Ochronosis with cardiovascular involvement: a case reportSerpil Bal
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
Rheumatol Int 28:479-82. 2008
..In this article, a patient who was admitted by progressed musculoskeletal system pains and diagnosed as ochronosis, especially with emerging cardiovascular involvement, was presented...
- Sexual functions in ankylosing spondylitis
Serpil Bal
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkiye
Rheumatol Int 31:889-94. 2011
..AS patients do not suffer from erectile dysfunction, they rather have problems of satisfaction from the intercourse...
- Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda: four cases from two families
Serpil Bal
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ataturk Research and Training Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
Rheumatol Int 29:699-702. 2009
..Symptomatic relief was achieved in all patients for about a couple of months. The major clinical importance of this rather rare disorder is its similarity to juvenile idiopathic arthritis which has rather different treatment protocol...
- Camptocormia and dropped head syndrome as a clinic picture of myotonic myopathy
Zehra Kocaaga
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ataturk Research and Training Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
Joint Bone Spine 75:730-3. 2008
..In this report we aimed to represent a female patient, who was diagnosed as having myotonic dystrophy, with concurrent dropped head syndrome and CC...
- Assessment of fatigue in patients with ankylosing spondylitis
Yasemin Turan
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ataturk Research and Education Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
Rheumatol Int 27:847-52. 2007
..It should appropriately be measured with respect to its intensity with appropriate measures, such as MAF. Moreover, fatigue may increase functional disability, which is already present as a feature of the disease...
- Relationship between the severity of enthesitis and clinical and laboratory parameters in patients with ankylosing spondylitis
Taciser Kaya
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Izmir Research and Training Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
Rheumatol Int 27:323-7. 2007
..However, evaluation of enthesitis severity is based on information given by patient and should be combined with objective parameters such as spinal measurements when assessing disease activity...
- Toxic neuropathy due to N-hexane: report of three cases
Omer Faruk Sendur
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Adnan Menderes University Medicine School Hospital, Aydin, Turkey
Inhal Toxicol 21:210-4. 2009
..All patients were hospitalized and rehabilitation programs were carried out. Symptomatic relief was achieved following this treatment, however the pathologic ENMG findings still persisted...
- Anatomic and functional improvements achieved by rehabilitation in Zone II and Zone V flexor tendon injuries
Serpil Bal
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
Am J Phys Med Rehabil 90:17-24. 2011
..The aim of this study was to compare anatomic and functional improvements in zone II and zone V flexor tendon injuries and to determine the effect of injury level on disability...
- Hemiplegia and heterotopic ossification on the non-paretic extremity: a case report
Zehra Kocaaga
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ataturk Research and Education Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
J Rehabil Med 39:500-2. 2007
..5-1.2%. It usually occurs on the paretic side of hemiplegic patients. We present here a case of post-stroke hemiplegia with heterotopic ossification in the non-paretic limb...
- Serum hyaluronan levels in patients with knee osteoarthritis
Yasemin Turan
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
Clin Rheumatol 26:1293-8. 2007
..In our study, we demonstrated that HA was in high levels in the serum of patients with OA. We suggest that serum HA levels may be used as a marker to determine the disease activity...
- Factors playing a role in the development of decreased bone mineral density in juvenile chronic arthritis
Reyhan Celiker
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, 06100 Sihhiye, Ankara, Turkey
Rheumatol Int 23:127-9. 2003
..The aims of this study were to evaluate bone mineral density (BMD) in patients with juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA), compare them with healthy controls, and assess the effects of disease activity and corticosteroid treatment on BMD...
