Clinical experience with a nove ...
Background Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) reduce mortality in both primary and secondary prevention, but are associated with substan ...
Coexistence of ankylosing spond ...
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are two distinguished representatives of inflammatory rheumatic diseases. The two diseases ...
Ultra-structural changes in cel ...
This study was conducted to evaluate the cytological effects of maternal diabetes in the central nervous system (CNS). Sixteen adult female rats wer ...
Omalizumab: Anti-IgE Therapy in ...
Omalizumab is a humanized, monoclonal anti- IgE antibody that binds specifically to circulating IgE molecules, thus interrupting the allergic cascad ...
Why Cetuximab is Not Active in ...
Cetuximab—a humanized monoclonal antibody targeting EGFR—can extend progression-free survival in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. EGFR ne ...
Vascular Mechanisms in the Path ...
Stroke is one of the most devastating manifestations of two common diseases, atherosclerosis and hypertension. It represents the second leading caus ...
Effects of Treatment of Myofasc ...
Myofascial pain syndromes (MPSs) from trigger points (TrPs) and fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) are common musculoskeletal pain conditions that frequently ...
Intercellular Space Volume Is M ...
Background/Aims At present, the dilation of esophageal intercellular spaces (ICS) is considered an early morphologic marker of acid damage in patien ...
In PSC with Colitis Treated wit ...
Background Patients with PSC and IBD have a high incidence of colonic carcinomas (CRC), and the annual incidence of CRC increases with duration of d ...
The relation between ambulance ...
Objective Our aim was to investigate the link between ambulance transports stratified by heat stroke and air temperature in August 2009 in Japan. M ...
Subjective head vertical test r ...
Utricular dysfunction has been indirectly measured with subjective visual horizontal or vertical testing. Video-oculography equipment with integrate ...
Tourette’s disorder and other t ...
Classification of tic disorders will be revised in the forthcoming edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; DS ...
Surgical review: the versatile ...
Background The soft tissue defects of lower third leg, ankle, and foot present a challenging problem because of the paucity of local tissue and poor ...
A disappearing neonatal skin le ...
A preterm baby girl was noted at birth to have a firm, raised, non-tender skin lesion located over her right hip. She developed three similar smalle ...
Giant cell tumors of the sacrum ...
Background Giant cell tumors (GCT) are relatively rare neoplasms, representing less than 5% of all bone tumors. They are most frequent in the extrem ...
Differences in radiological pat ...
Objectives To compare tumour characteristics between cancers detected with screen-film mammography (SFM) and digital mammography (DM) and to evaluat ...
In vivo incorporation of fenflu ...
The incorporation profiles for fenfluramine (Fen) and its metabolite norfenfluramine (Norf) into black hair and white hair of Zucker rats and into w ...
Clinical characteristics of pol ...
Purpose To describe the clinical characteristics of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) in a large number of Chinese patients. Methods This stu ...
Prediction of the no-reflow phe ...
Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) can assess plaque characteristics and plaque size noninvasively. The purpose of this study was to inv ...
In vitro assessment of human ch ...
Purpose Local anaesthetic agents are often used as an intra-articular analgesic following arthroscopic procedures. However, there is increasing evid ...
Comparison of patellar retentio ...
Purpose The aim of this retrospective study was to compare clinical outcomes of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with and without patellar resurfacing ...
Micromorphology and adhesive pe ...
This study evaluated (1) the micromorphology by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and (2) the adhesive performance by microtensile bond strength ( ...
Sedation Confounds Outcome Pred ...
Background Therapeutic hypothermia is commonly used in comatose survivors’ post-cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). It is unknown whether outcome p ...
HIF-1a ODD polypeptides increas ...
To investigate the effect of HIF-1a ODD polypeptides on the expression of HIF-1a and VEGF in primary rat cortical neuron in hypoxia. Primary culture ...
Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pati ...
Background The patient population that is evaluated for bariatric surgery is characterized by a very high body mass index (BMI). Since obesity is th ...