Exploring the methodology and a ...
At present, clinical pathway has become one of the most important health care reform measures in many countries. In this study, the authors introduce ...
Tissue engineering of cartilage ...
Tissue engineering aims to produce a functional tissue replacement to repair defects. Tissue reconstruction is an essential step toward the clinical ...
Consolidated standards of repor ...
The reporting standards for randomized controlled trials were first published in 1996 by a group of scientists under the name “CONSORT,” which means ...
An introduction to the medicina ...
In recent years, genomics has developed rapidly with the application of next-generation sequencing technology. However, very few studies have been ca ...
Self-etching adhesives: possibl ...
Pulp capping is one of the solving for keeping vital pulp in the case of dentin caries, reversible pulpitis or traumatic pulp exposure. The presence ...
Analysis on the distinguishing ...
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is one of the rarely existing ancient traditional medicines that hold systematic theories as well as preventative ...
A better way to do small-for-si ...
Establishing a model for small-for-size liver transplantation is the basis for this study of partial and living donor graft liver transplantation. T ...
Management of adjuvant S-1 ther ...
Background The aim of this study was to determine the optimal management of adjuvant S-1 therapy for stage II or III gastric cancer, encompassing th ...
General perioperative managemen ...
Background Gastric cancer is very common in Korea and Japan, where many hospitals annually perform high numbers of gastrectomies for gastric cancer. ...
Reporting patient characteristi ...
Background There is no consensus on which patient characteristics are the most suitable to report or to be used as stratification factors in clinica ...
Clinicopathological analysis fo ...
Background The prognosis for patients with stage Ib (second English edition of the Japanese classification of gastric carcinoma) gastric cancer is p ...
Caspase 8 and caspase 9 gene po ...
Background Caspase-8 (CASP8) and caspase-9 (CASP9) play crucial roles in regulating apoptosis, and their functional polymorphisms may alter cancer r ...
Intraoperative direct hemoperfu ...
Purpose. Endotoxin adsorption treatment (direct hemoperfusion using a polymyxin-B immobilized fi ber column, or PMX-DHP) is now considered a useful ...
Cardiogenic shock without cardi ...
A 73-year-old man complaining of pain on effort was admitted to a hospital for a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) because of severe stenosis ...
Successful surgical management ...
72-year-old woman with a known history of homozygous familial hyperlipidemia (IIa) was referred to our hospital for an operation necessitated by aor ...
St. Jude prosthetic valve obstr ...
We report a surgical case of prosthetic valve obstruction after mitral valve replacement by a St. Jude Medical valve. A 66-year-old woman was admitt ...
Extrafoveal traction in retinal ...
Background To present extrafoveal vitreous traction membranes, and their prevalence and association with diffuse macular oedema in eyes with retinal ...
Intravitreal bevacizumab vs. sh ...
Background The goal of this work is to compare the visual and anatomical (central macular thickness; CMT) outcomes of intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) ...
Hemodilution therapy using auto ...
Background Central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) leads to poor visual outcome in most eyes. Abnormal hemorheology was suspected to play a major role ...
Similarities and differences be ...
Purpose To investigate the mechanism of secondary degeneration of the optic nerve, and to evaluate the neuroprotective effect of minocycline in this ...
PlGF gene knockdown in human re ...
Background To evaluate the knockdown of placental growth factor (PlGF) gene expression in human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells and its effec ...
Assessment of limbus and centra ...
Background Keratolimbal allograft (KLAL) transplantation has been proved to be a useful surgical procedure for limbal stem cell deficiency patients. ...
Posterior capsule opacity as in ...
Background Cutaneous metastatic melanoma usually is locoregional, and represents less than 5% of malignancies known to metastasize to the eye and or ...
The perception of strabismus by ...
Background Visible strabismus has been shown to have adverse psychosocial consequences. It remains controversial if esotropia or exotropia is percei ...
Abatacept: a potential therapy ...
Background Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common of all systemic conditions associated with childhood uveitis. Visual impairment ha ...