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A. Abyad (Chief Editor)
DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2018.93488 |
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Original Contribution
Determination of Preoperative Fear and
Anxiety Levels caused by Multiple Pediatric
Burn Surgeries in Patients and their Parents
Hakan Akelma, Ebru Tarikçi, Mehmet Özkiliç,
Zeki Ayhan Karahan, Sedat Kaya
[pdf]
DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2018.93489
Troponin I level changes following diagnostic
coronary angiography
Melika Kooshkiforooshani, Kamyar Amin
[pdf]
DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2018.93490
Population and Community
Studies
What a low prevalence of malignancies in
sickle cell diseases
Mehmet Rami Helvaci, Orhan Ayyildiz, Alper Sevinc,
Celaletdin Camci, Abdulrazak Abyad,
Lesley Pocock
[pdf]
DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2018.93491
Varicocele may not have a chronic low-grade
inflammatory background on vascular endothelium
Mehmet Rami Helvaci, Mursel Davarci, Mehmet
Inci, Yusuf Aydin, Abdulrazak Abyad, Lesley
Pocock
[pdf]
DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2018.93492
Neural Processing of Food Stimuli in Self-Regulation
Brain Regions using Bayesian General Linear
Modeling Approach
Parisa Naseri, Hamid Alavi Majd,
Seyed Morteza Najibi, Seyed Mohammad Tabatabaee,
Elham Faghihzadeh
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DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2018.93494
Education and Training
Surgical Skills Series - Ingrown toenail
removal with phenol
Maurice Brygel
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DOI: 10.5742MEWFM.2018.93493
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September 2018
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From
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This issue is rich with papers
from Turkey and Iran that deals with important
topics with interesting findings. Tarikçi
Kiliç E,T et al; looked at preoperative
fears caused by multiple pediatric burn surgeries.
The authors stressed that burn injuries can
cause anxiety, sleep affective and learning
disorders among children. Hospitalized children
are observed to experience nightmares, behavioral
regression and post- traumatic stress disorder.
This situation increases both the stress hormone
levels in their blood and the morbidity and
mortality rates. Pain becomes more severe while
changing the wound dressings and during practices
like hydrotherapy, skin grafting, physiotherapy
and debridement. Therefore, a good pain and
anxiety control should be achieved especially
to avoid pain during treatment, to help children
heal more easily, and to reduce their stress
Kooshkiforooshani, M et al ; looked at Troponin
I level changes following diagnostic coronary
angiography. A total of 280 patients with normal
baseline CTnI level and normal coronary angiography
or mild stenosis were included. Serum CTnI level
was measured by ELISA method at baseline and
once more during 6 to 24 hours after coronary
angiography. None of the patients experienced
chest pain, dyspnea, arrhythmia, malignant hypertension,
or ECG changes. The authors concluded that serum
cTnI level can elevate after coronary angiography
in a small percentage of patients with mild
CAD. Male gender, diabetes mellitus, hypertension,
obesity, and chronic kidney disease were factors
associated with this elevated cTnI level.
Mehmet MR et al looked at the association of
Malignancies in sickle cell diseases. All patients
with the SCDs and age and sex-matched controls
were studied. The study included 428 patients
with the SCDs (220 males) and 518 controls (266
males). Although various malignancies were diagnosed
in 11.5% of the control cases (23 females and
37 males), this ratio was only 0.4% (one female
and one male) in the SCDs (p<0.001). The
authors concluded that SCDs are chronic and
severe inflammatory processes on vascular endothelium
initiated at birth, and terminate with end-organ
insufficiencies in early years of life. Such
permanent inflammatory processes may increase
clearance of malignant cells by immune system
that may be the cause of significantly lower
prevalence of malignancies in the SCDs.
Mehmet Rami Helvaci, MR et al looked at Varicocele
and endothelial inflammation. Consecutive patients
with a surgical repair history of varicocele
were collected into the first and age-matched
control cases were collected into the second
groups. The study included 31 patients with
varicocele and 80 control cases. The authors
concluded that although the metabolic syndrome
is a chronic low-grade inflammatory process
on vascular endothelium, terminating with an
accelerated atherosclerosis, end-organ failures,
early aging, and premature death, varicocele
may not have a chronic low-grade inflammatory
background on vascular endothelium in general.
On the other hand, thalassemias and other causes
of splenomegaly may cause torsion of the left
renal vein and prevent its drainage. So drainage
problems at the level of left renal vein due
to the stronger arterial walls that cannot be
obstructed easily may explain the higher prevalence
of varicocele and renal atrophy on the left
side in the literature since the left testicular
vein drains into the left renal vein.
Naseri P et al; attempted to localize self-regulation
areas in response to palatable food using a
Bayesian Generalized Linear Model (GLM) approach.
A new proposed Bayesian approach was applied
for assessing functional response to palatable
food stimuli in a block design fMRI data with
370 scans of one healthy women. Regions of Interest
(ROIs) including the dorsolateral and medial
prefrontal cortex, the inferior frontal gyrus
and the mid-ventrolateral frontal cortex were
investigated. The results of the present revealed
that palatable food as compared to non-food
images elicit stronger activation in brain self-regulation
areas including the dorsolateral and medial
prefrontal cortex, the inferior frontal gyrus
and the mid-ventrolateral frontal cortex. The
authors concluded that self-regulation areas
of people who are concerned about their weight,
will be activated in confrontation with palatable
foods.
Chief Editor:
A. Abyad
MD, MPH, AGSF, AFCHSE
Email: aabyad@cyberia.net.lb
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