Dairy Consumption, Blood Pressu ...
Hypertension is a major risk factor for development of stroke, coronary heart disease, heart failure, and endstage renal disease. In a systematic re ...
Update on Current Epidemiologic ...
Hepatitis C virus infection remains a leading cause of liver disease worldwide and is currently the principal reason for liver transplantation in th ...
Epidemiology of Cancer Pain
About half of cancer patients experience pain, most commonly due to their primary cancer. Pain severity is at least moderate for most patients exper ...
Gender- and Age-Related Differe ...
Background Gender- and age-related differences in muscular and nerve-mediated responses in human colon are poorly characterized. We studied carbacho ...
Clinical Significance of Discor ...
Background Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays are the standard for detecting hepatitis C virus viremia. The transcription-mediated amplification ...
Rare Pediatric Adrenocortical C ...
Pediatric adrenocortical carcinoma is extremely rare with a prevalence of 0.3 per million. Adrenocortical neoplasms in children usually present with ...
Prolene mesh mentoplasty
Augmentation mentoplasty is a cosmetic surgical procedure to correct chin retrusion or microgenia which usually requires placement of an alloplastic ...
Optimized voxel brain morphomet ...
To date, few studies have addressed the relationship between brain structure alterations and responses to atypical antipsychotics in schizophrenia. ...
Posttraumatic widening of the l ...
We present a case of incomplete or perched irreducible elbow dislocation, which occurred spontaneously into cast immobilisation performed for a diag ...
Serum procalcitonin is not an e ...
Serum procalcitonin (PCT) has been proposed as a marker to identify bacterial infection in children. For optimal management of cystic fibrosis (CF) ...
Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) and ...
Introduction Several different synthetic and allograft bone graft substitutes are used clinically to treat large bone defects. In contrast to the ‘‘ ...
Incremental value of diffusion ...
Objectives To assess the incremental value of diffusionweighted (DW-MRI) and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) to T2-weighted MRI (T2WI) in de ...
Total thyroidectomy by loupe ma ...
Background: Total thyroidectomy has been accepted as current surgical therapy for benign and malignant thyroidal disorders but extensive resection ...
Giant cell tumors that originat ...
Giant cell tumors originating from the sternum are rare. We report a case of a giant cell tumor of the sternum with radiological evidence of aggress ...
Diagnostic hysteroscopy and sal ...
This study was conducted to assess whether women would prefer to undergo saline infusion sonography (SIS) or office hysteroscopy for the investigati ...
Electrical modalities beyond pa ...
In this review, we report on electrical modalities, which do not fit the definition of pacemaker, but increase cardiac performance either by direct ...
Post-operative opiate requireme ...
Purpose Although hip arthroscopy continues to evolve in its use and its popularity grows, little attention has been paid to the anaesthetic and anal ...
Phototherapy with low-level las ...
The purpose of this article was to analyze the photobiomodulator role of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) on the skeletal muscle remodeling following ...
Brain Natriuretic Peptide Conce ...
Background Hyponatremia and hypovolemia occur often after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and are associated with poor outcome. The authors ...
Spontaneous resolution of syrin ...
Idiopathic syringomyelia is a disease with variable clinical course. We report here two cases of spontaneous resolution of cervical syrinx in adults ...
Roux en Y Gastric Bypass by Sin ...
Background Although the laparoscopic technique of Roux en Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) has popularized this weight loss procedure, the costs are justifi ...
An Assessment of Patient Behavi ...
Background Without changes to diet and exercise behaviors, weight losses achieved through surgical procedures may be short lived. There is no data c ...
Prevalent vertebral fractures p ...
Summary The relationship between prevalent vertebral fractures and new vertebral fractures in Korean women has not been previously studied. We found ...
Beneficial effect of risedronat ...
Summary A 36-month observational study compared the incidence of unaffected side hip fracture in Japanese female osteoporosis patients with a histor ...
A Pediatric Case of Cardiomyopa ...
We report the case of a 16-year-old boy with cardiomyopathy induced by inappropriate sinus tachycardia (IST). The patient was resistant to treatment ...