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    Current Ablation Type Surgical Treatment Modalities in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression: Review of The Recent Major Surgical Series
    (Aves Press Ltd, 2019) Bakar, Bulent; Cetin, Cansel; Oppong, Jonathan; Erdogan, Ahmet Melih
    Purpose: Major depression is currently a disease with high morbidity and mortality rates. About 20% of patients have treatment-resistant major depression (TRMD). This article which consisted of a recent large clinical case series reported in medical literature is constituted to screen ablative surgical treatment methods and their safety and efficacy in patients with TRMD. Methods: Four types of ablative surgical modality (i.e. anterior cingulotomy, anterior capsulotomy, subcaudate tractotomy, limbic leucotomy) in TRMD patients were evaluated and patients' data which was used to describe the basis of radiologic and operative procedures and findings, and outcome was obtained from PubMed/Medline database between years 2000-2018. Results: In literature, studies showed that about 40-60% of patients had complete remission and 35% of patients showed partial remission following anterior cingulotomy. It was reported that approximately 50% of patients were responsive and 40% of patients were remission following anterior capsulotomy. Studies demonstrated that about 55-75% of patients were responsive to treatment after performing subcaudate tractotomy. Long term clinical recovery was seen 36-76% of patients applied limbic leucotomy in literature. Conclusion: In conclusion, the long term therapeutic effects and mechanism of action of these surgical techniques that were used last two decades in the management of patients with TRMD are still under investigation and the need for research on the long-term benefits of these surgical modalities should be considered.
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    Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH): a clinical study
    (2019) Öğden, Mustafa; Yüksel, Ulaş; Akkaya, Süleyman; Oppong, Jonathan; Kısa, Üçler; Bakar, Bülent; Özveren, Mehmet Faik
    Aim: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperosteosis (DISH) characterized by formation of disseminated osteofites on vertebra in the absence of traumatic or post infectious changes is a chronic disease of unknown etiology. This study was aimed to investigate the biochemical relationship of DISH in patients with DISH.Material and Method: Eleven patients diagnosed with DISH (DIH group) and eleven patients with axial pain but without any vertebral disease (Control group) who applied to the neurosurgery clinic between the years 2016-2017 were enrolled in this retrospective study. HLA-B27 antigen positivity, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, leukocyte, basofil and eosinophil counts, C-reactive protein, phosphorus and calcium levels, and their results in individuals were investigated. Anteroposterior and lateral pelvis, knee, lateral foot radiograms showing extra-axial involvement were viewed.Results: Of the patients with DISH, one owing to difficulty in swallowing and another owing to quadriplegia as a result of cervical trauma underwent surgical therapy. Radiological investigations of this group revealed iliac involvement in four patients and patellar joint involvement in one patient. There was no difference between groups with respect to age, sex, leucocyte, basophil and eosinophil count, C-reactive protein, phosphorus and calcium levels. However there was a significant difference with respect to dysphagia and extra-axial involvement. No individual was positive for HLA-B27 antigen.Conclusion: Present study findings suggested that both acute and/ or chronic inflammatory processes have no place in the etiology of this disease.