Clinical observation and analysis of thyroid hormone levels in patients with idiopathic membranous nephropathy.

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study is to summarize the status of knowledge, attitudes, implementation, facilitators, and barriers of evidence-based practice (EBP) in community nurses (CNs). EBP has been widely adopted but the knowledge, attitudes, and implementation of EBP among CNs, and the facilitators and barriers they perceived...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li S,Cao M,Zhu X

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:The purpose of this study was to determine the trends in consumption of antibiotics and evaluate the antibiotic prescription rates in the pediatric population in Lithuania during 2003 to 2012.A cross-sectional study. Data of systemic antibiotic use in pediatric population for outpatient treatment was derived from Nati...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Karinauske E,Kasciuskeviciute S,Morkuniene V,Garuoliene K,Kadusevicius E

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is shown that there are strong associations between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and endothelial dysfunction. The aim of our study was to reveal whether steatosis or fibrosis score is more important in the development of endothelial dysfunction in patients with NAFLD in a prospective manner.This cross-s...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Sapmaz F,Uzman M,Basyigit S,Ozkan S,Yavuz B,Yeniova A,Kefeli A,Asilturk Z,Nazligül Y

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to determine the efficacy and safety of extracorporeal shock-wave therapy (ESWT) for treating patients with chronic rotator cuff tendonitis (CRCT). METHODS:In this study, 84 patients with CRCT were randomly divided into intervention and control groups in a ratio of 1:1. Patients in the inte...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li W,Zhang SX,Yang Q,Li BL,Meng QG,Guo ZG

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We aimed to obtain overall and regional estimates of hypertension prevalence, and to examine the pattern of this disease condition across different socio-demographic characteristics in low-and middle-income countries. We searched electronic databases from inception to August 2015. We included population-based studies ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Sarki AM,Nduka CU,Stranges S,Kandala NB,Uthman OA

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of acute myocarditis complicated with ventricular tachycardia (VT) is unknown. This study aimed to investigate the association between myocarditis and the incidence of VT and mortality. We also aimed to determine the independent predictors that increased the VT risk in those patients. From 2000 to 2004, ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Te ALD,Wu TC,Lin YJ,Chen YY,Chung FP,Chang SL,Lo LW,Hu YF,Tuan TC,Chao TF,Liao JN,Chien KL,Lin CY,Chang YT,Chen SA

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression prevalence rates in congestive heart failure (CHF) patients have increased in the last few years. Depression is a leveled and independent risk factor for hospital readmission, decreased function, and patient mortality for patients with CHF. Major depressive disorder can be diagnosed in CHF patient...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Abdelbasset WK,Alqahtani BA

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the diurnal variations of the ocular blood flow in healthy eyes using laser speckle flowgraphy (LSFG), and to determine the relationship of the diurnal variations between the ocular blood flow and other ocular parameters.This prospective cross-sectional study was conducted at Nagoya University Hospital....

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Iwase T,Yamamoto K,Ra E,Murotani K,Matsui S,Terasaki H

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome (KTS) is a rare congenital disorder. The obstetric course of women with KTS varies. Complications include bleeding, disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), thromboembolic events, etc. PATIENT CONCERNS:: Here, we report a case of late puerperal hemorrhage of a Chinese pu...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang J,Wang K,Mei J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) is one of the most frequent malignancies of salivary glands. The objective of this study was to identify key genes and potential mechanisms during ACC samples.The gene expression profiles of GSE88804 data set were downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus. The GSE88804 data set contained 2...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liu HB,Huang GJ,Luo MS

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary artery sling (PAS) is rare, often with tracheal stenosis. And the postoperative mortality is high. For now, there is no consensus on the tracheoplasty for the patients with PAS and tracheal stenosis. METHODS:Studies involving surgical repair of PAS and tracheal stenosis with and without tracheopla...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li D,Zhou X,Li M,Liu X

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the precise mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) remain unclear, aortic wall inflammation has been implicated in AAA development. Several studies have reported the use of fluoro-deoxyglucose (F-FDG)/positron emission tomography (PET) to assess the nature of AAA.We present ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Tsuruda T,Nagamachi S,Nishimura M,Nakamura K,Kitamura K

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to detail the clinical outcomes of patients suffering from celiac arterial aneurysm (CAA) that underwent treatment via stent occlusion.This is a single-center, retrospective study. A total of 8 consecutive CAA patients were treated via stent occlusion from March 2014 to September 2018 at our hospital....

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yuan FK,Xi HL,Qin RH,Tian ZL,Li C,Lu F

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a highly heritable, chronic, severe psychiatric disorder associated with significant financial costs to families and societies. In this case-control study, we investigated the associations between seven SNPs in CHRNA3 gene and the risk of SCZ.A total of 1071 (384 cases and 687 controls) unrelate...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li G,Bai M,Guo C,Zhu L,Wang L,Yuan D,Jin T,He Y

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of present study is to quantitatively evaluate the association between different interventions and abstinence rates based on network meta-analysis. METHOD:Following PRISMA guidelines, randomized clinical trials that compared different alcoholic interventions for alcohol use disorders associated with ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Gao J,Cao J,Guo T,Xiao Y

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of radiotherapy for patients with oligometastases from colorectal cancer (CRC).This was a retrospective cross-sectional study. Patients with liver and/or lung oligometastatic lesions from CRC treated with curative-intent radiotherapy in West C...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： He X,Zhang P,Li Z,Bi F,Xu F,Wang X,Shen Y,Li Q,Qiu M

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteinuria is a major determinant of adverse renal outcome, and its reduction slows renal progression in glomerular diseases. However, the optimal target of proteinuria in glomerular diseases is unclear, and discrepancies in the definition of proteinuria produce ambiguous findings. Here we investigated the optimal ta...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Kee YK,Yoon CY,Kim SJ,Moon SJ,Kim CH,Park JT,Lim BJ,Chang TI,Kang EW,Kie JH,Yoo TH,Jeong HJ,Kang SW,Han SH

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyogenic liver abscess is a severe condition and a therapeutic challenge. Treatment failure may be due to an unrecognized ingested foreign body that migrated from the gastrointestinal tract. There has recently been a marked increase in the number of reported cases of this condition, but initial misdiagnosis as cryptog...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Leggieri N,Marques-Vidal P,Cerwenka H,Denys A,Dorta G,Moutardier V,Raoult D

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cancer of the splenic flexure of the colon is a rare medical entity with severe morbidity because of its insidious onset. METHODS:We present the case of a 59-year-old male patient with dull left upper quadrant pain, leukocytosis, and anemia. A splenic abscess described as an air-fluid level with splenoc...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Awotar GK,Luo F,Zhao Z,Guan G,Ning S,Ren J,Liu Y,Wang G,Liu P

更新日期：2016-09-01 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：BACKGROUND:To determine the diagnostic accuracy of techniques with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) patients via a protocol for systemic review and network meta-analysis. METHODS:We will search PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, and Google Scholar from inception to October 1, 2018. The reference list...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Xu S,Yang J,Zhu Y,Xu S,Liu J,Deng Y,Wei L,Yang M,Huang X,Cao B,Zhang C,Zhao F,Liu X,Xing X,Li Z

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[In the article "Uncompromised Treatment Efficacy in Elderly Patients With Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Propensity Score Analysis", which appeared in Volume 93, Issue 28 of Medicine, one of the authors' affiliations, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan, was omitted. The article has since be...

journal_title：Medicine

authors：

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The sciatic nerve runs a predictable course combining L4-S3 nerve roots through the true pelvis and under the greater sciatic notch. There are reports of bony protuberances from the sacrum and ilium in cases of spinal dysraphism; however advanced imaging, treatment, or outcomes are not described. There are no...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Whitaker AT,Kasser J,Kim YJ

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a rare and deadly disease, with a reported average incidence rate of 3.19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. Fotemustine, a third-generation nitrosourea with an alanine phosphor carrier that facilitates cellular penetration, has been extensively investigated in the setting of rec...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Marinelli A,Lamberti G,Cerbone L,Cordua N,Buonerba C,Peluso G,Di Lorenzo G,De Placido S

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The kinesin family (KIF) is reported to be aberrantly expressed and significantly correlated with survival outcomes in patients with various cancers. This meta-analysis was carried out to quantitatively evaluate the prognostic values of partial KIF members in cancer patients. METHODS:Two well-known KIF memb...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li X,Shu K,Wang Z,Ding D

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oxycodone, a semisynthetic thebaine derivative opioid, is widely used for the relief of moderate to severe pain. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and side effects of oxycodone and fentanyl in the management of postoperative pain by intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV-PCA) in patient...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Kim NS,Lee JS,Park SY,Ryu A,Chun HR,Chung HS,Kang KS,Chung JH,Jung KT,Mun ST

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the performance of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) and PET/computed tomography (CT) in the diagnosis, staging, restaging, and recurrence surveillance of bone sarcoma by systematically reviewing and meta-analyzing the published literature.To retrieve eligible stu...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liu F,Zhang Q,Zhu D,Liu F,Li Z,Li J,Wang B,Zhou D,Dong J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumonia (CRKP) infections have been a concerning threat, especially in organ transplant patients with very high mortality. Allograft hemorrhage associated with CRKP infection has never been described. PATIENT CONCERNS:A total of 6 recipients tested positive for CRKP were ide...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wang Z,Qian Y,Bai H,Yang J,Li X

更新日期：2020-03-01 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