Giant left anterior descending coronary artery aneurysm in a patient with Behçet’s disease

Coronary artery involvement is quite rare in the course of Behçet’s disease. Complications secondary to coronary artery aneurysms, including rupture, dissection, and myocardial ischemia, may be fatal. In young patients without cardiovascular risk factors, systemic inflammatory vasculitis syndromes should be investigated in case of acute coronary syndrome secondary to dilated coronary arteries. In this report, we present our management strategy in a 31-year-old male patient with Bechet’s disease

Development and Validation of Behaviors toward Gays and Lesbians on Campus Scale

In the literature, there have been many studies measuring homophobic attitudes of heterosexual people. However, there is limited research on behavioral aspects of homophobia. We attempted to develop a new scale measuring homophobic behaviors of heterosexual students toward gay and lesbian individuals on campus life. We developed BGLC (Behaviors toward Gays and Lesbians on Campus) Scale and validated the scale by comparing it with Age Universal I-E Scale, Homophobic Behaviors of Students Scale (HBSS) and Future Engagement in Activities Concerning Homosexual People (FEACHP) in order to study discriminant, convergent and criterion validity, respectively

Partial atrioventricular septal defects and its surgical treatment

Atrioventricular septal defects constitute a group diseases with incomplete formation of atrioventricular canal formed by the atrioventricular cushions, in other words incomplete morphological development of the part of atrial septum formed by septum primum, atrioventricular valves and ventricular septum in various degrees. Atrioventricular septal defects constitute up to 3% of all congenital cardiac diseases. It is closely associated with Trisomy 21 anomaly and one third of these individuals may have some form of atrioventricular septal defects. Major determinants of the clinical picture are the amount of left-to-right shunt, the degree of left atrioventricular valvular insufficiency and the type/severity of the co-existing cadiac defects. With advanced cardiocascular surgery techniques and growing experience in pediatric cardiac surgery, the perioperative mortality rate for the repair of this type of defects decreased up to approximately 1%. Satisfactory results have been reported during the long-term follow-up of the patients