Mar 26, 2020

While antireflux surgery is often proposed to patients with proton pump inhibitor-refractory GERD, a subgroup of patients remains symptomatic or experiences late complications of surgery, such as dy...

Mar 24, 2020

Children with Down syndrome (DS) often present with chronic respiratory symptoms. Congenital airway anomalies have been described but data about prevalence is scarce and a comparison to controls is la...

Mar 24, 2020

Depression is a common disease that afflicts one in 6 people. Numerous hypotheses have been raised in the past decades, but the exact mechanism for depression onset remains obscure. Recently, the neur...

Mar 24, 2020

Non-medical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD) has become a threat to public health. In the United States, NMUPD is especially common in young adults (aged 18-25). Self-esteem is a robust psychosocial...

Mar 24, 2020

Assess impact of parental involvement in care provision for term substance exposed newborns (SENs).Prospective observational cohort study included mothers with opioid use disorder and their SENs over ...

Mar 24, 2020

The opioid overdose crisis in the United States has prompted an expansion of treatment services, including pharmacotherapy with buprenorphine. However, many people who use illicit opioids (PWUIO) self...

Mar 24, 2020

Medicinal plants from traditional chinese medicine are used increasingly worldwide for their benefits to health and quality of life for the relevant clinical symptoms related to pain. Among them, Salv...

Mar 19, 2020

Prognostic biomarkers of T cell-mediated rejection (TCMR) have not been adequately studied in the modern era. We evaluated 803 renal transplant recipients and correlated HLA-DR/DQ molecular mismatch a...

Mar 19, 2020

Postoperative pain is an outcome of importance to potential living kidney donors. We prospectively characterized the prevalence, severity and patterns of acute or chronic postoperative pain in 193 LKD...

Mar 19, 2020

Exhaustion of T cells limits their ability to clear chronic infections or eradicate tumors. Here, in the context of transplantation, we investigated whether T-cell exhaustion occurs and has a role in ...

Mar 19, 2020

Recurrence of immunoglobulin (Ig)A nephropathy (rIgAN) is a growing cause of kidney allograft dysfunction. This study was aimed at investigating factors associated with rIgAN and the subsequent progre...

Mar 19, 2020

Fifteen to thirty percentage of patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) have preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and a discordant AS pattern at Doppler echocardiography, which is cha...

Mar 19, 2020

Valve repair for aortic insufficiency (AI) requires a tailored surgical approach determined by the leaflet and aortic disease. In this study, we used a repair-oriented system for the classification of...

Mar 19, 2020

Many adults with repaired tetralogy of Fallot will require a pulmonary valve replacement (PVR), but there is no consensus on the best timing. In this study, we aim to evaluate the impact of age at PVR...

Mar 19, 2020

The aim of this study was to evaluate very long-term results after unrestricted everolimus-eluting bioresorbable scaffolds (BRS) implantation.Previous randomized studies mainly included selected patie...

Mar 19, 2020

Tranexamic acid (TXA) is an anti-fibrinolytic agent shown to decrease intraoperative bleeding, reduce transfusions, and improve outcomes across multiple specialties. Within plastic surgery, initial re...

Mar 19, 2020

Orbital decompression for thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) is an ophthalmic plastic surgery technique to prevent optic neuropathy and reduce exophthalmos. Because the postoperative appearance c...

Mar 19, 2020

The best methods to assess surgical knowledge are still debated. The authors used a non-multiple-choice test as a pre- and post-conference assessment to measure residents' knowledge gains with compari...

Mar 19, 2020

Is the present study aims to analyze demographic, clinical and surgical data of all patients with FG (Fournier's gangrene) admitted to a tertiary healthcare hospital in the largest city of Turkey.This...

Mar 19, 2020

Patients with lower extremity amputations using a classic socket prosthesis face many challenges related to the socket-limb interface. The adaptation of osseointegration has allowed for the attachment...