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Background and aim: Malignant Mesothelioma is aggressive pleural tumors. We need an easily accessible, inexpensive and reliable method for determining low survival time prognosis of this tumor. The aim of our study investigate neutrophil / lymphocyte ratio and platelet / lymphocyte ratio as a prognostic indicator of the availability. Materials and methods: Thirty six malignant mesothelioma patients, whose histopathologic diagnosis was established and followed by our clinic, accesible to complete archive data were included. Our study is designed as a retrospective. Patients9 histopathological types, disease stages, a complete blood count parameters at diagnosis and survival were recorded. Results: Eighteen of Malignant mesothelioma patients were male and average follow-up period was 24.83 ± 3.61 months. PLR levels of patients according to mortality varies statistically significant (p

Background: Using innovative and scientific methods increase the rate of quitting in smokers. SMS has been shown to increase the compliance of patients with SCC appointments. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effect of SMS in the compliance of patients with SBP follow-up visits and smoking cessation success. Materials and methods: We enrolled 219 cases with 6-months follow-up data out of 634 patients applied to SCC of Research Hospital between 01.10.2013-30.06.2014 and agreed to follow-up with SMS. Results: Fifty nine (26.9%) of the patients were female. The mean age was 45 ± 11 years. Mean number of control visits was 0.89 ± 1.2. Our patients9 smoking status queried by telephone at 6-month follow-up. According to this, 56 (25.6%) patients were not smoking, and 163 (74.4%) patients were smokers. Smoking cessation ratio was 27.3% in patients who did not respond SMS reminders at all, and it was 21.5% in patients answering any SMS at least once. There was no statistically significant difference between SMS responders (at least once) and nonresponders (p = 0.402). Smoking cessation ratio of the patients invited by SMS but not coming to any control visits was 16.5%, and it was found 36.7% in patients coming to control visit at least once. This difference was statistically significant (0.001). Conclusion: Among patients invited to the smoking cessation clinic by SMS, our study revealed that there were increased success of smoking cessation in patients coming to control visits. We think that this may result from possible increased compliance to the SCC appointments reminded by SMS, and this also may increase smoking cessation success.

OBJECTIVE: It is challenging to differentiate mediastinal lymph node enlargement caused by tuberculosis (TB) and sarcoidosis as both diseases may cause granulomatous inflammation. The objective of this study is to evaluate the use of neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet/lymphocyte ratio (PLR) as possible markers in the differential diagnosis of Stage I sarcoidosis and TB lymphadenopathy in patients who present with mediastinal lymph nodes and no parenchymal involvement. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 19 TB, 55 sarcoidosis, and 32 control patients, whose clinical records were available, were included in this retrospective study. All patients had a granulomatous reaction revealed on their lymph node biopsy specimen. The complete blood count at the time of diagnosis was included in the study. RESULTS: NLR and PLR were both significantly increased in Stage 1 sarcoidosis patients compared to controls while only PLR was significantly increased in the TB group (for sarcoidosis, NLR P < 0.001 and PLR P < 0.001; for TB, NLR P = 0.12; PLR P = 0.017). There were neither significant differences in serum NLR nor PLR between sarcoidosis and TB groups. CONCLUSION: Although NLR and PLR are useful tools to differentiate Stage 1 sarcoidosis from controls and PLR may be used to differentiate TB lymphadenopathy from controls, these parameters may not be used to differentiate between Stage 1 sarcoidosis and TB lymphadenopathy.

We evaluated whether serum omentin levels are associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) and its severity among postmenopausal women. We enrolled 193 consecutive postmenopausal women who had undergone coronary angiography for suspected stable CAD. The study population was divided into 2 groups based on the results of coronary angiography (CAD group, n = 110 and control group, n = 83). Omentin 1 levels were measured and disease severity was assessed using the SYNTAX score (SS) in the CAD group. Those patients with angiographic CAD had significantly decreased omentin 1 levels, compared to those without CAD (247.5 + 127.4 vs 506 + 246 ng/mL, P < .001). After adjusting for cardiovascular risk factors, a decreased omentin 1 level was found to be an independent predictor of both angiographic CAD and a high SS. Our data indicate that a decreased omentin 1 level is associated with CAD and its severity among postmenopausal women.