Feb 18, 2020

MINI: In this randomized clinical trial to prevent anastomotic recurrence in Crohn disease, the new Kono-S anastomosis demonstrates a significant reduction in postoperative clinical and endoscopic rec...

Feb 18, 2020

Older adults, especially those with frailty, have a higher risk for complications and death after emergency surgery. Acute Care for the Elderly models have been successful in medical wards, but little...

Feb 18, 2020

The Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) care protocol has been shown to improve outcomes compared with traditional care in certain types of surgery.To assess the association of use of the ERAS prot...

Feb 18, 2020

Although short- and medium-term outcomes after liver transplantation for alcohol-related liver disease (ARLD) are generally excellent and similar to outcomes for transplantation for other indications,...

Feb 18, 2020

Arterial hypertension in renal transplant recipients warrants antihypertensive treatment. The preferable choice of antihypertensives that should be used in patients after kidney transplantation remain...

Feb 18, 2020

Synthetic hair fiber implantation first achieved widespread use in the 1970s, but in 1983, the US Federal Drug Administration banned the fibers due to its complications. Currently available synthetic ...

Feb 18, 2020

Patient selection and organ allocation for liver transplantation (LT) in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) relies predominantly on clinical parameters, such as tumor burden (i.e., radiologi...

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...