OBJECTIVES: Neural tube defects, defined as the developmental malformations of central nervous system, are seen in our country at a rate three per thousand on average. Our study aims to retrospectively evaluate patients with neural defects hospitalized intensive care unit for last decade. STUDY DESIGN: Demographic data, prenatal-maternal characteristics, surgical operation time, follow-up, and ...

Eighty patients were treated with either amikacin or netilmicin in a prospective randomized study of serious gram-negative bacillary infections, including 11 due to gentamicin-resistant pathogens. Thirty-six treated with netilmicin and 35 treated with amikacin were evaluable for efficacy or toxicity, or both. The overall groups differed significantly only in age. There were no significant diffe...

hyperthyroidism is a common disease and one of the best methods for its treatment is radioiodine therapy. treatment with antithyroid drugs brings patients to euthyroidism before radioiodine therapy. antithyroid drugs should be discontinued before radioiodine therapy to increase thyroid uptake. the purpose of this study was to determine the optimal time of methimazole (mtz) discontinuation. one ...

Eighty percent of 50 dissected cadaver palms showed a communicating branch between the fourth and third common digital nerves (ulnar and median origins, respectively). The branch commonly crossed the palm with the superficial arterial arch and usually provided sensory fibers from a branch of the superficial ulnar nerve into the ring finger radial digital nerve. Caution should be taken during ca...

Methods A questionnaire based on attitude-social norms-self efficacy model was administered to a convenience sample of critical care HCWs (n = 77 physicians, n = 100 nurses; response rate 81%). Eighty-eight nurses and fifty-six physicians completed a 51-item and 56-item questionnaire respectively, working in four ICUs located in two universities and one urban hospital in Greece. Data were colle...