Feb 17, 2020

Magnetic resonance tissue phase mapping (TPM) measures three-directional myocardial velocities of the left and right ventricle (LV, RV). This noninvasive technique may supplement endomyocardial biopsy...

Feb 17, 2020

Many addictive substances, such as tobacco and alcohol, influence atherosclerosis development. Whether tobacco's pro-atherosclerotic effect is influenced by alcohol consumption is unknown. We aimed to...

Feb 17, 2020

In the present study, we hypothesized that habitual cigarette smoking attenuates endothelial function in the cerebral circulation as well as that of the peripheral circulation in young adults. To test...

Feb 17, 2020

Overlap syndrome (OVS) is the concurrence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and is associated with poor outcomes. We hypothesized that physiological ch...

Feb 17, 2020

HCV treatment as prevention (TasP) strategies can contribute to HCV micro-elimination, yet complimentary interventions like opioid agonist therapies (OAT) and syringe services programs (SSP) may impro...

Feb 17, 2020

It was suggested that D, L-Methadone might improve the clinical course of glioma patients. Owing to massive press coverage, patients demand the prescription of D, L-Methadone, but regarding its adjunc...

Feb 17, 2020

Pain in people with advanced cancer is prevalent. When a stable dose of opioids is established, people still experience episodic breakthrough pain for which dosing of an immediate release opioid is us...

Feb 17, 2020

To identify associations between opioid-related mortality and neighborhood-level risk factors.Cross-sectional study.Massachusetts, USA.Using 2011-2014 Massachusetts death certificate data, we identifi...

Feb 17, 2020

Deregulated circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) are potential biomarkers for the early detection and prognosis prediction of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The aim of the present study was to investig...

Feb 17, 2020

The prognostic value of platelet distribution width (PDW) is different in various malignancies. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between preoperative PDW and survival in pati...

Feb 17, 2020

CD73 induces the dephosphorylation of adenosine monophosphate converting it to adenosine, enabling malignancies to escape from immune surveillance. Although CD73 overexpression has been reported to be...

Feb 17, 2020

Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is the standard care for inoperable early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The purpose of our study was to investigate whether a prediction model based o...

Jan 30, 2020

Resection margin status has been recognized as an independent prognostic factor on overall survival in pancreatic cancer patients undergoing surgical resection. However, its impact after neoadjuvant t...

Jan 27, 2020

The significant burden of emergency operations in low- and middle-income countries can overwhelm surgical capacity leading to a backlog of elective surgical cases. The purpose of this investigation wa...

Jan 27, 2020

To introduce the laparoscopic approach in liver transplant recipients.Despite the increasingly frequent use of laparoscopy in living donor hepatectomy, the laparoscopic approach has never been reporte...

Jan 27, 2020

To achieve a consensus statement on robotic mastectomy.Robotic-assisted surgery has gained much attention especially the results of few case series reporting on the technical feasibility, safety and e...

Jan 27, 2020

Our objective was to identify perceptions of the environment for women in surgery among 4 academic institutions.Faculty surgeons and senior surgery residents were randomly selected to participate in a...

Jan 24, 2020

In light of the heightened risk for infection associated with solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, rapid and accurate microbiology diagnostics are essential to the practice of tran...

Jan 24, 2020

Pioneered by the Mayo Clinic, multimodal therapy with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and orthotopic liver transplant has emerged as a promising option for unresectable hilar cholangiocarcinoma. This st...

Jan 24, 2020

This review article focuses on current clinical outcomes with novel perfusion strategies in organ transplantation. Broadly, these approaches can be divided into in-situ regional perfusion in the donor...