A case report on differential diagnosis of internal carotid artery agenesis or occlusion

Congenital internal carotid artery (ICA) agenesis is a rarely encountered abnormality. People with this abnormality usually have adequate collateral circulation and remain asymptomatic for many years. Sometimes, patients may present with pulsatile tinnitus, headache or blurred vision and rarely with ischemic stroke or subarachnoid hemorrhage. The diagnosis is usually made upon carotid artery Doppler ultrasonography or cervical/cranial magnetic resonance imaging performed for other reasons. On the other hand, it may be misdiagnosed as ICA occlusion in lack of attention. In this paper, we report a patient complaining of facial paresthesis referred to our center for invasive therapy due to left-sided ICA occlusion, who was then diagnosed as having ICA agenesis

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia After Chemoradiotherapy in a Patient with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

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Case Report / Olgu Sunumu Ad dress for Cor res pon den ce/Ya z›fl ma Ad re si: A Case Report on the Differential Diagnosis of Internal Carotid Artery Agenesis or Occlusion A Case Report on the Differential Diagnosis of Internal Carotid Artery Agenesis or

135 Congenital internal carotid artery (ICA) agenesis is a rare abnormality. People with this abnormality usually have adequate collateral circulation and remain asymptomatic for many years. However, patients may also present with pulsatile tinnitus, headache or blurred vision, or rarely with ischemic stroke or subarachnoid hemorrhage. Diagnosis is usually incidental with the performance of carotid artery Doppler ultrasonography or cervical/cranial magnetic resonance imaging owing to other symptoms. ICA agenesis might also be misdiagnosed as ICA occlusion. In this manuscript, we report a patient with ICA agenesis who initially presented with facial paresthesis and was referred to our center for interventional therapy for left-sided ICA occlusion. Keywords: Internal carotid artery, agenesis, occlusion Konjenital internal karotis arteri (ICA, internal carotid artery) agenezisi nadir görülen bir anomalidir. Bu anomaliye sahip hastaların çoğu, yeterli kollateral dolaşım sayesinde uzun zaman asemptomatik olarak kalır. Az sıklıkta hastalar pulsatil tinnitus, baş ağrısı veya bulanık görme gibi yakınmalar ve nadiren iskemik inme ya da subaraknoid kanama tablosu ile başvurabilirler. Tanı genellikle başka bir nedenle yapılmış olan karotis arteri renkli Doppler ultrasonografisi veya servikal/ kranyal manyetik rezonans görüntülemeleri sırasında tesadüfen konur. Ancak dikkatli olunmadığı takdirde ICA tıkanması olarak yanlış bir tanı konulabilir. Bu yazıda, yüzünde yanma şikayeti ile başvuran ve sol ICA tıkanıklığı tanısı ile girişimsel tedavi amacıyla merkezimize yönlendirilen ancak ICA agenezi tanısı konulan bir hasta sunulmaktadır

Turkish University Students' Nutritional Habits Regarding Cancer Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles

Aim: Chronic disorders have been increasing over the past century, and the relationship with nutrition has been widely discussed. The present study was carried out in order to determine health school students' nutrition styles, health lifestyle behavior, and their interactions. Method: With a cross-sectional design, data from 79 students in the Nursing School were collected via a socio-demographic data collection form, a nutrition form, and and a Health Promotion Life-Style Profile (HPLP) questionnaire. Percentages, McNemar data, Independent-sample t-test and paired-samples t-test were used in data assessment. Results: No significant differences were observed between the number of students with healthy nutrition and mean healthy lifestyle scores, pre and post-training. There was also no influence of presence of a family member with cancer and weight perception. However, there was a significant difference between HPLP scores before the training and six months following training (p=0.049) and the mean healthy lifestyle scores increased. Conclusion: Students with poor nutrition who were trained in cancer prevention and healthy diets, demonstrated increase in their HPLP, yet this did not make a difference to their healthy nutrition behavior

Volatile constituents of three Stachys L. Species from Turkey

Volatile compounds of three Stachys species; Stachys macrantha (C. Koch) Stearn, Stachys sylvatica L. and Stachys annua ssp. annua var. annua L. were analyzed by a solid phase micro extraction (SPME) method coupled with gas chromatographyflame ionization detector (GC–FID) and gas chromatographymass spectrometry (GC-MS). A total of 38 (99.2%), 39 (99.0%) and 33 (98.8%) volatile compounds were identified from S. annua ssp. annua var. annua, S. sylvatica and S. macrantha respectively. The major volatile constituents of the investigated three Stachys species were; α-pinene (11.2%), p-cymene (18.2%), and carvacrol (28.8%) in S. macrantha, γ-muurolene (10.2%), α-cedrene (11.2%), and limonene (37.0%) in S. sylvatica and α-pinene (11,4%), β-pinene (23.1%), and (Z)-β-ocimene (24.8%) in S. annua ssp. annua var. annua. Comparison of volatile organic compounds of all three species showed that monoterpene hydrocarbons were the major constituents in S. annua ssp. annua var. annua and S. sylvatica (65.8% and 49.8% respectively), whereas oxygenated monoterpenes were the main components (42.1%) of S. macrantha