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Effects of varenicline on lung tissue in the animal model.

Mar 05, 2020

This study aimed to investigate acute and chronic effects of varenicline on lung tissue in an experimental study.A total of 34 rats were randomly allocated into study (varenicline) and control groups....

Dipping and rotating: two maneuvers to achieve maximum magnification during indirect transnasal laryngoscopy.

Mar 05, 2020

Since many years, office-based flexible transnasal laryngoscopy is a common routine procedure. The development of new technical equipment such as high-definition cameras and flexible tip-chip endoscop...

Clinical Utility of the Risk Analysis Index as a Prospective Frailty Screening Tool within a Multi-practice, Multi-hospital Integrated Healthcare System.

Mar 05, 2020

The goal of this project was to first address barriers to implementation of the Risk Analysis Index (RAI) within a large, multi-hospital, integrated healthcare delivery system, and to subsequently dem...

Challenges to accomplish stringent fluid management standards 7 years after enhanced recovery after surgery implementation-The surgeon's perspective.

Mar 05, 2020

This study aimed to analyze fluid management standards in 2 high-volume, enhanced recovery after surgery institutions 7 years after implementation.Retrospective analysis of consecutive patients underg...

Comparing the 5-Year Diabetes Outcomes of Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass: The National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORNet) Bariatric Study.

Mar 05, 2020

Bariatric surgery can lead to substantial improvements in type 2 diabetes (T2DM), but outcomes vary across procedures and populations. It is unclear which bariatric procedure has the most benefits for...

Short-term Outcomes After Robot-Assisted vs Open Pancreaticoduodenectomy After the Learning Curve.

Mar 05, 2020

Robot-assisted pancreaticoduodenectomy (RPD) has been reported to be safe and feasible. As a new technique, RPD has a learning curve similar to that of other types of minimally invasive pancreatic sur...

Outcome according to subspecies following lung transplantation in cystic fibrosis paediatric patients infected with mycobacterium abscessus.

Mar 05, 2020

Mycobacterium abscessus infection has been associated with variable outcomes following lung transplantation. M. abscessus comprises three subspecies (M. abscessus subsp abscessus, M. abscessus subsp m...

[Mental health survey of 230 medical staff in a tertiary infectious disease hospital for COVID-19].

Mar 05, 2020

To investigate the mental health of clinical first-line medical staff in COVID-19 epidemic and provide theoretical basis for psychological intervention. The mental health status of the first-line me...

Opioid growth factor and its derivatives as potential non-toxic multifunctional anticancer and analgesic compounds.

Mar 05, 2020

Despite significant research progress on the pathogenesis, molecular biology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer its morbidity and mortality is still high around the world. The emerging re...

Promoting Reproducible Research for Characterizing Nonmedical Use of Medications Through Data Annotation: Description of a Twitter Corpus and Guidelines.

Mar 05, 2020

Social media data are being increasingly used for population-level health research because it provides near real-time access to large volumes of consumer-generated data. Recently, a number of studies ...

Functional Diversity of Glycinergic Commissural Inhibitory Neurons in Larval Zebrafish.

Mar 05, 2020

Commissural inhibitory neurons in the spinal cord of aquatic vertebrates coordinate left-right body alternation during swimming. Their developmental origin, however, has been elusive. We investigate t...

Opioid Naive Surgeons and Opioid-Tolerant Patients: Can Education Alter Prescribing Patterns to Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients?

Mar 05, 2020

Patterns of opioid overprescribing following arthroplasty likely developed given that poor pain control can diminish patient satisfaction, delay disposition, and lead to complications. Recently, inter...

Pretransplant Genetic Susceptibility: Clinical Relevance in Transplant-Associated Thrombotic Microangiopathy.

Mar 05, 2020

Transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy (TA-TMA) is a life-threatening complication of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). We hypothesized that pretransplant genetic suscepti...

Proteomic and Transcriptomic Approaches for Studying Bone Regeneration in Health and Systemically Compromised Conditions.

Mar 05, 2020

Bone regeneration is a complex biological process, where the molecular mechanisms are only partially understood. In an ageing population, where the prevalence of chronic diseases with an impact on bon...

Employing an ICT-FRET Integration Platform for the Real-Time Tracking of SO2 Metabolism in Cancer Cells and Tumor Models.

Mar 05, 2020

Glutathione (GSH) mediates a wide variety of biological events and human diseases. Although it has been the subject of intense study in recent years, a further understanding of its molecular mechanism...

[Applying Extended Theory of Planned Behavior for Lung Cancer Patients Undergone Pulmonary Resection: Effects on Self-Efficacy for Exercise, Physical Activities, Physical Function, and Quality of Life].

Mar 05, 2020

This study aims to examine the effects of nursing interventions based on the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior (ETPB) regarding self-efficacy for exercise (SEE), physical activity (PA), physical fun...

Challenges of LC-MS/MS ethyl glucuronide analysis in abstinence monitoring of liver transplant candidates.

Mar 02, 2020

Background Urinary ethyl glucuronide (EtG) has emerged as the biomarker of choice for alcohol abstinence monitoring in forensic toxicology and is now used in the listing decision process for liver tra...

Clinical and Procedural Characteristics Predicting Need for Chronotropic Support and Permanent Pacing Post-Heart Transplantation.

Mar 02, 2020

Post-operative bradycardia can complicate orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT). Previous studies suggested donor age, surgical technique as possible risk factors. However, risk factors in the era of...

IMPACT OF TREATMENT PRIOR TO ALLOGENEIC TRANSPLANTATION OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS IN PATIENTS WITH MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME: RESULTS OF THE LATIN AMERICAN BONE MARROW TRANSPLANT REGISTRY.

Mar 02, 2020

It has been suggested that bridging therapy with intensive chemotherapy and/or hypomethylating agents followed by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) can be valuable in the treatment of pat...

Biodegradable versus multiple plastic stent implantation in benign biliary strictures: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Mar 02, 2020

Benign biliary strictures arise mostly from iatrogenic injuries during surgical procedures and various inflammatory causes. Endoscopic placement of multiple plastic stents (MPS) is often regarded as t...

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