Apr 12, 2021

We aimed to develop prediction models for estimating the long-term survival in patients who have undergone surgery for esophageal cancer.Few prediction models have been developed for the long-term sur...

Apr 12, 2021

A previous report proposed ultrasonography-based classification as a promising means of predicting pediatric spontaneously resolving appendicitis. The present study investigated the long-term prognosi...

Apr 09, 2021

“New technologies allowing patients to communicate with healthcare professionals (HCPs) are being marketed to healthcare facilities as efficient and effective forms of communication,” explains Kim...

Apr 08, 2021

“The relationship between mild primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) and cardiovascular (CV) disease has not been fully understood,” explains Stella Bernardi, MD, PhD. “Previous research has shown ...

Apr 08, 2021

Inhibitors of calcineurin phosphatase activity (CNIs) such as cyclosporin A (CsA) are widely used to treat tissue transplant rejection and acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD), for which inhibition...

Apr 08, 2021

Approximately 7% of unrelated hematopoietic stem cell donors are asked to donate stem cells a subsequent time to the same or a different recipient. Recent studies have shown that donation-related symp...

Apr 08, 2021

Gaucher disease (GD) is a rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder, in which biallelic pathogenic variants in the Glucosidase beta acid (GBA) gene result in defective functioning of glucosy...

Apr 08, 2021

Ballistic maxillofacial injuries are highly destructive, producing significant morbidity and mortality. Survivors' defects pose unique reconstructive challenges, such as loss of periorbital bone stock...

Apr 08, 2021

The present clinical and histologic case reports describe the periodontal plastic approaches used for the correction of gingival deformities following free gingival grafting (FGG) procedures. Five pat...

Apr 08, 2021

Lumbar hyperlordosis in ambulatory children is an uncommon but potentially problematic spinal deformity, and the operative management has not been comprehensively described.We report the case of a 14-...

Apr 08, 2021

In recent years, strontium-substituted calcium phosphate bone cement (Sr-CPC) has attracted more and more attentions in the field of bone tissue repair due to its comprehensive advantages of both trad...

Apr 08, 2021

Health care is provided in developing countries, in a milieu of acute shortages of health care infrastructure and personnel. Governments are realizing that digital health through public private partn...

Apr 08, 2021

Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is the most common joint disease in child orthopedics. Secreted Frizzled-Related Protein 3 (FRZB) plays an important role in joint development. however, no dir...

Apr 08, 2021

Anesthesiologists and hospitals are increasingly confronted with costs associated with the complications of Peripheral Nerve Blocks (PNB) procedures. The objective of our study was to identify the inc...

Apr 08, 2021

Although previous reports have shown intraocular pressure changes during robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy, they did not discuss the time course of changes or the timing of the largest chang...

Apr 08, 2021

The aim of our study was to compare the clinical results and costs of wide-awake local anesthesia no tourniquet (WALANT), intravenous regional anesthesia (IVRA), and infraclavicular brachial plexus bl...

Apr 08, 2021

To ensure safe patient care, regulatory bodies worldwide have incorporated non-technical skills proficiency in core competencies for graduation from surgical residency. We describe normative data on n...

Apr 05, 2021

To analyze the outcomes in children with short bowel syndrome (SBS), parenteral nutrition dependence (PND) and intestinal failure associated liver disease (IFALD), treated in our Intestinal Rehabilita...

Apr 05, 2021

Utilisation of pancreases for transplantation remains inferior to that of other organs. Herein we analysed UK pancreas discards to identify the reasons for the low utilisation rates.Data on all pancre...

Apr 05, 2021

To evaluate candidacy for surgical mitral valve (MV) repair of recurrent mitral regurgitation (MR) after failed MitraClip.Percutaneous mitral repair with MitraClip is safe and effective in patients wi...