Optimization of simultaneous an ...
Recently, liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) has been recognized as a useful method to analyze tetrodotoxin (TTX), the primary toxin fo ...
Treatment for gastric carcinoma ...
Background The strategy for treating extremely aged patients with gastric carcinoma is controversial. This study reviews the prognoses of patients a ...
Usefulness of transnasal endosc ...
Background Early gastric cancer located from the pyloric ring to inside the duodenal bulb (DB) is not easily treated by endoscopic submucosal dissec ...
Prognostic factor analysis of t ...
Background Almost all patients with advanced gastric cancer will eventually develop progressive disease after first-line chemotherapy. However, the ...
En bloc resection and extended ...
We present the technical details of en bloc resection and extended replacement of an infected aortic arch. A 74-year-old man underwent emergent surg ...
Endovascular management for rup ...
Surgery for a complicated Stanford B acute aortic dissection, such as rupture or malperfusion, is still a challenge. We undertook endovascular thera ...
Three-dimensional computed tomo ...
Some variations in pulmonary vein anatomy can have serious consequences in patients undergoing lung surgery, but clinicians rarely encounter patient ...
Long-term visual course after a ...
Background In phase III trials, the therapeutic efficacy of anti-VEGF therapy with ranibizumab (Lucentis) in patients with choroidal neovascularizat ...
Diurnal rodents as animal model ...
Background Cone photoreceptor-based central vision is of paramount importance in human eyesight, and the increasing numbers of persons affected by m ...
Multifocal iris melanoma treate ...
Background A 73-year-old patient presented in our clinic with multiple pigmented iris nodules in the left eye. Though asymptomatic, there was a repo ...
Identification of immunodominan ...
Background A high incidence of autoantibodies to lens proteins has been found in sera of patients with uveitis. We showed previously that the anti-l ...
An ex vivo model of coxsackievi ...
Background The purpose of this study was to establish an ex vivo model of coxsackievirus infection since there seems to be no suitable disease model ...
NovaSure endometrial ablation: ...
The objective of this study is to review outcomes and factors predictive of patient satisfaction following NovaSure endometrial ablation in the trea ...
Treatment options for dysfuncti ...
Abnormal uterine bleeding is one of the most common problems in women of reproductive age, and dysfunctional uterine bleeding (DUB) accounts for abo ...
Endothelial dysfunction in youn ...
Endothelial dysfunction may be particularly important in the pathogenesis of young patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), because they hav ...
Cell membrane stretch activates ...
The aim of this study is to determine the signal transduction of membrane stretch on intermediate-conductance Ca2?-activated K? (IKca) channels in r ...
Impact of chronic kidney diseas ...
This study evaluated the relationship between the severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) and traditional coronary risk factors, metabolic syndrom ...
Pitavastatin prevents postprand ...
Obesity is a well-established risk factor for the development and progression of coronary heart disease. Moreover, endothelial dysfunction is an ear ...
Long-term results of the maze p ...
Although the maze procedure is often performed as a surgical treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF) combined with mitral valve surgery, the long-ter ...
Successful deployment of an ili ...
Aortic rupture is a rare but potentially catastrophic complication following a balloon aortoplasty for recoarctation. The treatment of aortic ruptur ...
Novel techniques for assessment ...
The evaluation of left ventricular systolic function is one of the most common reasons for referral for a non-invasive cardiac imaging study. In add ...
Multimodality imaging in the as ...
The prevalence of heart failure due to coronary artery disease continues to increase, and it portends a worse prognosis than non-ischemic cardiomyop ...
Histopathology of the stimulate ...
A primary concern in the utilization of implantable neural interfaces for the treatment of medical diseases is to follow the Hippocratic dictum: Fir ...
When is an optimization not an ...
Impact of variability in the measured parameter is rarely considered in designing clinical protocols for optimization of atrioventricular (AV) or in ...
The arthroscopic treatment of d ...
Purpose This article summarises the results of a newly developed technique that utilises Meniscus Arrows for the arthroscopic fixation of displaced ...