Aspergillus sp. is a fungus that is very common in nature and may cause invasive disease with high mortality, especially in immunosuppressed patients. Here we present a case of central nervous system (CNS) aspergillosis in a previously healthy immunocompetent patient. A 23-year-old female was admitted to hospital with the complaints of headache, blurred vision, and double vision. In her cranial...

PURPOSE To show the presence of an active neovascular membrane in age-related macular degeneration even if optical coherence tomography (OCT) does not detect intra- or subretinal edema. METHODS This is a retrospective case report. During the follow-up after the intravitreal injection, 3 patients showed no intraretinal or subretinal edema by OCT; however, there was a progressive reduction in t...

Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy is a distinctive, cutaneous small vessel leukocytoclastic vasculitis of young children with dramatic characteristic skin findings. It is characterized by low- grade fever, erythematous edema, and purpuric lesions mainly on the face and extremities. Visceral involvement is uncommon, and spontaneous recovery usually occurs within one to three weeks without seque...

In order to compare the effects of Bassini and tension-free mesh hernioplasty, a total of 552 patients with inguinal hernia who were subjected to surgical treatment in our hospital were randomly divided into the following two groups: the Bassini group (n = 269) and the tension-free mesh group (n = 283). The recurrence rates, pain, discomfort, and other complications were recorded, and the cause...

Abstract Background Inhalation lung injury occurs in almost one-third of all serious burns and is responsible for a considerable proportion burn patient fatalities each year. History closed space fire or unconsciousness at the accident site, occurrence pharyngeal facial burns, hoarseness, wheezing, laboratory tests that include blood gas abnormalities Carboxyhemoglobin levels ˃ 10% are used to ...

Anthrax is essentially a disease of grazing herbivorous animals. The most common form of the disease is cutaneous anthrax, which accounts for 95% of all cases. We report here 39 cutaneous anthrax cases in humans that were seen in Eastern Anatolia over a six-year period. The clinical presentation was malignant edema in 16 of the cases (41%) and malignant pustule in 23 (59%). A secondary bacteria...