Therapeutic effectiveness of neuromuscular electrical stimulation for treating patients with chronic low back pain.

abstract：RATIONALE:Castleman disease (CD) is a rare lymphoproliferative disease with a poorly understood etiology. The occurrence of CD in the abdominal cavity is very rare, especially in the retroperitoneal peripancreatic region. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 33-year-old woman was referred to our department on March 1, 2018 for a detail...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhou YX,Ji Y,Wu S

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with suspected non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTEACS) constitute a heterogeneous population with variable outcomes. Risk stratification in this population of patients is difficult due to the complexity in patient risk profile. We conducted this study to characterize the value of clinical ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： López de Sá E,López-Sendón J,Anguera I,Bethencourt A,Bosch X,Proyecto de Estudio del Pronostico de la Angina (PEPA) Investigators.

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to conduct a meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy and safety between once daily (OD) and twice daily (BD) regime dosing of mesalazine for mild-to-moderate ulcerative colitis (UC). METHODS:PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane library, and Web of Science from 1990 to November 2018 were investigated. We sea...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zheng X,Zhang Z,Wang B,Li J,Qiu C,Zhang Q,Wang X

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is a thrombotic microangiopathy defined by the sudden onset of hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and acute kidney injury (AKI). HUS is categorized as either typical, caused by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli infection, or atypical HUS (aHUS), usually complement medi...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Jean-Marie EM,Cho JJ,Trevino JG

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the risk factors of nosocomial pneumonia (NP) in elderly patients with acute cerebral infarction (ACI).In this study, 324 aged 70 years and over patients with ACI who were admitted to the inpatient department of TianJin First Hospital (China) from January 2012 to February 2018 were retrospectively analy...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： NanZhu Y,Xin L,Xianghua Y,Jun C,Min L

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：ABSTRACT:We examined whether the age of patients with rheumatoid arthritis was associated with adverse events (AEs) caused by biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (bDMARDs).Patients with rheumatoid arthritis using bDMARDs from Showa University Hospital, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, and Showa U...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Ikari Y,Yajima N,Miwa Y

更新日期：2020-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic and irreversible respiratory disease with a high incidence worldwide and no specific treatment. Currently, the etiology and pathogenesis of this disease remain largely unknown. In main purpose of this study, bioinformatics analysis was used to uncover key genes and pathways r...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Xu Z,Mo L,Feng X,Huang M,Li L

更新日期：2020-09-04 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：RATIONALE:Ectopic liver tissue can develop at various sites near the liver. Ectopic hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) arising from ectopic liver tissue have a rare clinical incidence. A very rare case has been observed to have metastasis after operation. PATIENT CONCERNS:We report an extremely rare case with multiple m...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li Z,Wu X,Wen T,Li C,Peng W

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most studies have focused on the prevalence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and acute exacerbation in Caucasian populations. DVT is supposedly less likely to occur among Asians than Caucasians, and the primary purpose of this study was ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chen CY,Liao KM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) is a kind of proinflammatory mediator to stimulate the innate and adaptive immune system and participates in a number of acute and chronic inflammatory processes after sterile injury or microbial invasion. HMGB1 has been suggested to be involved in the pathogenesis of many a...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhu B,Zhu Q,Li N,Wu T,Liu S,Liu S

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000007643.]. ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors：

更新日期：2017-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In order to increase treatment choices for patients with Parkinson disease (PD), we performed a retrospective assessment of adverse events associated with a novel once-daily extended-release (ER) formulation versus the standard immediate-release (IR) of the nonergolinic dopamine agonist, pramipexole. METHOD...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Shen Z,Kong D

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The relationship between antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) and ANCA-negative vasculitis has not been elucidated. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 64-year-old female with edema and proteinuria was admitted. A kidney biopsy indicated focal proliferative nephritis with crescents in 25...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li XL,Xu PC,Chen T,Yan TK,Jiang JQ,Jia JY,Wei L,Shang WY,Hu SY

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative brain disease that causes cognitive impairment in the elderly. Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD), also known as neuropsychiatric symptoms, represent a heterogeneous group of non-cognitive symptoms and behaviors for AD patients. Sleep di...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhou G,Liu S,Yu X,Zhao X,Ma L,Shan P

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Congenital myasthenic syndrome (CMSs) are a group of rare genetic disorders of the neurological junction, which can result in structural or functional weakness. Here, we characterized a case of CMS in order to clarify the diagnosis and expand the understanding of it. The molecular diagnosis had implications f...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yang K,Cheng H,Yuan F,Meng L,Yin R,Zhang Y,Wang S,Wang C,Lu Y,Xi J,Lu Q,Chen Y

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:The Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS), the largest ongoing longitudinal study of perinatal HIV-infected (PHIV) and HIV-exposed, uninfected (PHEU) children in the United States, comprises the Surveillance Monitoring of Antiretroviral Therapy [ART] Toxicities (SMARTT) Study in PHEU children and the Adolescent Mast...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Spector SA,Brummel SS,Nievergelt CM,Maihofer AX,Singh KK,Purswani MU,Williams PL,Hazra R,Van Dyke R,Seage GR 3rd,Pediatric HIV\/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS).

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：:Prolonged inspiratory to expiratory (I:E) ratio ventilation has been researched to reduce lung injury and improve oxygenation in surgical patients with one-lung ventilation (OLV) or carbon dioxide (CO2) pneumoperitoneum. We aimed to confirm the efficacy of the 1:1 equal ratio ventilation (ERV) compared with the 1:2 co...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Park JH,Lee JS,Lee JH,Shin S,Min NH,Kim MS

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies document significant improvement in motor symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) after deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN-DBS). However, little is known about the initial effects of STN-DBS on nonmotor domains.Our objective was to elucidate the initial effects of STN-DB...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Kurcova S,Bardon J,Vastik M,Vecerkova M,Frolova M,Hvizdosova L,Nevrly M,Mensikova K,Otruba P,Krahulik D,Kurca E,Sivak S,Zapletalova J,Kanovsky P

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detailed characterizations of ocular biometrics and parameters of aqueous humor dynamics are lacking in primary angle closure suspect (PACS) patients. This study aims to characterize these parameters and compare them with age-matched healthy volunteers.Elderly healthy volunteers (60.6 ± 7.2 years of age, mean ± SD, n ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Guo L,Deng Y,Fang L,Liu C,Guo T

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Caregivers encounter serious and substantial challenges in managing hypertension in patients with subclinical or clinical borderline personality disorder (BPD). These challenges include therapeutic conflicts resulting from harmful drug-drug, and drug-disease interactions. Current guidelines provide no recomm...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Roininen SM,Cheetham M,Mueller BU,Battegay E

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether statin use has any impact on survival of esophageal cancer patients remains controversial. Therefore, we conducted a meta-analysis focusing on current topic for the first time.We systematically searched the following databases for relevant studies comparing survival between statin users and non-users among eso...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Deng HY,Lan X,Zheng X,Zha P,Zhou J,Wang RL,Jiang R,Qiu XM

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Lupus erythematosus tumidus (LET) is an uncommon type of cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE) that is rarely associated with other forms of lupus erythematosus. PATIENT CONCERNS:We report a 62-year-old Chinese man presented with recurrent erythematous facial plaques for 1 year and a low-grade fever for 1 week...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chen X,Wang S,Li L

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus tracheobronchitis (AT) is an infrequent but severe form of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in which the fungal infection is entirely or predominantly confined to the tracheobronchial tree. We reviewed 8 cases of AT diagnosed in our tertiary care center during an 18-year period, as well as 148 cases previo...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Fernández-Ruiz M,Silva JT,San-Juan R,de Dios B,García-Luján R,López-Medrano F,Lizasoain M,Aguado JM

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Sporotrichosis is a subacute or chronic infection caused by sporothrix schenckii complex. The misdiagnosis rate of sporotrichosis is very high. Fungal microscopic examination and timely culture help us make an accurate diagnosis and treatment. We observed that combined treatments are more effective than monot...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Guo K,Wang S,Wang Z,Zhang L

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Women with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk of developing breast cancer. In Taiwan, traditional Chinese medicine is widely used to treat diabetes; however, its precise influence has not been empirically tested.The objective of the case-control study is to estimate the effect on the risk of breast cancer of using tra...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wu CT,Tsai YT,Lin JG,Fu SL,Lai JN

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article evaluates the long-term outcomes of computed tomography (CT)-guided percutaneous radiofrequency thermocoagulation (PRT) for patients with recurrent trigeminal neuralgia (TN) after microvascular decompression (MVD).This is a retrospective study of 41 patients with intractable TN who after MVD underwent CT-...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lai GH,Tang YZ,Wang XP,Qin HJ,Ni JX

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is to investigate the methylation status of multiple tumor suppressor 1 (p16), secreted glycoprotein 2 (SLIT2), scavenger receptor class A, member 5 putative (SCARA5), and human runt-related transcription factor 3 (Runx3) genes in the peripheral blood of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).This is a case-control...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Sun G,Zhang C,Feng M,Liu W,Xie H,Qin Q,Zhao E,Wan L

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00