The influence of age, anthropom ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of age, anthropometrics and cervical range of motion upon synovial fold volume. Ten healthy ...
Acupuncture-related techniques ...
Drug addiction is a chronic brain disorder characterized by withdrawal symptoms that occur during drug abstinence and a high tendency of relapse. Com ...
Arsenic in the treatment of new ...
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) is a subtype of acute myeloid leukemia. In past decades, intensive studies on the biology and treatment of this ...
Efficacy of NiTi Hand CACTM 30 ...
Background Although a novel technique for the performance of intestinal sutureless anastomosis using a compression device has recently been investig ...
How useful is preoperative imag ...
Background Surgery is the fundamental curative option for gastric cancer patients. Imaging scans are routinely prescribed in an attempt to stage the ...
Optimal treatment for coronary ...
There are three strategies for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD): medical therapy, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), and percutaneous ...
Functional restoration of endot ...
Purpose. Although several approaches have been tried to improve the durability of cryopreserved valves, cellular restoration after thawing remains t ...
Ruptured thoracic descending ao ...
We have encountered a rare case of ruptured true thoracic aortic aneurysm coexisting with DeBakey type IIIb aortic dissection. The patient was a 67- ...
Repair of postinfarct ventricul ...
We report a case of an elderly man who suffered an acute myocardial infarction (MI) with the complication of a post-MI ventricular septal defect (VS ...
Starr-Edwards valves at the aor ...
Cloth-covered Starr-Edwards caged ball valves implanted in the aortic and mitral valve positions for 39 years were extracted. Both showed valve dysf ...
Right hydrothorax found soon af ...
Hydrothorax due to pleuroperitoneal communication is a rare complication in patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). On ...
Pulmonary epithelioid hemangioe ...
We report two cases of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (PEH). Both patients presented with multiple bilateral pulmonary nodules, <10 mm ...
Parietal pleura lipoma: a rare ...
Lipoma is a common benign tumor of soft tissues in adults. An intrathoracic location, particularly in the parietal pleura, is rare. We report two ca ...
Extended sleeve lobectomy for i ...
Although extended sleeve lobectomy has been used as an alternative to pneumonectomy for the treatment of centrally located lung cancer, the validity ...
Papillary muscle approximation ...
Undersized mitral annuloplasty alone is not always suffi cient to repair functional mitral regurgitation resulting from left ventricular enlargement ...
Unusual metastasis to all the d ...
Metastatic malignancies to the hand, although rare, usually develop from lung, breast, and kidney tumors. Very rarely the origin is the gastrointest ...
Interchangeability of macular t ...
Backgrounds To evaluate in healthy eyes the interchangeability of retinal thickness measurements resulting from different protocols of Spectralis op ...
Results of flexible ranibizumab ...
Background The aim of this study was to analyse functional results of flexible ranibizumab treatment in exudative age-related macular degeneration ( ...
Expression of Orai genes and IC ...
Background The retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) fulfills a large variety of tasks that are important for visual function. Many of these tasks, such ...
Thermomechanical stability of s ...
Purpose Recently, glyceraldehyde-induced crosslinking was proposed by us for the treatment of progressive myopia, increasing significantly the biome ...
Development of a novel ex vivo ...
Purpose To construct a suitable ex vivo model for the research of molecular mechanisms and the pharmacological screening of fungal adherence on the ...
Assessment of fatigue in intrao ...
Aim To determine the effect of fatigue on intraocular surgical performance using a virtual reality simulator. Methods Seven experienced ophthalmic s ...
Long-term follow-up of a suprad ...
Objective To evaluate the long-term clinical and immunohistological outcome of two different non-penetrating keratoprosthesis (KPro) implanted in no ...
Focal macular electroretinogram ...
Background Retinal function is transiently depressed after photodynamic therapy (PDT) alone. One of the reasons for this functional impairment is a ...
Intravitreal bevacizumab inject ...
Background To introduce a case of Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada (VKH) disease in which the serous retinal detachment (SRD), refractory to the systemic steroi ...