Do genetic polymorphisms modulate response rate and toxicity of Cisplatin associated with radiotherapy in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma?: a case report.

abstract：RATIONALE:Immunoglobulin G4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is regarded as an immune-mediated systemic fibroinflammatory disease. Several studies have linked IgG4-RD to infections such as tuberculosis and actinomycosis. However, the coexistence of IgG4-RD and non-tuberculous mycobacterium (NTM) in a single pulmonary nodule h...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Bae K,Jung An H,Jeon KN,Hyun Song D,Kim SH,Kim HC

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Premature ejaculation (PE) affects 8% to 30% of adult men worldwide. Recently, the incidence of PE is on the rise. A series of prior studies suggested that the incidence of PE is related to various biological factors as low testosterone, low serum vitamin D, diabetes, lower urinary tract symptoms, and othe...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li G,Chang D,Chen D,Zhang P,You Y,Huang X,Cai J

更新日期：2020-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is essential for eradicating tuberculosis (TB). Moreover, the patient adherence is crucial in determining the effectiveness of TB control. Isoniazid given by DOTS daily for 9 months (9H) is the standard treatment for LTBI in Taiwan. However, the completion rate is low ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Huang YW,Yang SF,Yeh YP,Tsao TC,Tsao SM

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia is a ubiquitous environmental pathogen that causes infection primarily following inhalation into the lungs. It is generally thought to cause infection primarily in immunocompromised patients, but nonimmunocompromised individuals are also at risk of infection. We sought to compare risk factors, clinical manife...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Steinbrink J,Leavens J,Kauffman CA,Miceli MH

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cardiac troponin I (cTnI) elevation in patients presenting to the hospital with supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) is well recognized, the prevalence, predictors, and prognostic significance of cTnI elevation associated with SVT presentation are not known. We screened records of all patients presenting to 2 h...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chow GV,Hirsch GA,Spragg DD,Cai JX,Cheng A,Ziegelstein RC,Marine JE

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Different protocols have been suggested to treat aluminum phosphide (ALP) poisoning. We aimed to evaluate the possible therapeutic effect of hyperinsulinemia/euglycemia (HIE) in treatment of ALP poisoning. METHODS:In a prospective interventional study, a total of 88 ALP-poisoned patients were included and a...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Hassanian-Moghaddam H,Zamani N

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The benefit of prebiopsy empirical antibiotics for patients with infectious spondylitis and the effect on clinical outcome are not well known. This study assessed the impact of prebiopsy empirical antibiotics in patients with infectious spondylitis. We retrospectively reviewed 41 adult in-patients with infectious spon...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wang YC,Wong CB,Wang IC,Fu TS,Chen LH,Chen WJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Gorham-Stout syndrome in the spine is extremely rare, and there is no standard curative management thus far. The objective of this article is to report a very rare case of Gorham-Stout syndrome of the lumbar and sacral spine with chylothorax and chyloperitoneum successfully treated by combination of vertebrop...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liu S,Zhou X,Song A,Kong X,Wang Y,Liu Y

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Radiation exposure has been a hot point in research field of computed tomography (CT). Recently, automated tube current modulation (ATCM) has emerged as an important technique to reduce radiation exposure. Many studies have shown that the difference in scout view would affect modulation. This prospective ran...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Peng W,Li Z,Xia C,Guo Y,Zhang J,Zhang K,Li L,Zhao F

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second-most-common chronic and progressive neurodegenerative disease. The long-term use of levodopa leads to a loss of efficacy and to complications. Therefore, many patients with PD have turned to complementary therapies to help relieve their symptoms. Acupuncture is most com...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lee SH,Lim S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Iatrogenic chylous leakage (CL) is a rare but potentially life-threatening complication after neck surgery. In cirrhotic patient, the massive CL is even more intractable and extremely dangerous due to portal hypertension. PATIENTS CONCERNS:A 54-year-old liver cirrhotic patient had milky fluid leakage from le...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Su CL,Chang GH,Fang KH,Chang CC

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional Chinese medicine tongue diagnosis can mirror the status of the internal organ, but evidence is lacking regarding the accuracy of tongue diagnosis to gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). This study was to investigate the association between GERD and tongue manifestation, and whether tongue imaging could ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wu TC,Lu CN,Hu WL,Wu KL,Chiang JY,Sheen JM,Hung YC

更新日期：2020-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The associations of tea consumption with risk of oral cancer remain not clear. The present meta-analysis aims to clarify the real relationship between tea intake and the risk of oral cancer and quantifies the potential dose-response relationship between them.A Web search was performed within Pubmed, Embase, and Web of...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhou H,Wu W,Wang F,Qi H,Cheng Z

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Assessing the effectiveness and safety of Chinese medicine for the mastitis in COVID-19 patients is the main purpose of this systematic review protocol. METHODS:The following electronic databases will be searched from inception to April 2020: MEDLINE, Ovid, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, the Allied and Compl...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wen D,Shi Y,Zhang X,Lv G

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is one type of renal replacement therapy, but potential peritoneal damage and gastrointestinal (GI) tract adverse effects during long-term exposure to bio-incompatible dialysate remain a concern. Although GI disease frequently occurs in dialysis patients, whether the risk of GI diseases differ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lee YC,Hung SY,Wang HH,Wang HK,Lin CW,Chang MY,Ho LC,Chen YT,Wu CF,Chen HC,Wang WM,Sung JM,Chiou YY,Lin SH

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Stylohyoid complex syndrome is characterized by various cervicopharyngeal symptoms related to the ossification and abnormality of the styloid process, stylohyoid ligament, and the lesser horn of the hyoid bone. Eagle syndrome is the most well-known of the spectra of these diseases. Although surgical treatment...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lee YW,Chung J

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:To explore the correlation between platelet endothelial aggregation receptor-1 (PEAR1) genetic polymorphism and pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE).Variant loci of the PEAR1 gene were screened in a PTE pedigree, followed by verification using Sanger sequencing. These polymorphic loci were validated in 101 PTE patients and...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Fu Y,Sun S,Liang J,Liu S,Jiang Y,Xu L,Mei J

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to elucidate the relationship between serum liver fibrosis markers (Mac-2 binding protein glycosylation isomer (M2BPGi), FIB-4 index, aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index and hyaluronic acid), and skeletal muscle mass and to investigate factors linked to skeletal muscle mass loss (SMML) in patie...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Takata R,Nishikawa H,Enomoto H,Iwata Y,Ishii A,Miyamoto Y,Ishii N,Yuri Y,Hasegawa K,Nakano C,Nishimura T,Yoh K,Aizawa N,Sakai Y,Ikeda N,Takashima T,Iijima H,Nishiguchi S

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Multiple pulmonary leiomyomatous hamartoma (MPLH) is an extremely rare benign disease that mostly occurs in women of reproductive age. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 32-year-old female patient recently diagnosed with multiple bilateral pulmonary nodules. She has the symptoms of dry cough, chest tightness, dyspnea on exe...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Cheng D,Zhang F,Hu K

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Non-traumatic bowel perforation caused by cytomegalovirus (CMV) and Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infections has become rare among patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART); however, CMV-associated and MAC-related immune reconstitution ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lee YC,Chiou CC,Wang JT,Yang YC,Tung SH,Hsieh SM

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the clinical outcome of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) in minute submucosa (SM) invasion or undifferentiated early gastric cancer (EGC) and analyzed factors related to local recurrence after ESD.We retrospectively reviewed the chart of EGC patients, who underwent ESD at our tertiary hospit...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Kim JS,Kang SH,Moon HS,Lee ES,Kim SH,Sung JK,Lee BS,Jeong HY

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Fulminant macrolide-resistant Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (MPP) has seldom been reported, and cases of MPP usually show rapid improvement after fluoroquinolones or tetracyclines addition. The purpose of this case report is to highlight the importance of proper selection of antibiotics for treatment of sev...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yuan X,Liu J,Bai C,Niu W,Wang J,Li P,Liu H,Luo Y

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with plasma cell dyscrasias, manifested by osteosclerotic bone lesions and small amounts of M protein, and a complicating multi-system disorder are described. Their features of severe sensory-motor polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrine dysfunction, anasarca, elevated CSF protein, and skin hyperpigmentat...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Bardwick PA,Zvaifler NJ,Gill GN,Newman D,Greenway GD,Resnick DL

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We followed prospectively 834 consecutive patients (70% inpatients), evaluated for suspected pulmonary embolism, for a median time of 2.1 years (range, 0-4.8 yr), and compared the survival rates in patients with proven pulmonary embolism (n=320) with those without (n=514). In multivariate analysis, we modeled the prob...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Miniati M,Monti S,Bottai M,Scoscia E,Bauleo C,Tonelli L,Dainelli A,Giuntini C

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Although several studies have described the involvement pattern of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) using muscle MRI, most of these studies have limitations as cross-sectional studies. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no reports of longitudinal studies describing muscle involvement patterns in pat...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Park JS,Park D

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the stress induced by well-functioning hand constraint in forced-use therapy (FUT) for children with unilateral spastic cerebral palsy (CP).Seventeen children with unilateral spastic CP (mean age 5.8 years) received FUT: 4-week unaffected upper limb immobilization with a short-arm Scotchcast an...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Ko EJ,Sung IY,Yuk JS

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is important to improve the training for nursing home staff in order to achieve better quality of life for the elderly.This study aimed to develop a systematic training program for nursing home staff based on the concept of combination of medicine and care.Thirty-four nursing staff from 2 representative nursing hom...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wang L,Chen H,Yang L,Qian C,Sun D,Sun Y

更新日期：2020-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Primary leiomyosarcoma (LMS) of the fallopian tube is extremely uncommon. To the best of our knowledge, so far only 21 cases of primary fallopian tube LMS have been reported in English-language literature. No new case has been reported in the past 7 years. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 44-year-old premenopausal patient...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： You D,Wang Q,Jiang W,Lin L,Yi T,Zhao L,Li M,Wang P

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Germinomas are sensitive to radiation therapy and chemotherapy; therefore, correct imaging diagnosis is crucial for them. However, the imaging findings of germinomas originating from off-midline regions displayed different patterns from those originating from midline areas. PATIENT CONCERNS:The objective of ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wei XH,Shen HC,Tang SX,Gao CH,Ren JL,Ai L,Dai JP

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to study the feasibility of body surface projection in neuroendoscopic treatment of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), and to evaluate the prognosis of muscle strength using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) technique. METHODS:We utilized 3D-SLICER software and adopted hematoma body surface projection ori...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Qiu S,Liu T,Cao G,Wu K,Zhao T

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00