BACKGROUND As women go through menopause, serum estrogen decreases and ferritin increases. Decreased serum estrogen is well known to cause detrimental effects on bone health; however, data on the associations of serum ferritin with BMD before and after menopause are still lacking. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the association between serum ferritin levels and BMD in premenopausal a...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to analyse the effects of therapy with tocilizumab (TCZ), an anti-IL-6 receptor antibody, on BMD of the lumbar spine and femoral neck in patients with RA. METHODS Eighty-six patients with active RA (indicated by a 28-joint DAS ESR >3.2) despite treatment with MTX 12 mg/week were included in this open-label prospective study and started on TCZ (8 mg/kg every...

BACKGROUND Dose assessment using proper dosimeters is especially important in radiation protection optimization and imaging justification in diagnostic radiology. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to obtain the Entrance Skin Dose (ESD) of patients undergoing lumbar spine imaging using two thermoluminescence dosimeters TLD-100 (LiF: Mg, Ti) and GR-200 (LiF: Mg, Cu, P) and also to obtain the a...

UNLABELLED One of the extrapulmonary effects of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is characterized by a low bone mineral density (BMD). THE AIM The aim of this study was to determine relationship between bone mineral density and severity of COPD and body mass index (BMI). PATIENTS AND METHODS in this study 85 COPD patients were recruited. Diagnosis a...

purpose: to evaluate of proton therapy (pt) for neurosurgery patients and is also to explain the need for this system in iran. methods: a literature review was conducted (1984–2016). the strategy included a combination of keywords including proton therapy, neck, neurosurgery, brain, head, tumor, spine, arteriovenous malformation (avms), cervical and spine in database of pubmed. new generation p...

Although magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is frequently used to assess the lumbar spine, there are few reports in the medical literature that have evaluated using MRI immediately following spinal surgery. Furthermore, descriptions of the subdural changes after lumbar spine surgery are also infrequent. In this paper, we present two cases with subdural change seen on MRI immediately after lumbar ...

Study Design Retrospective case series. Objective Recent studies suggest that baseline hematocrit (Hct) levels may affect the surgical outcomes after orthopedic procedures. The authors examined whether preoperative Hct values had a significant effect on the hospital length of stay (LoS) after lumbar spinal procedures. Methods We retrospectively reviewed patients who underwent routine lumbar spi...

Biportal spinal endoscopy has been successfully utilized for the surgical treatment of common conditions, mainly in lumbar spine. Surgeons recently have translated this technique to cervical and thoracic Little is known regarding clinical effectiveness safety profile biportal endoscopic This a narrative review applications spine, dis- cussing its current capabilities, limitations, possible futu...

etal malposition due to persistent hyperextension of the lumbar spine (hyperlordosis) has only very rarely been reported.1 A literature research (key words: hyperlordosis, hyperextension, lumbar spine, opisthotonus, and prenatal) revealed only 1 published case with prenatal diagnosis.2 We describe a case detected by routine prenatal screening, review the literature, and discuss possible etiolog...