Scrotal reconstruction for giant inguinal hernias.

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has rapidly caused a global pandemic associated with a novel respiratory infection: coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). Angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 (ACE2) is necessary to facilitate SARS-CoV-2 infection, but-owing to its essential metabolic roles-it may b...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Baughn LB,Sharma N,Elhaik E,Sekulic A,Bryce AH,Fonseca R

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxic liver injury is defined as a massive, but transient, increase in serum transaminase levels due to an imbalance between hepatic oxygen supply and demand in the absence of other acute causes of liver damage. It typically occurs in elderly individuals with right-sided congestive heart failure and low cardiac outp...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Ebert EC

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine, an episodic headache disorder, is one of the most common complaints encountered by primary-care physicians and neurologists. Nevertheless, it remains underdiagnosed and undertreated. Rational migraine treatment necessitates an accurate diagnosis, identification and removal of potential triggering factors, an...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Capobianco DJ,Cheshire WP,Campbell JK

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is the leading cause of health care-associated infections in the United States. The increasing incidence and recurrence rates of CDI together with its associated morbidity and mortality are great concerns. Newer treatment methods, such as narrow-spectrum antibiotics, monoclonal...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Cho JM,Pardi DS,Khanna S

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the association between coffee consumption and mortality from all causes and from cardiovascular disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Data from the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study representing 43,727 participants with 699,632 person-years of follow-up were included. Baseline data were collected by an...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Liu J,Sui X,Lavie CJ,Hebert JR,Earnest CP,Zhang J,Blair SN

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This discussion concerns an overview of our considerations of the adrenergic nervous system with respect to those areas of the nervous system that provide direct sensory input to the brain in control of arterial pressure; those brain centers that also participate in regulating arterial pressure; certain neurohumoral c...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Frohlich ED

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergic rhinitis affects 10% to 20% of Americans. It frequently coexists with other conditions, such as allergic conjunctivitis, sinusitis, and asthma, and is associated with impaired occupational function and performance in school, decreased quality of life, and increased health care costs. An efficacious agent with...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Ratner PH,Ehrlich PM,Fineman SM,Meltzer EO,Skoner DP

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To characterize public perception of physicians' conflicts of interest (COIs) across medical and surgical specialties. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A cross-sectional 6-arm randomized survey of a nonprobability sample from Amazon's Mechanical Turk occurred on December 11 to 16, 2018. Survey respondents were randomly...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Niforatos JD,Chaitoff A,Mercer MB,Yu PC,Rose SL

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extending a study of the period 1935-1964, we determined the incidence rates of leukemia in Olmsted County during the decade 1965-1974. In this decade, the overall crude annual incidence rate was 9.5 per 100,000. The ratio of males to females was 2.4 to 1; and the incidence rate was significantly higher among males th...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Linos A,Kyle RA,Elveback LR,Kurland LT

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three case reports in this article illustrate the diagnostic methods used and the treatment course encountered for many patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain (DPNP). Each case addresses an aspect of DPNP: pain that appears to be refractory to initial therapy, DPNP occurring with other medical conditions, ...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Belgrade MJ,Cole BE,McCarberg BH,McLean MJ

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the long-term follow-up of a matched comparison of radical nephrectomy (RN) and nephron-sparing surgery (NSS) in patients with single unilateral renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and a normal contralateral kidney. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Between August 1966 and March 1999, 1492 and 189 patients with unilater...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Lau WK,Blute ML,Weaver AL,Torres VE,Zincke H

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the results of laparoscopic splenectomy as a treatment for immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). MATERIAL AND METHODS:We conducted a retrospective study of all patients who underwent laparoscopic splenectomy for ITP at our institution between August 1992 and May 1997. RESULTS:Of 27 patients who u...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Harold KL,Schlinkert RT,Mann DK,Reeder CB,Noel P,Fitch TR,Braich TA,Camoriano JK

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is an established risk factor for cardiovascular disease outcomes. However, the relationship of CRF with risk of ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) is unknown. We aimed to assess the prospective association of CRF with the risk of serious VAs. Cardiorespiratory fitness, as measured by maxima...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Laukkanen JA,Lavie CJ,Khan H,Kurl S,Kunutsor SK

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortic valve replacement is a lifesaving measure in patients with severe aortic valve disease. In the United States, the most commonly used prostheses are the mechanical and bioprosthetic valves. With mechanical valves, long-term anticoagulation is necessary because of high thrombogenic potential. Bioprosthetic valves...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Staab ME,Nishimura RA,Dearani JA,Orszulak TA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vancomycin is a glycopeptide antibiotic that is active against staphylococci, streptococci, and other gram-positive bacteria. It is the drug of choice for the treatment of infections due to methicillin-resistant staphylococci, Corynebacterium jeikeium, and multiply resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Vancom...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Wilhelm MP

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine patients with a progressive neurologic disorder that was characterized by mental deterioration, supranuclear vertical gaze paresis, and foam cells or sea-blue histiocytes in the bone marrow are described and compared with patients who were previously described as having " neurovisceral storage disease with vertic...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Yan-Go FL,Yanagihara T,Pierre RV,Goldstein NP

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of direct-to-consumer (DTC) predictive genomic risk information on perceived risk and worry in the context of routine clinical care. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Patients attending a preventive medicine clinic between June 1 and December 18, 2009, were randomly assigned to receive either genomic...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： James KM,Cowl CT,Tilburt JC,Sinicrope PS,Robinson ME,Frimannsdottir KR,Tiedje K,Koenig BA

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To review the diagnostic evaluation and the clinical course of patients with pretruncal nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. MATERIAL AND METHODS:The study population consisted of a consecutive series of patients with a pretruncal nonaneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage encountered at Mayo Clinic Rochester d...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Wijdicks EF,Schievink WI,Miller GM

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent experience with 40 patients with the Zollinger-Ellison syndrome at all Mayo Clinic suggests that traditional clinical criteria for diagnosis are often absent or invalid. Patients are younger have a shorter duration of symptoms, and often present without prior gastric surgery. Clinical, roentgenographic, and end...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Regan PT,Malagelada JR

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent Mayo Clinic experience in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases in Indochinese refugees is discussed. One hundred patients from whom stool and blood specimens were submitted for parasitic examination showed a high percentage of parasitic infection, often with multiple agents. An outline for the...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Jones MJ,Thompson JH Jr,Brewer NS

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess presentation, imaging, treatment, and outcome of patients with myelopathy due to a dural arteriovenous fistula (DAVF). PATIENTS AND METHODS:This retrospective review identified 94 patients with DAVF surgically treated at our institution between June 1985 and December 1999. The mean ages of the 75 m...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Atkinson JL,Miller GM,Krauss WE,Marsh WR,Piepgras DG,Atkinson PP,Brown RD Jr,Lane JI

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A careful clinical history and physical examination are the most important components of the preoperative assessment of the cardiac patient who is to undergo a noncardiac surgical procedure. From these factors and the nature of the surgical procedure planned, a reasonable estimate of potential cardiac risk can be form...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Freeman WK,Gibbons RJ,Shub C

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine how all-cause hospitalizations within 12 months preceding an index heart failure (HF) hospitalization affect risk stratification for 30-day all-cause readmission. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Early readmission of inpatients with HF is challenging to predict, yet this outcome is used to compare hospital ...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Hummel SL,Katrapati P,Gillespie BW,Defranco AC,Koelling TM

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of advanced laparoscopic techniques and robot-assisted technology has resulted in several new surgical approaches for treating organ-confined prostate cancer. Outcomes with these new or minimally Invasive techniques should be assessed carefully to ensure that they are similar to or surpass patients' on...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Humphreys MR,Gettman MT,Chow GK,Zincke H,Blute ML

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a prospective study of 10 patients who underwent liver transplantation and 10 patients who underwent cholecystectomy, we analyzed the postoperative analgesic requirements and the resultant plasma morphine concentrations. Analgesia was more intense, with less medication, and the plasma morphine concentration was sig...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Eisenach JC,Plevak DJ,Van Dyke RA,Southorn PA,Danielson DR,Krom RA,Nagorney DM,Rettke SR

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary infection with Pneumocystis carinii usually occurs early in life, and young infants receiving prolonged treatment with high-dose corticosteroids may be at risk for the development of symptomatic disease. Prophylaxis with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole is safe and effective and should be considered for such infa...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Aviles R,Boyce TG,Thompson DM

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effects of glutathione on pain-free walking distance (PFWD) and hemodynamic parameters in patients with peripheral artery disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Forty patients with Fontaine stage II peripheral artery disease who were seen between September 2000 and March 2001 at the vascular laboratory ...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Arosio E,De Marchi S,Zannoni M,Prior M,Lechi A

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven vertex-positive potentials--the brainstem auditory response--can be recorded from the human scalp within 10 milliseconds of an appropriate acoustic stimulus. The first of these potentials is generated in the acoustic nerve, the third in the pons, and the fifth in the midbrain. Measurement of the relative latenci...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Stockard JJ,Stockard JE,Sharbrough FW

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of application of back supports on back strength in subjects with osteoporosis. DESIGN:In a prospective, randomized, controlled study, we compared compliance and evaluated changes in back strength in 45 women with osteoporosis who were older than 40 years of age and were randomly assi...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Kaplan RS,Sinaki M,Hameister MD

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the esophageal motility of patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma or Barrett esophagus with high-grade dysplasia before and after photodynamic therapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:In this prospective study conducted between January 1998 and October 1999, esophageal motility testing of the lower esophageal...

journal_title：Mayo Clinic proceedings

authors： Malhi-Chowla N,Wolfsen HC,DeVault KR

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00