Response to Peginterferon-alfa ...
Background The current standard treatment for patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) of genotype 2 is the combination of peginterferon (PEG- ...
QOL-associated factors in elder ...
Objectives Quality of life (QOL) was compared between elderly patients treated with cardiac surgery (cardiac surgery group) and general elderly nono ...
Tinnitus in patients with chron ...
The objective of this study was to investigate the clinical features of tinnitus in patients with chronic otitis media (COM) and to evaluate changes ...
European clinical guidelines fo ...
Ten years ago deep brain stimulation (DBS) has been introduced as an alternative and promising treatment option for patients suffering from severe T ...
Locking compression plate break ...
Background & purpose The locking compression plate (LCP) system oVers a number of advantages in fracture Wxation combining angular stability through ...
Discordant expression of a new ...
Congenital nephrotic syndrome (CNS) is a heterogeneous group of diseases with different causes and prognoses. Two thirds of cases of NS in the first ...
Modified surgery for acute thor ...
Objectives The treatment of acute thoracolumbar fractures is a demanding and fine surgical challenge. Conventional procedures are not always satisfa ...
High-resolution 3D non-contrast ...
Objective To determine the diagnostic value of non-contrastenhanced, 3D-high-resolution, ECG-gated, multi-step MR angiography (non-ceMRA) of the low ...
Identification and quantitation ...
During our careful survey of unregulated drugs in Tokyo, a new compound was disclosed as an adulterant in herbal and powder products. This compound ...
Predictive factors for function ...
Background To identify predictive factors for improvement of visual acuity and central retinal thickness by intravitreal bevacizumab for the treatme ...
Epidemiology and clinical impac ...
Several studies have produced estimates of the outcome of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in the field of left main (LM) coronary artery di ...
Twenty-six years of meniscal al ...
Purpose Since the first meniscal allograft transplantation in 1984, thousands of patients with postmeniscectomy symptoms have been treated by allogr ...
Necrotizing fasciitis of the kn ...
Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare, life-threatening and rapidly spreading soft-tissue infection that results in necrosis of the muscle, fascia and sur ...
Morphological alterations in de ...
The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the morphological changes that occur in dentine after femtosecond laser irradiation and after mech ...
Spontaneous Intraventricular He ...
Background The prevalent use of anticoagulation in a growing elderly population has led to an increasing incidence of intracerebral hemorrhage. Furt ...
Bone mineral density in ambulat ...
Multiple sclerosis (MS) may be associated with reduced bone mass and higher frequency of osteoporosis. Femoral and spinal bone mineral density (BMD) ...
What Is My Goal? Expected Weigh ...
Background A number of reasons lead patients to choose to undergo weight loss procedures. Previous studies have demonstrated that patients have unre ...
Contribution of phosphoglucosam ...
Phosphoglucosamine mutase (GlmM; EC 5.4.2.10) catalyzes the interconversion of glucosamine-6- phosphate to glucosamine-1-phosphate, an essential ste ...
Fracture prediction and calibra ...
Summary A new Canadian WHO fracture risk assessment (FRAX®) tool to predict 10-year fracture probability was compared with observed 10-year fracture ...
Prevalence and costs of osteopo ...
Summary This study assesses prevalence of subsequent fractures during the year after incident osteoporosis-related non-vertebral fractures among pri ...
Isolated Junctional Tachycardia ...
Isolated junctional tachycardia is rare in children but has been reported after cardiac surgery. To date, it has not been reported after noncardiac ...
Renal failure induced by Cortin ...
Sirs, We thank Dr Kirchmair and Dr Pِder for their comment [1]. An unfortunate error was made concerning the picture shown in our Clinical Quiz [2] ...
Febrile urinary tract infection ...
The ideal approach to the radiological evaluation of children with urinary tract infection (UTI) is in a state of confusion. The conventional bottom ...
A New Methodology for Studying ...
new methodology has been developed for studying the adsorption behavior of proteins at oil–water interfaces. This technique employs the radiotracer ...
The Story of SPATA2 (Spermatoge ...
In an attempt to isolate new spermatogenesis-associated genes, pd1 was initially identified and cloned as a novel human cDNA sequence from testis cDN ...