A case report of mixed acinar-endocrine carcinoma of the pancreas treated with S-1 chemotherapy: Does it work or induce endocrine differentiation?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Osteopathic medicine is an emerging and complementary method used in neonatology. METHODS:Outcomes were the mean difference in length of stay (LOS) and costs between osteopathy and alternative treatment group. A comprehensive literature search of (quasi)- randomized controlled trials (RCTs), was conducted f...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lanaro D,Ruffini N,Manzotti A,Lista G

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We initiated a prospective study with a group of practitioners to assess the etiology, clinical presentation, and outcome of community-acquired pneumonia in patients diagnosed in the outpatient setting. All patients with signs and symptoms suggestive of pneumonia and an infiltrate on chest X-ray underwent an extensive...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Bochud PY,Moser F,Erard P,Verdon F,Studer JP,Villard G,Cosendai A,Cotting M,Heim F,Tissot J,Strub Y,Pazeller M,Saghafi L,Wenger A,Germann D,Matter L,Bille J,Pfister L,Francioli P

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammation associated with low 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality among HIV-infected patients with vitamin D deficiency. We investigated the association between 25(OH)D and soluble biomarkers among HIV-infected patients on stable antiretroviral therapy. This is a cross...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Gangcuangco LMA,Kohorn LB,Chow DC,Keating SM,Norris PJ,Nagamine LS,Ndhlovu LC,Souza SA,Kallianpur KJ,Shikuma CM

更新日期：2016-10-01 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：OBJECTIVE:This study was performed to explore the effects of probucol on contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CIAKI) in patients with coronary heart disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). METHODS:In total, 220 patients undergoing PCI were randomly assigned to either the control group (hydration ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wang Y,Shi Y,Xu X,Ge W,Yang S,Lu C

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is expected to generate forces toward physician-hospital integration, this study examined an understudied, albeit important, area of costs incurred in physician-hospital integration. Such costs were analyzed through 24 semi-structured i...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Cho NE

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strength training has, in recent years, been shown to be beneficial for people with Parkinson disease and multiple sclerosis. Consensus regarding its utility for these disorders nevertheless remains contentious among healthcare professionals. Greater clarity is required, especially in regards to the type and magnitude...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Cruickshank TM,Reyes AR,Ziman MR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This pilot study aimed to evaluate the feasibility effectiveness and safety of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for patients with acute tinnitus. METHODS:A total of 46 eligible patients with acute tinnitus were entered and included in this randomized controlled trial. All the included pati...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li L,Shi H,Wang M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Asthma is the most common chronic lung disease in childhood, leading to a great burden to the healthcare system worldwide. Despite the medication treatment, physiotherapy is now applied for asthmatic children aiming to improve their lung function and life quality. However, the effectiveness of physiotherapy ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang W,Liu L,Yang W,Liu H

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CD34 is a transmembrane phosphoglycoprotein that was first identified on hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. CD34 is known as an optimum marker for microvascular density studies and it is positively stained in pathological and physiologic vessels. The use of CD34 for the prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment of neo...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Kong X,Guan J,Ma W,Li Y,Xing B,Yang Y,Wang Y,Gao J,Wei J,Yao Y,Xu Z,Dou W,Lian W,Su C,Ren Z,Wang R

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is rare in children and determining the underlying etiologies is essential for treatment. Venous thromboembolism, a well-known complication in nephrotic syndrome (NS), always occurrs during the treatment in course of the disease. However, CTEPH as the firs...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Ma F,Zhou K,Hua Y,Liu X,Duan H,Li Y,Wang C

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serum pepsinogen assay (sPGA) combining concentration of pepsinogen I (PG I), and the ratio of PG I/II is the noninvasive biomarker for predicting chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG) and neoplasms reflecting mucosal secretory status. Although various cut-off values have been suggested, PG I ≤70 ng/mL and PG I/I...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Bang CS,Lee JJ,Baik GH

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Drug resistant epilepsy (DRE) is very common among children and adults and studies had found some related risk factors for DRE, while the results were not consistent. The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for drug-resistant epilepsy. METHODS:Three electronic databases (Medline, Embase and Cochr...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Xue-Ping W,Hai-Jiao W,Li-Na Z,Xu D,Ling L

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to assess the efficacy of allograft in 2-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) with plate fixation by comparing its clinical and radiological outcomes to those of autograft.Thirty five patients with femur cortical allografts and 32 patients with tricortical iliac autografts were evaluat...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Park JS,Park SJ,Lee CS,Chung SS,Park HJ

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic, immune/antigen-mediated disease characterized clinically by symptoms related to esophageal dysfunction and histologically by a marked eosinophilic infiltrate in the esophageal mucosa. What was once considered a rare disease has nowadays become one of the most fr...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Trifan A,Stoica O,Chihaia CA,Danciu M,Stanciu C,Singeap AM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a surgical procedure to replace the weight-bearing surfaces of the knee joint to relieve pain and disability. However, blood loss and fibrinolytic activity, accounting for a poor prognosis following TKA operation, were relieved by fibrinolytic inhibitor tranexamic acid (TXA)....

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang YM,Yang B,Sun XD,Zhang Z

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) is an effective method to treat single compartment disease of the knee joint. Report about the complications of UKA, especially tibial plateau fractures, is rare. Given its rarity, its pathogenesis is not well described, and a standard of treatment is still not establi...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lu C,Ye G,Liu W,Wu H,Wu G,Chen J

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to calculate and compare the volume of hidden blood loss (HBL) and perioperative blood loss between open posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) and transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) by Wiltse approach.We retrospectively analyzed 143 patients between March 2017 and December 2...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lei F,Li Z,He W,Tian X,Zheng L,Kang J,Feng D

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the monocyte count to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (MHR) was found to be associated with the SYNTAX score in patients with both stable coronary artery disease (CAD) and acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The MHR was significantly higher in male patients. However, the sex-specific association of MHR...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Xu W,Guan H,Gao D,Pan J,Wang Z,Alam M,Lian J,Zhou J

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormalities in the levels of calcium, phosphorus, and parathyroid hormone (PTH) in serum are typical for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). They are used routinely to predict the onset of CKD-mineral and bone disorder (MBD). However, CKD-MBD associated with metabolic pathway imbalance is not well understood...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wu Q,Lai X,Zhu Z,Hong Z,Dong X,Wang T,Wang H,Lou Z,Lin Q,Guo Z,Chai Y

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:To compare the clinical outcome of digital and manual marking for toric intraocular lens (IOL) alignment. This is a prospective clinical study that included 60 eyes of 60 patients undergoing cataract surgery with coexisting corneal astigmatism more than 1 diopter (D). The eyes were randomly assigned to either digital ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Elhofi AH,Helaly HA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the influence of various distributions of bone cement on the clinical efficacy of percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) in treating osteoporotic vertebrae compression fractures.A total of 201 OVCF patients (30 males and 171 females) who received PKP treatment in our hospital were enrolled in this study. According...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： He S,Zhang Y,Lv N,Wang S,Wang Y,Wu S,He F,Chen A,Qian Z,Chen J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since little has been reported about complications of spinal anesthesia in adult tethered cord syndrome (TCS), we sought to delineate the characteristics of the condition.A total of 4 cases of adult TCS after spinal anesthesia were reviewed. The medical charts of the patients were obtained. Anesthesia, which was combi...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liu JJ,Guan Z,Gao Z,Xiang L,Zhao F,Huang SL

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) requiring admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) has been inadequately studied. We compared characteristics and outcomes of patients with CAP who were admitted to the ICU with those of patients managed on the ward. Of the 3675 patients hospitalized with CAP, 374 (10%) were ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Marrie TJ,Shariatzadeh MR

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hexachloroethane (HC)/zinc chloride (ZnCl, smoke bomb) exposure in the military setting results in lung injury which is uncommon and has been rarely described in previous studies. The aim of this study is to investigate the correlation between the serum zinc in patients with HC/ZnCl smoke inhalation lung injury and di...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Xie F,Zhang X,Xie L

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the characteristics and short-term outcome of perioperative myocardial infarction (PMI), a single-center retrospective study was carried out. The electronic medical records of 278,939 patients aged 45 years or older who underwent non-cardiac surgery at Renji Hospital from January 2003 to December 2015 were ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhou X,Chen L,Su Z,Li Y,Tu M,Xiao J,Pan Z,Su D

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP) is an acute febrile illness that may be mistaken for an infectious pneumonia. Patients are often young and otherwise healthy. Clues to considering this disorder in a differential diagnosis include the acuity and severity of the clinical presentation and an initial chest X-...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Pope-Harman AL,Davis WB,Allen ED,Christoforidis AJ,Allen JN

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pericardial infection caused by Acinetobacter baumannii is rare, particularly that of carbapenem-resistant A baumannii (CRAB). CASE PRESENTATION:We describe a rare case of purulent pericarditis due to CRAB in a 76-year-old man with acute myocardial infarction and acute kidney injury. The man was admitted to...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liu J,Xiao X,Cen C,Yuan H,Yang M

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vandetanib is a promising anticancer target agent for treating advanced carcinomas, such as non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and breast cancer. Rash is a frequently reported adverse event of vandetanib. We conducted this meta-analysis to determine the incidence rate and overall risks of all-grade and high-...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liu Y,Qi M,Hou S,Shao L,Zhang J,Li Y,Liu Q

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00