STAT3 and cardiac remodeling
Successful management of severe ...
Although many reports have shown that mediastinoscopy is an extremely safe procedure, the most serious complication that can occur is hemorrhage fro ...
Rosai-Dorfman disease mimicking ...
Rosai-Dorfman disease is rare and typically presents with cervical lymphadenopathy. The disease is generally indolent and self-limited, but it carri ...
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 ...
Single-session combined photody ...
Background To report the anatomic and functional outcomes of a single-session combined photodynamic therapy with verteporfin (PDT) and intravitreal ...
Differential diameter responses ...
Background Diabetic retinopathy is assumed to be due to impaired retinal autoregulation, involving both pressure autoregulation and metabolic autore ...
Selective laser trabeculoplasty ...
Background Selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) is widely used for the treatment of glaucoma. The main target tissue of this treatment modality is ...
Visual acuity as measured with ...
Background We compared the Landolt C chart checked under normal clinical conditions and the Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) ch ...
Contact lenses vs spectacles in ...
Background Theoretically, the accommodative and vergence demands are different between single-vision contact lenses and spectacle lenses. The aim of ...
Mucinous cystadenoma of the ret ...
Big cystic lesions of the retroperitoneum are rare entities. Most of the cases involved females of reproductive age and were related to ovarian stru ...
Bowel cancer and previous mesh ...
We report two cases of large bowel cancer adjacent to mesh following previous abdominal sacrocolpopexy. As far as we are aware, there have been no ...
Total laparoscopic hysterectomy ...
This report is on recovery and long-term outcomes in a small-scale randomised controlled trial (RCT) after total laparoscopic hysterectomy versus to ...
Carotid artery stenting with di ...
Carotid artery stenting (CAS) is an efficient alternative procedure for the treatment of high-surgical-risk patients with symptomatic and asymptomat ...
Pharmacokinetics of intravenous ...
The aim of this phase I, dose-escalating study was to evaluate the pharmacokinetics, electrocardiographic effect and safety of amiodarone after a si ...
Rapid ventricular pacing: a fas ...
Rotational angiography is a novel method for three-dimensional reconstruction of the left atrium and pulmonary veins during catheter ablation for at ...
Parameters of arterial function ...
Regardless of a successful operation, patients with coarctation of aorta (CoAo) are exposed to the risk of hypertension and a propensity to vascular ...
A case of giant cell arteritis ...
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the medium and large blood vessels. The early symptoms of this disease are nonspecif ...
Infarct tissue characteristics ...
Histopathological studies have suggested that early revascularization for acute myocardial infarction (MI) limits the size, transmural extent, and h ...
STAT3 and cardiac remodeling
Multiple in vitro and in vivo studies showed that the signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) protein is involved in cardiomyocyt ...
TNFa in myocardial ischemia/rep ...
TNFa is crucially involved in the pathogenesis and progression of myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury and heart failure. The formation and releas ...
Emerging therapies for heart fa ...
Improved understanding of the pathophysiology of salt and water homeostasis has provided a foundation for explaining the renal mechanisms of emergin ...
Investigating the Protective Ef ...
The immunosuppressive drug, cyclosporine A (CsA), has been used in patients who were treated for immune diseases and in transplant patients. However ...
Fibroblast Growth Factor, A Rev ...
Historically, phosphate homeostasis has been considered the result of an interaction between the kidneys, the parathyroid glands and the bone as the ...
Dysfunction of the posterior cr ...
out either with retention (CR) of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) or with sacrifice of this ligament and implantation of a posterior stabilise ...
Gravity-assisted pivot-shift te ...
Purpose The gravity-assisted pivot-shift (GAPS) test is a newly advocated test for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. We retrospectively inves ...
Proprioception following partia ...
Purpose To investigate the proprioceptive function of patients with isolated meniscal tears of the knee before and after arthroscopic partial menisc ...