Browsing by Author "Çakal, Beytullah"
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Acute left main coronary artery occlusion following transcatheter aortic valve replacement without obvious risk factors of coronary obstruction
Çakal, Beytullah; Çakal, Sinem; Karaca, Oğuz (Turkish Society of Cardiology, 2020)Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has emerged as a prominent alternative for patients with severe aortic stenosis, who are deemed to be at a greater risk for surgical interventions (1). However, extreme caution ... -
Acute myocarditis or the kounis syndrome: Role of cardiac MRI and speckle-tracking echocardiography in diagnosis
Introduction: The Kounis syndrome and acute myocarditis are two distinct clinical entities, which could share nearly the same symptomatology as well as ECG (electrocardiography) and laboratory findings. Case Presentation: ... -
Adjusting the QRS duration by body mass index for prediction of response to cardiac resynchronization therapy: Does one QRS size fit all?
Karaca, Oğuz; Omaygenç, Mehmet Onur; Çakal, Beytullah; Çakal Deniz, Sinem; Güneş, Hacı Murat; Olgun, Erkam; İbişoğlu, Ersin; Savur, Ümeyir; Gökdeniz, Tayyar; Boztosun, Bilal; Kılıçaslan, Fethi (Wiley, 2016)Background: QRS duration (QRSd) is known to be affected by body weight and length. We tested the hypothesis that adjusting the QRSd by body mass index (BMI) may provide individualization for patient selection and improve ... -
Allogeneic stem cell transplantation in a blast-phase chronic myeloid leukemia patient with carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae tricuspid valve endocarditis: A case report
Kantarcıoğlu, Bülent; Beköz, Hüseyin Saffet; Olgun, Fatih Erkam; Çakal, Beytullah; Arkan, Burak; Türkoğlu, Halil; Mert, Ali; Sargın, Deniz (Spandidos Publications, 2016)In chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), the occurrence of blastic transformation is rare. Treatment outcome is generally poor. Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) is the only potentially curative treatment option ... -
Angio-seal used as a bailout for incomplete hemostasis after dual perclose ProGlide deployment in transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Çakal, Beytullah; Çakal, Sinem; Karaca, Oğuz; Kızılırmak Yılmaz, Filiz; Güneş, Hacı Murat; Yıldırım, Arzu; Özcan, Özgür Ulaş; Güler, Yeliz; Boztosun, Bilal (Texas Heart Institute, 2022)Background: The failure rate of vascular closure devices remains a significant cause of major vascular complications in contemporary transcatheter aortic valve implantation practice. Methods: This research aimed to evaluate ... -
Assessment of energy expenditure, physical activity and sleep pattern in patients with frequent symptomatic ventricular ectopic beats
Yılmaz Kızılırmak, Filiz; Yıldız, Aysel; Demir, Gültekin Günhan; Gökdeniz, Tayyar; Güneş, Hacı Murat; Omaygenç, Mehmet Onur; Çakal, Beytullah; Mutluay, Fatma; Boztosun, Bilal (Masson Editeur, 2016)Background. Ventricular ectopic beats (VEBs) are considered as benign ventricular arrhythmias in patients without structural heart disease. However, symptomatic frequent VEBs can adversely affect energy metabolism. The ... -
Assessment of repolarization abnormalities in baseline electrocardiograms of patients with myocarditis
Güneş, Hacı Murat; Babür Güler, Gamze; Güler, Ekrem; Demir, Gültekin Günhan; Teber, Mehmet Kamil; Kızılırmak, Filiz; Çakal, Beytullah; Boztosun, Bilal (Tübitak Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, 2017)Background/aim: Myocarditis in the acute phase usually presents with sinus tachycardia but many other arrhythmias might be seen as well. In this study we aimed to investigate repolarization abnormalities in baseline ECG ... -
Association of eosinophil-to-lymphocyte ratio with coronary slow-flow phenomenon in patients undergoing coronary angiography
Tosu, Aydın Rodi; Kalyoncuoğlu, Muhsin; Biter, Halil İbrahim; Çakal, Sinem; Çakal, Beytullah; Selçuk, Murat; Çınar, Tufan (Termedia Publishing House, 2022)Introduction: The current investigation intended to evaluate the correlation between eosinophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (ELR) and the coronary slow-flow phenomenon (CSFP) in patients undergoing elective coronary angiography. ... -
Association of vitamin D deficiency with arterial stiffness in newly diagnosed hypertension
Çakal, Sinem Deniz; Çakal, Beytullah; Karaca, Oǧuz (NLM (Medline), 2021)OBJECTIVE: Vitamin D has beneficial effects on vascular endothelial function, blood pressure (BP) and arterial stiffness. Arterial stiffness increases in early-stage hypertensive patients and it is a strong predictor of ... -
Changes in aortic pulse wave velocity and the predictors of improvement in arterial stiffness following aortic valve replacement
Cantürk, Emir; Çakal, Beytullah; Karaca, Oğuz; Omaygenç, Onur; Salihi, Salih; Özyüksel, Arda; Akçevin, Atıf (Japanese Association for Coronary Artery Surgery, 2017)Background: The interaction between valvular aortic stenosis (AS) and arterial stiffness, as well as the impact of aortic valve replacement (AVR) on arterial stiffness, remains unclear. In this study, we aimed to evaluate ... -
Changes in electrocardiographic p wave parameters after cryoballoon ablation and their association with atrial fibrillation recurrence
Kızılırmak, Filiz; Günhan Demir, Gültekin; Gökdeniz, Tayyar; Güneş, Hacı Murat; Çakal, Beytullah; Güler, Ekrem; Karaca, İbrahim Oğuz; Omaygenç, Mehmet Onur; Yılmaz, Fatih; Olgun, Fatih Erkam; Kılıçaslan, Fethi (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)Background: Changes in P wave parameters after circumferential pulmonary vein isolation (CPVI) have been previously identified. In this study, we aimed to determine the changes in P wave parameters surface electrocardiogram ... -
Closure of a paravalvular communication originating from the pseudoaneurysm of the mitral-aortic intervalvular fibrosa following prosthetic valve infective endocarditis
Çakal, Sinem; Çakal, Beytullah; Yıldırım, Aydın (Turkish Society of Cardiology, 2021)Pseudoaneurysm of the mitral-aortic intervalvular fibrosa (PMAF) is a rare but potentially life-threatening event, which is usually caused by infective endocarditis and surgical trauma following cardiac surgery. Although ... -
Comparing of efficacy of different self-assessment anxiety scales for predicting radial artery spasm during coronary interventions
Omaygenç, Mehmet Onur; Karaca, İbrahim Oğuz; İbişoğlu, Ersin; Özer, Ürün; Çakal, Beytullah; Güneş, Hacı Murat; Özden Omaygenç, Derya; Olmuşçelik, Oktay; Boztosun, Bilal (Ortadoğu Reklam Tanıtım Yayıncılık Turizm Eğitim İnşaat Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş., 2019)Objective: Radial artery spasm (RAS), is a major drawback for the routine use of radial access during coronary interventions and anxiety is a well-documented predictor of RAS. In this study, we aimed to assess the relationship ... -
Cystatin C and uncontrolled hypertension
Omaygenç, Mehmet Onur; Özcan, Özgür Ulaş; Çakal, Beytullah; Karaca, Oğuz (Turkish Society of Cardiology, 2020)Objective: Increased serum level of cystatin C, a sensitive biomarker for renal function, seems to predict adverse cardiovascular events. We investigated the predictive value of serum cystatin C for controlling hypertension ... -
Effect of cardiac resynchronization therapy on mitral valve geometry: A novel aspect as "reversed mitral remodeling"
Karaca, Oğuz; Çakal, Beytullah; Omaygenç, Mehmet Onur; Güneş, Hacı Murat; Kızılırmak, Filiz; Çakal, Sinem Deniz; Naki, Deniz Dilan; Barutçu, İrfan; Boztosun, Bilal; Kılıçaslan, Fethi (Springer, 2018)Amelioration of the valvular geometry is a possible mechanism for mitral regurgitation (MR) improvement in patients receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). We aimed to establish the precise definition, incidence, ... -
The effect of CRT on mitral valve geometry: Incidence and predictors of reversed mitral remodeling
Karaca, Oğuz; Çakal, Beytullah; Omaygenç, Mehmet Onur; Güneş, Hacı Murat; Çakal, Sinem Deniz; Kızılırmak, Filiz; İbişoğlu, Ersin; Savur, Umeyr; Çelebi, Fener; Naki, Deniz Dilan; Kılıçaslan, Fethi (Wiley, 2017)… -
Effect of QRS narrowing after cardiac resynchronization therapy on functional mitral regurgitation in patients with systolic heart failure
Karaca, Oǧuz; Omaygenç, Mehmet Onur; Çakal, Beytullah; Çakal, Sinem Deniz; Güneş, Hacı Murat; Barutçu, İrfan; Boztosun, Bilal; Kılıçaslan, Fethi (Elsevier Inc., 2016)The determinants of improvement in functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) after cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) remain unclear. We evaluated the predictors of FMR improvement and hypothesized that CRT-induced change ... -
The effect of recanalization of a chronic total coronary occlusion on P-wave dispersion
Tosu, Aydın Rodi; Kalyoncuoğlu, Muhsin; Biter, Halil İbrahim; Çakal, Sinem; Çakal, Beytullah; Çınar, Tufan; Belen, Erdal; Can, Mehmet Mustafa (Tabriz University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, 2021)Introduction: P-wave dispersion (PWD) obtained from the standard 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG) is considered to reflect the homogeneity of the atrial electrical activity. The aim of this investigation was to evaluate ...
