Browsing by Author "Türkmen, Muhsin"
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Acute myocarditis or Kounis Syndrome? Role of cardiac MRI and speckle-tracking echocardiography for differential diagnosis
Karaca, Oğuz; Omaygenç, Mehmet Onur; Güler, Ekrem; Kızılırmak, Filiz; Olgun, Erkam; İbişoğlu, Ersin; Barutçu, İrfan; Kılıçaslan, Fethi; Türkmen, Muhsin (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)… -
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: ... -
Echocardiographic determinants of right ventricular systolic dysfunction in non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy: Relation to functional status and plasma BNP levels
Karaca, Oğuz; Avcı, Anıl; Güler Babür, Gamze; Alizade, Elnur; Güler, Ekrem; Güneş, Hacı Murat; Göl, Gökhan; Batgerel, Ulaankhuu; Omaygenç, Mehmet Onur; Kızılırmak, Filiz; Geçmen, Çetin; Esen, Ali Metin; Türkmen, Muhsin (Elsevier, 2013)Aim: Right ventricular (RV) functions are well-known to play an important role in prognosis of patients with non-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (NICMP) similar to all forms of heart failure. We investigated the echocardiographic ... -
Epidemiology of atrial fibrillation in Turkey: preliminary results of the multicenter AFTER study
We congratulate the authors of the paper titled “Epidemiology of atrial fibrillation in Turkey: preliminary results of the multicenter AFTER study”, which evaluated 2242 consecutive patients with at least one atrial ... -
Evaluation of adiponectin and lipoprotein(a) levels in cardiac syndrome x
Güler, Ekrem; Güler, Gamze; Kızılırmak, Filiz; Batgerel, Ulaankhuu; Demir, Gültekin Günhan; Güneş, Hacı Murat; Karaca, Oğuz; Özcan, Özgür; Barutçu, İrfan; Türkmen, Muhsin; Esen, Ali Metin (Urban & Vogel, 2015)Aims. Low adiponectin and high lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] levels are associated with endothelial dysfunction, atherosclerosis, and coronary artery disease. Cardiac syndrome X (CSX) is characterized by anginal symptoms, positive ... -
Evaluation of adult versus pediatric transesophageal echocardiography probe efficiency for guiding septal puncture during atrial fibrillation ablation
Güler, Ekrem; Babür Güler, Gamze; Demir, Gültekin Günhan; Kızılırmak, Filiz; Güneş, Hacı Murat; Barutçu, İrfan; Türkmen, Muhsin; Kılıçaslan, Fethi (Blackwell Publishing, 2015)PurposeTransesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has a pivotal role in invasive cardiology practice in terms of guiding a variety of procedures. It is challenging to perform TEE examination with sedated patients due to ... -
Impact of valve surgery on serum osteopontin levels in patients with mitral regurgitation
Güneş, Hacı Murat; Güler, Gamze Babür; Güler, Ekrem; Demir, Gültekin Günhan; Hatipoǧlu, Suzan; Zehir, Regayip; Kızılırmak, Filiz; Karaca, Oǧuz; Esen, Ali Metin; Barutçu, İrfan; Türkmen, Muhsin; Can, Mehmet Mustafa; Serebruany, Victor (Karger, 2015)Objective: Osteopontin (OPN), a sialoprotein present within atherosclerotic lesions, especially in calcified plaques, is linked to the progression of coronary artery disease and heart failure. We assessed the impact of ... -
Percutaneous retrieval of an embolized catheter tip with the balloon dilatation technique
Karaca, Oğuz; Çakal, Beytullah; Omaygenç, Onur; Türkmen, Muhsin (Wolters Kluwer, 2016)Introduction: Increasing numbers of complex percutaneous coronary interventions have been accompanied by various intra-procedural complications. The fracture and embolization of devices or their fragments are potentially ... -
Peripartum cardiomyopathy: Current state of knowledge, new developments and future directions
Biteker, Murat; Kayataş, Kadir; Duman, Dursun; Türkmen, Muhsin; Bozkurt, Biykem (Bentham Science Publishers, 2014)Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a form of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy affecting women in late pregnancy or early puerperium. Although initially described in the late 1800s, it has only recently been recognized ... -
Plasma factor XI and XII activity in patients with slow coronary flow
Türkmen, Muhsin; Toprak, Cüneyt; Açar, Göksel; Tabakçı, Mehmet Mustafa; Durmuş, Halil İbrahim; Yazıcıoğlu, Mehmet Vefik; Esen, Ali Metin; Barutçu, İrfan (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2015)The exact pathophysiology of slow coronary flow (SCF) phenomenon, characterized by delayed opacification of coronary arteries during coronary angiography, is still unknown, although endothelial dysfunction, inflammation, ... -
QRS prolongation is a determinant of residual mechanical dyssynchrony following cardiac resynchronization therapy
Karaca, Oğuz; Omaygenç, Onur; Çakal, Beytullah; Güneş, Hacı Murat; Çakal, Sinem Deniz; Kızılırmak, Filiz; Ekrem, Ersen; Güler, Gamze Babür; Türkmen, Muhsin; Kılıçaslan, Fethi (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)… -
Use of a double-covered stent-in-stent technique to manage persistent coronary perforation
Karaca, Oğuz; Güneş, Hacı Murat; Çakal, Beytullah; Barutçu, İrfan; Türkmen, Muhsin (Bilimsel Tıp Yayınevi, 2015)A sixty-four year old man with a previous history of CABG was referred for coronary angiography that revealed a critical stenosis of the right posterior descending artery at the anastomosis point of the saphenous vein graft ...
