Two cases of IgA nephropathy after splenectomy: spleen as a silent culprit in the pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy
Sep 1, 2023·
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Ahmet Burak Dirim
Besim Fazil Agargun
Ozge Hurdogan
Yasemin Ozluk
Seda Safak
Nurane Garayeva
Bahar Artim Esen
Sevgi Kalayoglu Besisik
Halil Yazici

Authors
Gastroenterology Fellow
Gastroenterology and hepatology fellow at Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine.
My clinical work centres on inflammatory bowel disease and diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy;
my research combines real-world cohorts with natural-language processing and AI-assisted analytics —
including an NLP programme over more than 11,000 colonoscopy reports and the ELASTIBD transient
elastography study of liver fibrosis and steatosis in IBD. I am also a PhD candidate in clinical trials.