We thank Onder Ayyildiz and GokhanOzge for their interest and comment on our paper “The Effects of Hemodialysis on Tear Osmolarity” [1, 2]. They thought that detection of TO would be performed at the same time of the day regarding the duration of hemodialysis (HD) which may avoid the bias of the methodology according to the study of Niimi et al. [3]. Niimi et al. have enrolled 38medically healt...

Delayed extubation occurs after isoflurane anesthesia, especially following prolonged surgical duration. We aimed to determine the arterial blood concentrations of isoflurane and the correlation with end-tidal concentrations for predicting emergence from general anesthesia.Thirty-four American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status class I-II gynecologic patients were included. General an...

To compare efficacy of spontaneous breathing with pressure support and volum e-c ontrolled mandatory ventilation during combined general anesthesia using desflurane without muscle relaxants. Subjects Methods. 100 patients were included in the study. All underwent lo w-t raumatic operations on lower limbs under supraglottic air devices Immediately prior to induction anesthesia, randomly divided ...

Utilizing polysomnography (PSG) and psychometry, objective and subjective sleep and awakening quality was investigated in 11 drug-free patients (five females, six males) aged 35-75 years (mean age 54.1 +/- 11.4) suffering from nonorganic insomnia (F 51.0) related to a depressive episode (F 32) or recurrent depressive disorder (F 33). as compared with 11 age- and sex-matched normal controls (fiv...

To find the best timing for administration of long-acting antihypertensive drugs, we gave nitrendipine, a calcium antagonist of the dihydropyridine group, once a day to six hospitalized and drug-free patients with essential hypertension, changing the time of administration and studying the effects on the circadian rhythm of blood pressure. After control values of 24-hour blood pressure variatio...

OBJECTIVES Fatigue is a common complaint of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The aim of this study was to examine and compare in patients with these diseases the course of fatigue within the first hour after awakening and during the day, and to examine sleep disturbance as a potential determinant of fatigue. MET...