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1. Prediction of unfavorable outcomes in cryptococcal meningitis: results of the multicenter Infectious Diseases International Research Initiative (ID-IRI) cryptococcal meningitis study

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Hakyemez, I. N., Erdem, H., Beraud, G., Lurdes, M., Silva-Pinto, A., Alexandru, C., Bishop, B., Mangani, F., Argemi, X., Poinot, M., Hasbun, R., Sunbul, M., Akcaer, M., Alp, S., Demirdal, T., Angamuthu, K., Amer, F., Ragab, E., Shehata, G. A., Ozturk-Engin, D., Ozgunes, N., Larsen, L., Zimmerli, S., Sipahi, O. R., Tukenmez Tigen, E., Celebi, G., Oztoprak, N., Yardimci, A. C., and Cag, Y.

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2018
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2. The burden and epidemiology of community-acquired central nervous system infections: a multinational study

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Erdem, H., Inan, A., Guven, E., Hargreaves, S., Larsen, L., Shehata, G., Pernicova, E., Khan, E., Bastakova, L., Namani, S., Harxhi, A., Roganovic, T., Lakatos, B., Uysal, S., Sipahi, O. R., Crisan, A., Miftode, E., Stebel, R., Jegorovic, B., Fehér, Z., Jekkel, C., Pandak, N., Moravveji, A., Yilmaz, H., Khalifa, A., Musabak, U., Yilmaz, S., Jouhar, A., Oztoprak, N., Argemi, X., Baldeyrou, M., Bellaud, G., Moroti, R. V., Hasbun, R., Salazar, L., Tekin, R., Canestri, A., Čalkić, L., Praticò, L., Yilmaz-Karadag, F., Santos, L., Pinto, A., Kaptan, F., Bossi, P., Aron, J., Duissenova, A., Shopayeva, G., Utaganov, B., Grgic, S., Ersoz, G., Wu, A. K. L., Lung, K. C., Bruzsa, A., Radic, L. B., Kahraman, H., Momen-Heravi, M., Kulzhanova, S., Rigo, F., Konkayeva, M., Smagulova, Z., Tang, T., Chan, P., Ahmetagic, S., Porobic-Jahic, H., Moradi, F., Kaya, S., Cag, Y., Bohr, A., Artuk, C., Celik, I., Amsilli, M., Gul, H. C., Cascio, A., Lanzafame, M., and Nassar, M.

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2017
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3. The microbiological diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis of Haydarpasa-1 study

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Erdem, H., Ozturk-Engin, D., Elaldi, N., Gulsun, S., Sengoz, G., Crisan, A., Johansen, I.S., Inan, A., Nechifor, M., Al-Mahdawi, A., Civljak, R., Ozguler, M., Savic, B., Ceran, N., Cacopardo, B., Inal, A.S., Namiduru, M., Dayan, S., Kayabas, U., Parlak, E., Khalifa, A., Kursun, E., Sipahi, O.R., Yemisen, M., Akbulut, A., Bitirgen, M., Dulovic, O., Kandemir, B., Luca, C., Parlak, M., Stahl, J.P., Pehlivanoglu, F., Simeon, S., Ulu-Kilic, A., Yasar, K., Yilmaz, G., Yilmaz, E., Beovic, B., Catroux, M., Lakatos, B., Sunbul, M., Oncul, O., Alabay, S., Sahin-Horasan, E., Kose, S., Shehata, G., Andre, K., Alp, A., Ćosic, G., Gul, H. Cem, Karakas, A., Chadapaud, S., Hansmann, Y., Harxhi, A., Kirova, V., Masse-Chabredier, I., Oncu, S., Sener, A., Tekin, R., Deveci, O., Karabay, O., and Agalar, C.

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2014
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4. Correction to: Prediction of unfavorable outcomes in cryptococcal meningitis: results of the multicenter infectious Diseases International Research Initiative (ID-IRI) cryptococcal meningitis study

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Hakyemez, I. N., Erdem, H., Beraud, G., Lurdes, M., Silva-Pinto, A., Alexandru, C., Bishop, B., Mangani, F., Argemi, X., Poinot, M., Hasbun, R., Sunbul, M., Akcaer, M., Alp, S., Demirdal, T., Angamuthu, K., Amer, F., Ragab, E., Shehata, G. A., Ozturk-Engin, D., Ozgunes, N., Larsen, L., Zimmerli, S., Sipahi, O. R., Tukenmez Tigen, E., Celebi, G., Oztoprak, N., Yardimci, A. C., and Cag, Y.

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2018
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6. Managing atypical and typical herpetic central nervous system infections: results of a multinational study

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Cag, Y., Erdem, H., Leib, S., Defres, S., Kaya, S., Larsen, L., Poljak, M., Ozturk-Engin, D., Barsic, B., Argemi, X., Sørensen, S.M., Bohr, A.L., Tattevin, P., Gunst, J.D., Baštáková, L., Jereb, M., Johansen, I.S., Karabay, O., Pekok, A.U., Sipahi, O.R., Chehri, M., Beraud, G., Shehata, G., Fontana, R., Maresca, M., Karsen, H., Sengoz, G., Sunbul, M., Yilmaz, G., Yilmaz, H., Sharif-Yakan, A., Kanj, S., Parlak, E., Pehlivanoglu, F., Korkmaz, F., Komur, S., Kose, S., Ulug, M., Bolukcu, S., Coskuner, S.A., Stahl, J.P., Ince, N., Akkoyunlu, Y., Halac, G., Sahin-Horasan, E., Tireli, H., Kilicoglu, G., Al-Mahdawi, A., Nemli, S.A., Inan, A., Senbayrak, S., Vahaboglu, H., and Elaldi, N.

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2016
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7. The microbiological diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis: results of Haydarpasa-1 study

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Erdem, H., Ozturk-Engin, D., Elaldi, N., Gulsun, S., Sengoz, G., Crisan, A., Johansen, I. S., Inan, A., Nechifor, M., Al-Mahdawi, A., Civljak, R., Ozguler, M., Savic, B., Ceran, N., Cacopardo, B., Inal, A. S., Namiduru, M., Dayan, S., Kayabas, U., Parlak, E., Khalifa, A., Kursun, E., Sipahi, O. R., Yemisen, M., Akbulut, A., Bitirgen, M., Dulovic, O., Kandemir, B., Luca, C., Parlak, M., Stahl, J. P., Pehlivanoglu, F., Simeon, S., Ulu-Kilic, A., Yasar, K., Yilmaz, G., Yilmaz, E., Beovic, B., Catroux, M., Lakatos, B., Sunbul, M., Oncul, O., Alabay, S., Sahin-Horasan, E., Kose, S., Shehata, G., Andre, K., Alp, A., Ćosić, G., Cem Gul, H., Karakas, A., Chadapaud, S., Hansmann, Y., Harxhi, A., Kirova, V., Masse-Chabredier, I., Oncu, S., Sener, A., Tekin, R., Deveci, O., Karabay, O., Agalar, C., and Allerberger, F.

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2014
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9. Development and characterization of functional pan bread supplemented with quinoa flour.

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El‐Sohaimy A., Sobhy, Shehata G., Mohamed, Djapparovec, Toshev Abduvali, Mehany, Taha, Zeitoun A., Mohamed, and Zeitoun M., Ahmed

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*QUINOA, *FLOUR, *ESSENTIAL amino acids, *BAKED products, *BREAD, *FOOD technologists
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The present study was focused on the developing of nutritious and functional pan bread by utilizing a whole grain quinoa flour (QF). Furthermore, evaluation of the physicochemical, organoleptic, and sensorial properties of the fortified bread. The levels of protein, significantly increased in developed bread. The developed increased the essential amino acids and decreased the starch. Adding quinoa flour increased minerals, vitamins, and fiber. Thickness, diameter, spread ratio, and specific volume did not dramatically affected. The lightness (L*) and redness (a*) have been decreased on contrary to yellowness (b*). Developed pan bread showed a slightly brawn surface. The sensory evaluation emphasized a high acceptability of quinoa‐based pan bread than the control. Quinoa flour might be used for developing nutritious bread with high essential amino acids, minerals, and vitamins which can be used for prevention and/or treating the anemia and malnutrition problems, especially in the developing countries. Novelty Impact Statement: The current work emphasized that due to the high nutrition value of quinoa seeds; the supplementation of pan bread with quinoa flour up to 30% was elevated the protein level in the pan bread up to 66.40% than control which resulted to increase the essential amino acids. Furthermore, the levels of essential minerals such as iron, calcium, potassium, manganese, phosphorus, magnesium, and zinc were significantly increased. Supplementation of pan bread with 30% of quinoa flour did not dramatically affect the technological and organoleptic properties of bread which encourage the food technologists and nutrition scientists to use quinoa flour for production different functional bakery products for overcome the malnutrition and anemia problems all over the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2021
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10. Central nervous system infections in the absence of cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis

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Erdem, H., Ozturk-Engin, D., Cag, Y., Senbayrak, S., Inan, A., Kazak, E., Savasci, U., Elaldi, N., Vahaboglu, H., Hasbun, R., Nechifor, M., Tireli, H., Kilicoglu, G., Defres, S., Gulsun, S., Ceran, N., Crisan, A., Johansen, I.S., Namiduru, M., Dayan, S., Kayabas, U., Parlak, E., Khalifa, A., Kursun, E., Sipahi, O.R., Yemisen, M., Akbulut, A., Bitirgen, M., Popovic, N., Kandemir, B., Luca, C., Parlak, M., Stahl, J.P., Pehlivanoglu, F., Simeon, S., Ulu-Kilic, A., Yasar, K., Yilmaz, G., Yilmaz, E., Beovic, B., Catroux, M., Lakatos, B., Sunbul, M., Oncul, O., Alabay, S., Sahin-Horasan, E., Kose, S., Shehata, G., Andre, K., Dragovac, G., Gul, H.C., Karakas, A., Chadapaud, S., Hansmann, Y., Harxhi, A., Kirova, V., Masse-Chabredier, I., Oncu, S., Sener, A., Tekin, R., Deveci, O., Ozkaya, H.D., Karabay, O., Agalar, C., Gencer, S., Karahocagil, M.K., Karsen, H., Kaya, S., Pekok, A.U., Celen, M.K., Deniz, S., Ulug, M., Demirdal, T., Guven, T., Bolukcu, S., Avci, M., Nayman-Alpat, S., Yaşar, K., Pehlivanoʇlu, F., Ates-Guler, S., Mutlu-Yilmaz, E., Tosun, S., Sirmatel, F., Batirel, A., Öztoprak, N., Kadanali, A., Turgut, H., Baran, A.I., Karaahmetoglu, G., Sunnetcioglu, M., Haykir-Solay, A., Denk, A., Ayaz, C., Gorenek, L., Larsen, L., Poljak, M., Barsic, B., Argemi, X., Sørensen, S.M., Bohr, A.L., Tattevin, P., Gunst, J.D., Baštáková, L., Jereb, M., Chehri, M., Beraud, G., Del Vecchio, R.F., Maresca, M., Yilmaz, H., Sharif-Yakan, A., Kanj, S.S., Korkmaz, F., Komur, S., Coskuner, S.A., Ince, N., Akkoyunlu, Y., Halac, G., Nemli, S.A., Ak, O., Gunduz, A., Gozel, M.G., Hatipoglu, M., Cicek-Senturk, G., Akcam, F.Z., Inkaya, A.C., Sagmak-Tartar, A., Ersoy, Y., Tuncer-Ertem, G., Balkan, I.I., Cetin, B., Ersoz, G., Ozgunes, N., Yesilkaya, A., Erturk, A., Gundes, S., Turhan, V., Yalci, A., Aydin, E., Diktas, H., Ulcay, A., Seyman, D., and Leblebicioglu, H.

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protein cerebrospinal fluid level, Male, pleocytosis, Meningitis, Pneumococcal, Leukocytosis, herpes simplex encephalitis, CSF, Leukocyte, brucella meningitis, Article, cerebrospinal fluid, clinical feature, female, Central Nervous System Infections, tuberculous meningitis, Tuberculosis, Meningeal, central nervous system infection, middle aged, neurosyphilis, Encephalitis, Humans, pathology, Meningitis, human, pneumococcal meningitis
Abstract

Previous multicenter/multinational studies were evaluated to determine the frequency of the absence of cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis in patients with central nervous system infections, as well as the clinical impact of this condition. It was found that 18% of neurosyphilis, 7.9% of herpetic meningoencephalitis, 3% of tuberculous meningitis, 1.7% of Brucella meningitis, and 0.2% of pneumococcal meningitis cases did not display cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis. Most patients were not immunosuppressed. Patients without pleocytosis had a high rate of unfavorable outcomes and thus this condition should not be underestimated. © 2017 The Author(s)

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2017

11. Prediction of unfavorable outcomes in cryptococcal meningitis: results of the multicenter Infectious Diseases International Research Initiative (ID-IRI) cryptococcal meningitis study

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Hakyemez, I. N., primary, Erdem, H., additional, Beraud, G., additional, Lurdes, M., additional, Silva-Pinto, A., additional, Alexandru, C., additional, Bishop, B., additional, Mangani, F., additional, Argemi, X., additional, Poinot, M., additional, Hasbun, R., additional, Sunbul, M., additional, Akcaer, M., additional, Alp, S., additional, Demirdal, T., additional, Angamuthu, K., additional, Amer, F., additional, Ragab, E., additional, Shehata, G. A., additional, Ozturk-Engin, D., additional, Ozgunes, N., additional, Larsen, L., additional, Zimmerli, S., additional, Sipahi, O. R., additional, Tukenmez Tigen, E., additional, Celebi, G., additional, Oztoprak, N., additional, Yardimci, A. C., additional, and Cag, Y., additional

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2017
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12. Herpetik Santral Sinir Sistemi Enfeksiyonlarının Yönetimi

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BASTAKOVA, L, KÖMÜR, SÜHEYLA, KORKMAZ, F, Pehlivanoğlu, Filiz, PARLAK, EMİNE, KANJ, S, YAKAN, AH, YILMAZ, H, YILMAZ, GULDEN, SUNBUL, M, ŞENGÖZ, NEFİSE GÖNÜL, KARSEN, H, MARESCA, M, FONTANA, R, SHEHATA, G, BERAUD, G, CHEHRI, M, SİPAHİ, OĞUZ REŞAT, PEKOK, ABDULLAH UMUT, KARABAY, OĞUZ, SOMUNCU JOHANSEN, ISIK, JEREB, M, GUNST, JD, TATTEVIN, P, BOHR, L, MAJ SORENSEN, S, ARGEMI, X, BARSIC, B, ÖZTÜRK ENGİN, DERYA, POLJAK, M, LARSEN, L, KAYA, SELÇUK, DEFRES, S, LEİB, S, ÇAĞ, YASEMİN, ERDEM, HAKAN, KÖSE, ŞÜKRAN, VAHABOĞLU, MUSTAFA HALUK, ELALDI, NAZİF, ŞENBAYRAK, SENİHA, İnan, Asuman, NEMLİ, SALİH ATAKAN, MAHDAWİ, AA, KILIÇOĞLU, ZEYNEP GAMZE, TİRELİ, HÜLYA, ŞAHİN HORASANLI, ELİF, HALAÇ, GÜLİSTAN, AKKOYUNLU, YASEMİN, İNCE, NEVİN, STAHL, JP, COSKUNER, SA, BOLUKÇU, SİBEL, and ULUĞ, MEHMET

Published
2015

13. Neurobrucellosis: Results of the Istanbul Study

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Erdem, H, Ulu-Kilic, A, Kilic, S, Karahocagil, M, Shehata, G, Eren-Tulek, N, Yetkin, F, Celen, MK, Ceran, N, Gul, HC, Mert, G, Tekin-Koruk, S, Dizbay, M, Inal, AS, Nayman-Alpat, S, Bosilkovski, M, Inan, D, Saltoglu, N, Abdel-Baky, L, Adeva-Bartolome, MT, Ceylan, B, Sacar, S, Turhan, V, Yilmaz, E, Elaldi, N, Kocak-Tufan, Z, Ugurlu, K, Dokuzoguz, B, Yilmaz, H, Gundes, S, Guner, R, Ozgunes, N, Ulcay, A, Unal, S, Dayan, S, Gorenek, L, Karakas, A, Tasova, Y, Usluer, G, Bayindir, Y, Kurtaran, B, Sipahi, OR, and Leblebicioglu, H

Abstract

No data on whether brucellar meningitis or meningoencephalitis can be treated with oral antibiotics or whether an intravenous extended-spectrum cephalosporin, namely, ceftriaxone, which does not accumulate in phagocytes, should be added to the regimen exist in the literature. The aim of a study conducted in Istanbul, Turkey, was to compare the efficacy and tolerability of ceftriaxone-based antibiotic treatment regimens with those of an oral treatment protocol in patients with these conditions. This retrospective study enrolled 215 adult patients in 28 health care institutions from four different countries. The first protocol (P1) comprised ceftriaxone, rifampin, and doxycycline. The second protocol (P2) consisted of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, rifampin, and doxycycline. In the third protocol (P3), the patients started with P1 and transferred to P2 when ceftriaxone was stopped. The treatment period was shorter with the regimens which included ceftriaxone (4.40 +/- 2.47 months in P1, 6.52 +/- 4.15 months in P2, and 5.18 +/- 2.27 months in P3) (P = 0.002). In seven patients, therapy was modified due to antibiotic side effects. When these cases were excluded, therapeutic failure did not differ significantly between ceftriaxone-based regimens (n = 5/166, 3.0%) and the oral therapy (n = 4/42, 9.5%) (P = 0.084). The efficacy of the ceftriaxone-based regimens was found to be better (n = 6/166 [3.6%] versus n = 6/42 [14.3%]; P = 0.017) when a composite negative outcome (CNO; relapse plus therapeutic failure) was considered. Accordingly, CNO was greatest in P2 (14.3%, n = 6/42) compared to P1 (2.6%, n = 3/ 117) and P3 (6.1%, n = 3/ 49) (P = 0.020). Seemingly, ceftriaxone-based regimens are more successful and require shorter therapy than the oral treatment protocol.

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2012

19. Managing atypical and typical herpetic central nervous system infections: results of a multinational study

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Chehri, M, Bolukcu, S, Stahl, J P, Johansen, I S, Sipahi, O R, Jereb, M, Karsen, H, Senbayrak, S, Parlak, E, Yilmaz, H, Fontana, R, Poljak, M, Ozturk-Engin, D, Pekok, A U, Elaldi, N, Ulug, M, Vahaboglu, H, Pehlivanoglu, F, Gunst, J D, Sengoz, G, Cag, Y, Bohr, A L, Karabay, O, Barsic, B, Korkmaz, F, Maresca, M, Argemi, X, Ince, N, Larsen, L, Sahin-Horasan, E, Akkoyunlu, Y, Coskuner, S A, Beraud, G, Tireli, H, Sharif-Yakan, A, Shehata, G, Kanj, S, Kilicoglu, G, Sunbul, M, Leib, Stephen, Yilmaz, G, Komur, S, Kose, S, Nemli, S A, Sørensen, S M, Erdem, H, Al-Mahdawi, A, Defres, S, Kaya, S, Tattevin, P, Baštáková, L, Inan, A, and Halac, G

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570 Life sciences, biology, 610 Medicine & health, 3. Good health
Abstract

There have been many studies pertaining to the management of herpetic meningoencephalitis (HME), but the majority of them have focussed on virologically unconfirmed cases or included only small sample sizes. We have conducted a multicentre study aimed at providing management strategies for HME. Overall, 501 adult patients with PCR-proven HME were included retrospectively from 35 referral centres in 10 countries; 496 patients were found to be eligible for the analysis. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis using a PCR assay yielded herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 DNA in 351 patients (70.8%), HSV-2 DNA in 83 patients (16.7%) and undefined HSV DNA type in 62 patients (12.5%). A total of 379 patients (76.4%) had at least one of the specified characteristics of encephalitis, and we placed these patients into the encephalitis presentation group. The remaining 117 patients (23.6%) had none of these findings, and these patients were placed in the nonencephalitis presentation group. Abnormalities suggestive of encephalitis were detected in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in 83.9% of the patients and in electroencephalography (EEG) in 91.0% of patients in the encephalitis presentation group. In the nonencephalitis presentation group, MRI and EEG data were suggestive of encephalitis in 33.3 and 61.9% of patients, respectively. However, the concomitant use of MRI and EEG indicated encephalitis in 96.3 and 87.5% of the cases with and without encephalitic clinical presentation, respectively. Considering the subtle nature of HME, CSF HSV PCR, EEG and MRI data should be collected for all patients with a central nervous system infection.

22. Managing atypical and typical herpetic central nervous system infections: results of a multinational study

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Signe Maj Sørensen, Jean-Paul Stahl, Seher Ayten Coskuner, Pierre Tattevin, Mauro Maresca, Sibel Bolukcu, Oğuz Reşat Sipahi, Rosa Fontana, Lykke Larsen, Xavier Argemi, Lenka Baštáková, Guillaume Béraud, Mario Poljak, Gamze Kilicoglu, Matjaž Jereb, Bruno Baršić, Akram Al-Mahdawi, Nevin Ince, Isik Somuncu Johansen, Filiz Pehlivanoglu, Sylviane Defres, Hasan Karsen, Yasemin Akkoyunlu, Asuman Inan, Souha S. Kanj, Hava Yilmaz, Nazif Elaldi, Elif Sahin-Horasan, Jesper Damsgaard Gunst, Emine Parlak, Hulya Tireli, Hakan Erdem, Anne Lisbeth Bohr, Fatime Korkmaz, Oguz Karabay, Haluk Vahaboglu, Gulden Yilmaz, Ghaydaa A. Shehata, Süheyla Kömür, Stephen L. Leib, Mahtab Chehri, Salih Atakan Nemli, Abdullah Umut Pekok, Sukran Kose, Derya Ozturk-Engin, Seniha Senbayrak, Mehmet Ulug, Gulistan Halac, Mustafa Sunbul, Gonul Sengoz, Selçuk Kaya, Ahmad Sharif-Yakan, Yasemin Cag, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Centre d'Investigation Clinique [Rennes] (CIC), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Hôpital Pontchaillou-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Service des maladies infectieuses et réanimation médicale [Rennes] = Infectious Disease and Intensive Care [Rennes], CHU Pontchaillou [Rennes], Fonction, structure et inactivation d'ARN bactériens, Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Evaluation des technologies de santé et des pratiques médicales - ULR 2694 (METRICS), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille)-Université de Lille, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Poitiers (CHU Poitiers), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire [Grenoble] (CHU), Cumhuriyet Universitesi, AKKOYUNLU, YASEMİN, Institute of Microbiology and Immunology - Inštitut za mikrobiologijo in imunologijo [Ljubljana, Slovenia], Université de Rennes (UR)-Hôpital Pontchaillou-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Université de Lille-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), Ege Üniversitesi, [Cag, Y.] Dr Lutfi Kirdar Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Erdem, H.] Gulhane Mil Med Acad, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Ankara, Turkey -- [Leib, S.] Univ Bern, Inst Infect Dis, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland -- [Defres, S.] Univ Liverpool, Inst Infect & Global Hlth, Liverpool L69 3BX, Merseyside, England -- [Defres, S.] Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen Univ Hosp NHS Trust, Trop Infect Dis Unit, Liverpool, Merseyside, England -- [Kaya, S.] Karadeniz Tech Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Trabzon, Turkey -- [Larsen, L. -- Johansen, I. S.] Odense Univ Hosp, Dept Infect Dis Q, Odense, Denmark -- [Poljak, M.] Univ Ljubljana, Inst Microbiol & Immunol, Fac Med, Ljubljana, Slovenia -- [Ozturk-Engin, D. -- Bolukcu, S. -- Inan, A. -- Senbayrak, S.] Haydarpasa Numune Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Barsic, B.] Univ Zagreb, Dr Fran Mihaljev Univ Hosp Infect Dis, Dept Infect Dis, Sch Med, Zagreb, Croatia -- [Argemi, X.] Nouvel Hop Civil, Dept Infect Dis, Strasbourg, France -- [Sorensen, S. M.] Aalborg Univ Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Aalborg, Denmark -- [Bohr, A. L.] Rigshosp, Copenhagen Univ Hosp, Inst Inflammat Res, Dept Infect Dis & Rheumatol, Copenhagen, Denmark -- [Tattevin, P.] Univ Hosp Pontchaillou, Dept Infect & Trop Dis, Rennes, France -- [Gunst, J. D.] Aarhus Univ Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Aarhus, Denmark -- [Bastakova, L.] Masaryk Univ, Fac Hosp Brno, Dept Infect Dis, Fac Med, Brno, Czech Republic -- [Jereb, M.] Univ Med Ctr, Dept Infect Dis, Ljubljana, Slovenia -- [Karabay, O.] Sakarya Univ, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Sch Med, Sakarya, Turkey -- [Pekok, A. U.] Private Erzurum Sifa Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Erzurum, Turkey -- [Sipahi, O. R.] Ege Univ, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Sch Med, Izmir, Turkey -- [Chehri, M.] Hvidovre Univ Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Copenhagen, Denmark -- [Beraud, G.] Univ Poitiers Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Poitiers, France -- [Shehata, G.] Assiut Univ Hosp, Dept Neurol & Psychiat, Assiut, Egypt -- [Fontana, R. -- Maresca, M.] Univ Catania, Infect Dis Sect, Dept Clin & Mol Biomed, Catania, Italy -- [Karsen, H.] Harran Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Sanliurfa, Turkey -- [Sengoz, G. -- Pehlivanoglu, F.] Haseki Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Sunbul, M. -- Yilmaz, H.] Ondokuz Mayis Univ, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Sch Med, Samsun, Turkey -- [Yilmaz, G.] Ankara Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Ankara, Turkey -- [Sharif-Yakan, A. -- Kanj, S.] Amer Univ Beirut, Med Ctr, Beirut, Lebanon -- [Parlak, E.] Ataturk Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Erzurum, Turkey -- [Korkmaz, F.] Konya Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Konya, Turkey -- [Komur, S.] Cukurova Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Adana, Turkey -- [Kose, S.] Tepecik Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Izmir, Turkey -- [Ulug, M.] Private Umit Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Eskisehir, Turkey -- [Coskuner, S. A.] Izmir Bozyaka Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Izmir, Turkey -- [Stahl, J. P.] Univ Grenoble 1, Grenoble, France -- [Stahl, J. P.] Univ Hosp Grenoble, Dept Infect Dis, Grenoble, France -- [Ince, N.] Duzce Univ, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Sch Med, Duzce, Turkey -- [Akkoyunlu, Y.] Bezmi Alem Vakif Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Halac, G.] Bezmi Alem Vakif Univ, Sch Med, Dept Neurol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Sahin-Horasan, E.] Mersin Univ, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Sch Med, Mersin, Turkey -- [Tireli, H.] Haydarpasa Numune Training & Res Hosp, Dept Neurol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Kilicoglu, G.] Haydarpasa Numune Training & Res Hosp, Dept Radiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Al-Mahdawi, A.] Baghdad Teaching Hosp, Dept Neurol, Baghdad, Iraq -- [Nemli, S. A.] Katip Celebi Univ, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Sch Med, Izmir, Turkey -- [Vahaboglu, H.] Medeniyet Univ, Goztepe Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Elaldi, N.] Cumhuriyet Univ, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Sch Med, Sivas, Turkey, Ghaydaa, Shehata -- 0000-0002-3631-893X, VAHABOGLU, Haluk -- 0000-0001-8217-1767, Kanj, Souha -- 0000-0001-6413-3396, Beraud, Guillaume -- 0000-0002-4705-0916, Gunst, Jesper -- 0000-0002-3787-0259, Stahl, Jean Paul -- 0000-0002-0086-3557, johansen, isik somuncu -- 0000-0002-2189-9823, Larsen, Lykke -- 0000-0002-4113-4182, Karabay, Oguz -- 0000-0003-0502-432X, OMÜ, Cag, Y, Erdem, H, Leib, S, Defres, S, Kaya, S, Larsen, L, Poljak, M, Ozturk-Engin, D, Barsic, B, Argemi, X, Sorensen, SM, Bohr, AL, Tattevin, P, Gunst, JD, Bastakova, L, Jereb, M, Johansen, IS, Karabay, O, Pekok, AU, Sipahi, OR, Chehri, M, Beraud, G, Shehata, G, Fontana, R, Maresca, M, Karsen, H, Sengoz, G, Sunbul, M, Yilmaz, G, Yilmaz, H, Sharif-Yakan, A, Kanj, S, Parlak, E, Pehlivanoglu, F, Korkmaz, F, Komur, S, Kose, S, Ulug, M, Bolukcu, S, Coskuner, SA, Stahl, JP, Ince, N, Akkoyunlu, Y, Halac, G, Sahin-Horasan, E, Tireli, H, Kilicoglu, G, Al-Mahdawi, A, Nemli, SA, Inan, A, Senbayrak, S, Vahaboglu, H, Elaldi, N, Sakarya Üniversitesi/İlahiyat Fakültesi/Temel İslam Bilimleri Bölümü, Kaya, Süleyman, Karabay, Oğuz, and Çukurova Üniversitesi

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Male, Pathology, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], encephalitis, Electroencephalography, medicine.disease_cause, Polymerase Chain Reaction, 0302 clinical medicine, Cerebrospinal fluid, 030212 general & internal medicine, Cerebrospinal Fluid, Aged, 80 and over, medicine.diagnostic_test, Atypical presentation, Brain, meningitis, General Medicine, Middle Aged, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 3. Good health, Infectious Diseases, medicine.anatomical_structure, results of a multinational study-, Clinical Microbiology And Infection, cilt.22, ss.568-569, 2016 [Akkoyunlu Y., Çağ Y., -Managing atypical and typical herpetic central nervous system infections], Female, Presentation (obstetrics), Encephalitis, Adult, Microbiology (medical), medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Central nervous system, Microbiology, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, Internal medicine, medicine, Journal Article, Humans, Aged, Retrospective Studies, managing, Diagnostic Tests, Routine, business.industry, Magnetic resonance imaging, medicine.disease, herpes simplex virus, Herpes simplex virus, Concomitant, DNA, Viral, Encephalitis, Herpes Simplex, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Abstract

WOS: 000379252100027, PubMed ID: 27085724, There have been many studies pertaining to the management of herpetic meningoencephalitis (HME), but the majority of them have focussed on virologically unconfirmed cases or included only small sample sizes. We have conducted a multicentre study aimed at providing management strategies for HME. Overall, 501 adult patients with PCR-proven HME were included retrospectively from 35 referral centres in 10 countries; 496 patients were found to be eligible for the analysis. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis using a PCR assay yielded herpes simplex virus (HSV)-1 DNA in 351 patients (70.8%), HSV-2 DNA in 83 patients (16.7%) and undefined HSV DNA type in 62 patients (12.5%). A total of 379 patients (76.4%) had at least one of the specified characteristics of encephalitis, and we placed these patients into the encephalitis presentation group. The remaining 117 patients (23.6%) had none of these findings, and these patients were placed in the nonencephalitis presentation group. Abnormalities suggestive of encephalitis were detected in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in 83.9% of the patients and in electroencephalography (EEG) in 91.0% of patients in the encephalitis presentation group. In the nonencephalitis presentation group, MRI and EEG data were suggestive of encephalitis in 33.3 and 61.9% of patients, respectively. However, the concomitant use of MRI and EEG indicated encephalitis in 96.3 and 87.5% of the cases with and without encephalitic clinical presentation, respectively. Considering the subtle nature of HME, CSF HSV PCR, EEG and MRI data should be collected for all patients with a central nervous system infection. (C) 2016 European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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2016
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23. The burden and epidemiology of community-acquired central nervous system infections: a multinational study

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Recep Tekin, Lenka Baštáková, Alexandru Crisan, Nenad Pandak, Egidia Miftode, C. Jekkel, Ejaz Ahmed Khan, Eva Pernicová, Serhat Uysal, A. Jouhar, Xavier Argemi, Rodrigo Hasbun, A. Pinto, Ugur Musabak, M. Amsilli, Emre Güven, Nefise Oztoprak, L. Čalkić, Arjan Harxhi, M. Momen-Heravi, R. V. Moroti, Hasip Kahraman, Svjetlana Grgić, Ghaydaa A. Shehata, G. Shopayeva, Oğuz Reşat Sipahi, Lykke Larsen, Sally Hargreaves, B. Jegorović, R. Stebel, Z. Fehér, Hakan Erdem, Yasemin Cag, Lurdes Santos, F. Moradi, A. Bruzsa, K. C. Lung, Phillip Chan, Gülden Ersöz, Ljiljana Betica Radić, Soner Yilmaz, F. Rigo, Sadie Namani, Figen Kaptan, Maiya Konkayeva, A. Duissenova, Antonio Cascio, Sholpan Kulzhanova, Hava Yilmaz, B. Utaganov, M. Baldeyrou, T. Tang, Humera Porobic-Jahic, Fatma Yilmaz-Karadag, Sead Ahmetagic, M. Nassar, J. Aron, Asuman Inan, B. Lakatos, Hanefi Cem Gul, Anne Lisbeth Bohr, G. Bellaud, Cumhur Artuk, Ahmad Khalifa, A. Canestri, İlhami Çelik, Zauresh Smagulova, A. Moravveji, A. K. L. Wu, L. Praticò, T. Roganović, Lucrecia Salazar, M. Lanzafame, P. Bossi, Selçuk Kaya, Virulence Bactérienne Précoce : fonctions cellulaires et contrôle de l'infection aigüe et subaigüe, Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Erdem, H., Inan, A., Guven, E., Hargreaves, S., Larsen, L., Shehata, G., Pernicova, E., Khan, E., Bastakova, L., Namani, S., Harxhi, A., Roganovic, T., Lakatos, B., Uysal, S., Sipahi, O.R., Crisan, A., Miftode, E., Stebel, R., Jegorovic, B., Fehér, Z., Jekkel, C., Pandak, N., Moravveji, A., Yilmaz, H., Khalifa, A., Musabak, U., Yilmaz, S., Jouhar, A., Oztoprak, N., Argemi, X., Baldeyrou, M., Bellaud, G., Moroti, R.V., Hasbun, R., Salazar, L., Tekin, R., Canestri, A., Čalkić, L., Praticò, L., Yilmaz-Karadag, F., Santos, L., Pinto, A., Kaptan, F., Bossi, P., Aron, J., Duissenova, A., Shopayeva, G., Utaganov, B., Grgic, S., Ersoz, G., Wu, A.K.L., Lung, K.C., Bruzsa, A., Radic, L.B., Kahraman, H., Momen-Heravi, M., Kulzhanova, S., Rigo, F., Konkayeva, M., Smagulova, Z., Tang, T., Chan, P., Ahmetagic, S., Porobic-Jahic, H., Moradi, F., Kaya, S., Cag, Y., Bohr, A., Artuk, C., Celik, I., Amsilli, M., Gul, H.C., Cascio, A., Lanzafame, M., Nassar, M., and Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi

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0301 basic medicine, Male, Outcome Assessment, Adverse Clinical Outcome, medicine.disease_cause, Central nervous system infections, burden, epidemiology, Medical microbiology, Central Nervous System Infections, Outcome Assessment, Health Care, Epidemiology, 80 and over, Aged, 80 and over, biology, Age Factors, General Medicine, Middle Aged, Community-Acquired Infections, Infectious Diseases, [SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, Population Surveillance, Female, Neuroborreliosis, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Microbiology (medical), Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Tuberculosis, Settore MED/17 - Malattie Infettive, 030106 microbiology, Brain Abscess, Central Nervous System Infection, Neurosyphilis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, Internal medicine, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Journal Article, medicine, Humans, Aged, Retrospective Studies, business.industry, Varicella zoster virus, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, Health Care, Cross-Sectional Studies, Central Nervous System Disease, Brain Absce, Human Immunodeficiency Viru, Immunology, business
Abstract

Ghaydaa, Shehata/0000-0002-3631-893X; Radic, Ljiljana Betica/0000-0002-8778-106X; Silva-Pinto, Andre/0000-0002-2077-3356; Cascio, Antonio/0000-0002-1992-1796; Bossi, Paolo/0000-0003-0135-0224; Stebel, Roman/0000-0001-6922-4465; Namani, Sadie/0000-0002-2411-8623; Chan, Phillip/0000-0002-4071-4409; Hargreaves, Sally/0000-0003-2974-4348; Artuk, Cumhur/0000-0003-0827-990X; Harxhi, Arjan/0000-0001-8518-7377; Larsen, Lykke/0000-0002-4113-4182; Uysal, Serhat/0000-0002-4294-5999 WOS: 000407582200010 PubMed: 28397100 Risk assessment of central nervous system (CNS) infection patients is of key importance in predicting likely pathogens. However, data are lacking on the epidemiology globally. We performed a multicenter study to understand the burden of community-acquired CNS (CA-CNS) infections between 2012 and 2014. A total of 2583 patients with CA-CNS infections were included from 37 referral centers in 20 countries. Of these, 477 (18.5%) patients survived with sequelae and 227 (8.8%) died, and 1879 (72.7%) patients were discharged with complete cure. The most frequent infecting pathogens in this study were Streptococcus pneumoniae (n = 206, 8%) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (n = 152, 5.9%). Varicella zoster virus and Listeria were other common pathogens in the elderly. Although staphylococci and Listeria resulted in frequent infections in immunocompromised patients, cryptococci were leading pathogens in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive individuals. Among the patients with any proven etiology, 96 (8.9%) patients presented with clinical features of a chronic CNS disease. Neurosyphilis, neurobrucellosis, neuroborreliosis, and CNS tuberculosis had a predilection to present chronic courses. Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, M. tuberculosis, and S. pneumoniae were the most fatal forms, while sequelae were significantly higher for herpes simplex virus type 1 (p < 0.05 for all). Tackling the high burden of CNS infections globally can only be achieved with effective pneumococcal immunization and strategies to eliminate tuberculosis, and more must be done to improve diagnostic capacity.

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2017
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24. Results of a multinational study suggest the need for rapid diagnosis and early antiviral treatment at the onset of herpetic meningoencephalitis

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Pierre Tattevin, Salih Atakan Nemli, Hasan Karsen, Mustafa Sunbul, Rosa Fontana Del Vecchio, Akram Al-Mahdawi, Mahtab Chehri, Süheyla Kömür, Sylviane Defres, Bruno Baršić, Signe Maj Sørensen, Seniha Senbayrak, Ghaydaa A. Shehata, Nevin Ince, Abdullah Umut Pekok, Selçuk Kaya, Yasemin Akkoyunlu, Gulden Yilmaz, Jean-Paul Stahl, Lykke Larsen, Lenka Baštáková, Gonul Sengoz, Jesper Damsgaard Gunst, Guillaume Béraud, Emine Parlak, Hakan Erdem, Sukran Kose, Oğuz Reşat Sipahi, Hava Yilmaz, Filiz Pehlivanoglu, Xavier Argemi, Asuman Inan, Hulya Tireli, Haluk Vahaboglu, Elif Sahin-Horasan, Souha S. Kanj, Gamze Kilicoglu, Fatime Korkmaz, Anne Lisbeth Bohr, Oguz Karabay, Mehmet Ulug, Gulistan Halac, Derya Ozturk-Engin, Seher Ayten Coskuner, Mario Poljak, Mauro Maresca, Sibel Bolukcu, Ahmad Sharif-Yakan, Yasemin Cag, Isik Somuncu Johansen, Matjaž Jereb, Ege Üniversitesi, AKKOYUNLU, YASEMİN, Erdem, H, Cag, Y, Ozturk-Engin, D, Defres, S, Kaya, S, Larsen, L, Poljak, M, Barsic, B, Argemi, X, Sorensen, SM, Bohr, AL, Tattevin, P, Gunst, JD, Bastakova, L, Jereb, M, Johansen, IS, Karabay, O, Pekok, AU, Sipahi, OR, Chehri, M, Beraud, G, Shehata, G, Del Vecchio, RF, Maresca, M, Karsen, H, Sengoz, G, Sunbul, M, Yilmaz, G, Yilmaz, H, Sharif-Yakan, A, Kanj, SS, Parlak, E, Pehlivanoglu, F, Korkmaz, F, Komur, S, Kose, S, Ulug, M, Bolukcu, S, Coskuner, SA, Ince, N, Akkoyunlu, Y, Halac, G, Sahin-Horasan, E, Tireli, H, Kilicoglu, G, Al-Mandawi, A, Nemli, SA, Inan, A, Senbayrak, S, Stahl, JP, Vahaboglu, H, Sakarya Üniversitesi/İlahiyat Fakültesi/Temel İslam Bilimleri Bölümü, Kaya, Süleyman, Karabay, Oğuz, Çukurova Üniversitesi, and OMÜ

Subjects
Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Referral, Antiviral Agents, Internal medicine, medicine, ERDEM H., CAG Y., OZTURK-ENGIN D., Defres S., KAYA S., LARSEN L., POLJAK M., BARSIC B., ARGEMI X., SORENSEN S. M. , et al., -Results of a Multinational Study Suggest the Need for Rapid Diagnosis and Early Antiviral Treatment at the Onset of Herpetic Meningoencephalitis-, ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY, cilt.59, ss.3084-3089, 2015, Confidence Intervals, Humans, Pharmacology (medical), Pharmacology & Pharmacy, Antiviral treatment, Retrospective Studies, Pharmacology, business.industry, Herpetic meningoencephalitis, Glasgow Coma Scale, Retrospective cohort study, Odds ratio, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Confidence interval, 3. Good health, Surgery, Infectious Diseases, Treatment Outcome, Female, Encephalitis, Herpes Simplex, business, Encephalitis
Abstract

WOS: 000358623200015, PubMed ID: 25779579, Data in the literature regarding the factors that predict unfavorable outcomes in adult herpetic meningoencephalitis (HME) cases are scarce. We conducted a multicenter study in order to provide insights into the predictors of HME outcomes, with special emphasis on the use and timing of antiviral treatment. Samples from 501 patients with molecular confirmation from cerebrospinal fluid were included from 35 referral centers in 10 countries. Four hundred thirty-eight patients were found to be eligible for the analysis. Overall, 232 (52.9%) patients experienced unfavorable outcomes, 44 died, and 188 survived, with sequelae. Age (odds ratio [OR], 1.04; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.02 to 1.05), Glasgow Coma Scale score (OR, 0.84; 95% CI, 0.77 to 0.93), and symptomatic periods of 2 to 7 days (OR, 1.80; 95% CI, 1.16 to 2.79) and >7 days (OR, 3.75; 95% CI, 1.72 to 8.15) until the commencement of treatment predicted unfavorable outcomes. The outcome in HME patients is related to a combination of therapeutic and host factors. This study suggests that rapid diagnosis and early administration of antiviral treatment in HME patients are keys to a favorable outcome.

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2015
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25. Hamsi scoring in the prediction of unfavorable outcomes from tuberculous meningitis: results of Haydarpasa-II study

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Sukran Kose, Branislava Savic, Selma Alabay, Emine Parlak, Recep Tekin, Ayhan Akbulut, Gulden Yilmaz, Haluk Vahaboglu, Nataša Popović, Özcan Deveci, Akram Al-Mahdawi, Hanefi Cem Gul, Canan Agalar, Serkan Oncu, Soline Simeon, Seniha Senbayrak, Hulya Tireli, Mehmet Bitirgen, Catalina Luca, Bahar Kandemir, Sylviane Defres, Oguz Karabay, Oğuz Reşat Sipahi, Ghaydaa A. Shehata, Alper Şener, Aysegul Ulu-Kilic, Saim Dayan, Nazif Elaldi, Mihai Nechifor, Ayşe Seza Inal, Mucahit Yemisen, Filiz Pehlivanoglu, Asuman Inan, B. Lakatos, Mustafa Namiduru, Nurgul Ceran, Muge Ozguler, Alexandru Crisan, Ahmet Karakaş, Jean-Paul Stahl, Gamze Kilicoglu, Mustafa Sunbul, Elif Sahin-Horasan, Hakan Erdem, Gorana Dragovac, Valerija Kirova, Ahmad Khalifa, Emel Yilmaz, Bruno Cacopardo, Gonul Sengoz, Hacer Deniz Ozkaya, Ebru Kurşun, Serda Gulsun, Rok Čivljak, Bojana Beović, Melanie Catroux, Oral Oncul, Isabelle Masse-Chabredier, Isik Somuncu Johansen, Katell Andre, Kadriye Kart Yaşar, Derya Ozturk-Engin, Uner Kayabas, Stéphane Chadapaud, Mehmet Parlak, Arjan Harxhi, Yves Hansmann, Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi, Çukurova Üniversitesi, [Erdem, Hakan -- Oncul, Oral] GATA Haydarpasa Training Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Erdem, Hakan] GATA Haydarpasa AH, Enfeksiyon Hastaliklari Servisi, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Ozturk-Engin, Derya -- Inan, Asuman -- Ceran, Nurgul -- Senbayrak, Seniha] Haydarpasa Numune Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Tireli, Hulya] Haydarpasa Numune Training & Res Hosp, Dept Neurol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Kilicoglu, Gamze] Haydarpasa Numune Training & Res Hosp, Dept Radiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Defres, Sylviane] Univ Liverpool, Inst Infect & Global Hlth, Liverpool L69 3BX, Merseyside, England -- [Defres, Sylviane] Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen Univ Hosp NHS Trust, Trop Infect Dis Unit, Liverpool, Merseyside, England -- [Gulsun, Serda] Diyarbakir Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Diyarbakir, Turkey -- [Sengoz, Gonul -- Pehlivanoglu, Filiz] Haseki Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Crisan, Alexandru] Victor Babes Univ Med & Pharm, Dept Infect Dis, Timisoara, Romania -- [Johansen, Isik Somuncu] Odense Univ Hosp, Dept Infect Dis Q, DK-5000 Odense, Denmark -- [Nechifor, Mihai] Gr T Popa Univ Med & Pharm, Dept Pharmacol, Iasi, Romania -- [Al-Mahdawi, Akram] Baghdad Teaching Hosp, Dept Neurol, Baghdad, Iraq -- [Civljak, Rok] Univ Zagreb, Sch Med, Dr Fran Mihaljev Univ Hosp Infect Dis, Dept Infect Dis, Zagreb 41000, Croatia -- [Ozguler, Muge -- Akbulut, Ayhan] Firat Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, TR-23169 Elazig, Turkey -- [Savic, Branislava] Univ Belgrade, Fac Med, Inst Microbiol & Immunol, Natl Reference Lab TB, Belgrade, Serbia -- [Cacopardo, Bruno] Univ Catania, Dept Clin & Mol Biomed, Infect Dis Sect, Catania, Italy -- [Inal, Ayse Seza] Cukurova Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Adana, Turkey -- [Namiduru, Mustafa] Gaziantep Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Gaziantep, Turkey -- [Dayan, Saim -- Tekin, Recep -- Deveci, Ozcan] Dicle Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Diyarbakir, Turkey -- [Kayabas, Uner] Inonu Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Malatya, Turkey -- [Parlak, Emine -- Parlak, Mehmet] Ataturk Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Erzurum, Turkey -- [Khalifa, Ahmad] Damascus Hosp, Dept Neurol, Damascus, Syria -- [Kursun, Ebru] Baskent Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Adana, Turkey -- [Sipahi, Oguz Resat] Ege Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Izmir, Turkey -- [Yemisen, Mucahit] Istanbul Univ, Cerrahpasa Med Sch, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Bitirgen, Mehmet -- Kandemir, Bahar] Necmettin Erbakan Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Konya, Turkey -- [Popovic, Natasa] Clin Ctr Serbia, Clin Infect & Trop Dis, Belgrade, Serbia -- [Luca, Catalina] Gr T Popa Univ Med & Pharm, Dept Infect Dis, Iasi, Romania -- [Stahl, Jean Paul] Univ Grenoble 1, Dept Infect Dis, Grenoble, France -- [Stahl, Jean Paul] Univ Hosp Grenoble, Grenoble, France -- [Simeon, Soline] Univ Hosp Pontchaillou, Dept Infect & Trop Dis, Rennes, France -- [Ulu-Kilic, Aysegul -- Alabay, Selma] Erciyes Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Kayseri, Turkey -- [Yasar, Kadriye] Bakirkoy Dr Sadi Konuk Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Yilmaz, Gulden] Ankara Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, TR-06100 Ankara, Turkey -- [Yilmaz, Emel] Uludag Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Bursa, Turkey -- [Beovic, Bojana] Univ Med Ctr, Dept Infect Dis, Ljubljana, Slovenia -- [Catroux, Melanie] Univ Poitiers Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Poitiers, France -- [Lakatos, Botond] St Laszlo Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Budapest, Hungary -- [Sunbul, Mustafa] Ondokuz Mayis Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Samsun, Turkey -- [Sahin-Horasan, Elif] Mersin Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Kose, Sukran] Tepecik Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Izmir, Turkey -- [Shehata, Ghaydaa] Assiut Univ Hosp, Dept Neurol & Psychiat, Assiut, Egypt -- [Andre, Katell] Dax Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Dax, France -- [Dragovac, Gorana] Univ Novi Sad, Fac Med, IPH Vojvodina, Dept Prevent & Control Dis, Novi Sad 21000, Serbia -- [Gul, Hanefi Cem -- Karakas, Ahmet] Gulhane Mil Med Acad, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Ankara, Turkey -- [Chadapaud, Stephane] Marie Jose Treffot Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Hyeres, France -- [Hansmann, Yves] Univ Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Strasbourg, France -- [Harxhi, Arjan] Univ Hosp Ctr Tirana, Infect Dis Serv, Tirana, Albania -- [Kirova, Valerija] Univ Clin Infect Dis & Febrile Condit, Skopje, Macedonia -- [Masse-Chabredier, Isabelle] Aurillac Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Aurillac, France -- [Oncu, Serkan] Adnan Menderes Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Aydin, Turkey -- [Sener, Alper] Onsekiz Mart Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Canakkale, Turkey -- [Elaldi, Nazif] Cumhuriyet Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Sivas, Turkey -- [Ozkaya, Hacer Deniz] Karsiyaka State Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Izmir, Turkey -- [Karabay, Oguz] Sakarya Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Sakarya, Turkey -- [Agalar, Canan] Fatih Sultan Mehmet Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Vahaboglu, Haluk] Medeniyet Univ, Goztepe Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey, Inal, Ayse Seza -- 0000-0002-1182-7164, Ghaydaa, Shehata -- 0000-0002-3631-893X, Civljak, Rok -- 0000-0001-8766-7438, Karabay, Oguz -- 0000-0003-0502-432X, VAHABOGLU, Haluk -- 0000-0001-8217-1767, Karakas, Ahmet -- 0000-0002-0553-8454, Elaldi, Nazif -- 0000-0002-9515-770X, johansen, isik somuncu -- 0000-0002-2189-9823, Stahl, Jean Paul -- 0000-0002-0086-3557, Kart Yasar, Kadriye -- 0000-0003-2963-4894, Erdem, H, Ozturk-Engin, D, Tireli, H, Kilicoglu, G, Defres, S, Gulsun, S, Sengoz, G, Crisan, A, Johansen, IS, Inan, A, Nechifor, M, Al-Mahdawi, A, Civljak, R, Ozguler, M, Savic, B, Ceran, N, Cacopardo, B, Inal, AS, Namiduru, M, Dayan, S, Kayabas, U, Parlak, E, Khalifa, A, Kursun, E, Sipahi, OR, Yemisen, M, Akbulut, A, Bitirgen, M, Popovic, N, Kandemir, B, Luca, C, Parlak, M, Stahl, JP, Pehlivanoglu, F, Simeon, S, Ulu-Kilic, A, Yasar, K, Yilmaz, G, Yilmaz, E, Beovic, B, Catroux, M, Lakatos, B, Sunbul, M, Oncul, O, Alabay, S, Sahin-Horasan, E, Kose, S, Shehata, G, Andre, K, Dragovac, G, Gul, HC, Karakas, A, Chadapaud, S, Hansmann, Y, Harxhi, A, Kirova, V, Masse-Chabredier, I, Oncu, S, Sener, A, Tekin, R, Elaldi, N, Deveci, O, Ozkaya, HD, Karabay, O, Senbayrak, S, Agalar, C, Vahaboglu, H, Sakarya Üniversitesi/Tıp Fakültesi/Dahili Tıp Bilimleri Bölümü, and Parlak, Erkan

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Adult, Male, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, International Cooperation, Logistic regression, Sensitivity and Specificity, Severity of Illness Index, Tuberculous meningitis, Cohort Studies, Sequelae, Predictive Value of Tests, Surveys and Questionnaires, Outcome Assessment, Health Care, Severity of illness, medicine, Tuberculosis, Meningitis, Death, Outcome, Sequela, Humans, Tuberculosis, Meningitis, Death, Outcome, Sequelae, Clinical Trials as Topic, business.industry, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Hydrocephalus, Logistic Models, Treatment Outcome, Neurology, Tuberculosis, Meningeal, Predictive value of tests, Female, Neurosciences & Neurology, Neurology (clinical), Nervous System Diseases, business, Cohort study
Abstract

WOS: 000353295400011, PubMed ID: 25634680, Predicting unfavorable outcome is of paramount importance in clinical decision making. Accordingly, we designed this multinational study, which provided the largest case series of tuberculous meningitis (TBM). 43 centers from 14 countries (Albania, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Syria, Turkey) submitted data of microbiologically confirmed TBM patients hospitalized between 2000 and 2012. Unfavorable outcome was defined as survival with significant sequela or death. In developing our index, binary logistic regression models were constructed via 200 replicates of database by bootstrap resampling methodology. The final model was built according to the selection frequencies of variables. The severity scale included variables with arbitrary scores proportional to predictive powers of terms in the final model. The final model was internally validated by bootstrap resampling. A total of 507 patients' data were submitted among which 165 had unfavorable outcome. Eighty-six patients died while 119 had different neurological sequelae in 79 (16 %) patients. The full model included 13 variables. Age, nausea, vomiting, altered consciousness, hydrocephalus, vasculitis, immunosuppression, diabetes mellitus and neurological deficit remained in the final model. Scores 1-3 were assigned to the variables in the severity scale, which included scores of 1-6. The distribution of mortality for the scores 1-6 was 3.4, 8.2, 20.6, 31, 30 and 40.1 %, respectively. Altered consciousness, diabetes mellitus, immunosuppression, neurological deficits, hydrocephalus, and vasculitis predicted the unfavorable outcome in the scoring and the cumulative score provided a linear estimation of prognosis.

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2015
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26. The microbiological diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis: results of Haydarpasa-1 study

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Ebru Kurşun, Derya Ozturk-Engin, Branislava Savic, Rok Čivljak, Bojana Beović, Mehmet Parlak, Elif Sahin-Horasan, Oguz Karabay, Selma Alabay, Emine Parlak, Esmeray Mutlu Yilmaz, Ahmad Khalifa, Uner Kayabas, Saim Dayan, Hakan Erdem, Sukran Kose, V Kirova, Jean-Paul Stahl, Gonul Sengoz, Bruno Cacopardo, Canan Agalar, Arjan Harxhi, Gorana Cosic, Yves Hansmann, Catalina Luca, Alpaslan Alp, Aysegul Ulu-Kilic, Mehmet Bitirgen, Kadriye Kart Yaşar, Özcan Deveci, Isik Somuncu Johansen, Mustafa Namiduru, Katell Andre, I Masse-Chabredier, H. Cem Gul, Serkan Oncu, Mustafa Sunbul, Akram Al-Mahdawi, Ayhan Akbulut, Gulden Yilmaz, Serda Gulsun, Oral Oncul, S Chadapaud, Soline Simeon, Melanie Catroux, Oğuz Reşat Sipahi, Recep Tekin, Ayşe Seza Inal, Mucahit Yemisen, Filiz Pehlivanoglu, Olga Dulovic, Asuman Inan, B. Lakatos, Bahar Kandemir, Nazif Elaldi, Ghaydaa A. Shehata, Ahmet Karakaş, Alper Şener, Mihai Nechifor, Muge Ozguler, Alexandru Crisan, Nurgul Ceran, Çukurova Üniversitesi, OMÜ, Ege Üniversitesi, [Erdem, H. -- Oncul, O.] GATA Haydarpasa Training Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Ozturk-Engin, D. -- Inan, A. -- Ceran, N.] Haydarpasa Numune Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Elaldi, N.] Cumhuriyet Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Sivas, Turkey -- [Gulsun, S.] Diyarbakir Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Diyarbakir, Turkey -- [Sengoz, G. -- Pehlivanoglu, F.] Haseki Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Crisan, A.] Victor Babes Univ Med & Pharm, Dept Infect Dis, Timisoara, Romania -- [Johansen, I. S.] Odense Univ Hosp, Dept Infect Dis Q, DK-5000 Odense, Denmark -- [Nechifor, M.] Gr T Popa Univ Med & Pharm, Dept Pharmacol, Iasi, Romania -- [Al-Mahdawi, A.] Baghdad Teaching Hosp, Dept Neurol, Baghdad, Iraq -- [Civljak, R.] Univ Zagreb Sch Med, Dr Fran Mihaljev Univ Hosp Infect Dis, Dept Infect Dis, Zagreb, Croatia -- [Ozguler, M. -- Akbulut, A.] Firat Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Elazig, Turkey -- [Savic, B.] Univ Belgrade, Inst Microbiol & Immunol, Natl Reference Lab TB, Fac Med, Belgrade, Serbia -- [Cacopardo, B.] Univ Catania, Infect Dis Sect, Dept Clin & Mol Biomed, Catania, Italy -- [Inal, A. S.] Cukurova Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Adana, Turkey -- [Namiduru, M.] Gaziantep Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Gaziantep, Turkey -- [Dayan, S. -- Tekin, R. -- Deveci, O.] Dicle Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Diyarbakir, Turkey -- [Kayabas, U.] Inonu Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Malatya, Turkey -- [Parlak, E. -- Parlak, M.] Ataturk Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Erzurum, Turkey -- [Khalifa, A.] Damascus Hosp, Dept Neurol, Damascus, Syria -- [Kursun, E.] Baskent Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Adana, Turkey -- [Sipahi, O. R.] Ege Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Izmir, Turkey -- [Yemisen, M.] Istanbul Univ Cerrahpasa Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Bitirgen, M. -- Kandemir, B.] Necmettin Erbakan Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Konya, Turkey -- [Dulovic, O.] Univ Belgrade, Clin Infect & Trop Dis, Clin Ctr Serbia, Fac Med, Belgrade, Serbia -- [Luca, C.] Gr T Popa Univ Med & Pharm, Dept Infect Dis, Iasi, Romania -- [Stahl, J. P.] Joseph Fourier Univ & Univ Hosp Grenoble, Dept Infect Dis, Grenoble, France -- [Simeon, S.] Univ Hosp Pontchaillou, Dept Infect & Trop Dis, Rennes, France -- [Ulu-Kilic, A. -- Alabay, S.] Erciyes Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Kayseri, Turkey -- [Yasar, K.] Bakrkoy Dr Sadi Konuk Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Yilmaz, G.] Ankara Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Ankara, Turkey -- [Yilmaz, E.] Uludag Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Bursa, Turkey -- [Beovic, B.] Univ Med Ctr, Dept Infect Dis, Ljubljana, Slovenia -- [Catroux, M.] Univ Poitiers Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Poitiers, France -- [Lakatos, B.] St Laszlo Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Budapest, Hungary -- [Sunbul, M.] Ondokuz Mayis Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Samsun, Turkey -- [Sahin-Horasan, E.] Mersin Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Mersin, Turkey -- [Kose, S.] Tepecik Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Izmir, Turkey -- [Shehata, G.] Assiut Univ Hosp, Dept Neurol & Psychiat, Assiut, Egypt -- [Andre, K.] Dax Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Dax, France -- [Alp, A.] Hacettepe Univ, Sch Med, Deparment Med Microbiol, Ankara, Turkey -- [Cosic, G.] Univ Novi Sad, Fac Med, Dept Prevent & Control Dis, IPH Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia -- [Gul, H. Cem -- Karakas, A.] Gulhane Mil Med Acad, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Ankara, Turkey -- [Chadapaud, S.] Marie Jose Treffot Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Hyeres, France -- [Hansmann, Y.] Univ Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Strasbourg, France -- [Harxhi, A.] Univ Hosp Ctr Tirana, Infect Dis Serv, Tirana, Albania -- [Kirova, V.] Univ Clin Infect Dis & Febrile Condit, Skopje, Macedonia -- [Masse-Chabredier, I.] Aurillac Hosp, Dept Infect Dis, Aurillac, France -- [Oncu, S.] Adnan Menderes Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Aydin, Turkey -- [Sener, A.] Onsekiz Mart Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Canakkale, Turkey -- [Karabay, O.] Sakarya Univ Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Sakarya, Turkey -- [Agalar, C.] Fatih Sultan Mehmet Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey, Inal, Ayse Seza -- 0000-0002-1182-7164, Ghaydaa, Shehata -- 0000-0002-3631-893X, johansen, isik somuncu -- 0000-0002-2189-9823, Karabay, Oguz -- 0000-0003-0502-432X, Karakas, Ahmet -- 0000-0002-0553-8454, Kart Yasar, Kadriye -- 0000-0003-2963-4894, Stahl, Jean Paul -- 0000-0002-0086-3557, Elaldi, Nazif -- 0000-0002-9515-770X, ALP, ALPASLAN -- 0000-0001-7856-7590, and Civljak, Rok -- 0000-0001-8766-7438

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Microbiology (medical), Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, QUANTIFERON-TB GOLD, diagnosis, Adenosine Deaminase, Culture, Tuberculous meningitis, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, 0302 clinical medicine, Internal medicine, Diagnosis, medicine, Tuberculosis, Humans, Meningitis, 030212 general & internal medicine, Precision Medicine, Aged, Retrospective Studies, culture, meningitis, PCR, tuberculosis, Aged, 80 and over, Bacteriological Techniques, business.industry, General Medicine, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, 3. Good health, Surgery, Löwenstein–Jensen medium, Infectious Diseases, Early Diagnosis, Tuberculosis, Meningeal, Positive culture, Female, business, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Interferon-gamma Release Tests
Abstract

WOS: 000345825900004, PubMed ID: 24849547, We aimed to provide data on the diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis (TBM) in this largest case series ever reported. The Haydarpasa-1 study involved patients with microbiologically confirmed TBM in Albania, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Syria and Turkey between 2000 and 2012. A positive culture, PCR or Ehrlich-Ziehl-Neelsen staining (EZNs) from the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was mandatory for inclusion of meningitis patients. A total of 506 TBM patients were included. The sensitivities of the tests were as follows: interferon- release assay (Quantiferon TB gold in tube) 90.2%, automated culture systems (ACS) 81.8%, Lowenstein Jensen medium (L-J) 72.7%, adenosine deaminase (ADA) 29.9% and EZNs 27.3%. CSF-ACS was superior to CSF L-J culture and CSF-PCR (p

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2013
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27. Efficacy And Tolerability Of Antibiotic Combinations In Neurobrucellosis: Results Of The Istanbul Study

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Ayşe Seza Inal, Dilara Inan, Saim Dayan, Murat Dizbay, Gaye Usluer, Emel Yilmaz, Gürkan Mert, Nail Ozgunes, Başak Dokuzoğuz, Behice Kurtaran, Serhat Ünal, Mile Bosilkovski, Hakan Erdem, Sibel Gundes, Suzan Sacar, Maria Teresa Adeva-Bartolome, Ghaydaa A. Shehata, Hanefi Cem Gul, Mustafa Kasim Karahocagil, Suda Tekin-Koruk, Ahmet Karakaş, Bahadir Ceylan, Zeliha Kocak-Tufan, Levent Gorenek, Nazif Elaldi, Oğuz Reşat Sipahi, Hava Yilmaz, Nurgul Ceran, Yasar Bayindir, Asim Ulcay, Nese Saltoglu, Kenan Ugurlu, Yeşim Taşova, Funda Yetkin, Aysegul Ulu-Kilic, Rahmet Guner, Laila Abdel-Baky, Necla Eren-Tulek, Mustafa Kemal Çelen, Selim Kilic, Hakan Leblebicioglu, Saygin Nayman-Alpat, Vedat Turhan, İç Hastalıkları, Erdem, H., Kasimpasa Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (IDCM), Istanbul, Turkey -- Ulu-Kilic, A., Erciyes School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Kayseri, Turkey -- Kilic, S., Gulhane Medical Academy, Department of Public Health, Ankara, Turkey -- Karahocagil, M., Yüzüncü Yil School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Van, Turkey -- Shehata, G., Assiut University Hospital, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Assiut, Egypt -- Eren-Tulek, N., Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey -- Yetkin, F., Inonu School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Malatya, Turkey -- Celen, M.K., Dicle School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Diyarbakir, Turkey -- Ceran, N., Haydarpasa Numune Training and Research Hospital, Department of IDCM, Istanbul, Turkey -- Gul, H.C., Gulhane School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Ankara, Turkey -- Mert, G., Gulhane School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Ankara, Turkey -- Tekin-Koruk, S., Harran School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Sanliurfa, Turkey -- Dizbay, M., Gazi School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Ankara, Turkey -- Inal, A.S., Cukurova School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Adana, Turkey -- Nayman-Alpat, S., Osmangazi School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Eskisehir, Turkey -- Bosilkovski, M., Skopje Medical Faculty, Department of Infectious Diseases and Febrile Conditions, Skopje, Macedonia -- Inan, D., Akdeniz School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Antalya, Turkey -- Saltoglu, N., Cerrahpasa School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Istanbul, Turkey -- Abdel-Baky, L., Assiut University Hospital, Department of Tropical Medicine and Fever, Assiut, Egypt -- Adeva-Bartolome, M.T., Hospital Recoletas Zamora, Zamora, Spain -- Ceylan, B., Istanbul Training and Research Hospital, Department of IDCM, Istanbul, Turkey -- Sacar, S., Pamukkale School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Denizli, Turkey -- Turhan, V., Haydarpasa Gulhane, Training and Research Hospital, Department of IDCM, Istanbul, Turkey -- Yilmaz, E., Uluda? School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Bursa, Turkey -- Elaldi, N., Cumhuriyet School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Sivas, Turkey -- Kocak-Tufan, Z., Ankara Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey -- U?urlu, K., Ankara Numune Training and Research Hospital, Department of IDCM, Ankara, Turkey -- Dokuzo?uz, B., Ankara Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Department of IDCM, Ankara, Turkey -- Yilmaz, H., Ondokuz Mayis School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Samsun, Turkey -- Gundes, S., Kocaeli School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Kocaeli, Turkey -- Guner, R., Skopje Medical Faculty, Department of Infectious Diseases and Febrile Conditions, Skopje, Macedonia -- Ozgunes, N., Goztepe Training and Research Hospital, Department of IDCM, Istanbul, Turkey -- Ulcay, A., Kasimpasa Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (IDCM), Istanbul, Turkey -- Unal, S., Hacettepe University, Department of Internal Medicine, Ankara, Turkey -- Dayan, S., Dicle School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Diyarbakir, Turkey -- Gorenek, L., Haydarpasa Gulhane, Training and Research Hospital, Department of IDCM, Istanbul, Turkey -- Karakas, A., Gulhane School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Ankara, Turkey -- Tasova, Y., Cukurova School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Adana, Turkey -- Usluer, G., Skopje Medical Faculty, Department of Infectious Diseases and Febrile Conditions, Skopje, Macedonia -- Bayindir, Y., Inonu School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Malatya, Turkey -- Kurtaran, B., Cukurova School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Adana, Turkey -- Sipahi, O.R., Ege School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Izmir, Turkey -- Leblebiciogluz, H., Ondokuz Mayis School of Medicine, Department of IDCM, Samsun, Turkey, Ege Üniversitesi, OMÜ, Uludağ Üniversitesi/Tıp Fakültesi/Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Anabilim Dalı., and Yılmaz, Emel

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Nervous-system brucellosis, Male, Turkey, Antibiotics, Medical record review, Olfactory nerve disease, Meningoencephalitis, Esophagitis, Pharmacology (medical), Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole combination, Treatment outcome, Doxycycline, Depression, Vestibulocochlear nerve disease, Comparative effectiveness, Management, Retrospective study, Drug Therapy, Combination, Rifampin, Human, medicine.medical_specialty, Major clinical study, Side effect, Clinical Therapeutics, Oculomotor nerve disease, Microbiology, Article, Treatment duration, Brain ischemia, Drug substitution, Pharmacotherapy, Hypoglossal nerve disease, Brucellosis, Agglutination Tests, Zoonosis, Humans, Brain hematoma, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Pharmacology, Abducens nerve disease, Antibiotic therapy, medicine.disease, Brucella, Trimethoprim, Cotrimoxazole, Regimen, ComputingMethodologies_PATTERNRECOGNITION, Brucellar meningoencephalitis, Drug eruption, Bacterial meningitis, Administration, Oral, Turkey (republic), Recurrence, Nausea and vomiting, Diagnosis, Clinical protocol, Visual disorder, Treatment Failure, Pharmacology & Pharmacy, Relapse, Priority journal, Drug tolerability, Drug withdrawal, Ceftriaxone, Middle Aged, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Paresis, Brain abscess, ComputingMilieux_MANAGEMENTOFCOMPUTINGANDINFORMATIONSYSTEMS, Infectious Diseases, Tolerability, Gastritis, Injections, Intravenous, Female, InformationSystems_MISCELLANEOUS, Meningitis, Hydrocephalus, medicine.drug, Adult, Adolescent, medicine.drug_class, Optic nerve disease, Therapeutic features, Facial nerve disease, Bacterial-meningitis, Polyneuropathy, Internal medicine, Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination, medicine, Subarachnoid hemorrhage, Rifampicin, business.industry, ComputerSystemsOrganization_COMPUTER-COMMUNICATIONNETWORKS, Brucellar meningitis, Thrombocytopenia, Surgery, Drug efficacy, Drug treatment failure, Aminotransferase blood level, business, Controlled study
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PubMed ID: 22155822, No data on whether brucellar meningitis or meningoencephalitis can be treated with oral antibiotics or whether an intravenous extended-spectrum cephalosporin, namely, ceftriaxone, which does not accumulate in phagocytes, should be added to the regimen exist in the literature. The aim of a study conducted in Istanbul, Turkey, was to compare the efficacy and tolerability of ceftriaxone-based antibiotic treatment regimens with those of an oral treatment protocol in patients with these conditions. This retrospective study enrolled 215 adult patients in 28 health care institutions from four different countries. The first protocol (P1) comprised ceftriaxone, rifampin, and doxycycline. The second protocol (P2) consisted of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, rifampin, and doxycycline. In the third protocol (P3), the patients started with P1 and transferred to P2 when ceftriaxone was stopped. The treatment period was shorter with the regimens which included ceftriaxone (4.40 ± 2.47 months in P1, 6.52 ± 4.15 months in P2, and 5.18 ± 2.27 months in P3) (P = 0.002). In seven patients, therapy was modified due to antibiotic side effects. When these cases were excluded, therapeutic failure did not differ significantly between ceftriaxone-based regimens (n = 5/166, 3.0%) and the oral therapy (n = 4/42, 9.5%) (P = 0.084). The efficacy of the ceftriaxone-based regimens was found to be better (n = 6/166 [3.6%] versus n = 6/42 [14.3%]; P = 0.017) when a composite negative outcome (CNO; relapse plus therapeutic failure) was considered. Accordingly, CNO was greatest in P2 (14.3%, n = 6/42) compared to P1 (2.6%, n = 3/117) and P3 (6.1%, n = 3/49) (P = 0.020). Seemingly, ceftriaxone-based regimens are more successful and require shorter therapy than the oral treatment protocol. Copyright © 2012, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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2012

28. Classical fever of unknown origin in 21 countries with different economic development: an international ID-IRI study.

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Erdem H, Baymakova M, Alkan S, Letaief A, Yahia WB, Dayyab F, Kolovani E, Grgic S, Cosentino F, Hasanoglu I, Khedr R, Marino A, Pekok AU, Eser F, Arapovic J, Guner HR, Miftode IL, Poposki K, Sanlidag G, Tahmaz A, Sipahi OR, Miftode EG, Oncu S, Cagla-Sonmezer M, Addepalli SK, Darazam IA, Kumari HP, Koc MM, Kumar MR, Sayana SB, Wegdan AA, Amer F, Ceylan MR, El-Kholy A, Onder T, Tehrani HA, Hakamifard A, Kayaaslan B, Shehata G, Caskurlu H, El-Sayed NM, Mortazavi SE, Pourali M, Elbahr U, Kulzhanova S, Yetisyigit T, Saad SA, Cag Y, Eser-Karlidag G, Pshenichnaya N, Belitova M, Akhtar N, Al-Majid F, Ayhan M, Khan MA, Lanzafame M, Makek MJ, Nsutebu E, Cascio A, Dindar-Demiray EK, Evren EU, Kalas R, Kalem AK, Baljić R, Ikram A, Kaya S, Liskova A, Szabo BG, Rahimi BA, Mutlu-Yilmaz E, Sener A, and Rello J

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Humans, Retrospective Studies, Collagen, Fever of Unknown Origin epidemiology, Fever of Unknown Origin etiology, Fever of Unknown Origin diagnosis, HIV Infections, Communicable Diseases diagnosis, Communicable Diseases epidemiology
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Fever of unknown origin (FUO) is a serious challenge for physicians. The aim of the present study was to consider epidemiology and dynamics of FUO in countries with different economic development. The data of FUO patients hospitalized/followed between 1st July 2016 and 1st July 2021 were collected retrospectively and submitted from referral centers in 21 countries through ID-IRI clinical research platform. The countries were categorized into developing (low-income (LI) and lower middle-income (LMI) economies) and developed countries (upper middle-income (UMI) and high-income (HI) economies). This research included 788 patients. FUO diagnoses were as follows: infections (51.6%; n = 407), neoplasms (11.4%, n = 90), collagen vascular disorders (9.3%, n = 73), undiagnosed (20.1%, n = 158), miscellaneous diseases (7.7%, n = 60). The most common infections were tuberculosis (n = 45, 5.7%), brucellosis (n = 39, 4.9%), rickettsiosis (n = 23, 2.9%), HIV infection (n = 20, 2.5%), and typhoid fever (n = 13, 1.6%). Cardiovascular infections (n = 56, 7.1%) were the most common infectious syndromes. Only collagen vascular disorders were reported significantly more from developed countries (RR = 2.00, 95% CI: 1.19-3.38). FUO had similar characteristics in LI/LMI and UMI/HI countries including the portion of undiagnosed cases (OR, 95% CI; 0.87 (0.65-1.15)), death attributed to FUO (RR = 0.87, 95% CI: 0.65-1.15, p-value = 0.3355), and the mean duration until diagnosis (p = 0.9663). Various aspects of FUO cannot be determined by the economic development solely. Other development indices can be considered in future analyses. Physicians in different countries should be equally prepared for FUO patients., (© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)

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2023
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29. Analyzing central-line associated bloodstream infection prevention bundles in 22 countries: The results of ID-IRI survey.

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Devrim I, Erdem H, El-Kholy A, Almohaizeie A, Logar M, Rahimi BA, Amer F, Alkan-Ceviker S, Sonmezer MC, Belitova M, Al-Ramahi JW, Pshenichnaya N, Gad MA, Santos L, Khedr R, Hassan AN, Boncuoglu E, Cortegiani A, Marino A, Liskova A, Hakamifard A, Popescu CP, Khan MA, Marinova R, Petrov N, Nsutebu E, Shehata G, Tehrani HA, Alay H, Mareković I, Zajkowska J, Konkayev A, Ramadan ME, Pagani M, Agin H, Tattevin P, El-Sokkary R, Ripon RK, Fernandez R, Vecchio RFD, Popescu SD, and Kanj S

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Humans, Infection Control methods, Intensive Care Units, Surveys and Questionnaires, Catheter-Related Infections prevention & control, Catheter-Related Infections epidemiology, Central Venous Catheters, Sepsis, Catheterization, Central Venous adverse effects, Cross Infection prevention & control, Cross Infection epidemiology, Patient Care Bundles methods
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Background: Because central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are a significant complication of central venous access, it is critical to prevent CLABSIs through the use of central line bundles. The purpose of this study was to take a snapshot of central venous access bundles in various countries., Methods: The participants in intensive care units (ICUs) completed a questionnaire that included information about the health center, infection control procedures, and central line maintenance. The countries were divided into 2 groups: those with a low or low-middle income and those with an upper-middle or high income., Results: Forty-three participants from 22 countries (46 hospitals, 85 ICUs) responded to the survey. Eight (17.4%) hospitals had no surveillance system for CLABSI. Approximately 7.1 % (n = 6) ICUs had no CLABSI bundle. Twenty ICUs (23.5%) had no dedicated checklist. The percentage of using ultrasonography during catheter insertion, transparent semi-permeable dressings, needleless connectors and single-use sterile pre-filled ready to use 0.9% NaCl were significantly higher in countries with higher and middle-higher income (P < .05)., Conclusions: Our study demonstrated that there are significant differences in the central line bundles between low/low-middle income countries and upper-middle/high-income countries. Additional measures should be taken to address inequity in the management of vascular access in resource-limited countries., (Copyright © 2022 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

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2022
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30. Vaccine hesitancy and refusal among parents: An international ID-IRI survey.

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Cag Y, Al Madadha ME, Ankarali H, Cag Y, Demir Onder K, Seremet-Keskin A, Kizilates F, Čivljak R, Shehata G, Alay H, Alkan-Ceviker S, Yilmaz-Karadag F, Cagla-Sonmezer M, Ezzelarab Ramadan M, Magdelena DI, Radic LB, Arapovic J, Kesmez-Can F, El-Sayed NM, Campbell OB, Eser-Karlidag G, Khedr R, Isik ME, Petrov MM, Cernat R, Erturk U, Uygun-Kizmaz Y, Huljev E, Amer F, Ceylan MR, Marino A, Kul G, Damar-Cakirca T, Khalaf YM, Isik AC, Ariyo OE, Hakyemez IN, Ripon RK, Afkhamzadeh A, Dindar-Demiray EK, Gideon OO, Belitova M, Altindis M, El-Sokkary R, Tekin R, Garout MA, Zajkowska J, Fazal F, Bekcibasi M, Hukic M, Nizamuddin S, Surme S, Fernandez R, El-Kholy A, Akhtar N, Ijaz S, Cortegiani A, Meric-Koc M, Hasman H, Maduka AV, ElKholy JA, Sari S, Khan MA, Akin Y, Kose S, and Erdem H

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Child, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Humans, Male, Parents, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Surveys and Questionnaires, Vaccination, Communicable Diseases, Vaccination Hesitancy
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Introduction: Although vaccines are the safest and most effective means to prevent and control infectious diseases, the increasing rate of vaccine hesitancy and refusal (VHR) has become a worldwide concern. We aimed to find opinions of parents on vaccinating their children and contribute to available literature in order to support the fight against vaccine refusal by investigating the reasons for VHR on a global scale., Methodology: In this international cross-sectional multicenter study conducted by the Infectious Diseases International Research Initiative (ID-IRI), a questionnaire consisting of 20 questions was used to determine parents' attitudes towards vaccination of their children., Results: Four thousand and twenty-nine (4,029) parents were included in the study and 2,863 (78.1%) were females. The overall VHR rate of the parents was found to be 13.7%. Nineteen-point three percent (19.3%) of the parents did not fully comply with the vaccination programs. The VHR rate was higher in high-income (HI) countries. Our study has shown that parents with disabled children and immunocompromised children, with low education levels, and those who use social media networks as sources of information for childhood immunizations had higher VHR rates (p < 0.05 for all)., Conclusions: Seemingly all factors leading to VHR are related to training of the community and the sources of training. Thus, it is necessary to develop strategies at a global level and provide reliable knowledge to combat VHR., Competing Interests: No Conflict of Interest is declared, (Copyright (c) 2022 Yakup Cag, Mohammad Emad al Madadha, Handan Ankarali, Yasemin Cag, Kubra Demir Onder, Aysegul Seremet-Keskin, Filiz Kizilates, Rok Civljak, Ghaydaa Shehata, Handan Alay, Sevil Alkan-Ceviker, Fatma Yilmaz-Karadag, Meliha Cagla-Sonmezer, Manar Ezzelarab Ramadan, Dumitru Irina Magdelena, Ljiljana Betica Radic, Jurica Arapovic, Fatma Kesmez-Can, Nagwa Mostafa El-Sayed, Oladapo Babatunde Campbell, Gulden Eser-Karlidag, Reham Khedr, Mehmet Emirhan Isik, Michael Mihailov Petrov, Roxana Cernat, Umran Erturk, Yesim Uygun-Kizmaz, Eva Huljev, Fatma Amer, Mehmet Resat Ceylan, Andrea Marino, Gulnur Kul, Tuba Damar-Cakirca, Yara Mohsen Khalaf, Arzu Cennet Isik, Olumuyiwa Elijah Ariyo, Ismail Necati Hakyemez, Rezaul Karim Ripon, Abdorrahim Afkhamzadeh, Emine Kubra Dindar-Demiray, Osasona Oluwadamilola Gideon, Maya Belitova, Mustafa Altindis, Rehab El-Sokkary, Recep Tekin, Mohammed Ahmed Garout, Joanna Zajkowska, Farhan Fazal, Muhammed Bekcibasi, Mirsada Hukic, Summiya Nizamuddin, Serkan Surme, Ricardo Fernandez, Amani El-Kholy, Nasim Akhtar, Saadia Ijaz, Andrea Cortegiani, Meliha Meric-Koc, Hakan Hasman, Agah Victor Maduka, Jehan Ali ElKholy, Sema Sari, Mumtaz Ali Khan, Yasemin Akin, Sukran Kose, Hakan Erdem.)

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2022
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31. Cholelithiasis after bariatric surgery, incidence, and prophylaxis: randomized controlled trial.

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Talha A, Abdelbaki T, Farouk A, Hasouna E, Azzam E, and Shehata G

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Cholelithiasis pathology, Female, Humans, Incidence, Male, Bariatric Surgery adverse effects, Cholelithiasis etiology, Postoperative Complications etiology
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Background: Rapid weight loss is associated with a high incidence of cholelithiasis., Objectives: To identify the incidence of gallstone formation after weight loss surgery and to detect the efficacy of 6 months regimen of prophylactic Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA)., Methods: RCT included a total of 1530 morbid obese patients who were subjected to either laparoscopic one anastomosis gastric bypass (OAGB), sleeve gastrectomy (SG), or greater curve plication (GCP). Patients with previous or concomitant cholecystectomy and missed follow-up were excluded, leaving 1432 patients to analyze. They were randomly allocated into two groups receiving either UDCA or placebo with a minimum follow-up of one year for assessment of cholelithiasis and weight loss., Results: The overall incidence of cholelithiasis after surgery was 9.7%. There was a significant decrease in the incidence of gallstone formation from 22% in placebo to 6.5% in treated group with UDCA. The mean percentage of excess weight loss (%EWL) was significantly higher in those who develop gallstones than others. Of those developing gallstones, there was 64.7 % with SG versus 28.1% and 7.2% in OAGB and GCP, respectively, which is statistically significant. NNT to prevent cholelithiasis is six, AR% is 70.4%, and RR is 3.4%., Conclusions: Cholelithiasis after SG and OAGB was higher than GCP. %EWL was rapid and higher in OAGB and SG contributing to the higher rate of symptomatic cholelithiasis and could be predictive for post-bariatric cholelithiasis. A 6-month use of UDCA is an effective prophylaxis decreasing gallstone formation after bariatric surgery at short-term follow-up.

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2020
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32. Laparoscopic versus open appendectomy for perforated appendicitis in adults: randomized clinical trial.

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Talha A, El-Haddad H, Ghazal AE, and Shehata G

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Adolescent, Adult, Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal therapeutic use, Drug Utilization statistics & numerical data, Female, Humans, Ketorolac therapeutic use, Length of Stay statistics & numerical data, Male, Middle Aged, Operative Time, Pain, Postoperative drug therapy, Pain, Postoperative epidemiology, Young Adult, Appendectomy methods, Appendicitis surgery, Laparoscopy
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Background: The advantages of laparoscopic appendectomy did not meet the same acceptance in the setting of perforated appendicitis as in uncomplicated appendicitis in the general surgical community. The aim of this study was to compare the clinical outcome of laparoscopic and open appendectomy in perforating appendicitis., Methods: A randomized controlled study was conducted on 126 patients presenting with perforated appendicitis. Sixty patients were subjected to laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) and 66 patients underwent traditional open appendectomy (OA)., Results: 65 (51.6%) patients were female, and 61 (48.4%) patients were male in whom the mean age was 37.6 + 8.5 years. A significant difference was calculated in the domains of postoperative pain, less need for analgesics, hospital stay, and return to daily activities. The mean operative time was shorter in OA 94 ± 10.4 min than LA 120.6 ± 17.7 min. No statistically significant difference between both groups was detected as regard occurrence of intra-abdominal collection., Conclusion: In view of its clinical outcomes, laparoscopy should be considered in the context of perforated appendicitis. The possibility of intra-abdominal collection should not be a barrier against the widespread practice of this surgical procedure amidst laparoscopic surgeons if adequate precautions are employed.

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2020
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33. Accuracy of heparin binding protein: as a new marker in prediction of acute bacterial meningitis.

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Kandil M, Khalil G, El-Attar E, Shehata G, and Hassan S

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Adolescent, Adult, Biomarkers blood, Biomarkers cerebrospinal fluid, Child, Child, Preschool, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Infant, Male, Meningitis, Bacterial blood, Meningitis, Bacterial cerebrospinal fluid, Meningitis, Bacterial microbiology, Middle Aged, Young Adult, Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides blood, Antimicrobial Cationic Peptides cerebrospinal fluid, Blood Proteins cerebrospinal fluid, Carrier Proteins blood, Carrier Proteins cerebrospinal fluid, Heparin metabolism, Meningitis, Bacterial diagnosis
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Background: Cerebrospinal fluid bacterial culture is the gold-standard for confirmation of acute bacterial meningitis, but many cases are not culture confirmed. Antibiotics reduce the chance of a microbiological diagnosis. Objective to evaluate efficacy of Heparin-binding protein in diagnosis of bacterial meningitis., Patients: 30 patients diagnosed with acute bacterial meningitis, 30 viral meningitis, and 30 subjects with normal CSF findings., Design: Diagnosis was based on history, clinical criteria, CSF examination, latex agglutination & culture, and sensitivities and response to therapy. HBP was measured using enzyme-linked immunosorbent technique in both serum & CSF., Results: Cerebrospinal fluid HBP levels averaged 0.82±0.3ng/mL in controls, 3.3±1.7ng/mL in viral and 174.8±46.7ng/mL in bacterial meningitis. Mean serum level was 0.84±0.3ng/mL in the controls, 3.7±1.9ng/mL in viral, and 192.2±56.6ng/mL in bacterial meningitis. Both HBP levels were significantly higher in patients with bacterial meningitis. Cut-offs of 56.7ng/ml and 45.3ng/ml in cerebrospinal fluid & serum showed 100% overall accuracy. Even in patients who received prior antibiotics, remained elevated., Conclusion: Serum Heparin-binding protein serves as a non-invasive potential marker of acute bacterial meningitis even in partially treated cases., (Copyright © 2018 Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia. Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda. All rights reserved.)

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2018
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34. Results of a multinational study suggest the need for rapid diagnosis and early antiviral treatment at the onset of herpetic meningoencephalitis.

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Erdem H, Cag Y, Ozturk-Engin D, Defres S, Kaya S, Larsen L, Poljak M, Barsic B, Argemi X, Sørensen SM, Bohr AL, Tattevin P, Gunst JD, Baštáková L, Jereb M, Johansen IS, Karabay O, Pekok AU, Sipahi OR, Chehri M, Beraud G, Shehata G, Del Vecchio RF, Maresca M, Karsen H, Sengoz G, Sunbul M, Yilmaz G, Yilmaz H, Sharif-Yakan A, Kanj SS, Parlak E, Pehlivanoglu F, Korkmaz F, Komur S, Kose S, Ulug M, Bolukcu S, Coskuner SA, Ince N, Akkoyunlu Y, Halac G, Sahin-Horasan E, Tireli H, Kilicoglu G, Al-Mahdawi A, Nemli SA, Inan A, Senbayrak S, Stahl JP, and Vahaboglu H

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Adult, Confidence Intervals, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Retrospective Studies, Treatment Outcome, Antiviral Agents therapeutic use, Encephalitis, Herpes Simplex diagnosis, Encephalitis, Herpes Simplex drug therapy
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Data in the literature regarding the factors that predict unfavorable outcomes in adult herpetic meningoencephalitis (HME) cases are scarce. We conducted a multicenter study in order to provide insights into the predictors of HME outcomes, with special emphasis on the use and timing of antiviral treatment. Samples from 501 patients with molecular confirmation from cerebrospinal fluid were included from 35 referral centers in 10 countries. Four hundred thirty-eight patients were found to be eligible for the analysis. Overall, 232 (52.9%) patients experienced unfavorable outcomes, 44 died, and 188 survived, with sequelae. Age (odds ratio [OR], 1.04; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.02 to 1.05), Glasgow Coma Scale score (OR, 0.84; 95% CI, 0.77 to 0.93), and symptomatic periods of 2 to 7 days (OR, 1.80; 95% CI, 1.16 to 2.79) and >7 days (OR, 3.75; 95% CI, 1.72 to 8.15) until the commencement of treatment predicted unfavorable outcomes. The outcome in HME patients is related to a combination of therapeutic and host factors. This study suggests that rapid diagnosis and early administration of antiviral treatment in HME patients are keys to a favorable outcome., (Copyright © 2015, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.)

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2015
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35. Hamsi scoring in the prediction of unfavorable outcomes from tuberculous meningitis: results of Haydarpasa-II study.

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Erdem H, Ozturk-Engin D, Tireli H, Kilicoglu G, Defres S, Gulsun S, Sengoz G, Crisan A, Johansen IS, Inan A, Nechifor M, Al-Mahdawi A, Civljak R, Ozguler M, Savic B, Ceran N, Cacopardo B, Inal AS, Namiduru M, Dayan S, Kayabas U, Parlak E, Khalifa A, Kursun E, Sipahi OR, Yemisen M, Akbulut A, Bitirgen M, Popovic N, Kandemir B, Luca C, Parlak M, Stahl JP, Pehlivanoglu F, Simeon S, Ulu-Kilic A, Yasar K, Yilmaz G, Yilmaz E, Beovic B, Catroux M, Lakatos B, Sunbul M, Oncul O, Alabay S, Sahin-Horasan E, Kose S, Shehata G, Andre K, Dragovac G, Gul HC, Karakas A, Chadapaud S, Hansmann Y, Harxhi A, Kirova V, Masse-Chabredier I, Oncu S, Sener A, Tekin R, Elaldi N, Deveci O, Ozkaya HD, Karabay O, Senbayrak S, Agalar C, and Vahaboglu H

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Adult, Clinical Trials as Topic, Cohort Studies, Female, Humans, International Cooperation, Logistic Models, Male, Middle Aged, Nervous System Diseases, Predictive Value of Tests, Sensitivity and Specificity, Severity of Illness Index, Surveys and Questionnaires, Tuberculosis, Meningeal mortality, Outcome Assessment, Health Care, Treatment Outcome, Tuberculosis, Meningeal diagnosis, Tuberculosis, Meningeal therapy
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Predicting unfavorable outcome is of paramount importance in clinical decision making. Accordingly, we designed this multinational study, which provided the largest case series of tuberculous meningitis (TBM). 43 centers from 14 countries (Albania, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Syria, Turkey) submitted data of microbiologically confirmed TBM patients hospitalized between 2000 and 2012. Unfavorable outcome was defined as survival with significant sequela or death. In developing our index, binary logistic regression models were constructed via 200 replicates of database by bootstrap resampling methodology. The final model was built according to the selection frequencies of variables. The severity scale included variables with arbitrary scores proportional to predictive powers of terms in the final model. The final model was internally validated by bootstrap resampling. A total of 507 patients' data were submitted among which 165 had unfavorable outcome. Eighty-six patients died while 119 had different neurological sequelae in 79 (16%) patients. The full model included 13 variables. Age, nausea, vomiting, altered consciousness, hydrocephalus, vasculitis, immunosuppression, diabetes mellitus and neurological deficit remained in the final model. Scores 1-3 were assigned to the variables in the severity scale, which included scores of 1-6. The distribution of mortality for the scores 1-6 was 3.4, 8.2, 20.6, 31, 30 and 40.1%, respectively. Altered consciousness, diabetes mellitus, immunosuppression, neurological deficits, hydrocephalus, and vasculitis predicted the unfavorable outcome in the scoring and the cumulative score provided a linear estimation of prognosis.

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2015
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37. Patient profile and outcome of pilomatrixoma in district general hospital in United kingdom.

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Abdeldayem M, Mekhail P, Farag M, Shehata G, Al Sheikh M, Izzidien A, and Naguib N

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Introduction: A pilomatrixoma is a benign appendage tumour related to hair cells matrix. Most of the literature review about pilomatrixoma is in the form of case reports with fewer cohort studies. The objective of this cohort is to study the variable demographic characteristics, presentation and histopathology of this condition among a larger group of patients., Materials and Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of patients who had excision of pilomatrixoma between February 1998 and August 2011 in a District General Hospital in UK., Results: The study included 67 patients with histopathologically diagnosed pilomatrixoma. The mean age was 32 years. Male to Female ratio was 35:32. The average diameter of the lesion at presentation was 13 mm (range: 2-30 mm). 66 of 67 (98.5%) patients presented with solitary lesion, while 1 patient (1.5%) had two lesions., Conclusion: Pilomatrixoma is not an uncommon benign lesion. It is more common in the maxillofacial area.

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2013
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38. Efficacy and tolerability of antibiotic combinations in neurobrucellosis: results of the Istanbul study.

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Erdem H, Ulu-Kilic A, Kilic S, Karahocagil M, Shehata G, Eren-Tulek N, Yetkin F, Celen MK, Ceran N, Gul HC, Mert G, Tekin-Koruk S, Dizbay M, Inal AS, Nayman-Alpat S, Bosilkovski M, Inan D, Saltoglu N, Abdel-Baky L, Adeva-Bartolome MT, Ceylan B, Sacar S, Turhan V, Yilmaz E, Elaldi N, Kocak-Tufan Z, Ugurlu K, Dokuzoguz B, Yilmaz H, Gundes S, Guner R, Ozgunes N, Ulcay A, Unal S, Dayan S, Gorenek L, Karakas A, Tasova Y, Usluer G, Bayindir Y, Kurtaran B, Sipahi OR, and Leblebicioglu H

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Administration, Oral, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Anti-Bacterial Agents therapeutic use, Brucella growth & development, Brucellosis microbiology, Ceftriaxone administration & dosage, Ceftriaxone therapeutic use, Doxycycline administration & dosage, Doxycycline therapeutic use, Drug Therapy, Combination, Female, Humans, Injections, Intravenous, Male, Meningitis microbiology, Meningoencephalitis drug therapy, Meningoencephalitis microbiology, Middle Aged, Recurrence, Retrospective Studies, Rifampin administration & dosage, Rifampin therapeutic use, Treatment Failure, Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination administration & dosage, Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination therapeutic use, Turkey, Anti-Bacterial Agents administration & dosage, Brucella drug effects, Brucellosis drug therapy, Meningitis drug therapy
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No data on whether brucellar meningitis or meningoencephalitis can be treated with oral antibiotics or whether an intravenous extended-spectrum cephalosporin, namely, ceftriaxone, which does not accumulate in phagocytes, should be added to the regimen exist in the literature. The aim of a study conducted in Istanbul, Turkey, was to compare the efficacy and tolerability of ceftriaxone-based antibiotic treatment regimens with those of an oral treatment protocol in patients with these conditions. This retrospective study enrolled 215 adult patients in 28 health care institutions from four different countries. The first protocol (P1) comprised ceftriaxone, rifampin, and doxycycline. The second protocol (P2) consisted of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, rifampin, and doxycycline. In the third protocol (P3), the patients started with P1 and transferred to P2 when ceftriaxone was stopped. The treatment period was shorter with the regimens which included ceftriaxone (4.40 ± 2.47 months in P1, 6.52 ± 4.15 months in P2, and 5.18 ± 2.27 months in P3) (P = 0.002). In seven patients, therapy was modified due to antibiotic side effects. When these cases were excluded, therapeutic failure did not differ significantly between ceftriaxone-based regimens (n = 5/166, 3.0%) and the oral therapy (n = 4/42, 9.5%) (P = 0.084). The efficacy of the ceftriaxone-based regimens was found to be better (n = 6/166 [3.6%] versus n = 6/42 [14.3%]; P = 0.017) when a composite negative outcome (CNO; relapse plus therapeutic failure) was considered. Accordingly, CNO was greatest in P2 (14.3%, n = 6/42) compared to P1 (2.6%, n = 3/117) and P3 (6.1%, n = 3/49) (P = 0.020). Seemingly, ceftriaxone-based regimens are more successful and require shorter therapy than the oral treatment protocol.

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2012
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39. Abdominal obesity and endometrial cancer in egyptian females with postmenopausal bleeding.

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Zaki A, Gaber A, Ghanem E, Moemen M, and Shehata G

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Body Composition, Body Mass Index, Body Weight, Cross-Sectional Studies, Egypt epidemiology, Endometrial Neoplasms etiology, Endometrial Neoplasms pathology, Female, Humans, Interviews as Topic, Logistic Models, Middle Aged, Multivariate Analysis, Obesity, Abdominal complications, Obesity, Abdominal pathology, Risk Factors, Surveys and Questionnaires, Uterine Hemorrhage etiology, Uterine Hemorrhage pathology, Waist Circumference, Endometrial Neoplasms epidemiology, Obesity, Abdominal epidemiology, Postmenopause, Uterine Hemorrhage epidemiology
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Endometrial cancer is the most common type of female genital tract malignancies. We intended to assess the relation between different measures of obesity and the risk to develop endometrial cancer in Egyptian females with postmenopausal bleeding (PMB). The study was conducted in Alexandria, Egypt and included all postmenopausal females presenting to the University Hospital of Gynecology and Obstetrics with PMB within the study period (from January 1 to September 30). A questionnaire was completed, and data about anthropometric measurements including weight, height, and waist circumference were collected. Vaginal sonography, dilatation and curettage, and pathological examination were done by experts for all participants. Endometrial cancer was diagnosed in 38% of females presenting with PMB. Using ROC curve analysis, only the measure of abdominal obesity (waist circumference) showed significant accuracy in predicting endometrial cancer (area = 0.63, P < .05). The best cutoff point that maximizes accuracy was 88 cm. Body mass index (≥30 vs. ≤30) showed no significant relation (OR = 1.1, 95%CI 0.5-2.3), and the ratio between upper and lower body obesity (W/H ratio) showed border line significant relation (OR = 2, 95% CI 1-4.1), whereas waist circumference (≥88 vs. ≤88 cm) showed strikingly high OR (OR = 13.6, 95%CI 4-46.6). The risk of abdominal obesity on endometrial cancer remains very high (OR = 15.8, 95%CI 4.1-60.9) even after adjustment, in a logistic model, for other risk factors such as age at presentation, age at menarche, age at menopause, family history of malignancy, and gravidity. Abdominal obesity (waist circumference >88 cm) is the best measure of obesity to be used in predicting the risk of endometrial cancer in Egyptian females with PMB.

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2011
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40. Cognitive function and event-related potentials in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

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Shehata G and Eltayeb A

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Brain metabolism, Brain physiopathology, Child, Cognition Disorders diagnosis, Comorbidity, Developmental Disabilities diagnosis, Diabetic Ketoacidosis epidemiology, Diabetic Ketoacidosis physiopathology, Electroencephalography, Evoked Potentials physiology, Female, Humans, Hypoglycemia epidemiology, Hypoglycemia physiopathology, Intelligence physiology, Male, Memory Disorders diagnosis, Memory Disorders epidemiology, Memory Disorders physiopathology, Neuropsychological Tests, Reaction Time physiology, Cognition Disorders epidemiology, Cognition Disorders physiopathology, Developmental Disabilities epidemiology, Developmental Disabilities physiopathology, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 epidemiology
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Type 1 diabetes mellitus is associated with cognitive changes, but the extent of cognition decline depends on age at onset, duration of diabetes, and occurrence of attacks of hypoglycemia or ketoacidosis. This study was designed to assess cognitive function in a group of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. A total of 40 diabetic children were recruited from the pediatric department of Assiut University Hospital, Egypt. Forty healthy children matched for age, sex, and socioeconomic status were chosen as controls for comparison. Cognition was assessed using Stanford-Binet and event-related potentials tests. Compared to the control group, patients reported a significant reduction in intelligent quotient, comprehension, abstract visual reasoning, quantitative reasoning, bead memory, and total short memory testing for cognitive functions. Prolonged N1, P200, N2, and P300 latencies and reduced P300-N2 amplitude were reported. Significant negative correlations were identified in most studied cognitive functions and ketoacidosis or family history of diabetes mellitus.

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2010
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