BACKGROUND: Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and bi-level positive airway
pressure (BPAP) are the gold standard treatments for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (…

Background To evaluate the efficacy of iodopovidone as an agent for pleurodesis in
malignant pleural effusion (MPE) and to compare the efficacy of small-bore catheter (Pleuracan, …

OBJECTIVE: Newly arising enlarged or hypermetabolic mediastinal/hilar lymph nodes (LNs)
in patients with previously diagnosed extrathoracic malignancies raise suspicion of …

Study objectives To establish the diagnostic yield of transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA)
and its contribution to conventional diagnostic techniques (CDT) such as forceps biopsy, …

Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate the sensitivity and diagnostic value
of convex probe endobronchial sonographically guided transbronchial needle aspiration (…

PURPOSE: To determine frequency of anemia in COPD and its relations to the concomitant
diseases, dyspnea status and severity of COPD. METHODS: In 2008, 102 COPD patients in …

Aim: To investigate the effect of age on severity of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS)
severity was the aim of this study. Material and Method: The files of 874 OSAS patients …

Background In the diagnosis of malignant lymph nodes (LNs) and staging of lung cancer,
sampling of mediastinal and hilar LNs is essential. Mediastinoscopy is known as the gold …

Objective: The aim of this study was to analyse those pneumonia patients at the age of 70
years and above, who were hospitalised in our clinic and to determine the factors affecting …

OBJECTIVES We monitored increases in CO 2 levels during sleep by measuring
transcutaneous pCO 2 (PtcCO 2) to determine its relationship with polysomnographic data in …