Apr 07, 2020

Competency based medical education (CBME) requires novel approaches to surgical education. Significant investment has been made in laparoscopic simulation, which has been shown to foster skill develop...

Mar 30, 2020

In response to the World Health Organization (WHO) statements and international concerns regarding the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) outbreak, the International Society of Ultrasound in Obst...

Mar 30, 2020

Outpatient Assessment and Management for Pregnant Women With Suspected or Confirmed Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Unlike influenza and other respiratory illnesses, based on a limited number of confir...

Mar 23, 2020

Our aim was to explore the association between anal incontinence (AI) and persistent anal sphincter defects diagnosed with 3D endoanal (EAUS), introital (IUS) and transperineal ultrasound (TPUS) in wo...

Mar 23, 2020

Therapeutic blockade of the axis of programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) and its ligand (PD-L1) has transformed the management of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Clinical trials with pembrolizumab have ...

Mar 23, 2020

The purpose was to determine the relationship between frailty, fear of falling, and depression with falls risk in vulnerable community-dwelling older adults.A cross-sectional correlational design and ...

Mar 23, 2020

To evaluate Maximum Voluntary Contraction (MVC) of the Pelvic Floor Muscles (PFM) in sportswomen, to observe the urinary symptoms and their impact on the Quality of Life (QoL).Observational cross-sect...

Mar 23, 2020

Ganglioneuritis was the primary pathologic change in infected abalone associated with Haliotid herpesvirus 1 (HaHV-1) infection, which eventually became known as abalone viral ganglioneuritis (AVG). H...

Mar 23, 2020

Chronic hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients is an emerging threat. The aim of this study was to provide data on HEV burden in an Italian cohort of...

Mar 23, 2020

Patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection have a risk of reactivation after chemotherapy. All patients undergoing chemotherapy should be screened for HBV infection. No large-scale studies have b...

Mar 23, 2020

To compare follicular flushing with a double-lumen needle with direct aspiration on the number of oocytes collected in a poor responder population in IVF.We conducted a randomized controlled prospecti...

Mar 23, 2020

We investigated whether pregnancy/birth anxiety is associated with shorter gestation while maternal chronic stress and depressive symptoms are associated with lower birth weight; we also examined whet...

Mar 23, 2020

We focus on the current understanding of preeclampsia (PE) in order to examine how it mediates glomerular injury and affects the course of glomerulonephritis (GNs). In addition, this review discusses ...

Mar 23, 2020

The promoting effects of transcriptional factor Yin Yang 1 (YY1) have been confirmed in various tumors, however, its roles in ovarian cancer (OC) progression are still unclear. Here, Kaplan-Meier Plot...

Mar 23, 2020

Primary ovarian signet-ring cell carcinoma is extremely rare, with only five recent case reports. Almost all reported cases of ovarian signet-ring cell carcinoma have been treated with TC therapy and ...

Mar 23, 2020

The role of cancer stem cells (CSC) remains controversial and increasingly subject of investigation as a potential oncogenetic platform with promising therapeutic implications. Understanding the role ...

Mar 23, 2020

Immune checkpoint blocking antibodies are currently being tested in ovarian cancer (OC) patients and have shown some responses in early clinical trials. However, it remains unclear how human OC cancer...

Mar 23, 2020

IRE1α endonuclease is a key regulator of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress that controls cell survival/apoptosis in cancers. Inhibition of IRE1α endonuclease leads to decreased splice XBP1 which dec...

Mar 23, 2020

Primary surgical prevention in the form of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) is the most effective option and the gold standard for ovarian cancer (OC) risk-reduction, particularly given the ...

Mar 23, 2020

To investigate the association between osteoporosis and severe periodontal attachment loss in postmenopausal women. One hundred and ninety-five postmenopausal women aged 50-65 years old were include...