A systematic review and meta-analysis including GRADE qualification of the risk of surgical site infections after prophylactic negative pressure wound therapy compared with conventional dressings in clean and contaminated surgery.

abstract：:The cerebellum has been proven to be connected to the brain network, as in the default-mode network (DMN), among healthy subjects and patients with psychiatric disorders. However, whether or not abnormal cerebellar DMN connectivity exists and what its clinical significance is among drug-naive patients with somatizatio...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wang H,Guo W,Liu F,Chen J,Wu R,Zhang Z,Yu M,Li L,Zhao J

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radial external fixator has been proposed to treat delayed irreducible Gartland type III supracondylar humeral fracture, and this study aims to compare its effects with crossed pinning in a retrospective fashion. Delayed supracondylar humeral fracture is defined as more than 72 hours after injury, 2 or more than 2 tim...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li J,Rai S,Tang X,Ze R,Liu R,Hong P

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Infertility is a common medical condition that affects nearly 15% of the world population. Non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) is one of the most severe forms of male infertility. Some common structural variants, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), and genetic factors were reported to be associated with NOA...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhao H,Zhang H,Xi Q,Li L,Zhu H,Hu X,Liu R

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Inflammatory demyelinating neuropathies such as Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) are autoimmune disorders that may have a common pathogenesis. Here, we describe 2 unique cases of FSGS, 1 with GBS and the othe...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Mao Y,Zhang M,Liu S,Xu Y,Xue J,Hao C,Lai L

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Gouty panniculitis, characterised by the deposition of monosodium urate crystals in subcutaneous tissue, is a rare clinical manifestation of gout. PATIENT CONCERNS:The case of a 67-year-old man is reported, who presented an erythematous nodule on the upper part of the right buttock suspicious for an abscess....

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Martin D,Joliat GR,Fournier P,Brunel C,Demartines N,Gié O

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Characterized by diffuse hepatic fibrosis and nodule formation, hepatitis B cirrhosis (HBC), an important result of chronic hepatitis B development, mainly contains compensated and decompensated stage. Compensated cirrhosis can further develop into decompensated stage and hepatocellular carcinoma with seriou...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Jiang X,Xie L,Huang C,Liu Y,Liu H,Liu B,Zheng L

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preeclampsia is characterized by an increased sensitivity to angiotensin II (Ang II). We herein assessed whether serum Ang II levels measured by a new developed bioassay are associated with preeclampsia, its severity, and the risk for developing this disease.Using a cross-sectional design, we studied 90 pregnant women...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Leaños-Miranda A,Inova Campos-Galicia,Méndez-Aguilar F,Molina-Pérez CJ,Ramírez-Valenzuela KL,Sillas-Pardo LJ,Uraga-Camacho NC,Isordia-Salas I,Berumen-Lechuga MG

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle fascicles lengthen in response to chronic passive stretch through in-series sarcomere addition in order to maintain an optimum sarcomere length. In turn, the muscles' force generating capacity, maximum excursion, and contraction velocity is enhanced. Thus, longer fascicles suggest a greater capacity to develop ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Martín Lorenzo T,Albi Rodríguez G,Rocon E,Martínez Caballero I,Lerma Lara S

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laparoscopic surgery performed through a single incision is relatively new. Here, we investigated the importance of radiological anatomical evaluation of the umbilicus prior to such surgery.Umbilical images of 500 patients who underwent computed tomography (CT) in 2019 were evaluated retrospectively, using both transv...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Oztop MB,Er A

更新日期：2020-07-10 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：BACKGROUND:To synthesize and evaluate the impact of implementing post-2010 World Health Organization (WHO) prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) guidelines on attainment of PMTCT targets. METHODS:Retrospective and prospective cohort study designs that utilized routinely collected data with a focus on prov...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Gumede-Moyo S,Filteau S,Munthali T,Todd J,Musonda P

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Informed consent has now become common in medical practice. However, a gap still exists between doctors and patients in the understanding of clinical conditions. We designed medical comics about "subarachnoid hemorrhage" and "intracerebral hemorrhage" to help doctors obtain informed consent intuitively, quickly, and c...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Furuno Y,Sasajima H

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) is often complicated with chronic renal failure. Though the total parathyroidectomy (TPTX) with forearm autotransplantation (FAT) has been commonly used to treatment refractory renal SHPT, the recurrence of SHPT is not infrequent, resulting from hyperplastic autograft, rem...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang J,Dong MJ,Yang J,Tian D

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of liver is rare, and its prognosis is extremely poor. This study aims at reviewing the clinical data of all pathologically diagnosed liver cancer in our institute, and discussing the clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of our cases of SCC and the literature...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang XF,Du ZQ,Liu XM,Lv Y

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Postoperative atrial arrhythmias (PAAs) are common complications after esophagectomy, however research findings are contradicted on the prognosis. Therefore this meta-analysis was conducted to determine whether PAAs after esophagectomy had an impact on prognosis. METHODS:Studies comparing prognosis between ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chen LT,Jiang CY

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：: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：RATIONALE:Acute chest pain remains one of the most challenging complaints of patients presenting to emergency departments (EDs). The diverse etiologies of chest pain frequently lead to diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Esophageal perforation is a rare but potentially life-threatening disease. It results in delayed...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Tzeng CH,Chen WK,Lu HC,Chen HH,Lee KI,Wu YS,Lee FY

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Danshen injection (DSI) is a traditional Chinese medicine preparation extracted from Danshen (Salvia miltiorrhiza), which has the functions of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Heart failure (HF) is a complex cardiovascular disease, always leading to frequent onset and hospitalization, d...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yuan T,Chen Y,Zhou X,Lin X,Zhang Q

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simple bone cysts (SBCs) are benign bone tumors. However, the treatment of SBCs remains controversial because of their healing rate and the invasiveness of surgery. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the treatment of SBCs using a cannulated hydroxyapatite (HA) pin.A total of 43 patients (35 males, 8 fema...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Shirai T,Tsuchiya H,Terauchi R,Tsuchida S,Mizoshiri N,Ikoma K,Fujiwara H,Miwa S,Kimura H,Takeuchi A,Hayashi K,Yamamoto N,Kubo T

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is a global disease with significant morbidity and mortality. Although low peripheral blood cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) cell counts are found to be related to a high burden of cryptococcus in HIV-infected patients, little is known about possible immune defects in previously healthy ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Xu L,Huang Q,Lin JR,Zhu CY,Li XH,Ye SK,Zhu AH,Chen DH,Zhang CF,Chen L,Ling Y

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Cutaneous metastases from colorectal cancer are extremely rare and generally appear several years after diagnosis or resection of the primary colorectal tumor. Although cutaneous metastasis is unusual, it often indicates a poor prognosis. PATIENT CONCERNS:We treated a 62-year-old woman with multiple cutaneou...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liao L,Cheng Q,Zhu G,Pei F,Ye S

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal serum potassium levels are associated with an increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias and mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether different levels of serum potassium, within the normal range, are associated with worse outcomes. The p...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Shlomai G,Berkovitch A,Pinchevski-Kadir S,Bornstein G,Leibowitz A,Goldenberg I,Grossman E

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a common degenerative joint disorder that affects 250 million people globally. KOA can lead to disability and is often associated with cardiovascular disease, poor quality of life, and mortality. The most common treatment for KOA is non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug administra...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wu SY,Lin CH,Chang NJ,Hu WL,Hung YC,Tsao Y,Kuo CA

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate factors affecting ablation effect and safety of ultrasound-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound (USgHIFU) for uterine fibroids (UFs).A retrospective analysis of 346 patients with symptomatic UFs who were treated with USgHIFU was performed. All UFs was grouped based o...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Fan HJ,Zhang C,Lei HT,Cun JP,Zhao W,Huang JQ,Zhai Y

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial remodeling plays a significant role during the progression of atrial fibrillation (AF). Left atrial wall thickness (LAT) is a subjective and easily acquirable indicator referring to structural remodeling. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the association between LAT and atrial remodeling substrate, and to expl...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zuo K,Li K,Liu M,Li J,Liu X,Liu X,Zhong J,Yang X

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is to evaluate the screening methods of cervical cancers for rural females in Kash bachu, Xinjiang, China.A total number of 3000 married females were surveyed, and subjected to the gynecological examination. In these subjects, 1993 females received the careHPV (human papillomavirus) test, while 1007 females...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Naizhaer G,Yuan J,Mijiti P,Aierken K,Abulizi G,Qiao Y

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasonographic microcalcification is highly related to papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) and pathologic psammoma body is a poor prognostic factor. However, it is little known about whether the microcalcifications seen on ultrasonography are consistent with the pathologic psammoma bodies. We evaluated the relationship b...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Kim BK,Lee EM,Kim JH,Oak SY,Kwon SK,Choi YS,Kim YO

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between tuberculosis (TB) and lung cancer is well known. However, carcinogenesis of TB and its connection with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation remains unclear. This study aimed to determine this connection to see if TB can affect the outcome of patients with lung cancer. This is a retr...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chang CH,Lee CH,Ho CC,Wang JY,Yu CJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00