Whether statin use improves the survival of patients with glioblastoma?: A meta-analysis.

abstract：:Primary Amyloid Light-chain (AL) amyloidosis is a rare form of plasma cell dyscrasia characterized by tissue deposition of monoclonal immunoglobulin light chain. Kidney involvement is the most frequent manifestation, and patients usually present with glomerular disease.We report an exceptional case of bilateral kidney...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Mihout F,Joseph L,Brocheriou I,Leblond V,Varnous S,Ronco P,Plaisier E

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:TNF-like cytokine 1A (TL1A) is a subgroup of the tumor necrosis factor superfamily that exerts pleiotropic effects on cell proliferation, inflammation, activation, and differentiation of immune cells. The purpose of the current study is to investigate the clinical significance of TL1A expression in coronary ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chen X,Guo Y,Lai L,Zhang S,Li Z

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Two patients with plasma cell dyscrasias, manifested by osteosclerotic bone lesions and small amounts of M protein, and a complicating multi-system disorder are described. Their features of severe sensory-motor polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrine dysfunction, anasarca, elevated CSF protein, and skin hyperpigmentat...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Bardwick PA,Zvaifler NJ,Gill GN,Newman D,Greenway GD,Resnick DL

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modifiable cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking, diabetes mellitus, and metabolic syndrome can easily give rise to coronary heart disease (CHD). However, due to the existence of the so-called "obesity paradox" and "smoking paradox," the impact of these modifiable cardiovascu...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Bundhun PK,Wu ZJ,Chen MH

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To compare the effect of selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) and travoprost on 24-hour IOP fluctuations in primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and normal-tension glaucoma (NTG). METHODS:Sixty eyes were included. Sixteen and 14 eyes of POAG patients were randomized to receive 360° SLT or 0.004% travoprost, ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Kiddee W,Atthavuttisilp S

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oropharyngeal mucositis is considered to be an inevitable and the most troubling side effect of head and neck irradiation, which is caused by the direct toxic action of radiation on oral mucosa. Several randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have investigated the efficacy of zinc sulfate in prevention of radiat...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Shuai T,Yi LJ,Tian X,Chen WQ,Chen H,Li XE

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glypican-3 (GPC3) has been widely recognized in the progression of liver tumors for several years. The relationship between overexpression of GPC3 and the poorer prognosis of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) was performed by 2 meta-analyses. However, there were also some latest literatures that i...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang J,Zhang M,Ma H,Song X,He L,Ye X,Li X

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) is a rare disease characterized by hypereosinophilia and its ensuing organ damage. Cardiac involvement is divided into 3 chronological stages: an acute necrotic stage; a thrombus formation stage; and a fibrotic stage. Infiltration of the myocardium by eosinophilic cells follow...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Gao M,Zhang W,Zhao W,Qin L,Pei F,Zheng Y

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The blood-brain barrier is impaired in patients with stroke. The release of protein markers such as Sirtuin1 (SIRTl) into circulation may be useful to assess the prognosis of patients with cerebrovascular disease. In this study, we investigated the predictive value of SIRT1 levels in acute ischemic stroke (A...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liu Y,Jia S,Liang X,Dong M,Xu X,Lu C,Wei Y

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that area under the concentration time curve (AUC(0-12)) is more accurate pharmacokinetic predictor vs trough level of mycophenolic acid (C0).Study was performed at the University Hospital of Limoges (France) and included 238 renal recipients aged 22 to 82 years. Risk of nephropathy was evaluated by an...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Radzevičienė A,Stankevičius E,Saint-Marcoux F,Marquet P,Maslauskienë R,Kaduševičius E

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urticaria is a common skin disease that has a high impact on a patient's daily life. Xiaofeng powder (XFP) is one of the most commonly used Chinese herbal formula in China for urticaria. However, due to the lack of systematic evaluations, its clinical efficacy remains controversial. This meta-analysis was pe...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chen G,Zhao J,Chen T,Zhang Z,Huang C,Xu Z,Xu H

更新日期：2018-11-01 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

abstract：:This study is to investigate the computed tomography (CT) image quality of the low- tube-voltage protocol with low contrast agent dose.CT portography was performed in 118 cirrhosis patients with body mass index (BMI) less than 25 kg/m under 2 protocols: Protocol A, tube voltage of 90 kVp/395 mAs and contrast agent dos...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liu S,Sheng H,Shi H,Li W,Fan J,He J,Sun H

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Among all dermatomyositis (DM) patients, antimelanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 antibody (anti-MDA5 Ab) positive patients have significantly poor short-term mortality, whereas they experience less relapses over the long term after the remission. We report the case of a patient with anti-MDA5 Ab-positi...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Endo Y,Koga T,Ishida M,Fujita Y,Tsuji S,Takatani A,Shimizu T,Sumiyoshi R,Igawa T,Umeda M,Fukui S,Nishino A,Kawashiri SY,Iwamoto N,Ichinose K,Tamai M,Nakamura H,Origuchi T,Kuwana M,Hosono Y,Mimori T,Kawakami A

更新日期：2018-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 viral infection resulting in corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disease has recently been designated by the World Health Organization as a global pandemic. Some doctors are using convalescent plasma (CP) therapies to treat COVID-19 patients. However, whether ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Bai H,Ji Y,Wang J,Zhang X

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a neutrophilic dermatosis that may be associated with systemic diseases. The association of PG with lymphoid malignancies has rarely been reported. Extranodal natural killer/T-cell lymphoma (ENKTL) is a rare but aggressive entity with a poor prognosis. Here, we report the case ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yang TH,Hu CH,Tsai HH

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To use a new method to estimate the prevalence of drug addicts in Xichang for the first time and to suggest that Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention should strengthen surveillance and intervention for them.The Capture-Mark-Recapture (CMR) method of 3 correlated sources under the simple random sampling an...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Chen K,Bian C,Song B,Gao G

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The incidence of nocturia is high and will seriously affect patients' physical and mental health. Nocturnal polyuria is the most critical cause of nocturia, There are few drugs currently used to treat nocturia due to Nocturnal Polyuria (NP). The guide highly recommends only Desmopressin. There is an urgent n...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Fan Z,Wang Z,Deng J,Jiang Y

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of Chinese medicine warm compress (CMWC) on back meridians in relieving cancer pain, reducing adjuvant analgesic doses and adverse reactions, and improving the quality of life (QOL). METHODS:A total of 62 patients (age range 39-82 years) diagnosed with a malign...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Cai P,Li L,Hong H,Zhang L,He C,Chai X,Liu B,Chen Z

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is a small-vessel vasculitis that has been extensively studied in children, but little is known about its natural history in adults. There is no consensus regarding the treatment of glucocorticosteroids use for HSP. The efficacy of glucocorticoid for preventing from severe compl...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yi F,Bai Z,Li Y,Xu X,Guo X,Qi X

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Intramuscular hemangiomas are rare benign vascular neoplasms, merely accounting for 0.8% of all hemangiomas. Moreover, there are few case reports of intramuscular hemangiomas in the upper extremities. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 24-year-old male patient presented with a 5-year history of intermittent pain of the righ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liu Y,Li R,Liu Z,Wang S,Lu L

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The relative efficacy of antihypertensive drugs/combinations is not well known. Identifying the most effective ones and the patients' characteristics associated with best performance of the drugs will improve management of hypertensive patients. OBJECTIVE:To assess the blood pressure (BP) reduction attribut...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Paz MA,de-La-Sierra A,Sáez M,Barceló MA,Rodríguez JJ,Castro S,Lagarón C,Garrido JM,Vera P,Coll-de-Tuero G

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Malignant mesenchymoma (MM) is defined as a heterogeneous malignant soft tissue tumor that consists of 2 or more distinctly different mesenchymal components in addition to fibrosarcomatous elements. Bladder MM was rarely reported in the literature and there are only 5 cases of primary bladder MM documented in...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yang Z,Yang X,Lu X,Gao L,Li G,Zhang X

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is relatively little data on the etiology of bacterial infections in patients with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in West Africa, and no data from countries that have implemented conjugate vaccines against both Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib).We conducted a retrospective analysis of SC...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Soothill G,Darboe S,Bah G,Bolarinde L,Cunnington A,Anderson ST

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical association factors between osteoporosis and cerebral artery disease in Korean population. Two hundred nineteen postmenopausal women and men undergoing cerebral computed tomography angiography were enrolled in this study to evaluate the cerebral artery disease by...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Jin ES,Jeong JH,Lee B,Im SB

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Number of studies have been performed to evaluate the relationship between the cytotoxic T-lymphocyte associated antigen-4 (CTLA-4) gene variant rs5742909 polymorphism and cervical cancer risk, but the sample size was small and the results were conflicting. This meta-analysis was conducted to comprehensively...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Hu S,Pu D,Xia X,Guo B,Zhang C

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Studies performed in animal models of corneal neovascularization suggested the possible efficacy of a treatment with propranolol. Corneal neovascularization is one of the most feared complications of Stevens-Johnson syndrome that frequently involves ocular surface. We report the first 2 patients with severe o...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Filippi L,de Libero C,Zamma Gallarati B,Fortunato P,Piozzi E

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Raman spectroscopy could be applied to distinguish tumor from normal tissues. This meta-analysis assessed the accuracy of Raman spectroscopy in differentiating skin cancer from normal tissue. METHODS:PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, and CNKI were searched to identify suitable studies before Februray 4th, 2...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang J,Fan Y,Song Y,Xu J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to assess the effects of bevacizumab in augmenting trabeculectomy for glaucoma. We searched the databases of Cochrane Library, PubMed, Embase, CNKI, and VIP. All the databases were retrieved from the time databases established to September, 2015. The keywords we used were as follows: "bevacizu...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liu X,Du L,Li N

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00