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We present the MR imaging findings of hydrocephalus associated with NF-1 in 7 of 54 patients with NF-1. Although the types of obstruction were various, including aqueductal web, superior velum medullary synechia, periaqueductal/tectal hamartomas, cerebellar and pontine tegmentum hamartomas, brain st...
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PMID: 21330395
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We highlight the current status of research and preclinical applications and also future prospects of nanotechnology in medicine and in nuclear medicine. The most important field is cancer. A regular nanotechnology training program for nuclear medicine physicians may be welcome....
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PMID: 21761018
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The correlation between hematoma volume and outcome in ruptured arteriovenous malformations (AVM) with accompanying posterior fossa hematoma was retrospectively evaluated. MATERIAL and
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PMID: 21534195
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We retrospectively considered a consecutive unselected series of 159 patients who underwent elective laparoscopic procedures for colorectal cancer at our institution between January 2007 and December 2009. Of these patients, 101 (63.5%) were ≤70 years of age (Group A), and 58 (36.5%) were >70 (Gr...
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PMID: 21985716
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The results of endovascular treatment of symptomatic intracranial arteriosclerotic stenosis with stenosis grades exceeding 70% show a mortality rate of 2% and severe morbidity of 8.3%. This justifies treatment being performed by experienced interventionalists only in selected cases, if the prospectiv...
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PMID: 21691990
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We report on a patient in the 18th week of pregnancy with strong flank pain on the left side. By means of MR urography the diagnosis of a left fornix rupture due to an obstructive stone could be made. A double-J catheter was placed in the left ureter and the patient received oral antibiotics....
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PMID: 20628867
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The effectiveness of entertainment-education is evidenced in previous research; nevertheless, content analytic research on the health content in such programs has been relatively meager in comparison to the large amount of content analyses of health content in news or ads in print media or on televi...
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PMID: 20677058
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We undertook this study to characterize the subset of patients with bleeding complications who are at an increased risk of death within the first year after a PCI procedure. The study included 331 patients with bleeding complications among 9 954 patients who underwent PCI. The primary outcome analys...
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PMID: 20676837
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To assess anti-tumor activity of sequential epirubicin/cyclophosphamide followed by docetaxel with the randomized addition of celecoxib in HER2 negative patients or trastuzumab in HER2 positive patients. From May 2004 till October 2007, 340 patients with stage II and III breast adeno...
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PMID: 20480225
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Evidence of the impact of childhood obesity on healthcare costs for children is ambiguous. Although one study did not find increasing costs with increasing body mass index (BMI), in some other studies this effect was visible--partly only in subgroups. The evaluation studies show that in order to rea...
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PMID: 20179587
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Xiao Hong Bao,
Yoshio Naomoto,
Hui Fang Hao,
Nobuyuki Watanabe,
Kazufumi Sakurama,
Kazuhiro Noma,
Takayuki Motoki,
Yasuko Tomono,
Takuya Fukazawa,
Yasuhiro Shirakawa,
Tomoki Yamatsuji,
Junji Matsuoka and
Munenori Takaoka
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Autophagy is a cellular lysosomal degradation pathway involved in proteins and organelles recycling for promoting cell survival, development and homeostasis. It is a multistep process and genetic studies have identified many proteins that participate in autophagosome formation and fusion with lysoso...
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PMID: 20198296
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We review these strategies and describe applications of them in systems ranging from electronic eyeball cameras to deformable light-emitting displays. We conclude with some perspectives on routes to commercialization, new device opportunities, and remaining challenges for research....
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PMID: 20339064
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The main goal of the pharmacology is to benefit to the patient through a rational process of drug selection similar to that is carried out for the diagnosis procedure of diseases. Pharmacology is a complex discipline that comprises different sections, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacometr...
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PMID: 20387410
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Combined intravitreal bevacizumab and PDT can improve the CS at low spatial frequency and color vision in patients affected by PCV, although the significant increases of CS were no longer found at 6-month follow-up....
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PMID: 19830442
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Postoperative recurrence is common following surgery in patients with epiblepharon and co-existing epicanthal folds. We report the results of using combined epicanthoplasty and modified Hotz's procedure techniques aimed at correcting the structural anomalies and improving surgical out-come.
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PMID: 20187507
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The characteristics of patients with AE and undesirable effects that occurred during pre-hospitalization period depended on whether they originated during ambulatory care or non-ambulatory care. Therefore prevention strategies should take these differences into account.
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PMID: 19857981
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One hundred and one male patients with cancer were referred to the sperm bank before cancer therapy. Eighty percent of them were contacted by telephone. Mean freezing age was 25 years. Forty-one percent of patients had testicular tumors. Thirty-three percent had no prior biological children. Only on...
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PMID: 20223140
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In actual conditions, the development of the image of curative preventive institution is one of the major directions of activities of the administrators of medical organizations. Against the background of limited centralized financing the priority in choosing the needed approaches has to be given to...
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PMID: 20734487
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We encountered five cases with symptomatic severe hypokalemia (K<2.0 mEq/L) hospitalized for the past 15 months at our hospital. We examined the clinical characteristics and treatment of these patients. All five patients were women, and their mean age was 77.8 (73-82)years. They suffered from hypert...
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PMID: 20166546
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We provide simple statistics tools, clinical trial design, and clinical epidemiology for the evaluation and analysis of clinical trials on treatments.
Review of the medical literature.
For the evaluation of papers on treatment and for using a treatment efficiently, we need to know if the clinical tr...
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PMID: 20566163
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This research aims at delimitating the realm of meditation as therapeutic care in the field of the health psychology. The authors concentrate on the most prolific current of these last years in research terms : the meditation in full consciousness. The objective is to define the concept of meditati...
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PMID: 21076789
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Despite substantial progress in elucidating its neurobiological mechanisms, theoretical understanding of the placebo effect is poorly developed. Application of the semiotic theory developed by the American philosopher Charles Peirce offers a promising account of placebo effects as involving the appr...
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PMID: 21037405
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OBJECTIVES: To implement team-based learning in the workshop portion of a pathophysiology and therapeutics sequence of courses to promote integration of concepts across the pharmacy curriculum, provide a consistent problem-solving approach to patient care, and determine the impact on student percept...
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PMID: 19885069
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A novel nerve guide tube (poly (L-lactic) acid (PLLA)/ polyglycolic acid (PGA)-c-tube) capable of repairing long peripheral nerve injuries in a canine model has been developed. The tube was created by braiding together PLLA and PGA and then coating it with collagen. PLLA was newly ad...
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PMID: 19226199
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It is quite common to consider the terms ambiguous and confusing as synonyms. Confusing information brings together various data with similar meanings. In ambiguous information, on the other hand, several meanings are assigned to a single word. Excessive information also generates ambiguity; therefo...
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PMID: 19842604
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In addition to polyamine homoeostasis, it has become increasingly clear that polyamine catabolism can play a dominant role in drug response, apoptosis and the response to stressful stimuli, and contribute to the aetiology of several pathological states, including cancer. The highly inducible enzymes...
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PMID: 19589128
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Conscious sedation is used frequently to perform procedures that may be undertaken with or without minimal sedation. Fracture manipulation can be performed with minimal discomfort in the awake patient using various techniques-for example, intravenous regional anesthesia, nerve blocks, and hematoma b...
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PMID: 19528768
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Arsenicals have been used since ancient Greek and Roman civilizations and in the Far East as part of traditional Chinese medicine. In Western countries, they became a therapeutic mainstay for various ailments and malignancies in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Fowler's potassium bicarbonate-based...
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PMID: 20052806
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Results were used to develop procedural pain guidelines and a physician order set as well as a medication reference grid to assist clinicians in the management of procedural pain. Furthermore, nurses were empowered by the revised guidelines to advocate for relief of pain based on the nursing assessm...
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PMID: 19395889
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Almost half of depressed primary care patients used non-VA care, with most of their non-VA use for physical rather than emotional health problems. Care management strategies for depressed patients should include communication and coordination with non-VA providers....
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PMID: 19101777
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We found vascular injections on the eardrum. Audiometry showed a high-degree hearing loss of 40-60 dB. Under the assumption of a perilymphatic fistula, we performed a tympanoscopy with covering of the oval and round windows. Bone-conduction hearing improved immediately postoperatively to 25 dB. A po...
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PMID: 18622587
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The article covers the innumerable reasons given for using cloning for therapeutic and reproductive purposes. The most commonly used argument in favour of the procedure has been that of preserving human dignity, which would include the wide exercising of personal autonomy without restrictions of an...
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PMID: 19860342
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We describe the effects of loving touch (a square inch of our skin has over 1000 nerves) on the body, brain and mind. We describe two web-based health education and media projects. The first, HYPERLINK "http://www.21stcenturymed.org" www.21stcenturymed.org is a place for health practitioners to star...
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PMID: 19745495
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Our clinical experience suggests that botulinum toxin therapy can be considered effective and safe. It can be proposed to the patient as first line therapy before surgery....
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PMID: 20578418
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6322 cadaveric renal transplant recipients were studied, of whom 5306 were from heart-beating donors (HBD) and 1016 from non-heart-beating donors (NHBD). The mean CIT was 24.0 h in the HBD group and 21.6 h in the NHBD group. The rate of delayed graft function (DGF) was 12.3% in the HBD group and 50....
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PMID: 20298635
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Decisions about the use of therapeutic interventions, whether for individuals or entire healthcare systems, should be based on the totality of the available evidence. The notion that evidence can be reliably or usefully placed in 'hierarchies' is illusory. Rather, decision makers need to exercise ju...
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PMID: 19149278
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