Balkan Medical JournalPub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2025-3-165
Cansu Öztürk, Eren Harmancı, Enver Kaya, Fulya Kaya İpek, Murat Çap
{"title":"Cardiac Invasion of Recurrence Esophageal Carcinoma Mimicking ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction.","authors":"Cansu Öztürk, Eren Harmancı, Enver Kaya, Fulya Kaya İpek, Murat Çap","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2025-3-165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2025-3-165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144688821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Balkan Medical JournalPub Date : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2025-6-80
Yusuf Samet Yaraş, Duygu İşlek
{"title":"Ethical Challenges of the \"Publish or Perish\" Culture in Clinical Research: Insights from the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Yusuf Samet Yaraş, Duygu İşlek","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2025-6-80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2025-6-80","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144673876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Balkan Medical JournalPub Date : 2025-07-14DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2025-4-144
Haiyan Tong, Haipeng Tong
{"title":"Chronic Encapsulated Expanding Hematoma of the Calf Mimicking a Soft Tissue Tumor: A Rare Case with a 30-Year History.","authors":"Haiyan Tong, Haipeng Tong","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2025-4-144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2025-4-144","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144625310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Balkan Medical JournalPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-01-09DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-10-100
Kaan Can Demirbaş, Cem Çakmak, Seha Saygılı, Nur Canpolat, Özgür Kasapçopur
{"title":"Who Will Care for Our Children? Understanding the Lower Preference Rates for Pediatrics in Türkiye","authors":"Kaan Can Demirbaş, Cem Çakmak, Seha Saygılı, Nur Canpolat, Özgür Kasapçopur","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-10-100","DOIUrl":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-10-100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":" ","pages":"376-379"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12240231/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142943469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Balkan Medical JournalPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-03-28DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2024-12-7
Smrithy Sivadas K, Renita Lorina Castelino
{"title":"Rhinoentomophthoromycosis: An Enigma in Itself","authors":"Smrithy Sivadas K, Renita Lorina Castelino","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2024-12-7","DOIUrl":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2024-12-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":" ","pages":"369-370"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12240223/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143727660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of an Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for Colposcopic Recognition of Cervical Features - Introduction of an Annotation Protocol","authors":"Georgi Danielov Prandzhev, Grigor Angelov Gortchev, Dobromir Dimitrov Dimitrov, Radoslav Iliev Miltchev, Slavcho Tomov Tomov","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2024-12-35","DOIUrl":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2024-12-35","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":" ","pages":"373-375"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12240225/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143690996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Balkan Medical JournalPub Date : 2025-07-01Epub Date: 2025-01-08DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-11-4
Mesut Engin, Yusuf Ata, Ufuk Aydın, Hasan Arı, Tamer Türk
{"title":"A Novel Approach for the Treatment of Subclavian Steal Syndrome in a Patient Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting","authors":"Mesut Engin, Yusuf Ata, Ufuk Aydın, Hasan Arı, Tamer Türk","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-11-4","DOIUrl":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2024.2024-11-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":"42 4","pages":"383-384"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12240211/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Balkan Medical JournalPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2025-2-49
Mengqi Zhang, Daoxin Wang, Jing He, Junnan Peng
{"title":"Association Between the Glucose-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and 28-Day Mortality in Patients with Mechanical Ventilation.","authors":"Mengqi Zhang, Daoxin Wang, Jing He, Junnan Peng","doi":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2025-2-49","DOIUrl":"10.4274/balkanmedj.galenos.2025.2025-2-49","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The association between the glucose-to-lymphocyte ratio (GLR) and adverse outcomes in intensive care unit patients receiving mechanical ventilation (MV) has not been clearly established.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To examine the link between GLR and 28-day mortality in MV patients and to develop an interpretable machine learning model to predict mortality risk.</p><p><strong>Study design: </strong>A retrospective study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data were obtained from the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV (MIMIC-IV, version 3.1) database. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and restricted cubic spline (RCS) curves were employed to assess the relationship between GLR and mortality. Patients were categorized into high and low GLR groups for Kaplan-Meier survival analysis. Subgroup analyses were performed to evaluate the association across different patient populations. Selected variables were used to construct eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), support vector machine, Naive Bayes, and k-nearest neighbors models. Model interpretability was assessed using SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) values.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 5,738 patients met the inclusion criteria. RCS analysis indicated a nonlinear relationship between GLR and 28-day mortality. Patients with elevated GLR had significantly higher 28-day mortality rates (hazard ratio > 1, <i>p</i> < 0.05). Among the models, XGBoost demonstrated the best performance, achieving an area under the ROC curve of 0.969 and an F1-score of 0.963. SHAP analysis identified Acute Physiology Score III, GLR, and lactate as the three most important predictors.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>GLR is nonlinearly associated with 28-day mortality in patients undergoing MV and may serve as a valuable prognostic marker. The interpretable XGBoost model confirmed the significant association between GLR and short-term mortality.</p>","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":"42 4","pages":"358-366"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12240220/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Erratum.","authors":"","doi":"10.4274//balkanmedj.galenos.2025.e001","DOIUrl":"10.4274//balkanmedj.galenos.2025.e001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8690,"journal":{"name":"Balkan Medical Journal","volume":"42 4","pages":"385"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12240212/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}