Medical Case Studies

  • Abbreviation: Med. Case Stud.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-6532
  • DOI: 10.5897/MCS
  • Start Year: 2010
  • Published Articles: 43

Table of Content: September 2011; 2(6)

September 2011

Case report: Postoperative hemorrhage in the nasopharynx at two weeks following adenotonsillectomy

  Postoperative hemorrhage is an unlikely complication of adenotonsillectomy and occurs within several days following the procedure. We describe a patient with postoperative hemorrhage after adenotonsillectomy in nasopharynx at the postoperative 15th and 18th day. The study reveals that bleeding after adenotonsillectomy is an unlikely complication for the surgeon and patient, and requires extra experimental...

Author(s): Fazil Emre Ozkurt and Muhammed Fatih Evcimik

September 2011

Plasma endothelin level in hypertension and diabetes mellitus

  The aim of the present study was to determine plasma levels of endothelin-1 (ET-1) in normal healthy population, patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) and its correlation with hypertension and nephropathy in DM. A total of 34 patients with DM, that included 19 cases with simple DM without nephropathy and 15 cases with diabetic nephropathy were used in the study. Four of the cases were considered simple DM and...

Author(s): Usha Singh, R. G. Singh, Suman Singh and Shailja Singh