Valvular Heart Disease in Aging ...
Elderly women are at risk for aortic and mitral valve disease that may be challenging to manage because of co-morbidities. Many reports focus on the ...
Adding Fuel to the Fire: Alcoho ...
Alcohol consumption adds fuel to the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). SSA has the highest prevalence of HIV infection and heavy episodic dr ...
Opioid-Induced Hyperalgesia: Cl ...
Opioids have become the unequivocal therapy of choice in treating many varieties of chronic pain. With the increased prescription of opioids, some u ...
Endogenous Hydrogen Sulfide Is ...
Background Endogenous hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is increasingly being recognized as an important gaseous physiological mediator. Accumulating evidence ...
Predictors of Colorectal Cancer ...
Background The incidence of colorectal cancer following a normal colonoscopy in the Medicare population is not known. Methods A 5% national sample ...
Point-of-purchase health inform ...
Objectives Point-of-purchase (POP) information at food stores could help promote healthy dietary habits. However, it has been difficult to evaluate ...
’Posterior fossa metastasis in ...
This study investigated whether vertiginous attacks indicate a high probability for posterior fossa metastasis in lung cancer patients. Twenty-Wve l ...
European clinical guidelines fo ...
A working group of the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome (ESSTS) has developed the first European assessment guidelines of Tourett ...
Serum TNF-alpha levels: potenti ...
To investigate plasma tumor necrosis factoralpha (TNF-a) levels as an indicator to reflect the magnitude of the destructive inflammatory phase and a ...
A novel SOX10 mutation in a pat ...
We describe a male infant with a novel SOX10 mutation and a severe course of PCWH—a special phenotype of Shah-Waardenburg syndrome involving periphe ...
Long-term follow-up of blowout ...
Purpose Resorbable alloplastic materials are used in many surgical applications. This retrospective study evaluated the clinical outcome after recon ...
Computer aided detection and di ...
During the past two decades, the volume of image data produced within Radiology Departments has grown continuously, with a doubling time of approxim ...
Sudden death from ruptured intr ...
Central nervous system (CNS) vascular malformations are well-known entities that may cause sudden death from rupture and intracranial hemorrhage. De ...
Medical management of benign pr ...
The management of benign prostatic hyperplasia has undergone a rapid evolution over the past decade from a surgical emphasis to a medical emphasis. G ...
Luteal phase transvaginal scan ...
The objective of this preliminary observational study was to monitor changes in focal cystic and non-cystic subendometrial lesions reminiscent of ad ...
Plasmacytoid Urothelial Carcino ...
A rare case of plasmacytoid urothelial carcinoma (PUC) was diagnosed in a 76-year-old man. Morphologic recognition and distinction from other plasm ...
The variability of surgical pra ...
Purpose Implant registries have been effective in detecting poorly performing implants and surgical strategies. They learn us however little about m ...
Correlation between light trans ...
The influence of dentin permeability on transdentinal LED light propagation should be evaluated since this kind of phototherapy may further be clini ...
CSF Catecholamine Profile in Su ...
Background Patients experiencing apoplectic intracranial processes may develop neurogenic cardiomyopathy (NC). The purpose of this research is to de ...
Synaptic organization of the ra ...
First-order thalamic nuclei receive driving afferents from ascending pathways and transmit processed information to the cortex. Higher-order thalami ...
Outcomes, Satiety, and Adverse ...
Background Follow-up is critical to the success of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB). Few data guide this and expected norms of satiety ...
Performance of a fl uorescence ...
The aim of this study was to assess inter- and intra-examiner reproducibility and accuracy in the detection and assessment of occlusal caries in ext ...
Bone size and density measureme ...
Summary Using computed tomography (CT), we found the decreases in bone size of vertebrae and femur, cortical bone area (CBA) of femur and bone densi ...
Physical activity, calcium inta ...
Summary In a free-living cohort of 4-year old children, mean daily time in moderate–vigorous physical activity and daily calcium intake at 3 years, ...
Dilated Tortuous Right Coronary ...
most common draining sites are the pulmonary artery and the right atrium, whereas drainage into the coronary sinus (CS) is reported in only few case ...