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SBÜ Sancaktepe Şehit Prof Dr İlhan Varank Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi · Obstetrics and Gynecology

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the scope of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of pregnant women about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine. Materials and methods: A total of 886 pregnant women were recruited for the study. A cross-sectional questionnaire was conducted on these selected participants. Data about past...

Objective: To investigate the role of intrapartum ultrasound (IU) in the diagnosis of asynclitism and the importance of asynclitism degree in labor outcomes. Method: This prospective cohort study included 41 low-risk pregnant women with fetus in singleton-vertex. The IU assessment to diagnose asynclitism was performed during labor at two specifi...

The aim of this study is to determine the cut-off value for the histopathological evaluation of premalignant-malignant endometrial pathologies from benign pathologies in postmenopausal asymptomatic patients with increased endometrial thickness. This cross-sectional study included a population that included asymptomatic 481 postmenopausal women with...

Aim: The aim of our study was to compare the results of transvaginal ultrasonography (TVS) and final pathology in the determination of the depth of myometrial invasion in endometrial cancer preoperatively. Methods: The study was conducted as prospective observational study in a tertiary center between August 2012 -July 2012 and included 29 patients...

PurposeThe use of transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (vNOTES) as the first choice of surgical route for patients scheduled to undergo conventional laparoscopy is still being debated. We aimed to evaluate and compare the outcomes of the “vNOTES first” strategy in benign gynecological cases. Methods All benign gynecological...

Aim:To establish trimester and population based laboratory-specific rational reference ranges with multiples of median (MoM) values for thyroid hormones.Materials and Methods:The study was conducted in the obstetrics outpatient clinic of a tertiary health care center between April, 2021 and August, 2021. Healthy pregnant women without any risk fact...

Objective To present coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) related maternal mortality in relation to Delta and Omicron waves and to investigate the role of lung ultrasound (LUS) in estimating mortality. Materials and Methods This retrospective cohort study was conducted in the obstetrics and gynecology clinic of a tertiary pandemic hospital between...

Objectives: Currently, there is little evidence related to the effects of the Omicron variant on pregnancy outcomes, particularly in unvaccinated women. This study aims to compare pregnancy outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 infected, unvaccinated women during the pre-Delta, Delta, and Omicron waves. Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study at two ter...

Purpose To investigate the association between vitamin D status and the clinical severity of COVID-19 in pregnant women. Methods This prospective case–control study included 147 pregnant women with COVID-19 and 300 matched controls. Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin (25(OH)D) concentrations were measured on admission. Patients with mild-to-moderate disease...

Objective: This study aims to psychometrically validate the Turkish version of the Vulvovaginal Symptom Questionnaire (VSQ). Methods: Postmenopausal women with and without genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) were included as the target population and the control group. Psychometric properties were validated both for sexually active (21 ite...

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of quarantine/social isolation on maternal depression, breastfeeding and sleep quality in mothers who have just given birth during the pandemic period that has affected the whole world. This cross-sectional study included women who gave birth during either in the first peak of the first wave (Apri...

To describe the mobility of the anterior pelvic compartment and hiatal enlargement measures in pregnancy with urinary stress incontinence complaints and their relation to the perceived subjective urinary incontinence severity. Forty-six pregnant women were included in this observational prospective cohort study, the ultrasonographic parameters of t...

Purpose: To investigate the prevalence of echogenicity in the fetal gallbladder (EFG) and to present prenatal sonographic findings and their postnatal outcomes. Materials and methods: We performed a retrospective study within 17420 pregnant women during a 66-month period. Fetuses with an incidental finding of EFG in their 2nd or 3rd trimester of...

Background: Pregnant women are at increased risk of mortality and morbidity due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Many studies reported on the association of COVID-19 with pregnancy specific adverse outcomes but prediction models utilizing large cohort of pregnant women are still lacking for estimating the risk of maternal morbidity and othe...

Current gold-standard treatment of recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC) is mainly based on maintenance with fluconazole. Moderate to high recurrence rates at long-term use and secondary fluconazole resistance emerge as reasons to seek for new topical maintenance regimens. In this study, it is aimed to assess the efficacy and safety of boric ac...

Study Objective: To compare the transvaginal natural orifice approach (vNOTES) versus conventional laparoscopy (CL) in opportunistic bilateral salpingectomy (BS) alone for permanent female sterilization as an opportunistic cancer prevention strategy. Design: A prospective cohort study Setting: Two-centred tertiary hospitals Participants: Ninety-six...

Effects of SARS-CoV-2 on the neurological system have been investigated. Evidence of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) cases associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection have recently been reported. A 34-year-old multiparous woman with COVID-19 infection at her 37th (4/7) gestational week was presented here. She was diagnosed with Guillain Barre Syndrome at po...

Objective: Reliable data regarding maternal mental well-being during the Severe Acute Respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic are scarce. This study aimed to assess the state/trait anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms of pregnant women and compare those with the non-pregnant population using patient-reported validated outcome...

Objective: Evidence for the use of lung ultrasound scan (LUS) examinations in coronavirus 2019 pneumonia is rapidly growing. The safe and non-ionizing nature of LUS drew attention, particularly for pregnant women. This study aimed to contribute to the interpretation of LUS findings in pregnant women for the obstetricians. Materials and methods:...

Lung ultrasound (LUS) is an effective tool to detect and monitor patients infected with 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The use of LUS on pregnant women is an emerging trend, considering its effectiveness during the outbreak. Eight pregnant women with a diagnosis of COVID-19 confirmed by nasal/throat real-time reverse transcription polymerase...

Background: COVID-19 is a novel type of the coronavirus family with an incompletely described clinical course. Little is known about the psychological aspects, particularly for vulnerable populations including pregnant women. Objectives: To understand the attitude, concerns, and knowledge of the non-infected pregnant women toward the COVID-19 outbr...

ÖZETGiriş ve AmaçRekürren üriner trakt enfeksiyonları (RUTE) yönetilmesi güç önemli bir halk sağlığı sorunudur. En sık etkeni Escherichia coli’dir. RUTE’nin önlenmesinde kontinü ve post-koital profilaksi seçenekleri arasından post-koital profilaksi daha az doz gerektirmesi ve benzer etkinlik ile öne çıkmaktadır. Bu çalışmada post-koital profilaksin...

To determine how fetal pulse oximetry behaves in various cardiotocographic (CTG) tracings and correlates with neonatal outcome. Pregnant women undergoing active labor with singleton pregnancies of 32-42 weeks were enrolled. CTG recordings were reassuring or nonreassuring (namely variable or persisting late decelerations). Pulse oximetry values duri...