Overexpression of glypican-3 is a predictor of poor prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma: An updated meta-analysis.

abstract：BACKGROUND:At present, drug therapy for diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D) has made great progress; however, it does not often produce a satisfying curative effect. Transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation over acupoints (Acu-TENS) might be more effective in improving patient's symptoms and producin...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Han BY,Shao QF,Cong Y,Guo S,Mao XY,Wei RH,Wei W

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical, roentgenographic and pathologic findings in patients with chronic eosinophilic pneumonia, including 19 additional cases, have been reviewed and summarized. Most patients present with subacute respiratory and constitutional symptoms and have failed to respond to therapy for presumptive pneumonia. A previous h...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Jederlinic PJ,Sicilian L,Gaensler EA

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-acting β2-agonists (SABA) are widely used in the emergency department (ED) to treat patients with decompensated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We sought to model the effectiveness of nebulized SABA (terbutaline) on clinically relevant parameters associated with a reduction in work of breathing or ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Gueho F,Beaune S,Devillier P,Urien S,Faisy C

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Acute pancreatitis (AP) is one of the most common diseases of gastroenterological emergency with a highly variable clinical course and the incidence being on the rise in recent years. Posttraumatic diaphragmatic hernia is an uncommon disease and may manifest immediately or several years after the incident. De...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lai Y,Yu C,Zhu Y,Pan X

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The mixed convolution kernel alters his properties geographically according to the depicted organ structure, especially for the lung. Therefore, we compared the image quality of the mixed convolution kernel to standard soft and hard kernel reconstructions for different organ structures in thoracic computed tomography ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Neubauer J,Spira EM,Strube J,Langer M,Voss C,Kotter E

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Colorectal cancer (CRC) has been divided into 4 consensus molecular subtypes (CMSs), of which CMS4 has the mesenchymal identity and the highest relapse rate. Our goal is to develop a prognostic signature by integrating the immune system and mesenchymal modalities involved in CMS4. METHODS:The gene expressio...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang B,Wang L,Liu Z,Shao B,Jiang W,Shu P

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to establish a new formula for estimating renal depth, based on anthropometric variables, and to compare the estimates with actual data from a group of living kidney donors undergoing computed tomography angiography (CTA).Renal depths in 167 living kidney donors were measured by CTA. Regression analysis was u...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Xue J,Deng H,Jia X,Wang Y,Lu X,Ding X,Li Q,Yang A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the safety and efficacy of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) as compared with the traditional care in patients undergoing liver surgery and optimization of enhanced recovery programs.Literature, until August 2016, was searched to identify the comparative studies evaluating preoperative hospital stay tim...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li L,Chen J,Liu Z,Li Q,Shi Y

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to summarize current evidence evaluating the association between antenatal infection and intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH) in preterm infants. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We searched for published articles on antenatal infection and IVH in 3 English (PubMed, the Cochrane Library, and EBS...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Huang J,Meng J,Choonara I,Xiong T,Wang Y,Wang H,Qu Y,Mu D

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Pulmonary amyloidosis is a rare respiratory disease characterized by amyloid deposition in the lungs. The clinical manifestations of pulmonary amyloidosis are variable and without specific symptoms. PATIENT CONCERNS:We report a rare case of tracheobronchial amyloidosis to improve our understanding of the dis...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Peng X,Wang X,Luo D,Zuo W,Yao H,Zhang W

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Cervical cancer primarily spreads through direct invasion or via local lymphatics, and hematogenous metastasis is infrequent. Previous reports have shown that lung, liver, and bone are the organs most frequently affected by hematogenous metastasis of cervical cancer, while skeletal muscle is very rarely invol...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Omokawa N,Mabuchi S,Iwai K,Kawahara N,Kawaguchi R,Sugimoto S,Ohbayashi C,Honoki K,Nagai A,Kobayashi H

更新日期：2020-05-01 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：:B7 negative costimulatory molecules are a group of molecules associated with the occurrence, development, and therapy of cancers. Here, we aimed to determine the clinical significance of PD-L1, B7-H3, and B7-H4 and their expression in CD8 and CD68 positive cells at different stages of gastric carcinogenesis.We detecte...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Guo L,Liu Z,Zhang Y,Quan Q,Huang L,Xu Y,Cao L,Zhang X

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This meta-analysis assessed the clinical efficacy and safety of cefoperazone-sulbactam for empiric therapy febrile neutropenia. METHODS:The PubMed, Web of Science, EBSCO, Cochrane Library, Ovid Medline, EMBASE, and ClinicalTrial.gov database were searched through May 10, 2019. Only clinical trials comparing ce...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lan SH,Chang SP,Lai CC,Lu LC,Tang HJ

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the pathogenesis of somatic solid cancer-related cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST).A total of 174 patients with CVST were recruited from the hospital between January 2006 and December 2017 and divided into two groups: (1) somatic cancer-related CVST group, defined as active somatic solid cancer pa...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Xian Z,Chen Y,Chen L,Lu Q,Huang G,Qin Q,Zeng J,Liang Z

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to retrospectively analyze the clinical data of resected adenosquamous lung cancer (ASLC) and to explore the influencing factors and clinicopathological characteristics of the metastasis lymph nodes. A total of 1156 consecutive patients with surgically resected lung cancer from January 2009 t...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Kong M,Jin J,Cai X,Shen J,Ma D,Ye M,Zhu C,Freedman S,Walters K,Xu X,Chen B

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) has not played a large role in the surveillance of hepatocellular carcinoma due to inadequate sensitivity and specificity for active chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of AFP in small hepatocellular carcinomas after hepatitis C virus er...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Minami T,Tateishi R,Kondo M,Nakagomi R,Fujiwara N,Sato M,Uchino K,Enooku K,Nakagawa H,Asaoka Y,Kondo Y,Moriya K,Shiina S,Koike K

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Healthcare workers (HCWs) were at the frontline during the battle against coronavirus. Understanding and managing their fears and anxieties may hold lessons for handling future outbreaks. However, the experiences and perceptions risk of HCWs from coronavirus still remains to be controversial. Thus, the objec...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chen P,Lei J,Chen F,Zhou B

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The top-cited systematic reviews/meta-analyses in tuberculosis research have not been identified. The objective of this study was to identify the 100 top-cited systematic reviews/meta-analyses in tuberculosis research, and to understand factors resulting in highly cited works, and establish trends in systema...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang Y,Huang J,Du L

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Curative treatments for very early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), defined as single HCC with a maximum diameter of <2 cm in patients with well-preserved liver function, consist of surgical resection or radiofrequency ablation (RFA). In this retrospective study, we compared the efficacy of both treatments in 154...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Kim TH,Chang JM,Um SH,Jee H,Lee YR,Lee HA,Yim SY,Han NY,Lee JM,Choi HS,Kim ES,Yu YD,Keum B,Kim MJ,An H,Park BJ,Seo YS,Kim DS,Yim HJ,Cho SB,Jeen YT,Lee HS,Chun HJ,Kim YH,Kim CD

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate clinical values of clinicopathologic and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT)-related parameters for prediction of v-Ki-ras2 Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) mutation in colorectal cancer (CRC) and to investigate their variability depen...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lee JH,Kang J,Baik SH,Lee KY,Lim BJ,Jeon TJ,Ryu YH,Sohn SK

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though chronic abdominal pain is 1 of the most common reasons for hospital visits, diagnostic testing is often time-consuming and treatment is inadequate. Abdominal myofascial pain syndrome (AMPS) is usually not included as a differential diagnosis, but it should be considered in cases of chronic abdominal pain. ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Rhim HC,Cha JH,Cha J,Kim DH

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite widespread pneumococcal vaccination of children and adults, invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) remains prominent. Using our database of all Streptococcus pneumoniae infections at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, since 2000, we reviewed cases of IPD, defined as the isolation of pneumococci ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Rueda AM,Serpa JA,Matloobi M,Mushtaq M,Musher DM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite advances in surgical techniques in the management of the brain abscess, continuous systemic long-term antibiotics are necessary and crucial. This study was designed to evaluate the effect of intracavity administration of high-dose antibiotics on the course of antibiotic therapy. METHODS:Between 2003...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yu X,Liu R,Wang Y,Zhao H,Chen J,Zhang J,Hu C

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoporosis is a severe chronic skeletal disorder that increases the risks of disability and mortality; however, the mechanism of this disease and the protein markers for prognosis of osteoporosis have not been well characterized. This study aims to characterize the imbalanced serum proteostasis, the disturbed pathwa...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lv M,Cui C,Chen P,Li Z

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid complications resulting from excess iodide such as thyrotoxicosis, thyroiditis, sialadenitis, or hypothyroidism are much rarer after iodine supplementation with Lipiodol than with KI. They do not militate against its widespread use in endemic goiter populations, especially in pregnant women. However, patients ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wolff J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Hereditary diffuse leukoencephalopathy with neuroaxonal spheroids (HDLS) is a rare disease with white matter lesions of the central nervous system, and it usually has autosomal dominant inheritance. Its pathogenesis and causes are complex, and it has obvious clinical and genetic heterogeneities; also, it is c...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Shi T,Li J,Tan C,Chen J

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The RF ablation of ventricular tachycardia (VT) or atrial flutter (AFl) can be unsuccessful due to lack of lesion transmurality. Bipolar ablation (BA) is more successful than unipolar ablation (UA). The purpose of our study was to investigate the long-term effect of BA ablation in patients after failed UA....

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Baszko A,Kochman K,Królak T,Kałmucki P,Telec W,Ożegowski S,Szyszka A

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is to investigate the subgingival bacterial diversity and community structure in the Uygur subjects with peri-implantitis.Totally 40 cases of gingival crevicular fluid were collected from Uygur subjects and divided into the Control group (healthy implants) and Case group (peri-implantitis), respectively. DN...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Gao X,Zhou J,Sun X,Li X,Zhou Y

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is characterized by recovery of wall motion abnormalities and acute left ventricular dysfunction, which are often caused by acute physical or emotional stressors. It is rarely reported that TTS can be precipitated by change in position in the patient in the operating room. We report a...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang Z,Kong H,Zhang SY,Guan TT

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00