Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Stimulate Aldosterone Production in a Subset of Aldosterone-Producing Adenoma.

abstract：:Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2) probably plays an important role in the development of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). However, alterations of Lp-PLA2 levels during ACS and its association with cardiovascular outcome are unclear. Our aim was to investigate the change in Lp-PLA2 and its association wit...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li J,Wang H,Tian J,Chen B,Du F

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With conflicting results in the literature, it remains unclear whether a higher field strength automatically increases the sensitivity and specificity of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for detecting pathological lesions in the knee. Therefore, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies c...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Cheng Q,Zhao FC

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Negative pressure pulmonary edema (NPPE) is a serious well-described pulmonary complication. It occurs after an intense inspiratory effort against an obstructed or closed upper airway and generates a large negative airway pressure, leading to severe pulmonary edema (transvascular fluid filtration and intersti...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Rosero-Britton B,Uribe A,Stoicea N,Periel L,Bergese SD

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although percutaneous nephrolithotomy is minimally invasive, it is associated with several complications, including extravasation of fluid and urine, the need for a blood transfusion, and septicemia. However, little is known about pulmonary complications after this procedure. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the risk f...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yu J,Choi JM,Lee J,Kwon K,Kong YG,Seo H,Hwang JH,Park HK,Kim YK

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Sclerosing thymoma is an extremely rare mediastinal neoplasm; it was recognized for the first time in 1994 and to date only 15 cases have been reported. PATIENT CONCERNS:The present study report a case of a 65-year-old man who was incidentally found to have an anterior mediastinal nodule, without clinical sy...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li X,Wang M,Sun D

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As surgeries are performed around the clock, the time of surgery might have an impact on outcomes. Our aim is to investigate the impact of daytime and nighttime shifts on surgeons and their performance. We believe that such studies are important to enhance the quality of surgeries and their outcomes and help understan...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Alnajashi SS,Alayed SA,Al-Nasher SM,Aldebasi B,Khan MM

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The incidence of severe hyperandrogenism associated with masculinity in women is very low. While rare and difficult to diagnose, androgen secreting tumors should be suspected in women with hyperandrogenism and hirsutism, especially in the postmenopausal population. Herein we present one case of ovarian Leydig...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chen M,Zhou W,Zhang Z,Zou Y,Li C

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Metastatic involvement of the gastrointestinal tract is an uncommon scenario encountered in the clinical practice. Our case represents a gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) as a consequence of distant Transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) metastasis without any lymph node involvement in association with inflammatory...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Bandireddy M,Baffy N

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the correlation between single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of the 3' untranslated region (UTR) rs9722 locus in S100B and the risk of chronic heart failure (CHF), plasma levels of S100B protein as well as has-miR-340-3p in a Chinese Han population.A total of 215 patients with CHF (124 ischemic cardiomyopathy...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chen Y,Chen X,Yao M,Chen L,Chen W,Liu X

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Colorectal liver metastasis develops in 50% of patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer, whereas concurrent intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) and colorectal liver metastases is extremely rare. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 72-year-old man was referred to our hospital complaining of abdominal discomfort, diarrhea, ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Cheng X,Zhao F,Chen D,Yang P,Zhong W,Xu X,Wang W

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), Lens culinaris-agglutinin-reactive fraction of AFP (AFP-L3), and protein induced by vitamin K absence or antagonist-II (PIVKA-II) are widely used as tumor markers for the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). This study compared the diagnostic values of AFP, AFP-L3, and PIVKA-II individ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Park SJ,Jang JY,Jeong SW,Cho YK,Lee SH,Kim SG,Cha SW,Kim YS,Cho YD,Kim HS,Kim BS,Park S,Bang HI

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is to investigate the cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) infection rate in women of Urumqi, China.The epidemiological questionnaire survey was used to study 2300 women in Urumqi with a prospective research method. The second-generation hybrid capture assay, cervical liquid-based cytology test, colposcopy, ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yao L,Yuan M,Yuan J,Zhou P,Mei L,Cheng J

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:A 76-year-old female patient was diagnosed with an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage following rupture of a right posterior communicating artery aneurysm. PATIENT CONCERNS:She was treated surgically with clipping of the aneurysmal neck. Six months after onset, when starting rehabilitation at our hospital, s...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Jang SH,Chang CH,Jung YJ,Lee HD

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：:Using nasopharyngeal carriage as a marker of vaccine impact, pneumococcal colonization and its relation to invasive disease were examined in children, their parents, and older adults in the United Kingdom following introduction of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) and prior to 13-valent pneumococcal conju...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Hamaluba M,Kandasamy R,Ndimah S,Morton R,Caccamo M,Robinson H,Kelly S,Field A,Norman L,Plested E,Thompson BAV,Zafar A,Kerridge SA,Lazarus R,John T,Holmes J,Fenlon SN,Gould KA,Waight P,Hinds J,Crook D,Snape MD,

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical-site infection (SSI) is a common complication in orthopedic surgery; however, SSI after surgically managed distal femur fractures was not well studied. The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of SSI and identify some modifiable and nonmodifiable risk factors.The patients' electronic medical rec...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Bai Y,Zhang X,Tian Y,Tian D,Zhang B

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The best treatment option for patients with post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus (PHH) remains controversial. The objective of the current meta-analysis is to systematically evaluate the long-term outcomes of patients with PHH treated by ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) and lumboperitoneal shunt (LPS). METHODS:We...

journal_title：Medicine

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

更新日期：2020-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytokines are extensively involved in the process of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and take a crucial part in host immune regulation. We aimed to explore the potential correlation of cytokine single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with HCV susceptibility and response rate of interferon (IFN)-based antiviral therap...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Jing JS,Wang ZQ,Jiang YK,Zhang XY,Jiang WM

更新日期：2020-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The minimally invasive surgery possesses an essential and growing function in treating the calcaneal fractures, but the related literature on this topic is limited. For our study, the main purpose was to compare the early prognosis of a group of the patients with Sanders type II fracture of calcaneus treated...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Xue D,Lou B,Tan R,Yu H

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients exhibit an increased incidence of peptic ulcer disease. Helicobacter pylori plays a central role in the development of peptic ulcers. The effect of early H pylori eradication on the recurrence of complicated peptic ulcer disease in ESRD patients remains unclear. The aim of the p...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chang SS,Hu HY

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No previous study has used an ultrasonic cardiac output monitor (USCOM) to assess volume parameters, such as stroke volume variation (SVV), in order to predict the volume status and fluid responsivenes in children after congenital heart disease (CHD) surgery. The present prospective trial aimed to investigate the abil...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Cheng YW,Xu F,Li J

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune cells contribute to determining the prognosis of gastric cancer. However, their exact role is less clear. We determined the prognostic significance of different immune cells in intratumoral tissue (T), stromal tissue (S), and adjacent normal tissue (N) of 166 gastric cancer cases and their interactions, includi...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liu K,Yang K,Wu B,Chen H,Chen X,Chen X,Jiang L,Ye F,He D,Lu Z,Xue L,Zhang W,Li Q,Zhou Z,Mo X,Hu J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the changes in 3 mutations related with hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg) in patients with HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B (CHB) during interferon therapy.HBeAg seroconversion is a major therapeutic milestone for patients with HBeAg-positive CHB. The precore mutation G1896A and the basal core promoter mutation...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Geng Y,Wang X,Lu X,Wu X,Xu N,Han L,Xu J

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteinuria is a major determinant of adverse renal outcome, and its reduction slows renal progression in glomerular diseases. However, the optimal target of proteinuria in glomerular diseases is unclear, and discrepancies in the definition of proteinuria produce ambiguous findings. Here we investigated the optimal ta...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Kee YK,Yoon CY,Kim SJ,Moon SJ,Kim CH,Park JT,Lim BJ,Chang TI,Kang EW,Kie JH,Yoo TH,Jeong HJ,Kang SW,Han SH

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Esophageal point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has recently been reported as a useful, quick, safe, and simple technique to detect esophageal foreign bodies (FBs). However, case series to detect esophageal FB using POCUS have been rarely reported. Chicken bones and pills, especially, have not yet been reported a...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Ahn JH,Sohn Y

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Vasospastic angina is caused by sudden occlusive vasoconstriction of a segment of an epicardial artery, with transient ST-segment elevation on electrocardiography. Brugada Syndrome is an inherited arrhythmogenic cardiac disorder with a diagnostic electrocardiography characterized by coved-type ST-segment elev...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yang L,Ma G,Yu T,Gao H,Wang Y,Wu Y

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with multiple traumas associated with cardiopulmonary failure have a high mortality rate; however, such patients can be temporarily stabilized using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), providing a bridge to rescue therapy. Using a retrospective study design, we aimed to clarify the prognostic factors ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lin CY,Tsai FC,Lee HA,Tseng YH

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Previous studies have shown that microRNA-25 (miR-25) plays a key role in the occurrence and development of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Many studies have shown that there is a significant increment of miR-25 in circulating blood of patients with NSCLC. The meta-analysis aims to explore diagnostic valu...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li C,Sun L,Zhou H,Yang Y,Wang Y,She M,Chen J

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Post-treatment alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) response has been reported to be associated with prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients, but the results were not consistent. This meta-analysis aimed to explore the relationship between AFP response and clinical outcomes of HCC. METHODS:PubMed, Embase, M...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： He C,Peng W,Liu X,Li C,Li X,Wen TF

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The annual number of cases of culture-proven extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) at our hospital increased from 47 cases in 1983 to 113 cases in 1988. At least 43% (199) of 464 consecutive patients with extrapulmonary TB during this 6-year period were infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); since HIV serolo...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Shafer RW,Kim DS,Weiss JP,Quale JM

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00