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    Awareness of prostate cancer diagnosis and management among Turkish males: a cross sectional study from Çorum
    (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2020) Sungur, M.; Caliskan, S.
    Introduction: Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy among men in the United States and the second most common cancer in Turkey. The incidence of prostate cancer is increasing in industrialized countries. Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the knowledge about prostate cancer, its diagnosis, and treatment among patients with lower urinary tract symptoms. Methods: This study was performed from January to April 2015 with the patients applied to our clinic. A questionnaire that includes 10 questions was administered to the participants. Results: One hundred fifty-nine participants were included in this study. The participants’ ages were between 40 and 82 with a mean age of 61.5 ± 7.9 years. Patient awareness of prostate biopsy and prostate cancer were 21.37 and 71.06%. The main origin awareness of PSA testing is family and friends. On the other hand, if the doctor advises acout prostate biopsy, 47.16% of the patients would accept and 11.31% of them would refuse this invasive procedure. Conclusion: Prostate cancer is one of the important health-related problem among men in the world. Additional researches are needed to investigate the knowledge of prostate cancer among men and the Ministry of Health may take preventive methods to increase the cancer knowledge level of people. © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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    Endothelin-1 Level in Patients with Simple Renal Cyst
    (NLM (Medline), 2019) Çalişkan, S.; Sungur, M.; Eser, B.; Kanbay, M.; Kocan, H.; Topaktas, R.
    INTRODUCTION: Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is potent vasoconstrictive peptide and elevated ET-1 levels are associated with hypertension, endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerosis. Research on (ET-1) has demonstrated that elevated ET-1 levels in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease leads to systemic hypertension. The prevalence of simple renal cysts increases with age and the association with simple renal cyst and hypertension is not clear. The aim of this study was to investigate the ET-1 levels in patients with simple renal cyst and compare them with those in healthy adults. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study included patients that underwent laparoscopic renal cyst decortication in the Department of Urology and healthy controls. Serum and urinary ET-1 levels were measured before surgery and one month after it in the patients with simple renal cyst. Serum ET-1 levels were measured in healthy adult patients. Ambulatory blood pressure was measured in all patients. Glomerular filtration rate was measured according to the chronic kidney disease epidemiology collaboration formula. RESULTS: Thirty-two patients were included in the present study. Of these, 16 patients with simple renal cyst were allocated into group 1 and 16 healthy patients - in group 2. There was no significant difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressure between the groups (. CONCLUSIONS: The present study demonstrated that serum EL-1 level in patients with simple renal cyst was lower than that in healthy people. Further studies are needed to investigate the EL-1 levels in simple renal cyst patients. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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    Nephrocutaneous Fistula After Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy
    (Mary Ann Liebert Inc., 2019) Caliskan, S.; Sungur, M.
    Background: Nephrocutaneous fistula (NF) is a rare pathologic condition in urology practice. Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis and renal tuberculosis are the two common causes of this pathologic condition. Another rare cause of NF is surgery. Percutaneous nephrolithotomy is standard treatment for >2 cm renal stones. However, this surgery can be associated with surgical complications in long-term follow-up. NF is a rare complication of percutaneous renal surgery. Case Presentation: In this study, we present a 31-year-old man with continuous urine leakage at the nephrolithotomy scar during 11 months, starting from 1 month after surgery. Final confirmation is NF and could be treated with nephrectomy. Conclusion: Surgical treatment such as nephrectomy is essential for non- or low functioning kidney with fistula formation. Patients must be informed about this complication. © Copyright 2019, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2019.