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Background: This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of pleurodesis procedure by ensuring the expansion of the lung and occluding lung parenchyma leaks with an autologous blood patch. Methods: A total of 24 patients (17 males, 7 females; mean age 59.9±12.2 years; range, 30 to 86 years) who underwent autologous blood patch pleurodesis in our clinic between November 2015 and November 2019 were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were not eligible to undergo chemical pleurodesis due to a non-expandable lung or poor general condition. Demographic and clinical characteristics of the patients and postoperative data were evaluated. Results: The air leak stopped within 48 h after autologous blood patch pleurodesis in seven patients. The air leak significantly decreased in 13 patients, while it remained unchanged in four patients. A Heimlich valve was placed in the patients in whom the air leak stopped or significantly decreased. The follow-up chest X-rays showed that the respective lungs of these patients became completely expandable. Conclusion: Our study results suggest that the autologous blood patch procedure is a favorable option for the patients who are unable to benefit much from the conventional chemical pleurodesis methods due to contraindications to surgery or the presence of non-expandable lungs.

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Background Data: The most common cause of trigeminal neuralgia is neurovascular compression. However, several patients present with unknown etiology. Purpose: This study aims to investigate the relationship between trigeminal neuralgia and cervical pathology in patients previously diagnosed with idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia. Study Design: We designed an observational case-control study in our tertiary center. Patients and Methods: A study group consisting of patients previously diagnosed with idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia and a control group consisting of patients with tension-type headaches were included in the study. A blinded neuroradiologist reevaluated cranial MRIs of trigeminal neuralgia patients. Once it was confirmed that no signs of neurovascular compression or any secondary causes were present, a cervical MRI was performed to evaluate cervical pathologies. Cranial and cervical MRIs of the controls were evaluated by the same neuroradiologist. Results: Twenty patients who had prior diagnoses of idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia and 20 controls were investigated. The mean age of trigeminal neuralgia patients was 64.9 ± 12.6, and the mean age of the control group was 61.3 ± 9.1 (p = 0.305). The male/female ratio in trigeminal neuralgia patients was 2.3 and 1.8 in the control group (p = 0.736). While indentation on the trigeminal spinal tract above the C4 spinal level was observed in 12 out of 20 patients, none of the controls had any involvement in the same region (p < 0.001).

Bu çalışmanın amacı toraks travması nedeni ile kliniğimize müracat eden ve toraks kontüzyonu tespit edilen hastalardaki kontüzyon ile hemotoraks, pnömotoraks ve hemopnömotoraks arasındaki ilişkiyi değerlendirmek. GEREÇ VE YÖNTEM:Çalışmaya alınan olgular 2017 Ocak, 2018 Kasım tarihleri arasında Afyon Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Göğüs Cerrahisi Kliniğine müracaat eden, toraks kontüzyonu tespit edilen ve kliniğimiz tarafından takip önerilen ya da yatırılarak tedavi altına alınan, 77 künt toraks travmalı hasta dahil edildi. Hastaların cinsiyeti, yaşı, bilgisayarlı toraks tomografileri (BT) ve hastanede yatış süreleri retrospektif olarak incelendi. BULGULAR: Toraks kontüzyonu bulunan 77 hastanın %80.52'i erkek, %19.48'i bayan, yaş ortalaması 50.57, hastanede ortalama yatış süresi 4.19 gün idi. Hastaların %48.05'inde sağda, %35.07'inde solda, %16.88'inde bilateral toraks kontüzyonu tespit edildi. Olguların %51.95'inde pnömotoraks izlendi. Bunların %24.68'i sağda, %10.39'u solda, %16.88'i bilateral idi. Vakaların %45.45'inde hemotoraks tepit edildi, bunların %24.68'inde sağda, %16.88'inde solda, %3.89'unda bilateral olarak gözlendi. Hastaların %3.89'unda hemopnömotoraks mevcuttu, bunların %2.60'ı solda, %1.30'u bilateral olarak izlendi. SONUÇ: Yaptığımız çalışmada künt toraks travmasına bağlı toraks kontüzyonu sağ hemitoraksta ve erkeklerde daha fazla görülmektedir. Pnömotoraks, hemotoraks, hemopnömotoraks sıklıkla toraks kontüzyonuna eşlik etmektedir. Her bir komplikasyon kendi içinde değerlendirilmeli ve tedavisi ona göre yapılmalıdır.