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Objective: Since the emergence of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) in December 2019, it has turned into a pandemic. Covid-19 infection; can trigger pulmonary inflammation and also cause acute lung injury. In cases with severe pneumonia, long hospital stays and high...
Aim: The COVID outbreak is a serious health problem affecting socio-economic life and healthcare systems worldwide. Although the role of Semaphorins in some diseases is relatively known, the association of these molecules with the pathogenesis of COVID-19 remains unclear....
Introduction: The disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, which the World Health Organization has considered as a pandemic, was named COVID-19 and has since spread worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed the way we live and work. During events like COVID-19, it is...
Aim: We aimed to reveal the potential roles of periostin, hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α), and phospholipase A2 (PLA2) in inflammation, hypoxia, and tissue damage in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to investigate whether they are useful potential...
Purpose: Although most studies showed that the increase of cardiac biomarkers due to myocardial injury during coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a strong predictor of adverse clinical events, few studies compared other causes of myocardial injury and COVID-19. In our study,...
Aim: We aimed to determine the glypican-3 levels in patients diagnosed with COVID-19, compare these values with the healthy controls, and analyze the evaluation of glypican-3 levels with inflammatory markers, including interleukin-6 (IL-6), to determine its role in disease...
Aim: Regarding coronavirus disease (COVID-19), despite antibody measurement alone providing insufficient data, studies evaluating immune responses to vaccination or disease have focused on humoral immunity. Uncoupled humoral and cellular responses may be present after...
Objectives: Identifying COVID-19 patients with risk of adverse outcomes at first admission to the intensive care unit has several diagnostic challenges. The concentration of acute phase proteins synthesized by the liver increases or decreases markedly in the serum following...
Purpose: The importance of medical biochemistry laboratories has increased in the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This study aimed to reveal the current situation of medical biochemistry specialists and medical biochemistry laboratories in 1 year from...
Objectives: Coronaviruses (CoV), known to exist for about 70 years, were considered animal pathogens in the 1930s. By the 1960s, they were also defined as human respiratory pathogens. Since then, CoVrelated epidemic diseases called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS),...
Aim: It was aimed to determine predictive markers for the need for intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalization in patients with coronavirus infection.
Material and Methods: This study was performed retrospectively from data of patients hospitalized with...
Aim: With the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians' expectations from laboratory professionals and the desired test volumes have increased significantly. The specialist physicians do not sufficiently understand the laboratory team's workflow struggling with the pandemic at the...
Aim: In this study, it was aimed to evaluate the preanalytical process performance in our laboratory with the six-sigma methodology and to investigate the effect of the training given to the hospital staff on the sigma values.
Materials and Methods:...
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