A Case Report of Locked-in Syndrome Due to Bilateral Vertebral Artery Dissection After Cervical Spine Manipulation Treated by Arterial Embolectomy.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of cervical vascular ultrasound (CVU) combined transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TDU) in the diagnosis of cerebral infarction (CI). METHODS:The following electronic databases will be sought from PUBMED, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, PSYCINFO, Web of Science,...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Qin LW,Wang C,Feng XJ,Wang XH,Qin LH,Weeks C

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study was to evaluate soluble ST-2 level and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in patients with breast cancer receiving doxorubicin or trastuzumab treatment for 6 months and determine whether soluble ST-2 level can be used to predictive left ventricular function impairment.Patients who were diagnos...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Huang G,Zhai J,Huang X,Zheng D

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) is a malignancy which very rarely occurs in maxillofacial location, and the course of the disease is not very characteristic.In this case report, we present a 58-year-old female patient with a painless tumor of the left angle of the mandible causing slight asymmetry of the face. She also reported ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lewandowski B,Brodowski R,Pakla P,Stopyra W,Gawron I

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research and management of XLH have concentrated on the disease in childhood, and the natural history and morbidity of XLH in adult life are thus poorly understood. We have studied 22 adults (6 men) with XLH to clarify these aspects of this most common inherited form of rickets and osteomalacia. Most study participant...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Reid IR,Hardy DC,Murphy WA,Teitelbaum SL,Bergfeld MA,Whyte MP

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to evaluate the image quality performance of coronary CT angiography (CTA) under the different settings of forward-projected model-based iterative reconstruction solutions (FIRST).Thirty patients undergoing coronary CTA were included. Each image was reconstructed using filtered back projection (FBP), adaptive...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Hirata K,Utsunomiya D,Kidoh M,Funama Y,Oda S,Yuki H,Nagayama Y,Iyama Y,Nakaura T,Sakabe D,Tsujita K,Yamashita Y

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with spinal fusion often have opioid tolerance and chronic pain, which makes it difficult to control postoperative pain. In this double-blind, randomized, prospective study, we assessed the safety and efficacy of intravenous low-dose ketamine for the treatment of pain in patients undergoing the lumb...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wang H,Ma L,Chen Y

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Our Renal Care Center (RCC) is a separate building, performing almost 2500 outpatient dialysis runs per month. In May 2007, 2 patients developed, days apart, bacteremia with an apparently identical nonfermentative Gram-negative rod. Because of difficulty identifying the organism, testing in the Biolog system identifie...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Stevens DA,Hamilton JR,Johnson N,Kim KK,Lee JS

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of 18F-fuorodexoyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG-PET/CT) in the staging of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) and aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) has been demonstrated extensively. Nevertheless, the role of PET/CT in the diagnosis, staging, prognosis, and treatment evaluatio...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhou X,Lu K,Geng L,Li X,Jiang Y,Wang X

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dry eye disease is a common eye disease mainly manifests with eye fatigue, foreign body sensation, dry and astringent eyes and other symptoms. Growing evidence shows that qiming granule may have beneficial effects on the clinical treatment of dry eye disease. However, no systematic review and meta-analysis c...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yang M,Hu Z,Yue R,Yang L,Zhang B,Chen Y

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Sarcomatous or anaplastic carcinoma mural nodules presenting in ovarian mucinous cystic tumors are very rare. Here, we reported the ultrasonic and pathological features of 2 such cases. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 60-year-old woman presented with a complaint of lower abdominal pain. Physical examination revealed a ha...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang Y,Yuan Z,Sun K,Li P

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Kawasaki disease (KD) is a systemic inflammatory disease. Standard imaging features of KD include interstitial and lobular inflammatory lesions in the lungs, while KD shock syndrome (KDSS), complicated with substantial consolidation and atelectasis in the lung, is rarely reported. PATIENTS CONCERNS:Herein...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Song Y,Wei W,Liu L,Wang Y,Shi X,Li L

更新日期：2020-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine whether scrotoscopy could be used to diagnose testicular rupture (TR) with accuracy.This retrospective study included all patients receiving scrotoscopy followed by immediate open exploration (OE) for suspected TR at two Chinese tertiary care centers between March 2014 and March 2018.Fifteen patients suspec...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wei Y,Yang J,Hong H,Gao Y,Wu J,Wu X,Zhang R,Lin L,Li T,Yang F,Ye L,Zhu Q

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Hepatoid adenocarcinoma (HAC) of the fallopian tubes is a rare malignant tumor in the female reproductive system. PATIENT CONCERNS:An 81-year-old Chinese woman presented with an elevated serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) level. DIAGNOSIS:Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) scan revealed a ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li M,Yang K,Wang P

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to retrospectively investigate the changes in pulmonary function and its influencing factors in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) undergoing preoperative brace treatment or not. METHODS:Total 237 AIS patients (43 boys, 194 girls) who underwent operations and had a ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Ran B,Fan Y,Yuan F,Guo K,Zhu X

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of a publication in a particular medical area is reflected by the number of times the article is included as a citation. It is not known, however, which articles are cited the most in primary care journals. In our study, we aimed to identify the 100 most cited articles in primary care medicine and analyze t...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li H,Zhao X,Zheng P,Hu M,Lu Y,Jia F,Tong X

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Contracture of dacryocyst by an implanted lacrimal silicone tube is rare. This report describes a unique case of secondary dacryocystitis and the contracture of dacryocyst caused by a lacrimal silicone tube that was placed in the lacrimal system for 10 years. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 63-year-old female was diag...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li L,Lai Z,Huang W,Xu F,Wu Y

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000005314.]. ...

journal_title：Medicine

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更新日期：2017-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Early risk stratification is crucial for appropriate management using invasive strategies in non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), and electrocardiography (ECG) has been widely used for risk stratification. However, ECG findings in NSTEMI vary, and there is a need to define the clinical characteristics and ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Jin ES,Park CB,Kim DH,Hwang HJ,Cho JM,Sohn IS,Kim CJ

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postoperative hypothermia in elderly patients is a well-known serious complication as it impairs wound healing, induces coagulopathy, increases the risk of blood loss, enhances oxygen consumption, and precipitates cardiac arrhythmias. We conducted this randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of a ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Xu H,Xu G,Ren C,Liu L,Wei L

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to provide an innovative nomogram to predict the risk of >2 positive nodes in patients fulfilling the Z0011 criteria with 1-2 sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) only retrieved.From 2007 to 2017, at the Breast Unit of ICS Maugeri Hospital 271 patients with 1-2 macrometastatic SLNs, fulfilling the Z00...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Corsi F,Sorrentino L,Albasini S,Bossi D,Morasso C,Villani L,Truffi M

更新日期：2020-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：ABSTRACT:This study aimed to examine whether marginal sinus placenta previa, defined as when the marginal sinus just reaches the internal cervical os and placental parenchyma might be >2 cm from the internal cervical os, can be diagnosed using ultrasonography (US). We identified the placenta previa cases that underwent...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Ishibashi H,Miyamoto M,Shinmoto H,Soga S,Iwahashi H,Kakimoto S,Matsuura H,Sakamoto T,Hada T,Suzuki R,Takano M

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:One of the most common complications following autologous cranioplasty is bone flap resorption (BFR). Severe BFR can lead to revision surgery with implantation of synthetic bone flap and also necessarily lead to higher hospital expenses. This study aims to perform a meta-analysis to summarize available evide...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yang J,Sun T,Yuan Y,Li X,Zhou Y,Guan J

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The diagnosis of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-negative inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMT) remains challenging because of their morphological resemblance with spindle cell sarcoma with myofibroblastic characteristics. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 69-year-old female patient presented with loco-regional recurr...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Hou TC,Wu PS,Huang WY,Yang YT,Tan KT,Liu SH,Chen YJ,Chen SJ,Su YW

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to assess the independent contribution of hyperuricemia to coronary artery disease (CAD) confirmed by coronary angiography (CAG), and to explore associations between serum uric acid (SUA) level and CAD.We performed a retrospective cohort study of 5069 patients who underwent CAG. Patients were ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lan M,Liu B,He Q

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is a life-threatening complication following pegylated interferon alpha (PEG-IFN) plus ribavirin treatment, the standard treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. We reported a rare case with late-onset ITP after withdrawal of PEG-IFN treatment.A 53-year-old male with hepat...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Hsiao CH,Tseng KC,Tseng CW,Tung CH

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mental and physical stress is thought to play an important causative factor in apical ballooning syndrome (ABS) likely secondary to the vasomotor dysfunction. However, there are currently few data related to the impact of physical stress in this unique cardiomyopathy.A total 18 patients, including 8 females with histo...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Sun T,Widmer RJ,Matsuzawa Y,Lennon RJ,Park KH,Lerman LO,Lerman A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of salvage chemotherapy on recurrent or persistent ovarian clear cell carcinoma (CCC) with the goal of identifying a more rational treatment regimen for this lethal disease.The medical records of patients with CCC were retrospectively reviewed to select patients th...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Bai H,Sha G,Cao D,Yang J,Chen J,Wang Y,Lang J,Shen K,Zhang Z

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spinal fusion surgery, total blood loss (TBL) is composed of visible blood loss from the surgical field and wound drainage, and hidden blood loss (HBL). Until now, no published studies exist reporting the effect of topical use of tranexamic acid (tTXA) on HBL in patients undergoing posterior lumbar spinal fusion su...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Ren Z,Li S,Sheng L,Zhuang Q,Li Z,Xu D,Chen X,Jiang P,Zhang X

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperphosphatemia-induced vascular calcification and higher alkaline phosphatase (ALP) levels-related high-turnover bone diseases are linked to mortality among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Nonetheless, no large epidemiological study in patients with CKD has been conducted to investigate the interaction ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chang JF,Feng YF,Peng YS,Hsu SP,Pai MF,Chen HY,Wu HY,Yang JY

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to evaluate the association between fracture history and sequential risk of suicidal behavior.A total of 82,804 patients with fractures and 82,804 control subjects without fractures were matched. The influence of fractures on the risk of suicidal behavior-related hospital visit was analyzed using a Co...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Tsai CH,Cheng WJ,Muo CH,Lin TL

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00