Emergency department companions of stroke patients: implications on quality of care.

abstract：:Hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) is a common childhood infection that may lead to serious complications and even death. Globally, epidemics of HFMD are increasing each year, especially in China. This study aimed to identify risk factors for death in children with critical and severe HFMD in Chongqing, China.We perfo...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zheng G,Cao J,Yu J,Zhang Z,Liu Q,Chen J

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with brain metastases (BMs) have been found as subjects of poor prognosis. Whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT), surgery, and stereotactic radiosurgery, epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI), or some combinations are the most commonly empl...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yang Y,Pu Y,Dai N,Wang D,Xu M

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to confirm and complement previous data regarding an association between gastroesophageal reflux disease and appendectomy.The Korean National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort includes data from people ≥ 20 years old collected from 2002 to 2013. A total of 13,484 participants...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Kim SY,Kim HJ,Lim H,Lim MS,Kim M,Choi HG

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute cellular rejection after liver transplantation (LT) can be treated with steroid pulse therapy, but there is no ideal treatment for steroid-resistant acute rejection (SRAR). We aimed to determine the feasibility and potential complications of rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin (rATG) application to treat SRAR in live...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lee JG,Lee J,Lee JJ,Song SH,Ju MK,Choi GH,Kim MS,Choi JS,Kim SI,Joo DJ

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic vasculitis (SV) involving abdominal structures usually has a poor prognosis. Gallbladder vasculitis (GV) has been reported as part of SV (GB-SV) and focal single-organ vasculitis (GB-SOV). We analyzed clinical and histologic characteristics of patients with GV to identify features that differentiate GB-SOV fr...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Hernández-Rodríguez J,Tan CD,Rodríguez ER,Hoffman GS

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cancer of the splenic flexure of the colon is a rare medical entity with severe morbidity because of its insidious onset. METHODS:We present the case of a 59-year-old male patient with dull left upper quadrant pain, leukocytosis, and anemia. A splenic abscess described as an air-fluid level with splenoc...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Awotar GK,Luo F,Zhao Z,Guan G,Ning S,Ren J,Liu Y,Wang G,Liu P

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies have reported increased incidence, prevalence and acuity of periodontitis in adults with diabetes and some have also suggested that treating periodontal disease may improve glycemic control in diabetic patients. This meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the effects of different periodontal the...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wang TF,Jen IA,Chou C,Lei YP

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of radiotherapy for patients with oligometastases from colorectal cancer (CRC).This was a retrospective cross-sectional study. Patients with liver and/or lung oligometastatic lesions from CRC treated with curative-intent radiotherapy in West C...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： He X,Zhang P,Li Z,Bi F,Xu F,Wang X,Shen Y,Li Q,Qiu M

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CyclinD1 (CCND1) is a key cell cycle regulatory protein. A large number of epidemiological studies have assessed the potential correlation between the CCND1 G870A polymorphism and the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC), but their findings have been inconsistent. To obtain a more precise understanding of the ass...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Xie M,Zhao F,Zou X,Jin S,Xiong S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with cancer are of a high level risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) is recommended as the normal treatment for cancer-associated venous thrombosis. Recently, some studies suggest that patients with cancer-associated venous thrombosis can get a good efficacy and ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chen H,Tao R,Zhao H,Jiang J,Yang J

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant unprotected left main (LM) coronary artery disease is frequently associated with severe multivessel disease and increased mortality and morbidity compared with non-LM coronary artery disease. This study compared the clinical outcomes of patients with LM disease who received percutaneous coronary interventi...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Su CS,Chen YW,Shen CH,Liu TJ,Chang Y,Lee WL

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appreciation of the frequency of the congenitally malformed aortic valve has come about during the last 50 years, a period during which aortic valve replacement became a predictably successful operation. Study of patients at necropsy with either a congenitally unicuspid (1 true commissure) or bicuspid (2 true commissu...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Roberts WC,Vowels TJ,Ko JM

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) is an important clinic problem. It is assessed that prevalence of chronic pain extends to 30% but it is contended that there are various risk factors. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of chronic pain after hysterectomy, risk factors of chronicity, neuropathic features of pain, and s...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Beyaz SG,Özocak H,Ergönenç T,Palabıyık O,Tuna AT,Kaya B,Erkorkmaz Ü,Akdemir N

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the incidence risk of programmed cell death-1/programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-1/PD-L1) inhibitor-related alopecia for cancer patients, the meta-analysis was put into practice. METHOD:The meta-analysis was designed and put into practice according to the preferred reporting items for systematic re...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li M,Huang L,Ren X,Liu L,Shi Q,Liu L,Wang X,Tian Y,Yu L,Mi F

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Long-term use of aspirin for primary prevention of cancer remains inconclusive, and variation in the effects of aspirin use on cancer outcomes by cancer site, aspirin dose, follow-up duration, or different populations has never been systematically evaluated. METHODS:Seven electronic databases (PubMed, EMBAS...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wu Q,Chen H,Yao X,Li T,Xu C,Wang J,Sui X,Leung EL

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate diagnosis efficacy of dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) and diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) in Crohn's disease (CD). To find out the correlations between functional MRI parameters including K, Kep, Ve, Vp, and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) with a serologic biomarker...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhu J,Zhang F,Luan Y,Cao P,Liu F,He W,Wang D

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with peritoneal metastases (PM) are generally considered incurable; therefore, the presence of PM is a critical factor in deciding between palliative surgery and curative resection as a therapeutic strategy. Previous studies have not determined the predictive value of ascites detected on computed tomography (...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Kim SH,Choi YH,Kim JW,Oh S,Lee S,Kim BG,Lee KL

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate patterns and locations of lymph node metastasis in locally advanced cervical cancers.A total of 244 consecutive patients with stage IIb cervical cancer were retrospectively evaluated. Contrast-enhanced CT scans were used for lymph node grading. Lymph nodes with the shortest axi...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liu Z,Hu K,Liu A,Shen J,Hou X,Lian X,Sun S,Yan J,Zhang F

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This research aims to assess the response to acid suppression therapy in gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)-related chronic laryngitis (CL). METHODS:Data were extracted from Web of Knowledge, Embase, and PubMed for English language article published up to March 2016. Pooled overall response rate (ORR) r...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yang Y,Wu H,Zhou J

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increased expression of the homeobox (HOX) transcript antisense RNA (HOTAIR) has been reported in multiple types of malignancies and enhances the proliferation and migration of cancer cells. However, the association between HOTAIR expression and tumor progression and prognosis remains controversial. We perfo...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Min SN,Wei T,Wang XT,Wu LL,Yu GY

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presently noninvasive methods were employed to the diagnosis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), including fatty liver index (FLI), hepatic steatosis index (HSI), product of fasting triglyceride and glucose levels (TyG), and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), whereas the accuracy of those indexes need to b...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yang H,Chen G,Song C,Li D,Ma Q,Chen G,Li X

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine whether there was a significant association between red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and uric acid (UA) in a large Chinese population.This was a cross-sectional study with an enrollment of 80,298 ostensibly healthy participants (48,971 males, 31,327 females) during the per...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang C,Meng Z,Li X,Liu M,Ren X,Zhu M,He Q,Zhang Q,Song K,Jia Q,Chen Q

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To establish the comparative effectiveness of all available biologic therapy regimens for ankylosing spondylitis, we performed a systematic review and a Bayesian network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. PubMed, Medline, Embase, Cochrane library, and ClinicalTrials.gov were searched from the inception of ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chen C,Zhang X,Xiao L,Zhang X,Ma X

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Behçet's disease (BD) is a chronic immune-mediated inflammatory disorder involving multiple organ systems. In BD, intestinal ulcers can present as a refractory lesion capable of perforation, which makes the choice of treatment difficult. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 34-year-old male who was diagnosed with intestinal B...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yan Z,Cui BB,Yu YY,Yin G,Cen XM,Xie QB

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Epithelioid trophoblastic tumor (ETT) is a very rare form of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) which arises from neoplastic proliferation of intermediate trophoblasts. Metastatic ETT of the lung is extremely rare in postmenopausal women. PATIENT CONCERNS:Here we describe a 50-year-old woman with a meta...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lei W,Zhang F,Zheng C,Zhao C,Tu S,Bao Y

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VASA, also known as DDX4, is reported to be specifically expressed in cells belonging to the germ cell lineage, both in males and females. Therefore, it could be an informative protein biomarker to be applied on semen to differentiate between obstructive and nonobstructive azoospermia (OA and NOA, respectively). In ad...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Boellaard WPA,Stoop H,Gillis AJM,Oosterhuis JW,Looijenga LHJ

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs2476601 of the protein tyrosine phosphatase, nonreceptor type 22 (PTPN22) gene has been presented to implicate in the pathogenesis of alopecia areata (AA) in a few association investigations with limited sample size and inconsistent conclusions. METHODS:The aim of ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lei ZX,Chen WJ,Liang JQ,Wang YJ,Jin L,Xu C,Kang XJ

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aim to screen the mutations of 3 hearing loss (HL) genes (GJB2, SLC26A4, and 12S rRNA) in 71 cases with nonsyndromic hearing loss (NSHL) using microarray and SNPscan, and identify the roles of nonhotspot mutation of these genes in the screening of NSHL. Seventy-one cases with moderate or severe neurosensory deafnes...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Han R,Li L,Duan L,Xia Y,Kuyaxi P,Zhao J,Zhao Q,Zhang H,Chen Y

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this paper was to define an unexplained non-classified polyneuropathy condition as a new neurological disease. This new diagnosis of occupation related polyneuropathy has been named as "WORKING HAND SYNDROME (WHS)."This study collected and compared clinic and electrophysiological analyze data from healthy c...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Özdemir G

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of secondary colonic neoplasia proximal to obstructing colorectal cancer is essential for determining the range of colorectal resection.We examined the accuracy of 18-fluoro deoxy glucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) for detection of colonic neoplasia.We recruited patients with obstructing col...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Hojo D,Tanaka T,Takahashi M,Murono K,Emoto S,Kaneko M,Sasaki K,Otani K,Nishikawa T,Hata K,Kawai K,Momose T,Nozawa H

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00