Ventriculoperitoneal shunt malfunction due to chronic cholecystitis: A case report.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microsurgery is widely utilized for patients with cerebral hemorrhage (CH). The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of microsurgery for the treatment of patients with CH secondary to gestational hypertension (GH). METHODS:Relevant randomized controlled trials in eight electronic datab...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Wang AB,Zhang H

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Arterial occlusion, a rare condition after total knee arthroplasty (TKA), may cause fatal outcomes if not treated on time. We report a case of arterial occlusion after undergoing navigated TKA with no tourniquet use, in a patient at high risk of postoperative arterial occlusion due to the patient's ipsilatera...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Cho MR,Kim KT,Choi WK

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality of life (QoL) is a matter of concern in both healthy and diseased individuals. Lifestyle factors such as physical activity and sleep have a direct impact on QoL. In this context, interactions between activity time expenditure and QoL might be different in comorbid and non comorbid patients. Besides, the quanti...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Suarez-Villar R,Martinez-Urbistondo D,Fernandez MA,Lopez-Cano M,Fernandez E,Dominguez A,Prosper L,Rodriguez-Cobo A,Tinoco MEC,Nadal P,Risco CR,Fernández PV,Martínez JA

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Complications involving vascular injuries after hip fracture are rare, and the diagnosis and management of deep femoral artery (DFA) injuries are challenging. We reported 4 cases of DFA injuries after hip fracture surgery and aimed to discuss their early detection, treatment, and prevention. METHODS:We re...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang BF,Cong YX,Wang PF,Huang H,Wang H,Zhuang Y

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recurrence rate for acute appendicitis treated nonoperatively varies between studies. Few studies have adequately evaluated the management of these patients when appendicitis recurs. We aimed to explore the recurrence rate and management of patients with acute appendicitis that were first treated nonoperatively.We...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Liang TJ,Liu SI,Tsai CY,Kang CH,Huang WC,Chang HT,Chen IS

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-five patients with clinical features and histologically or microbiologically proven infection met predetermined stringent criteria for invasive aspergillosis over a 5-year period at our institution. Underlying conditions included hematologic malignancy, solid tumor, bone marrow and solid organ transplantation, ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Kaiser L,Huguenin T,Lew PD,Chapuis B,Pittet D

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The annual number of cases of culture-proven extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) at our hospital increased from 47 cases in 1983 to 113 cases in 1988. At least 43% (199) of 464 consecutive patients with extrapulmonary TB during this 6-year period were infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); since HIV serolo...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Shafer RW,Kim DS,Weiss JP,Quale JM

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is the gold standard initial treatment of the locally advanced breast cancer (LABC). However, the reliability of methods that used to assess response the NAC is still controversial. In this study, patients with LABC who underwent NAC were evaluated retrospectively. The assessment of ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Aksoy SO,Sevinc Aİ,Ünal M,Balci P,Görkem İB,Durak MG,Ozer O,Bekiş R,Emir B

更新日期：2020-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Patency of the right hepatic vein (RHV) of the liver graft is essential for successful living-donor liver transplant (LDLT). We developed a simple technique for RHV reconstruction that does not require the use of cadaveric veins or additional time to prevent stenosis.Of 159 patients who underwent LDLT at our instituti...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lee TB,Choi BH,Yang KH,Ryu JH,Park YM,Chu CW

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The improvement of microneurosurgery and neuroimaging, as well as neuronavigation and neurophysiological monitoring, enables neurosurgeons to safely and accurately resect lesions on the brainstem. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 54-year-old man, with 2-year history of hypertension, presented with sudden loss of conscious...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Hao G,Xu Z,Zhu J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) is a common physical and psychological disease in dental department. Pain and mandibular limitation are the main reasons for patients to seek oral treatment. However, the presence of kinesiophobia, patients often catastrophize pain, so as to avoid mandibular movement, which ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang Q,Zhang J,Ran W,Yu S,Jin Y

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of high viscosity bone cement in the percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) for treatment of single-level osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures.Eighty patients were enrolled in this study. All patients were received PVP, and they were divided into 2 groups according to the viscosi...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Li K,Feng H,Luo D,Zhang W,Yang K,Ji C,Liu J,Xu H

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:With the progress of sequencing technology, an increasing number of atypical primary immunodeficiency (PID) patients have been discovered, including Janus kinase 3 (JAK3) gene deficiency. PATIENT CONCERNS:We report a patient who presented with chronic active Epstein-Barr virus (CAEBV) infection but responded...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhong L,Wang W,Ma M,Gou L,Tang X,Song H

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess whether breast cancer subtype (BCS) as determined by estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 can predict the axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer. Patients who received breast conserving surgery or mastectomy and axillary...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： He ZY,Wu SG,Yang Q,Sun JY,Li FY,Lin Q,Lin HX

更新日期：2015-12-01 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：:The acyl-CoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT) enzymes DGAT1 and DGAT2 catalyze the final step in triglycerides biosynthesis. This study examined the relationships of baseline phenotypes and the common polymorphisms in DGAT1 and DGAT2 with the lipid responses to niacin.Lipid responses in Chinese patients with dysl...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Hu M,Yang YL,Ng CF,Lee CP,Lee VWY,Hanada H,Masuda D,Yamashita S,Tomlinson B

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the safety and usefulness of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for malignant abdominal tumors in pediatric patients and analyzed the factors affecting the resection margin, operative time, and hospital stay of neuroblastoma (NBL) patients.We retrospectively reviewed data of pediatric patients who un...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yang HB,Kim HY,Jung SE,Choi YH,Lee JW

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postmenopausal women are at a higher risk of stress urinary incontinence (SUI). In a previous trial, electroacupuncture (EA) was shown to be an effective treatment for women with SUI. Here we present a secondary analysis to investigate the specific factors associated with response to acupuncture therapy among postmeno...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Jiao R,Liu Y,Liu B,Liu Z

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The refinement in surgical techniques combined with the preoperative management has improved the resectability rate of perihilar cholangiocarcinoma (pCCA). However, the prognosis of pCCA with curative resection is still dismal. This meta-analysis was performed to investigate the prognostic clinicopathological factors ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Tang Z,Yang Y,Zhao Z,Wei K,Meng W,Li X

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hip preserving procedures are still a challenge in late-stage osteonecrosis of femoral head (ONFH) patients. We aimed to compare the clinical outcomes of surgical dislocation and impaction bone graft and surgical dislocation and rotational osteotomy for treatment of ONFH in Association Research Circulation Osseous (AR...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Xia T,Liu J,Shi L,Zhang C,Yao C,Shen J

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the improvement of anesthesia and surgical techniques, supraglottic device with assist ventilation under general anesthesia (GA) combined with nerve block is gradually applied to video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. However, the safety of assist ventilation has not been fully confirmed, and a large num...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Xiang X,Zhou H,Wu Y,Fang J,Lian Y

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigmentary mosaicism of the (hypomelanosis of) Ito type is an umbrella term, which includes phenotypes characterized by mosaic hypopigmentation in the form of streaks, whorls, patchy, or more bizarre skin configurations (running along the lines of Blaschko): these cutaneous patterns can manifest as an isolated skin di...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Pavone V,Signorelli SS,Praticò AD,Corsello G,Savasta S,Falsaperla R,Pavone P,Sessa G,Ruggieri M

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Arterial injuries during total knee arthroplasty (TKA) though rare may occur. Hemophilia may further challenge the management of such injury. PATIENT CONCERNS:A 48-year-old male patient with severe hemophilia type A and stiff knee arthropathy underwent bilateral TKAs. Left popliteal artery injury was detecte...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Feng B,Xiao K,Shao J,Fan Y,Weng X

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cutaneous aspergillosis (PCA) is an uncommon infection of the skin. There is a paucity of organized literature regarding this entity in regard to patient characteristics, associated Aspergillus species, and treatment modalities on outcome (disease recurrence, disease dissemination, and mortality).We reviewed a...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Tatara AM,Mikos AG,Kontoyiannis DP

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to examine whether depression impacts medication nonadherence (MNA) over time and determine if race has a differential impact on MNA in patients with type 2 diabetes and comorbid depression.Generalized estimating equations were used with a longitudinal national cohort of 740,197 veterans with ...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Axon RN,Gebregziabher M,Hunt KJ,Lynch CP,Payne E,Walker RJ,Egede LE

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood pressure (BP) control is the most established practice for preventing the progression and complications of chronic kidney disease (CKD). We examined the influence of BP patterns on target organ damage in hypertensive patients with CKD by using long-term follow-up data of the APrODiTe-2 study.We collected 5 years...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Cha RH,Lee H,Lee JP,Kim YS,Kim SG

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) is characterized by recovery of wall motion abnormalities and acute left ventricular dysfunction, which are often caused by acute physical or emotional stressors. It is rarely reported that TTS can be precipitated by change in position in the patient in the operating room. We report a...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Zhang Z,Kong H,Zhang SY,Guan TT

更新日期：2021-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Noninvasive computed tomography angiography (CTA) is widely used in acute ischemic stroke, even for diagnosing various internal carotid artery (ICA) occlusion sites, which often need cerebral digital subtraction angiography (DSA) confirmation. We evaluated whether clinical outcomes vary depending on the DSA-based occl...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Hong JM,Lee SE,Lee SJ,Lee JS,Demchuk AM

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with brain metastases (BMs) have been found as subjects of poor prognosis. Whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT), surgery, and stereotactic radiosurgery, epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI), or some combinations are the most commonly empl...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Yang Y,Pu Y,Dai N,Wang D,Xu M

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a considerable amount of literature on the potential relationship between human leukocyte antigen-G 14-bp Ins/Del polymorphism and virus infection; however, results from these studies were inconclusive. OBJECTIVES:A meta-analysis was carried out to determine whether the 14-bp Ins/Del polymorphism i...

journal_title：Medicine

authors： Lv H,Lv H,Lin Z,Chen L,Zhu M,Hong D

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00