Browsing by Author "Ozden Ozyemisci-Taskiran"

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    COVID-19, cardiac involvement and cardiac rehabilitation: Insights from a rehabilitation perspective - State of the Art
    (2022) BİRKAN SONEL TUR; Yeşim Kurtaiş Aytür; Aysun GENÇ; Hande Özdemir; Belma Füsun Köseoğlu; Nilufer Kutay Ordu Gokkaya; Ozden Ozyemisci-Taskiran; Derya Demirbağ Kabayel; nur kesiktas; canan Tıkız; Ebru Alemdaroğlu; Başak Bilir Kaya; Serap Tomruk Sutbeyaz
    Since the beginning of the pandemic, many novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients have experienced multisystem involvement or become critically ill and treated in intensive care units, and even died. Among these systemic effects, cardiac involvement may have very important consequences for the patient’s prognosis and later life. Patients with COVID-19 may develop cardiac complications such as heart failure, myocarditis, pericarditis, vasculitis, acute coronary syndrome, and cardiac arrhythmias or trigger an accompanying cardiac disease. The ratio of COVID-19 cardiac involvement ranges between 7 and 28% in hospitalized patients with worse outcomes, longer stay in the intensive care unit, and a higher risk of death. Furthermore, deconditioning due to immobility and muscle involvement can be seen in post-COVID-19 patients and significant physical, cognitive and psychosocial impairments may be observed in some cases. Considering that the definition of health is “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being”, individuals with heart involvement due to COVID-19 should be rehabilitated by evaluating all these aspects of the disease effect. In the light of the rehabilitation perspective and given the increasing number of patients with cardiac manifestations of COVID-19, in this review, we discuss the rehabilitation principles in this group of patients.
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    Demographic and clinical characteristics of inpatient stroke patients in Turkey
    (2022) tiraje tuncer; Neşe Özgirgin; Saliha Eroğlu demir; Sibel Basaran; Gulcan Ozturk; Özlem ALTINDAĞ; Berrin GÜNDÜZ; Nurdan Paker; hulya ARIKAN; Necmettin Yıldız; Figen Yilmaz; OZLEM SATIR; Derya Bugdayci; Duygu Geler Külcü; banu kuran; ali yavuz karahan; AYSE YALIMAN; Serpil Savaş; canan Tıkız; Ilknur Aktas; Ayşe Nur Bardak; Berna Celik; gülgün durlanık; jülide öncü; Berrin Hüner; belgin erhan; nurten eskiyurt; Fatma Merih Akpınar; Nilgun Simsir Atalay; erkan kaya; Aylin SARI; Gulcin Kaymak Karatas; Ozden Ozyemisci-Taskiran; Beril DOĞU; Demet UÇAR; Feyza Unlu Ozkan
    Objectives: This study aims to assess the stroke rehabilitation facilities provided by university hospitals (UHs) and training and research hospitals (TRHs) and to evaluate the geographical disparities in stroke rehabilitation. Patients and methods: Between April 2013 and April 2014 a total of 1,529 stroke patients (817 males, 712 females; mean age: 61.7±14.0 years; range, 12 to 91 years) who were admitted to the physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics in 20 tertiary care centers were retrospectively analyzed. Demographic, regional and clinical characteristics, details of rehabilitation period, functional status, and complications were collected. Results: The median duration of stroke was five (range, 1 to 360) months. The ratio of the patients treated in the TRH in the Marmara region was 77%, but only 25% of the patients were living in the Marmara region. Duration of hospitalization was longer in the TRHs with a median of 28 days compared to those of UHs (median: 22 days) (p<0.0001). More than half of the patients (55%) were rehabilitated in the Marmara region. Time after stroke was the highest in the Southeast region with a median of 12 (range, 1 to 230) months and the lowest in the Aegean region with a median of four (range, 1 to 84) months. Conclusion: This study provides an insight into the situation of stroke rehabilitation settings and characteristics of stroke patients in Turkey. A standard method of patient evaluation and a registry system may provide data about the efficacy of stroke rehabilitation and may help to focus on the problems that hinder a better outcome.