÜŞRA AKYOL, ARZU BEŞİKCİ, ALPAY AZAP, and KEMAL OSMAN MEMİKOĞLU
Pages 523-529
Fatigue and its relationship with disease-related factors in patients with systemicsclerosis: A cross-sectional study
HAZAL YAKUT, SEVGİ ÖZALEVLİ, and AHMET MERİH BİRLİK
Pages 530-539
Frailty is associated with poor sleep quality in the oldest old
ÇAĞATAY ÇAVUŞOĞLU, OLGUN DENİZ, RANA TUNA DOĞRUL, SÜHEYLA ÇÖTELİ, ALİ ÖNCÜL, MUHAMMET CEMAL KIZILARSLANOĞLU, and BERNA GÖKER
Pages 540-546
Interobserver and intermethod variability in data interpretation of breast strainelastography in suspicious breast lesions
HALE TURNAOĞLU, KEMAL MURAT HABERAL, SERDAR ARSLAN, MERİÇ YAVUZ ÇOLAK, FUNDA ULU ÖZTÜRK, and NİHAL USLU
Pages 547-554
Emergency department extracorporeal membrane oxygenation may also includenoncardiac arrest patients
YUNUS EMRE ÖZLÜER, MÜCAHİT AVCİL, DUYGU EGE, and KEZBAN ŞEKER YAŞAR
Pages 555-561
Early detection breast cancer: role of circulating plasma miRNA-21 expression as apotential screening biomarker
MUHAMMAD NOOR DIANSYAH, AMI ASHARIATI PRAYOGO, MADE PUTRA SEDANA, MERLYNA SAVITRI, PRADANA ZAKY ROMADHON, PUTU NIKEN AYU AMRITA, ANDI YASMIN WIJAYA, WINONA MAY HENDRATA, and UGROSENO YUDHO BINTORO
Pages 562-569
Retrospective evaluation of 377 patients with penetrating foreign body injuries: auniversity hospital experience (a present case of missed sponge foreign body injury)
ANIL MURAT ÖZTÜRK, OMAR ALJASIM, GAMZE ŞANLIDAĞ, and MELTEM TAŞBAKAN
Pages 570-582
The effect of measurement area size on the reliability of myocardial iron load measurementin cardiac magnetic resonance imaging examinations of thalassemia patients
İBRAHİM ÖNDER YENİÇERİ, FATİH MEHMET AZIK, and FUNDA DİNÇ ELİBOL
Pages 583-588
Evaluation of cardiac functions after catheter ablation of atrioventricular nodal reentranttachycardia
AHMET ÇAĞRI AYKAN, CAN YÜCEL KARABAY, and MUSTAFA YILDIZ
Pages 589-594
Risk factors predicting the development of diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndromefollowing gestational diabetes mellitus
BÜLENT CAN, SEMA ÇİFTÇİ, GÜLŞAH YENİDÜNYA YALIN, and NEVİN DİNÇÇAĞ
Pages 595-603
A practical method of drug provocation testing to prove tolerance to alternative drugs indrug hypersensitivity
EBRU DAMADOĞLU, ÖZGE ÖZTÜRK AKTAŞ, GÜL KARAKAYA, and ALİ FUAT KALYONCU
Pages 604-609
A comparison of rates and severity of chronic kidney disease in deceased-donor andliving-donor liver transplant recipients: times matter
YÜCEL YANKOL, EMILY BUGEAUD, TIFFANY ZENS, MICHAEL RIZZARI, NESİMİ MECİT, GLEN E. LEVERSON, DAVID FOLEY, JOSHUA D. MEZRICH, TURAN KANMAZ, OYA MÜNEVVER ANDAÇOĞLU, ANTHONY M. D'ALESSANDRO, KORAY SADIK ACARLI, MÜNCİ KALAYOĞLU, and LUIS A. FERNANDEZ
Pages 610-622
Factors influencing anterior/low anterior resection syndrome after rectal or sigmoidresections
SAMİ BENLİ, TAHSİN ÇOLAK, and MEHMET ÖZGÜR TÜRKMENOĞLU
Pages 623-630
Which scoring system is better in association with exercise capacity and health status innoncystic fibrosis bronchiectasis patients?
YELDA VAROL, HÜLYA DOĞAN ŞAHİN, NİMET AKSEL, and ALİ KADRİ ÇIRAK
Pages 631-637
Role of mir-33a, mir-203b, mir361-3p, and mir-424 in hepatocellular carcinoma
BURHANETTİN YALÇINKAYA, ESRA GÜZEL TANOĞLU, DİDEM TAŞTEKİN, and SADRETTİN PENÇE
Pages 638-643
Evaluation of saliva glutathione, glutathione peroxidase, and malondialdehyde levels inhead-neck radiotherapy patients
GÖZDE DERİNDAĞ, HAYATİ MURAT AKGÜL, AHMET KIZILTUNÇ, HALİL İBRAHİM ÖZKAN, HİLAL KIZILTUNÇ ÖZMEN, and NİLGÜN AKGÜL
Pages 644-649
Basal and pentagastrin-stimulated calcitonin cut-off values in diagnosis of preoperativemedullary thyroid cancer
EMİNE KARTAL BAYKAN and MEHMET ERDOĞAN
Pages 650-656
Evaluation of the results of patients who applied to the Çukurova University, MedicalGenetics Department for prenatal diagnosis and determination of genetic counselingprinciples
SEVCAN TUĞ BOZDOĞAN, SELİM BÜYÜKKURT, SİNEM ÖZER, and ATIL BİŞGİN
Pages 657-660
Investigation of the expression levels of CPEB4, APC, TRIP13, EIF2S3, EIF4A1, IFNg,PIK3CA and CTNNB1 genes in different stage colorectal tumors
ZAFER SÖYLEMEZ, EVRİM SUNA ARIKAN, MUSTAFA SOLAK, YÜKSEL ARIKAN, ÇİĞDEM TOKYOL, and HÜSEYİN ŞEKER
Pages 661-674
Assessment and prevalence of concomitant chemo-radiotherapy-induced oral mucositisin patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma
Sadia MINHAS, ANEEQUA SAJJAD, RABIA CHAUDHRY, HAMZA ZAHID, AZFAR SHAHID, and MUHAMMAD KASHIF
Pages 675-684
Gemcitabine, dexamethasone and cisplatin (GDP) is an effective and well-toleratedmobilization regimen for relapsed and refractory lymphoma: a single center experience
HİKMETTULLAH BATGİ, SEMİH BAŞCI, MEHMET SİNAN DAL, MERİH KIZIL ÇAKAR, BAHAR UNCU ULU, TUĞÇE NUR YİĞENOĞLU, NURGÜL ÖZCAN, ALİ KILINÇ, ALPARSLAN MERDİN, JALE YILDIZ, MEHMET BAKIRTAŞ, DERYA ŞAHİN, TAHİR DARÇIN, DİCLE İSKENDER, and NURAN AHÜ BAYSAL
Pages 685-692
Pain during walking and ascending stairs before hyaluronic acid injection was commonin patients with knee osteoarthritis: a qualitative study
ÖMER ÖZKAN, NAİLA BABAYEVA, ŞERİFE ŞEYMA TORĞUTALP, ÖMER SERKAN KARA, GÜRHAN DÖNMEZ, and FEZA KORKUSUZ
Pages 693-699
Can preoperative modified systemic inflammation score (mSIS) be used to predictmalignancy in persistent nondiagnostic thyroid nodules?
HAKAN ATAŞ, BİROL KORUKLUOĞLU, BÜLENT ÇOMÇALI, NEŞE YAKŞİ, BARIŞ SAYLAM, and MESUT TEZ
Pages 700-705
Acute necrotizing encephalopathy of childhood: a single-center experience
ERHAN AKSOY, ÜLKÜHAN ÖZTOPRAK, HALİL ÇELİK, FATİH MEHMET AKİF ÖZDEMİR, MEHBARE ÖZKAN, HÜLYA KAYILIOĞLU, AYŞEGÜL DANIŞ, ÖZGE KUCUR, SELMAN KESİCİ, MUTLU UYSAL YAZICI, EBRU AZAPAĞASI, YASEMİN TAŞCI YILDIZ, NESRİN CEYLAN, SALİHA ŞENEL, and DENİZ YÜKSEL
Pages 706-715
Evaluation of serum anti-Müllerian hormone levels in women with Hashimotothyroiditis in the reproductive age
İLKNUR ÖZTÜRK ÜNSAL, SEMA HEPŞEN, PINAR AKHANLI, MURAT ÇALAPKULU, MUHAMMED ERKAM SENCAR, ALİ YALÇINDAĞ, and ERMAN ÇAKAL
Pages 716-721
Umbilical cord levels of macrophage migration inhibitory factor in neonatal respiratorydistress syndrome
SÜLEYMAN BAYRAKTAR, BİLGE BAYRAKTAR, and ÜLKAN KILIÇ
Pages 722-726
Role of dyslipidemia in early vascular aging syndrome
ALPARSLAN KILIÇ, ONUR BAYDAR, DENİZ ELÇİK, ZİYA APAYDIN, and MEHMET MUSTAFA CAN
Pages 727-734
Does treatment with sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors have an effect on sleepquality, quality of life, and anxiety levels in people with Type 2 diabetes mellitus?
SERDAR ŞAHİN, ÖZLEM HALİLOĞLU, ÖZGE POLAT KORKMAZ, EMRE DURCAN, HÜMEYRA REKALI ŞAHİN, VOLKAN DEMİRHAN YUMUK, TANER DAMCI, HASAN MAHMUT İLKOVA, and ZEYNEP OŞAR SİVA
Pages 735-742
Dynamic thiol/disulfide homeostasis as oxidative stress marker in diabetic ketoacidosis
YAVUZ OTAL, FATİH AHMET KAHRAMAN, FADİME GÜLLÜ HAYDAR, and ÖZCAN EREL
Pages 743-748
The prognostic value of fat necrosis deposits on CT imaging in acute pancreatitis
ŞEHNAZ EVRİMLER, MÜNTEHA ÇAKMAKÇI, ADNAN KARAİBRAHİMOĞLU, and MUSTAFA KAYAN
Pages 749-756
The platelet to lymphocyte ratio predicts overall survival better than the neutrophil tolymphocyte ratio in metastatic renal cell carcinoma
OKTAY HALİT AKTEPE, GÜRKAN GÜNER, DENİZ CAN GÜVEN, TAHA KORAY ŞAHİN, FADİME SİNEM ARDIÇ, DENİZ YÜCE, ŞUAYİB YALÇIN, and MUSTAFA ERMAN
Pages 757-765
The effects of salt consumption habits on iodine status and thyroid functions duringpregnancy
MAHMUT APAYDIN, TANER DEMİRCİ, ÖZDEN ÖZDEMİR BAŞER, BEKİR UÇAN, MUSTAFA ÖZBEK, and ERMAN ÇAKAL
Pages 766-771
Demographic and clinical characteristics of children with autosomal dominantpolycystic kidney disease: a single center experience
BELDE KASAP DEMİR, FATMA MUTLUBAŞ, EREN SOYALTIN, CANER ALPARSLAN, MERVE ARYA, DEMET EĞLENOĞLU ALAYGUT, SEÇİL ARSLANSOYU ÇAMLAR, AFİG BERDELİ, and ÖNDER YAVAŞCAN
Pages 772-777
Evaluation of the relationship between shear wave elastography measurements withlaboratory and Doppler US parameters in patients with adult Hashimoto's thyroiditis
NURTEN ANDAÇ BALTACIOĞLU, FERHAN MANTAR, and EFE SOYDEMİR
Pages 778-786
Transient receptor potential melastatin 2 ion channel activity in ovarianhyperstimulation syndrome physiopathology
CENGİZ ŞANLI, REMZİ ATILGAN, TUNCAY KULOĞLU, ŞEHMUS PALA, BİLGE AYDIN TÜRK, HASAN BURAK KESER, and NEVİN İLHAN
Pages 787-795
Reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the vestibular rehabilitation benefitquestionnaire
BÜLENT GÜNDÜZ, YASEMİN APAYDIN, ARZU GÜÇLÜ GÜNDÜZ, BURAK KABİŞ, and HAKAN TUTAR
Pages 796-801
Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms and bone health after kidney transplantation
BERFU KORUCU, FATMA AJLAN TÜKÜN, ÖZANT HELVACI, HACI HASAN YETER, SEVİM GÖNEN, GALİP GÜZ, and SELİM TURGAY ARINSOY
Pages 802-812
Evaluation of serum CXC chemokine ligand 16 (CXCL16) as a novel inflammatory biomarker or familial Mediterranean fever disease
TANER AKYOL, TOLGA DÜZENLİ, and ALPASLAN TANOĞLU
Pages 813-818
Inflammatory complications of vocal fold injection with hyaluronic acid: amultiinstitutional study
NECATİ ENVER, ELAD AZİZLİ, SEVTAP AKBULUT, EMEL ÇADALLI TATAR, MUHAMMED KÜRŞAD YELKEN, KAYHAN ÖZTÜRK, HAKAN COŞKUN, AHMET HAKAN BİRKENT, ZAHİDE ÇİLER BÜYÜKATALAY, OZAN BAĞIŞ ÖZGÜRSOY, and HALDUN OĞUZ
Pages 819-825
Metformin promotes apoptosis in primary breast cancer cells by downregulation ofcyclin D1 and upregulation of P53 through an AMPK-alpha independent mechanism
GÜVEN YENMİŞ, NAİL BEŞLİ, ELİF YAPRAK SARAÇ, FATMA SİNEM HOCAOĞLU EMRE, KAZIM ŞENOL, and GÖNÜL KANIGÜR
Pages 826-834
Nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs alter antibiotic susceptibility and expression ofvirulence-related genes and protein A of Staphylococcus aureus
İSMAİL ÖZTÜRK, YASEMİN ERAÇ, PETEK BALLAR KIRMIZIBAYRAK, and ŞAFAK ERMERTCAN
Pages 835-847
The effect of caffeic acid phenethyl ester and Ankaferd Blood Stopper on the diabetic andnondiabetic gingival wound healing: an experimental study
MEHMET GÜL, SERKAN DÜNDAR, GÖKHAN ARTAŞ, AKIN YİĞİN, ABDULSAMET TANIK, MEHMET EMRAH POLAT, and ERHAN CAHİT ÖZCAN
Pages 848-856
Effects of topical mitomycin-C on the tracheal epithelia of rabbits followingtracheostomy
SANİYE GÖKNİL ÇALIK, MUSTAFA ÇALIK, ZÜMRÜT ELA ARSLAN KAŞDOĞAN, MUSTAFA CİHAT AVUNDUK, HIDIR ESME, and OLGUN KADİR ARIBAŞ
Pages 857-863
Effects of sitagliptin on ß-adrenoceptor mediated relaxation in streptozotocin-diabeticrat aorta
AYHANIM ELİF MÜDERRİSOĞLU, BETÜL RABİA ERDOĞAN, ZEYNEP ELİF YEŞİLYURT, CEREN UYAR BOZTAŞ, İREM KARAÖMERLİOĞLU, VECDİ MELİH ALTAN, and EBRU ARIOĞLU İNAN
Pages 864-872
COVID-19 transmission sources, management, and scientific research in Turkey
FATİH KAHRAMAN and ADEM ÖZKARA
Pages 873-874
Cutaneous adnexal tumors: the diagnostic role of dermatoscopic examination
ÖMER FARUK ELMAS, ABDULLAH DEMİRBAŞ, ÜLKER GÜL, and MUSTAFA ATASOY
Pages 875-876
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
