Objective: IUrinary tract infection (UTI) is a common disease in children. Rapid and reliable diagnosis of UTI is mandatory for the prevention of complications. The aim of the present study was to assess whether or not automated urine analysis can be used as a rapid diagnostic...

Aim: Colon cancer, accounting for almost 10% of all cancers in both genders worldwide, is the fourth most common cause of cancer-related deaths. Approximately 95% of cases are originated from adenomas. In recent years, early detection of colon-borne pathologies and...

Objective: Gestational diabetes mellitus is one of the most frequent complications in pregnancy which may create a health risk for the mother and the child. Different criteria may be used in the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus. In the present study we aimed to test...

Aim: Although, urine culture requests to diagnose urinary tract infection (UTI) are very common, about 70-80% of urine samples received in the laboratory are found to be negative. This means increased laboratory workload and cost. Urinary leukocyte esterase and nitrite are...

Objective: Automated hematology analyzer flags may provide early warning signals for hematological malignancies. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of Sysmex XN-1000 analyzer flags and to develop a multivariable prediction model for identifying active...

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) instead of procalcitonin for bacteremia diagnosis.

Material and Method: The investigation was conducted retrospectively with 2710 patients obtained from the...

Objective: Various algorithms for predicting coronary atherosclerosis have been established, most of which are based on large epidemiologic and cohort studies. We examined the predictive value of various clinical and biochem ical markers for angiographically defined coronary...

Purpose: Urinary tracts infections (UTI) are the most common cause of bacterial and hospital based infections. The gold standard in the diagnosis of UTI is urine culture. Patients with suspected UTI are usually requested for urinalysis simultaneously with urine culture. In...

Purpose: To assess the role of NMP22 and cytology in diagnosing primary and recurrent bladder cancer and to compare the sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, accuracy by means of staging, grading, dimensions and the number of the tumours.

Objective: Urine culture test (UCT), which is the gold-standard for urinary tract infections (UTI), requires higher cost, labour and time than complete urinalysis (CU). Therefore, it is important to assess prediction performance of CU's for UCT. The aim of our study is to...