Neurosurgery and pregnancy
Renoprotective effects of telmi ...
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the renoprotective effect of telmisartan, an angiotensin II receptor antagonist, on the early st ...
No signs of progressive beta ce ...
Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes are considered to be associated with different degrees of progressive beta cell damage. However, few long-term studi ...
TNF-a induces early growth resp ...
TNF-a and hyperglycemia are important factors contributing to vascular complications in obese and diabetic patients. The present studies aimed to ex ...
Cryoneurolysis for zygapophysea ...
Purpose Lumbar facet joint syndrome (LFJS) is the cause of pain in 15-54% of the patients with low-back pain. There are few studies of cryotherapy f ...
Low-grade CSF leaks in endoscop ...
Background Intra-operative CSF leak during endoscopic trans-sphenoidal surgery is not uncommon. Surgical repair with a variety of autologous grafts, ...
Dissection of both frontal and ...
Background Double superficial temporal artery (STA) to middle cerebral artery (MCA) bypass surgery has typically involved more than one linear incis ...
Angiogenic and inflammatory fac ...
We report on a case of cervical cutaneomeningospinal angiomatosis (Cobb’s syndrome), a rare somatic disorder, characterized by vascular abnormalitie ...
Candida infection of the centra ...
Background Candida infection of the central nervous system (CNS) following neurosurgery is relatively unusual but is associated with significant mor ...
Microsurgical anatomy of Lilieq ...
Object Liliequist’s membrane (LM) is an important arachnoid structure in the basal cisterns. The relevant anatomic descriptions of this membrane and ...
Evaluation of efficacy and bioc ...
Background Semisynthetic collagen matrices are promising duraplasty grafts with low risk of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) fistulas, good tissue integrat ...
Neurosurgery and pregnancy
Background Pregnant women with pathological conditions requiring a neurosurgical intervention pose a unique therapeutic challenge. Changes in normal ...
Intraoperative monitoring of th ...
Background Central skull base meningiomas commonly present with visual deficit, and their removal often leads to improvement of visual function. How ...
Endovascular treatment of basil ...
Background There has been little reported on the endovascular experience of basilar artery (BA) trunk aneurysms due to its low incidence. The purpos ...
Nerve biopsy: requirements for ...
In many instances, nerve biopsy is not necessary in the diagnostic work-up of a peripheral neuropathy. However, histological examination of a tissue ...
CD11c-expressing cells reside i ...
Recent studies demonstrated that primary immune responses can be induced within the brain depending on vessel-associated cells expressing markers of ...
Genetic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disea ...
Human prion diseases are a group of rare neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the conversion of the constitutively expressed prion protein, ...
Motor neuron disease clinically ...
Motor neuron disease (MND) may present as an isolated lower motor neuron (LMN) disorder. Although the significance of pathological 43 kDa transactiv ...
A pilot study: differential eff ...
To examine the effects of methylphenidate- OROS (MPH-OROS) on working memory (WM) and attention functions in children with attention-deficit hypera ...
Deferasirox effectively decreas ...
Iron overload is present in several cases of double heterozygous sickle-cell/beta-thalassemia (HbS/β-thal). Deferasirox is an orally administered ir ...
Sickle-cell disease and malaria ...
Sickle-cell disease (SCD) patients are at high risk of developing malaria which is a major contributor to morbidity andmortality in this disease. In ...
High prevalence of hepatitis B ...
We performed a large case–control study (3,932 cases, 15,562 controls) to investigate the association of hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C vir ...
Synergistic effect of bortezomi ...
The synergistic effect of proteasome inhibitor bortezomib and valproic acid (VPA), a histone deacetylase inhibitor, were investigated in this study. ...
The metalloprotease, NN-PF3 fro ...
NN-PF3 is a non-toxic, anticoagulant, highmolecular- mass (67.81 kDa) metalloprotease from Indian cobra (Naja naja) venom. In the present study, NN- ...
Fragment length analysis screen ...
During last years, molecular markers have been increased as prognostic factors routinely screened in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Recently, an incr ...
Risk factors for infection and ...
This study was performed to evaluate the impact of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing bacteremia on outcome in patients with hematologic ...