Mar 10, 2020

Living kidney donors are carefully screened, but despite overall good health, long-term donor outcomes have been shown to vary by predonation demographics. Since 2013 the United Network for Organ Shar...

Mar 10, 2020

Pancreas graft quality directly affects morbidity and mortality rates after pancreas transplantation (PTx). The criteria for pancreas graft allocation are restricted, which has decreased the number of...

Mar 10, 2020

Cord blood transplant (CBT) recipients have a high incidence of herpes zoster (HZ) in the context of short-term peri-transplant antiviral prophylaxis. In 2009, international guidelines recommended HZ ...

Mar 10, 2020

Disruption of the intestinal microbiota caused by intensive chemotherapy, irradiation and antibiotics can result in development of severe gut graft-versus-host disease and infectious complications, le...

Mar 10, 2020

Portopulmonary hypertension (PoPH) is pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) associated with portal hypertension, usually caused by liver cirrhosis. Prognosis is poor for patients with PoPH and liver t...

Mar 10, 2020

Patients who have experienced an acute coronary syndrome should be evaluated in the office setting soon after hospital discharge. First follow-up appointments more than 6 weeks after discharge reduce ...

Mar 10, 2020

With the increasing demand for body contouring procedures in the US over the past two decades, more surgeons with diverse specialty training are performing these procedures. However, little is known r...

Mar 10, 2020

Tangential excision in burn patients results in blood loss, with an average of 100 ml per 1% total body surface area (TBSA) excised. This substantial blood loss will be accompanied by decreasing seru...

Mar 10, 2020

We describe the effectiveness of the Jigsaw method in the instruction of residents in difficulty airway management.The residents were given a pre-Jigsaw instruction test and a self-assessment of their...

Mar 10, 2020

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has established guidelines for the treatment of keratinocyte carcinomas (KCs). Complete circumferential peripheral and deep margin assessment (CCPDMA) ...

Mar 10, 2020

Freeman-Burian syndrome (FBS) is a rare congenital myopathic craniofacial syndrome. Since publication of the genotype-correlated clinical diagnostic criteria, no complete survey of the literature has ...

Mar 10, 2020

No standard treatment for Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-associated osteomyelitis, a rare but serious complication of the BCG vaccine, has been established. This study explored the short- and long-ter...

Mar 10, 2020

This study aimed to explore the experiences of the patients that underwent orthopedic surgery under spinal anesthesia and to report their feelings and thoughts. The study was carried out using a quali...

Mar 10, 2020

The aim of this study was to compare how two innovative laser titanium surfaces and sandblasted and acid-etched surfaces influence human osteoblast behavior during osteogenesis and the initial phases ...

Mar 10, 2020

The objectives of this study were to understand how cadaveric simulation impacts learning in orthopedic residents, why it is a useful training tool, and how skills learnt in the simulated environment ...

Mar 10, 2020

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is characterized by accumulation of excessive triglycerides (TGs) in hepatocytes. Obesity is a major risk factor for developing fatty liver, although the intr...

Mar 10, 2020

ENSURE-AF (NCT02072434) assessed therapy with edoxaban versus enoxaparin-warfarin in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF) undergoing elective electrical cardioversion (ECV).To evaluate c...

Mar 10, 2020

Periodontal disease results from the pathogenic interactions between the tissue, immune system, and microbiota; however, standard therapy fails to address the cellular mechanism underlying the chronic...

Mar 10, 2020

The aim of this nation-wide study was to evaluate the characteristics of bacterial (BI), invasive fungal disease (IFD) and viral infections (VI) in pediatric patients with PID after allogeneic hematop...

Mar 10, 2020

Upfront surgery is the standard treatment for resectable invasive intraductal papillary mucinous carcinoma; however, recurrence is common. Therefore, we investigated the recurrence, surgical outcome, ...