Cardiac aging – a review
Oral Contraceptive Use and Bone
Sex hormones play a key role in bone homeostasis, and oral contraceptive (OC) use may affect bone mass in women. However, the nature of the associat ...
Mutational Analysis of the PTEN ...
Background Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is one of the most frequently diagnosed cancers in China, but the etiology and mode of carcinog ...
Impact of Chronic Constipation ...
Background There has been limited research addressing the effects of constipation on work productivity and healthcare resource use. Aims To assess ...
Diffusion-weighted MR imaging o ...
This study was conducted to determine the incremental value of diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DW-MRI) over T2-weighted imaging diagnosing abdominope ...
Histopathological effects of es ...
Laryngeal manifestations due to estrogen deficiency have been studied in the literature. But to date, the possible histopathological changes of lary ...
Localized gray matter volume ab ...
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by excessive and persistent worrying. Neural substrates of this disorder are insufficiently unde ...
Is there any purpose in classif ...
Introduction ClassiWcation systems are used for communication, planning treatment options, predicting outcomes and research purposes. The majority o ...
Gray hair and acrodermatitis en ...
Presentation of cystic fibrosis (CF) with an acrodermatitis enteropathica-like skin rash, anemia, and hypoproteinemia without pulmonary disease is r ...
Isolated blunt chest injury lea ...
Introduction The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a severe and frequently seen complication in multi-trauma patients. ARDS is caused by ...
CT of the hips in the investiga ...
Objectives To establish the prevalence of protrusio acetabuli (PA) in adults fulfilling the Ghent criteria for Marfan syndrome (MFS), and in a norma ...
Cardiac aging – a review
Background: Physiology of aging includes numerous modifications at different levels of the cardiovascular system, resulting in adverse remodeling of ...
Primary lung cancer arising fro ...
We report a case of lung cancer arising from the wall of a giant bulla. A 58-year-old man consulted a physician because of bloody sputum. Chest comp ...
Improvement of quality of repor ...
Hypotension is a frequent complication of spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section and can threaten the wellbeing of the unborn child. Numerous rand ...
Assessing patients for catheter ...
Heart rhythm problems are common among patients who are hospitalized with acute heart failure (HF). Although it is often difficult to determine whet ...
Optimal double screw configurat ...
Purpose The subtalar arthrodesis using screws has been performed to manage traumatic subtalar arthritis. Even though clinically there might not have ...
Different air-water spray regul ...
Surgeries performed with high-intensity laser devices may be improved with accurate protocols, including the air-water spray regulation. Thus, this ...
Dexmedetomidine Controls Agitat ...
Introduction We report the effective use of dexmedetomidine in the treatment of a patient with a history of chronic alcohol abuse and an acute traum ...
Sinus venous stenosis-associate ...
Reported prevalence of idiopathic intracranial hypertension without papilledema (IIHWOP) in series of patients with chronic or transformed migraine ...
Influence of Activity on Qualit ...
Gastric bypass is one of the medically acceptable interventions for weight loss for the obese. Quality of life greatly improves after surgery. Most ...
Late Marginal Ulcers after Gast ...
Marginal ulcer (MU) is an occasional complication after gastric bypass which can occur early or late after surgery. In this study, we evaluated the ...
Failure to perceive increased r ...
Summary We compared self-perception of fracture risk with actual risk among 60,393 postmenopausal women aged .55 years, using data from the Global L ...
Discriminative value of FRAX fo ...
Summary We followed 2,266 postmenopausal Chinese women for 4.5 years to determine which model best predicts osteoporotic fracture. A model that cont ...
Multiple Mirror-Image Periphera ...
We present the case of a 5-year-old boy diagnosed with Kawasaki disease at 10 months of age who developed fusiform aneurysms of the coronary arterie ...
Overexpression of p18INK4C in L ...
Studies have demonstrated that cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors (CDKI) that inhibit cell-cycle progression have a protective effect against acute ...
Evaluation of image quality and ...
Background There are a limited number of reports on the technical and clinical feasibility of prospective electrocardiogram (ECG)-gated multi-detect ...