Association between miRNA polymorphisms and susceptibility to brain tumors: A meta-analysis.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Contracture of dacryocyst by an implanted lacrimal silicone tube is rare. This report describes a unique case of secondary dacryocystitis and the contracture of dacryocyst caused by a lacrimal silicone tube that was placed in the lacrimal system for 10 years. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 63-year-old female was diag...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li L,Lai Z,Huang W,Xu F,Wu Y

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:This study aims to evaluate the diagnostic value of beta-endorphin (β-EP) and brain natriuretic peptid (BNP) plasma concentrations for the early diagnosis of acute left heart failure and atrial fibrillation. PATIENT CONCERNS:A total of 45 patients were included. These patients comprised 23 male and 22 female...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Feng SD,Jiang Y,Lin ZH,Lin PH,Lin SM,Liu QC

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is a common problem in the elderly age group, and some studies have reported an association between OH and increased mortality. We evaluated possible associations between OH and mortality in a retrospective study of frail elderly patients who came for a comprehensive geriatric assessment. ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Freud T,Punchik B,Press Y

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：ABSTRACT:Carbon dioxide (CO2) gas is an established alternative to iodine contrast during angiography in patients with risk of postcontrast acute kidney injury and in those with history of iodine contrast allergy. Different CO2 delivery systems during angiography are reported in literature, with automated delivery syst...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Thomas RP,Viniol S,König AM,Portig I,Swaid Z,Mahnken AH

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000006423.]. ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors：

更新日期：2017-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus have a poor prognosis of pregnancy, since it is associated with significant maternal and fetal morbidity, including spontaneous miscarriage, pre-eclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, fetal death and pre-term delivery. We report a case with successful pregnancy in a pati...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： de Macedo JF,de Macedo GC,Campos LA,Baltatu OC

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rectal cancer is one of the most common tumors and is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in developed countries. Lymph node involvement remains the strongest prognostic factor associated with a worse prognosis in patients with rectal cancer. Several systematic reviews have investigated the accuracy o...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wang X,Gao Y,Li J,Wu J,Wang B,Ma X,Tian J,Shen M,Wang J

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incidental gastric subepithelial tumor (SET) is frequently found during endoscopy. Although endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) can provide useful information, its diagnostic accuracy varies. Most of the potentially malignant tumors observed on EUS are hypoechoic lesions. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the diagnostic...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lim TW,Choi CW,Kang DH,Kim HW,Park SB,Kim SJ

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the SYNTAX Score has limitations, it should be replaced by another better angiographic tool. By comparing mortality that was observed following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients who were allotted a low versus a high score, we aimed to systematically investigate mortality prediction usin...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yang H,Zhang L,Xu CH

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH) is one of the most common neurosurgical diseases. However, complicated subdural empyema rarely occurs after trepanation and drainage of chronic subdural hematoma. PATIENT CONCERNS:A male patient (77 years old) was admitted to the hospital on the 2nd day of fever after an unde...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Xue H,Zhang W,Shi L,Zhang Y,Yu B,Yang H

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To demonstrate the mechanisms of the curative effect of Saussurea lappa ethanol extract (SLE) against prostate cancer, we evaluated the effect of SLE on the induction of apoptosis and autophagy and investigated whether SLE-induced autophagy exerts a pro-survival or pro-apoptotic effect in lymph node carcinoma of the p...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Tian X,Song HS,Cho YM,Park B,Song YJ,Jang S,Kang SC

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:X-linked dominant hypophosphatemia rickets (XLH, OMIM 307800) is the most common hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets and characterized by growth retardation, skeletal malformations, dental dysplasia, spontaneous fractures and osteomalacia. PHEX gene was identified for XLH and novel mutations were consistent w...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Gao Y,Wang ZM,Li XL

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute chronic liver failure (ACLF) is the most common type of liver failure. The clinical symptoms are complex and changeable, the treatment is difficult and the fatality rate is high. It has become an urgent problem to actively seek effective treatment means and improve the clinical efficacy of ACLF patient...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chen Y,Luo Y,Wu F,Liao N,Shi Q,Mao D

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2.COVID-19 is highly pathogenic and infectious. COVID-19 epidemic is still spreading all over the world, and there is no sign of stopping at present. There is no specific cure for this disease...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhou H,Chen D,Zhang Y,Zhu Q,Yang Y,Liu Y,Gong G,Xie C

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Acrometastasis is infrequent and generally indicates a wider spread of metastasis with poor prognosis. The diagnosis is challenging, as it might mimic an infectious, inflammatory, or metabolic disease. Acrometastasis are most commonly found in patients with lung, gastrointestinal, kidney, and breast cancer...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Gallardo-Alvarado L,Ramos AA,Perez-Montiel D,Ramirez-Morales R,Diaz E,Leon DC

更新日期：2020-07-02 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：:Several points can be made from analysis of the published cases of cutaneous mycobacteriosis and those in our series: 1) mycobacterial cutaneous infections are probably more common than is reported-we collected 34 cases over a 10-year period; 2) most patients with cutaneous infections caused by nontuberculous mycobact...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Beyt BE Jr,Ortbals DW,Santa Cruz DJ,Kobayashi GS,Eisen AZ,Medoff G

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of our study was to compare the clinical and surgical characteristics of pregnant and nonpregnant women with surgically verified ovarian torsion, as well as the differences among 3 trimesters during pregnancy.We conducted a retrospective study of patients diagnosed with surgically proven ovarian torsion in our...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wu WF,Wang ZH,Xiu YL,Xie X,Pan M

更新日期：2020-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have observed a high level of circulating interleukin-10 (IL-10) in patients with digestive cancers, yet whether elevated IL-10 is causally associated with digestive cancers so far remained unresolved. We therefore meta-analyzed available observational studies with Mendelian randomization method to expl...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Niu W,Pang Q,Lin T,Wang Z,Zhang J,Tai M,Zhang L,Zhang L,Gu M,Liu C,Qu K

更新日期：2016-02-01 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：:Echocardiography and cardiac biomarkers, such as cardiac troponin I (cTnI) and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-pro BNP) are useful tools to evaluate cardiac dysfunction. Left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD) is common in pediatric severe sepsis. The aim of this study is to evaluate the prognostic ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li J,Ning B,Wang Y,Li B,Qian J,Ren H,Zhang J,Hu X

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies have reported increased incidence, prevalence and acuity of periodontitis in adults with diabetes and some have also suggested that treating periodontal disease may improve glycemic control in diabetic patients. This meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the effects of different periodontal the...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wang TF,Jen IA,Chou C,Lei YP

更新日期：2014-12-01 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：:Mirabegron, which was the first β3-adrenoceptor agonist introduced for use in clinical practice, has been extensively evaluated in overactive bladder (OAB) patients in several phase II and III studies. However, most of the enrolled patients were treatment naive or had experienced a wash-out period before the introduct...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liao CH,Kuo HC

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Osteopetrosis is a rare disease that predominantly occurs in descendants of inbreeding families. In the case of fractures happen in patients with osteopetrosis, the choice between operative or conservative treatment is still controversial. Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) is a conventional treatmen...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Huang J,Pan J,Xu M,Xu S

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma (SSEH) manifests from blood accumulating in the epidural space, compressing the spinal cord, and leading to acute neurological deficits. The disease's cloudy etiology and rarity contribute to dangerously suboptimal therapeutic principles. These neural deficits can be perma...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Raasck K,Khoury J,Aoude A,Abduljabbar F,Jarzem P

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to evaluate the clinical and radiographic treatment outcomes of comminuted Mason type II radial head fractures, which underwent open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) using a new implant (mother-child screw, MCS).This study included 16 patients (7 male and 9 female patients; mean age: 40.9 years, ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Shi Y,Wang GF,Mei K,Zhang J,Yun CJ,Qian C,Sun JY

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is a febrile disease characterized by acute, spontaneously resolving episodes of fever and pain caused by serosal inflammation and associated with mutations in the FMF gene, MEFV. Prophylaxis is maintained with colchicine. To our knowledge, no study has yet shown an association betwe...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Tweezer-Zaks N,Doron-Libner A,Weiss P,Ben-Horin S,Barshack I,Lidar M,Livneh A

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Apatinib-targeted therapy is considered a promising treatment option for malignancies. This study systematically evaluated the efficacy and safety of the combination of apatinib and S-1 for the treatment of patients with advanced gastric cancer (GC). METHODS:Clinical trials were searched from the PubMed, Co...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liu Y,Zhou C,Zhang K,Feng Y,Zhang R

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the current era of multidrug-resistant organisms, the clinical spectrum of Streptococcus pneumoniae infection remains unclear, especially in immunosuppressed patients with cancer. We sought to define the characteristics of pneumococcal bacteremia in patients who were receiving care at a comprehensive cancer center....

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Kumashi P,Girgawy E,Tarrand JJ,Rolston KV,Raad II,Safdar A

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00