• Efficacy of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with post-acute COVID-19 

  Özmaden Hantal, Aslı; Kayhan, Servet; Beyhan Sagmen, Seda; Soy, Mehmet (2023)

  OBJECTIVE: The most important cause of mortality and morbidity of COVID-19 is lung involvement. In this study, the effects of pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) in the post-acute COVID-19 period on lung functions, ...

• Tandem high-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation: An infant with trilateral retinoblastoma 

  Töret, Ersin; Özdemir, Zeynep Canan; Zengin Ersoy, Gizem; Öztunalı, Çiğdem; Bozkurt, Ceyhun; Kebudi, Rejin (2023)

  Background: Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common intraocular malignancy in childhood. Advanced RB, associated with exceedingly poor prognosis, requires more intensive multiagent chemotherapy than conventional regimens. ...

• Comparison of transcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation versus percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation in category IIIB chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome: A randomized prospective trial 

  Sevim, Mehmet; Alkış, Okan; Kartal, İbrahim Güven; Kazan, Hüseyin Özgür; İvelik, Halil İbrahim; Aras, Bekir; Kabay, Şahin (2023)

  Background: Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is a heterogenous condition that impacts the Quality of life severely, and it has multimodal complex treatment options. We aimed to compare the efficacy ...

• An update on the effect of intra-articular intervention strategies using nanomaterials in osteoarthritis: Possible clinical application 

  Amirsaadat, Soumayeh; Amirazad, Halimeh; Hashemihesar, Ramin; Zarghami, Nosratollah (2023)

  Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common progressive condition affecting joints. It mainly affects the knees and hips as predominant weight-bearing joints. Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) accounts for a large proportion of ...

• A comparative analysis of treatment-related changes in the diagnostic biomarker active metalloproteinase-8 levels in patients with periodontitis 

  Keskin, Mutlu; Rintamarttunen, Juulia; Gülçiçek, Emre; Räisänen, Ismo T.; Gupta, Shipra; Tervahartiala, Taina; Pätilä, Tommi; Sorsa, Timo (2023)

  Background: Previous studies have revealed the potential diagnostic utility of aMMP-8, an active form of MMP-8, in periodontal and peri-implant diseases. While non-invasive point-of-care (PoC) chairside aMMP-8 tests have ...

• Corticosteroid, Platelet-Rich Plasma, and Ozone Injections for Sinus Tarsi Syndrome 

  Toy, Serdar; Tuncer, Kutsi; Topal, Murat; Aydın, Ali (2023)

  Background: Sinus tarsi syndrome is characterized by permanent pain on the anterolateral side of the ankle due to chronic inflammation characterized by fibrotic tissue remnants and synovitis accumulation after repeated ...

• Fully automatic liver and tumor segmentation from CT image using an AIM-Unet 

  Özcan, Fırat; Uçan, Osman Nuri; Karaçam, Songül; Tunçman, Duygu (2023)

  The segmentation of the liver is a difficult process due to the changes in shape, border, and density that occur in each section in computed tomography (CT) images. In this study, the Adding Inception Module-Unet (AIM-Unet) ...

• Novel WDR72 mutations causing hypomaturation amelogenesis imperfecta 

  Kim, Youn Jung; Zhang, Hong; Lee, Yejin; Seymen, Figen; Koruyucu, Mine; Kasımoğlu, Yelda; Simmer, James P.; Hu, Jan C-C; Kim, Jung-Wook (2023)

  Amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) is a heterogeneous collection of hereditary enamel defects. The affected enamel can be classified as hypoplastic, hypomaturation, or hypocalcified in form. A better understanding of normal ...

• Detection of the glenoid bare spot by non-arthrographic MR imaging, conventional MR arthrography, and 3D high-resolution T1-weighted VIBE MR arthrography: comparison with CT arthrography 

  Özel, Mehmet Ali; Oğul, Hayri; Köksal, Ali; Köse, Mehmet; Tuncer, Kutsi; Eren, Suat; Kantarcı, Mecit (2023)

  Objectives To determine the diagnostic accuracy of non-arthrographic MR imaging, conventional MR arthrography, and 3D T1-weighted volumetric interpolated breath-hold examination (VIBE) MR arthrography sequences as compared ...

• The investigation of host genetic variants of toll-like receptor 7 and 8 in COVID-19 

  Bağcı, Gökhan; Gündoğdu, Oğuz; Pektaş, Ayşe Nur; Bağcı, Binnur; Avcı, Onur; Gürsoy, Sinan; Kaygusuz, Kenan; Elaldı, Nazif (2023)

  Toll-like receptors (TLRs) recognize infectious agents and play an important role in the innate immune system. Studies have suggested that TLR single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with poor antiviral ...

• Effect of seasons on delirium in postoperative critically ill patients: a retrospective analysis 

  Qiu, Yuwei; Rivas, Eva; Tanios, Marianne; Sreedharan, Roshni; Mao, Guangmei; İnce, İlker; Salih, Ahmed; Saab, Remie; Devarajan, Jagan; Ruetzler, Kurt; Turan, Alparslan (2023)

  Background and objectives: Postoperative delirium is common in critically ill patients and is known to have several predisposing and precipitating factors. Seasonality affects cognitive function which has a more dysfunctional ...

• Final-year medical student mental wellness during preparation for the examination for specialty in Turkey: a cross-sectional survey study 

  Karabacak, Mert; Hakkoymaz, Müberra; Ukuş, Berke; Öztürk, Ece; Kaya, Büşra; Özcan, Zeynep; Özkara, Burak Berksu (2023)

  Background: In Turkey, most final-year medical students prepare for the Examination for Specialty in Medicine in a high-stress environment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study on final-year medical student ...

• Brighten up the rainbow: ecology-based group work for LGBTq+ people 

  Kara, Yunus (2023)

  This research was carried out as a pretest-posttest experimental study in order to evaluate the effect of ecology-based group work on 18 LGBTQ+ people living in different districts of Istanbul. The study group of the ...

• The morphometric analysis of mastoid foramen and mastoid emissary canal on cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) 

  Yurdabakan, Zeliha Zuhal; Okumuş, Özlem; Orhan, Kaan (2023)

  Purpose: The purpose of this retrospective study was to assess the prevalence and morphometric features of the mastoid foramen (MF) and mastoid emissary canal (MEC) using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), as well as ...

• The four horsemen of the apocalypse: cancer, depression, vitamin D deficiency, and obesity: an observational study 

  Tuna, Savaş; Aydın, Mehmet Akif; Aydın, Muhammet Fatih (2023)

  Objective: Studies aiming at illuminating the complex relationships between cancer, obesity, 25-hydroxy vitamin D (25-OHD) deficiency, and body fat percentage are ongoing. The objective of this study was to investigate the ...

• Doped graphene quantum dots UV-vis absorption spectrum: a high-throughput TDDFT study 

  Özönder, Şener; Ünlü, Caner; Güleryüz, Cihat; Trabzon, Levent (2023)

  We report on time-dependent density functional theory calculations of the excited states of 63 different graphene quantum dots (GQDs) in square shape with side lengths of 1, 1.5, and 2 nm. We investigate the systematics ...

• Evaluation of the predictors of oral health-related quality of life among 3-5-year-old children with dental trauma 

  Tabakçılar, Derya; Peker, Kadriye; Yılmaz, Dilek Özge; Kasımoğlu, Yelda; Tuna-İnce, Elif Bahar; Gençay, Koray; Seymen, Figen (2023)

  This study evaluated the influence of socio-demographic, clinical, and parental psychological factors on oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) and determined their predictors in preschool-aged children with traumatic ...

• A printed reconfigurable monopole antenna based on a novel metamaterial structures for 5G applications 

  Al-Hadeethi, Saba T.; Elwi, Taha A.; Ibrahim, Abdullahi Abdu (2023)

  A novel antenna structure is constructed from cascading multi-stage metamaterial (MTM) unit cells-based printed monopole antenna for 5G mobile communication networks. The proposed antenna is constructed from a printed ...

• Downregulation of stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD-1) promotes resistance to imatinib in chronic Myeloid Leukemia 

  Altınok Güneş, Buket; Hekmatshoar, Yalda; Özkan, Tülin; Bozkurt, Süreyya; Erdoğan Aydos, O. Sena; Büyükaşık, Yahya; Aladağ, Elifcan; Sunguroğlu, Asuman (2023)

  Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a malignant hematopoietic stem cell disease resulting in the fusion of BCR and ABL genes and characterized by the presence of the reciprocal translocation t(9;22)(q34;q11). BCR-ABL, a ...

• Evaluation of the detectability of different ages of bloodstains on fabrics in different washing conditions and at various wavelengths 

  Öner Kaya, Dilara; Karadayı, Şükriye; Karadayı, Beytullah; Çetin, Gürsel (2023)

  Purpose: The detection of bloodstains at crime scenes is extremely useful in forensic investigations. This study aimed to investigate the effects of washing temperature, fabric type, fabric color, and stain age (time from ...

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