Pooled analysis of efficacy and safety of ureteral stent removal using an extraction string.

abstract：:The porphyrias are a group of rare metabolic disorders. The incidence and prevalence are low because the acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is rare. Our aim was to assess the use of anthropometric and quality-of-life parameters in porphyric patients in order to identify predictor factors that might help in characteriz...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Jiménez-Monreal AM,Murcia M,Gómez-Murcia V,Bibiloni MDM,Pons A,Tur JA,Martínez-Tomé M

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective single-center study to describe the clinical features of sinonasal sarcoidosis (SNS) and to determine whether SNS is associated with a particular clinical phenotype of sarcoidosis. Twenty patients with histologically proven SNS (men/women, 7/13; mean age, 32 +/- 9 yr) were compared with co...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Aubart FC,Ouayoun M,Brauner M,Attali P,Kambouchner M,Valeyre D,Nunes H

更新日期：2006-11-01 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 effects of microvascular decompression (MVD) surgical treatment on hemifacial spasm.A retrospective analysis of 320 adult patients (95 male cases, 29.7% and 225 female cases, 70.3%) with hemifacial spasm treated by surgery was conducted between February 2007 to June 2016, with an average age of 49.3 yea...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li Z,Gao J,Wang T,Li Y

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:Rotavirus infection is the main cause of severe dehydration enteritis in children under 5 years old. It gives rise to malnutrition and even death in children even though there were rotavirus vaccines. However, there is no effective anti-virus drugs for rotavirus, supporting treatments are used in the clinics...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wu Y,Tu X,Liang X,Chen J,Wan X,Zhang T,Jiang J,Zhong S

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Multiple pulmonary leiomyomatous hamartoma (MPLH) is an extremely rare benign disease that mostly occurs in women of reproductive age. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 32-year-old female patient recently diagnosed with multiple bilateral pulmonary nodules. She has the symptoms of dry cough, chest tightness, dyspnea on exe...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Cheng D,Zhang F,Hu K

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a review of endocarditis caused by fastidious, slow-growing gram-negative rods, similarities in the spectrum of disease overshadow differences among cases grouped by specific organisms. Cardiobacterium hominis, Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans and Haemophilus species usually seed previously damaged cardiac valv...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Ellner JJ,Rosenthal MS,Lerner PI,McHenry MC

更新日期：1979-03-01 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：RATIONALE:Absent pulmonary valve syndrome (APVS) is a rare congenital heart disease that is often associated with tetralogy of Fallot (TOF). Here, we report 2 cases of APVS associated with TOF diagnosed via fetal echocardiography and discuss their specific ultrasonographic characteristics. PATIENT CONCERNS:Two pregnan...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang WJ,Zhang ZL,Chang JJ,Song XY

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential hypertension often requires affected patients to self-manage their condition most of the time. Besides seeking regular medical review of their life-long condition to detect vascular complications, patients have to maintain healthy lifestyles in between physician consultations via diet and physical activity, ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Koh YLE,Lua YHA,Hong L,Bong HSS,Yeo LSJ,Tsang LPM,Ong KZ,Wong SWS,Tan NC

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:Our study questioned whether the outcome of postoperative early oral feeding is different from traditional postoperative feeding in children with Hirschsprung's disease who underwent transanal endorectal pull-through.This was an observational and comparative study. Patients were allocated into 2 groups. Age, gender, f...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Ashjaei B,Ghamari Khameneh A,Darban Hosseini Amirkhiz G,Nazeri N

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insomnia is a prevalent and bothersome disorder of sleep initiation and maintenance. Although efficacious treatments for insomnia have been available for decades, they all have their own limitations. Guizhi Gancao Longgu Muli Decoction (GGLMD), a popular complementary and alternative therapy, has been widely...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chen F,Chen G,Chen Z,Zhang Z,Zhang P,Luo D,Li K,Hou Y,Xing W,Shi P,Yuan X

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Woven coronary artery is an extremely unusual congenital anomaly with unknown etiology. Because of normal flow after anomalous segment, this anomaly is considered to be benign. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 51-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with exertional dyspnea that he had experienced for half a year. Wov...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Xing Z,Tang L,Huang J,Hu X

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to explore keyhole approach and dura suture in the neuroendoscopic treatment for hydrocephalus.Twelve cases of hydrocephalus patients who were treated with neuroendoscope by this approach were analyzed retrospectively from April 2015 to April 2016 in our department. The basic steps of this pro...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Cai Q,Zhang X,Wang L,Huang S,Chen Z,Chen Q

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcific tendinitis (CT) of the shoulder is a painful disorder usually identified in individuals aged 40 and 60 years. The estimated global prevalence of CT is 2.7% to 36%. We examined the association of hyperlipidemia and sex with CT of the shoulder using Taiwan Biobank (TWB) and the National Health Insurance Researc...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lin CC,Nfor ON,Su CL,Hsu SY,Tantoh DM,Liaw YP

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Periarticular anesthesia (PAI) with liposomal bupivacaine (LB) and femoral nerve block (FNB) were 2 common type of pain management after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). There is no consensus about PAI with LB shows better clinical outcome than FNB. Thus, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to c...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liu SQ,Chen X,Yu CC,Weng CW,Wu YQ,Xiong JC,Xu SH

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The emphysematous prostatic abscess is a rare but potentially life-threatening clinical condition. The early diagnosis is difficult due to nonspecific symptoms. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 72-year-old man with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus was admitted to hospital because of dysuria and acute urine retention. H...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li Z,Wen J,Zhang N

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to show the utility and reliability of sternal morphometric analysis for sex estimation.Sex estimation is a very important step in forensic identification. Skeletal surveys are main methods for sex estimation studies. Morphometric analysis of sternum may provide high accuracy rated data in sex discrimination....

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Ekizoglu O,Hocaoglu E,Inci E,Bilgili MG,Solmaz D,Erdil I,Can IO

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasonography is a standard, noninvasive modality used to evaluate patients with gastrointestinal diseases. This study assessed the usefulness of ultrasonography in the detection of small bowel tumors. This study enrolled 558 consecutive patients (295 males, 263 females; mean age 71.1 years) who underwent ultrasonog...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Fujita M,Manabe N,Honda K,Murao T,Osawa M,Kawai R,Akiyama T,Shiotani A,Haruma K,Hata J

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to guidelines from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, computed tomography (CT) with intravenous contrast is strongly recommended to diagnose clinically significant blunt traumatic aortic injury (BTAI). However, it remains unclear whether the timing of CT scanning is associated with the progno...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Katayama Y,Kitamura T,Hirose T,Kiguchi T,Matsuyama T,Sado J,Kiyohara K,Izawa J,Tachino J,Ebihara T,Yoshiya K,Nakagawa Y,Shimazu T

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Peritoneal angiosarcoma is an extremely rare sarcoma (0.01287% incidence per 100,000) with an aggressive course and a poor prognosis. In this case, the manifestation of peritoneal angiosarcoma was ascites, which caused difficulty in early diagnosis and the diagnosis of peritoneal angiosarcoma, was made onl...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chen WJ,Wu IC,Wu CC,Yu FJ

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of validated patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments for the treatment outcome measure of laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) is crucial given the lack of objective markers. However, current symptom-based PRO instruments can only partially capture the impact of LPR. The GERD Analyzer (GERDyzer), an existing dise...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wu CP,Liang WM,Wang CC,Chang CS,Yeh HZ,Hsu JY,Ko CW,Lee SW,Chang SC,Sung FC,Lien HC

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Vortioxetine is a new multimodal antidepressant approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and recently introduced in Europe. While antidepressant properties of vortioxetine and its tolerability have been demonstrated by preclinical and clinical studies data on...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Mazza MG,Rossetti A,Botti ER,Clerici M

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of a publication in a particular medical area is reflected by the number of times the article is included as a citation. It is not known, however, which articles are cited the most in primary care journals. In our study, we aimed to identify the 100 most cited articles in primary care medicine and analyze t...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li H,Zhao X,Zheng P,Hu M,Lu Y,Jia F,Tong X

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Congenital auricular deformities (CAD) are prevalent worldwide. The objective of this study is to investigate the effectiveness and safety of ear molding for children with CAD at their early days. METHODS:One hundred and nighty children (under 3 days) with CAD will be included in the study. Participants wil...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zou K,Fan Y,Jiang L,Huang J,Miao Y,Yang C,Yang M,Zhao L

更新日期：2020-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The perivascular epithelioid cell tumor (PEComa) is rare in young man and rarely occurs in the large intestine. PATIENT CONCERNS:The clinical characteristics, diagnosis, and managements in a 28-year-old boy who presented with sudden onset of cramping and abdominal pain and intermittent melena with a blood pr...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lin KH,Chang NJ,Liou LR,Su MS,Tsao MJ,Huang ML

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate metal artifact reduction effect of orthopedics metal artifact reduction (O-Mar) algorithm in computer tomography (CT) image of patients who have undergone total hip arthroplasty (THA) or total knee arthroplasty (TKA).35 cases of patients who underwent TKA or THA have been r...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang K,Han Q,Xu X,Jiang H,Ma L,Zhang Y,Yang K,Chen B,Wang J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To compare the efficacy of curettage and bone grafting combined with elastic intramedullary nailing (EIN) vs curettage and bone grafting in the treatment of long bone cysts in children and to clarify the necessity of using EIN in the treatment of bone cysts.Sixty-two patients were involved in this study from Jan. 2009...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang K,Wang Z,Zhang Z

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00