An Extraordinary Cause of the Sucking Difficulty: Ecthyma Gangrenosum

Ecthyma gangrenosum is a cutaneous lesion often associated with pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia, even though it may develop without bacteremia and may originate from other bacterial and fungal organisms. Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia or sepsis, which mainly affects immunocompromised patients, frequently occurs in hospitals. This lesion typically occurs on the extremities and gluteal and perineal regions. In this report we present a case of ecthyma gangrenosum in a premature newborn occurring secondary to pseudomonas sepsis causing sucking dysfunction due to tissue loss in the lip, soft palate, and tongue

Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in Children and Their Family Members in a District in Turkey

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori among children and their family members and to evaluate some epidemiologic characteristics. The study included 275 children, aged 1-15 year(s), suffering from different gastrointestinal complaints. Blood serology and stool antigen testing were used for the diagnosis of infection due to H. pylori. Sixty-five (23.6%) of the 275 children were positive for H. pylori, and thispositivity had a significantly increasing correlation with age (p<0.001). H. pylori-associated infection was observed among 45 (69.2%) and 17 (8%) mothers in the H. pylori-infected and non-infected groups respectively (p<0.0001). Most children and their families infected with H. pylori were living in an urban area. The findings suggest that infectiondue to H. pylori is a problem for this district area, and all children having any gastrointestinal complaints should be examined whether H. pylori was prevalent among their family members

Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practices in Patients Admitted to The Pediatric Neurology Outpatient Clinic

Introduction: Despite the developments in pharmacologic treatments, traditional and complementary therapies have recently gained popularity in our country, as well as around the world. Aim: To question complementary and alternative medicine practices CAMP during clinical visits of pediatric neurology patients, to raise awareness of families and patients about the use of complementary and alternative medicine, and to prevent possible negative interactions. Methods: This prospective survey study was conducted with the parents of 300 pediatric patients aged between 6 months and 18 years, who were being treated at the Child Neurology Clinic between March 1st and May 30th, 2020. For the study, 360 patients’ parents who came to the Pediatric Neurology clinic for treatment were randomly selected, and a face-to-face survey lasting 2 minutes was conducted with 300 patients’ parents who agreed to participate in the study. This study was approved with the decision number E-20-12-62 at the meeting dated 21.12.2020 of the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of SBU Ankara Dr Sami Ulus Gynecology and Childhood Health and Diseases Training and Research Hospital. Results: Three hundred parents (56% women) participated in the study. Just over half (55.3%) of the patients were followed up with a diagnosis of epilepsy, 56.6% of the parents stated that they had used traditional and complementary therapy methods before, 43.4% stated that they did not use it, 46.54% stated that they used prayer and 23,9% used vitamin methods, respectively. Conclusion: In neurologic diseases, parents use traditional and complementary therapies as treatment methods, creating an alternative to modern medicine. Families and patients should be informed by investigating the reasons and frequency of using traditional and complementary therapies, raising the awareness of parents, and determining the possible harm caused by traditional and complementary therapies

Neurobiological Perspective and Personalized Treatment in Schizophrenia

Personalized treatment is the focus of researchers and comes into prominence for both genetic sciences and neurotechnology. Recently, clinical practice tries to follow the idea and principles of personalized medicine. Besides predicting an individual’s sensibility or predisposition for developing schizophrenia, pharmacogenetic and pharmacogenomic approaches attempt to define and acknowledge important indicators of clinical response to antipsychotics namely their efficacy and adverse effects. Particularly in the treatment of schizophrenia, clinicians are very helpless in resistant cases, and clinical pharmacogenomics contributes in a revolutionary way. With both phenotyping, namely Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) and genotyping, “big expectations” emerged both with the right drug, the right dose, and the right time. Both pharmacokinetic genotyping, CYP400 enzyme activity, and pharmacodynamic genotyping could be measured. The chapter handles schizophrenia with neurobiological views and covers personalized treatment approaches from various perspectives. Personalized treatment in the diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia is presented first. Following comorbid schizophrenia in addition to the use of various substances, psychopharmacology of schizophrenia and the mechanism of action of antipsychotic drugs are presented. Genetics and epigenetics in schizophrenia are studied in detail and in silico application and computational approaches covering the feature extraction process and destructive impact of the metaverse are shared lastly

Interview with Marjorie Harkins Buchanan Kiewit

In this interview with Julia Stringfellow, Marjorie Harkins Buchanan Kiewit, LU class of 1943, discusses her time as a student as well as her time on the Board of Trustees.https://lux.lawrence.edu/oralhistories/1036/thumbnail.jp

An Empirical investigation on the relationship between The Eurozone zew index and The Eurozone stock markets

The aim of this study is to investigate the long and short term impact of the Euro ZEW index (ZEW) on the DAX (GDAXI) Germany, FTSE 100 (FTSE) the UK, CAC 40 (FCHI) France, OMXS30 Sweden and CROBEX (CRBEX) Croatia stock market indices using monthly data for the period between February 2008 and December 2020. The Euro ZEW Index was taken as the independent variable, and the index values of Eurozone stock markets were taken as the dependent variables. As a result of the study, the Euro ZEW index was found to have a positive (increasing) statistical significant effect on the DAX, FTSE, OMXS and CRBEX variables. Of the stock markets studied, Croatia CROBEX (CRBEX) index was the most affected index by the change in the Euro ZEW index. The least affected stock market was Germany DAX (GDAXI) index. The effect of the Euro ZEW Index on Euro stock markets was higher in the short-term, and gradually decreasing in the long term. The research findings are discussed in the conclusion section. © 2021 Nesrin Ceylan et al., published by Sciendo

Tooth eruption and symptomatology: Are the symptoms assumed to be related to the tooth eruption really associated with teeth?

Despite little evidence, many various complaints might be associated with teething in children. Symptoms related with teething mostly result in delay diagnosis of underlying disease. In this study we explore the relationship between teething and symptoms commonly seen in pediatric clinics. Children less than 36 months of age, who came to Medipol University Faculty of Medicine, between October 2013 and May 2014 for routine well-child visit, were recruited in the study. At visit time 318 infants (60.5%) had one or more visible tooth eruption. Participants were divided in five subgroups according to their age. Parents of infants (mean age 11.5 months) completed questionnaires. The most commonly reported symptom was irritability in 12-18 months (74%), 24-30 months (57%) and 30-36 (44%) months’ periods, drooling in 6-12 months (87%), loss of appetite in 18-24 months (64%). Irritability was statistically significant in all groups except 18-24 month. (p=0.54). Febrile fever was only statistically significant in 6-12 and 12-18 months groups. Increase in biting was become statistically significant after 12 months. Although rates vary according to age group, many mild symptoms previously thought to be associated with teething were found temporally correlated with teething. Before parents/caregivers attribute these symptoms to tooth eruption other possible causes must be ruled out. © 2015, Yuzuncu Yil Universitesi Tip Fakultesi, Universitas Indonesia. All rights reserved

International accounting standarts TAS-17 according to Turkish and international accounting standarts

Finansal kiralama dünyada yaygın olarak kullanılan bir mali araçtır. Türkiye’de 10.06.1985 tarih ve 3226 sayılı kanun ve 17 nolu finansal kiralama muhasebe standartlarına göre; finansal kiralama işlemlerinin muhasebeleştirilmesine yönelik ilkeler düzenlenmiştir. Her ne kadar ilgili kanunla bu düzenlemeler yapılmış olsa da finansal kiralamaya ilişkin çeşitli sorunlar ve problemler yaşanmıştır. Türkiye Muhasebe Standartları Kurulu 17 numaralı uluslararası muhasebe standardının aynı şekilde Türkiye’de de uygulanabileceğini kabul etmiştir. Çalışmamızda, Uluslararası Muhasebe Standartları 17’nin kiralama işlemlerinin Türkiye’ye uygulanabilirliği ve muhasebe işlemleri hakkında bilgi verilmektedir.Leasing is a financial tool which is commonly used in the world. As per the Law dated 10.06.1985, numbered 3226 and leasing accounting standards numbered 17 in Turkey, principles regarding recognition of leasing operations have been prepared. Although these amendments have been made within the related law, different problems have been experienced concerning the leasing. Turkey accepted that international accounting standard numbered 17 of Accounting Standards Board can be implemented n Turkey in the same way. In our study, it is given information regarding the applicability of International Accounting Standards 17 in Turkey and accounting transactions