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Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis following completion of pneumococcal meningitis treatment: A case report and review of the literature
Özel, Ayşe Serra; Altunal, Lütfiye Nilsun; Sakcı, Zakir; Yılmaz, Ece Aslı; Yılmaz, Mesut; Kadanalı, Ayten (Galenos Publishing House, 2023)Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is an immune-mediated inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) and is commonly seen in children. It has seasonal peaks in winter and spring, consistent with its ... -
Anorectal syphilis mimicking Crohn's disease
Yılmaz, Mesut; Memişoğlu, Reşat; Aydın, Selda; Tabak, Ömür; Mete, Bilgül; Memişoğlu, Necat; Tabak, Fehmi (Springer, 2011)Anorectal syphilis, one of the great masqueraders in medicine, can be difficult to diagnose not only because of its variable symptoms but also because it is hard to think of unless a detailed history about sexual preferences ... -
Antibiotic overconsumption and resistance in Turkey
İşler, Burcu; Keşke, Şiran; Aksoy, Mesil; Kurt Azap, Özlem; Yılmaz, Mesut; Şimşek Yavuz, Serap; Aygün, Gökhan; Tükenmez Tigen, Elif; Akalın, Halis; Azap, Alpay; Ergönül, Mehmet Önder (Elsevier Sci Ltd, 2019)The latest report of the OECD Health Policy Studies stated that in2015 the highest rates of antimicrobial resistance (around 35% inTurkey, Korea and Greece) were seven times higher than the lowestrates among its member ... -
Aspergillus fumigatus infection as a delayed manifestation of prosthetic knee arthroplasty and a review of the literature
Yılmaz, Mesut; Mete, Bilgül; Özaras, Reşat; Kaynak, Gökhan; Tabak, Fehmi; Tenekecioğlu, Yüksel; Öztürk, Recep (Informa Healthcare, 2011)Fungal infection after total joint arthroplasty is a very rare but serious complication and a challenge to the treating and consulting physicians. The literature includes little information about the treatment protocol for ... -
Association between minimum inhibitory concentration, beta-lactamase genes and mortality for patients treated with piperacillin/tazobactam or meropenem from the MERINO study
Henderson, A.; Paterson, D. L.; Chatfield, M. D.; Tambyah, P. A.; Lye, D. C.; De, P. P.; Lin, R. T. P.; Chew, K. L.; Yin, M.; Lee, T. H.; Yılmaz, Mesut; Çakmak, Rümeysa; Alenazi, T. H.; Arabi, Y. M; Falcone, M.; Bassetti, M.; Righi, E.; Ba, Rogers; Kanj, S. S.; Bhally, H.; Iredell, J.; Mendelson, M.; Boyles, T. H.; Looke, D. F. M.; Runnegar, N. J.; Miyakis, S.; Walls, G.; Ai Khamis, M.; Zikri, A.; Crowe, A.; Ingram, P. R.; Daneman, N. N.; Griffin, P.; Athan, E.; Roberts, L.; Beatson, S. A.; Peleg, A. Y.; Cottrell, K. K.; Bauer, M. J.; Tan, E.; Chaw, K.; Nimmo, G. R.; Harris-Brown, T.; Harris, P. N. A. (Oxford University Press, 2021)Introduction: This study aims to assess the association of piperacillin/tazobactam and meropenem minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and beta-lactam resistance genes with mortality in the MERINO trial.Methods: Blood ... -
Bed capacities and disinfection practices in hospitals in istanbul are correlated
Teker, Bahri; Öǧütlü, Aziz; Yılmaz, Mesut; Gençer, Serap; Karabay, Oğuz (BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Disinfection, antisepsis and sterilization (DAS) practices are of critical importance in hospital practice. This study aims to investigate the daily DAS practices of private hospitals in Istanbul, Turkey. ... -
Bir üniversite hastanesinde karbapenem kısıtlamasının karbapenem dirençli gram negatif çomaklar üzerine etkisi
Şeker, Fatma (İstanbul Medipol Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2018)Gram negatif çomakların (GNÇ) antibiyotiklere direnç kazanması global bir sorun olup özellikle mortalite ve tedavi maliyetlerinin artmasına neden olmaktadır. Bu çalışma, 2017 yılında Medipol Mega Üniversite Hastanesindeki ... -
A brief report: Cerebrospinal fluid rhinorrhea after repetitive nasal swab testing for coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)
Yılmaz, Mesut; Bahadır, Zeynep; Madendere, Berk; Yüksel, Rıza Taha; Gökay, Hasan; Yiğitbaşı, Ahmet Alperen (Elsevier Inc., 2021)For the past year, COVID-19 Pandemic has been the biggest focal point of medicine. Due to its novelty and its highly infectious nature, the impact of Sars-Cov-2 on society has been growing rapidly. The primary route for ... -
Can procalcitonin levels differentiate gram-negative bacteremia from gram-positive bacteremia?
Olmuşçelik, Oktay; Yılmaz, Mesut; Sevindik, Ömür Gökmen; Tosun İstanbullu, Ayşe; Ceylan, Ecem Cemre; Güler, Ayşenur; Vardar, Büşra (2019)Objective: Patients with sepsis constitute a significant proportion of critically ill patients. Although outcomes have significantly improved in the last decade, mortality still remains high 25-30% and 40-50% when shock ... -
A case of endocarditis due to coxiella burnetii
Aydın, Selda; Derin, Okan; Yılmaz, Mesut (Galenos Publishing, 2022)A 36-year-old male patient, who was an agricultural farmer and had a diagnosis of bicuspid aortic valve and coarctation, was admitted with symptoms of fever, fatigue, and shortness of breath that lasted for a month, in ... -
A case of granulomatous mastitis due to corynebacterium amycolatum
Bahadır, Zeynep; Kalkan, Nur Banu; Yılmaz, Mesut (Galenos Publishing, 2021)Mastitis is a generalized cellulitis condition of breast tissue usually seen in female patients between 18-50 years of age. Granulomatous mastitis (GM), which is one of the rare types, is usually an idiopathic disease and ... -
A case of infectious mononucleosis presenting with cholestatic hepatitis
Yılmaz, Mesut; Alıcı, Özlem (Galenos Publishing, 2012)Although mild liver involvement is common in patients with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection-induced infectious mononucleosis, acute cholestatic hepatitis is rare. In this report, we describe a 210-year-old previously ... -
Ceftizoxime, cefdinir, cefditoren, cefpodoxime, ceftibuten, cefsulodin, and cefpiramide
Yılmaz, Mesut; Paterson, David L. (CRC Press, 2017)Extended-spectrum, or third-generation cephalosporins, were developed after the first- and second-generation drugs. Due to their prominence, ceftriaxone (see Chapter 27, Ceftriaxone), cefotaxime (see Chapter 26, Cefotaxime), ... -
Clinical and microbiological characteristics of Aeromonas bacteremia in Turkey
Kaya, Abdurrahman; Yıldız Kaya, Sibel; Zerdali, Esra; Koç, Alper; Çağlar, Bilge; Ertürk, Ümran Şümeyse; Yılmaz, Mesut; Aygün, Gökhan; Balkan, İlker İnanç; Mete, Bilgül; Saltoğlu, Neşe; Mert, Ali; Tabak, Ömer Fehmi (Akademiai Kiado Zrt, 2021)We investigated the cases with Aeromonas bacteremia in terms of clinical and microbiological characteristics, underlying disease and mortality rates. Patients with positive blood cultures were included in this research. ... -
The clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of neuroinvasive listeriosis: A multinational study
Arslan, Ferhat; Meynet, Elodie; Sünbül, Mustafa; Sipahi, Oğuz Reşat; Kurtaran, Behice; Kaya, Selçuk; İnkaya, Ahmet; Pagliano, Pasquale; Şengöz, Gönül; Batırel, Ayşe; Kayaaslan, Bircan; Yıldız, Orhan; Güven, Tümer; Türker, Nesrin; Midi, İpek; Parlak, Emine; Tosun, Selma; Erol, Serpil; İnan, Asuman; Öztoprak, Nefise; Balkan, İlker; Aksoy, Y.; Ceylan, Bahadır; Yılmaz, Mesut; Mert, Ali (Springer, 2015)The aim of this study was to determine the independent risk factors, morbidity, and mortality of central nervous system (CNS) infections caused by Listeria monocytogenes. We retrospectively evaluated 100 episodes of ... -
Community acquired chronic arthritis due to pseudomonas aeruginosa in a previously healthy pregnant woman
Yılmaz, Mesut; Arslan, Ferhat; Mert, Ali (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)Septic arthritis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa is uncommon in the immunocompetent population, despite its occurrence in younger patients with open injuries and in intravenous drug abusers. Here we report a case of septic ... -
Community-acquired left-sided pseudomonas aeruginosa endocarditis in a patient without intravenous drug use
Yılmaz, Mesut; Sunar, Hasan; Mert, Ali (Springer, 2013)We present a case of community-acquired left-sided Pseudomonas aeruginosa endocarditis in a person without intravenous drug use. The patient presented with facial numbness and did not have any predisposing condition for ... -
Cytomegalovirus-associated transverse myelitis: A review of nine well-documented cases
Arslan, Ferhat; Yılmaz, Mesut; Paksoy, Yahya; Karagöz, Ergenekon; Mert, Ali (Taylor and Francis, 2015)Cytomegalovirus-associated transverse myelitis is a rare disease. We found 12 cases in the medical literature, 8 of which met our criteria for being well documented. Our aim was to review this clinical entity using information ... -
Development of a fast and low-cost qPCR assay for diagnosis of acute gas pharyngitis
Kolukırık, Mustafa; Yılmaz, Mesut; İnce, Orhan; Ketre, Canan; Tosun İstanbullu, Ayşe; İnce Kasapgil, Bahar (BioMed Central Ltd., 2016)Background: Group A streptococci (GAS) are the most common bacterial cause of acute pharyngitis and account for 15-30 % of cases of acute pharyngitis in children and 5-10 % of cases in adults. In this study, a real-time ... -
Development of a new multiplex real-time PCR assay for rapid screening of hospital-acquired infection agents
İstanbullu Tosun, Ayşe; Kolukırık, Mustafa; Yılmaz, Mesut; Nar Ötgün, Selin; Aygün, Gökhan; Ketre Kolukırık, Canan Zöhre; Zeybek, Ümit; Girgin Özgümüş, Gözde; Turan, Meral; Kuşkucu, Mert; İnce, Orhan; İnce, Bahar; Kılıç, Selçuk (Elsevier B.V., 2023)Aims: A new multiplex real-time PCR (qPCR) assay was developed to detect antibiotic-resistant hospital-acquired infectious agents in nasal and rectal swab samples in 1.5 h without the need for nucleic acid extraction. ...