Apr 22, 2021

 Poor attendance at the 6-week postpartum (PP) visit has been well reported. Attendance at this visit is crucial to identify women who have persistent diabetes mellitus (DM) following pregnancies af...

Apr 22, 2021

Objective: To describe the safety of early discharge in the first 12 hours of the postoperative period in women undergoing laparoscopic hysterectomy for benign uterine disease. Materials and methods: ...

Apr 22, 2021

Older patients undergoing cardiac surgery carry the highest risk for developing major postoperative neurocognitive disorder (postoperative NCD or P-NCD) with up to 25% incidence 3 months after surgery...

Apr 22, 2021

Measurement of the coronary artery calcification score using multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) is a useful noninvasive test for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. However, whether pre-in...

Apr 22, 2021

The structure and composition of the gut microbiota influence patients' response to therapeutic interventions. It is also known that the response to statin treatment can vary greatly from one patient ...

Apr 22, 2021

A proof-of-concept study to assess the potential of a Deep Learning (DL) based photoplethysmography PPG ('DLPPG') classification method to detect peripheral arterial disease (PAD) using toe PPG signal...

Apr 22, 2021

Oral anticoagulant therapy (OAT) has increased substantially due to the aging population and prevalence rise of atrial fibrillation (AF). Medication adherence is important to achieve effectiveness and...

Apr 21, 2021

“Patients with CKD have disproportionately high cardiovascular (CV) risk,” explains L. Parker Gregg, MD, MS, “and identifying treatable novel risk factors is critical to improving long-term outc...

Apr 19, 2021

We assessed left ventricular (LV) function and central hemodynamic effects in patients with a heart rate (HR) at rest of ≥70 beats per minute (bpm) and chronic coronary syndrome (CCS) after long-te...

Apr 19, 2021

Bronchodilators are the cornerstone for treating patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD), although some studies have shown that dual bronchodilators may exacerbate incidence of adv...

Apr 19, 2021

Assisted reproductive technology including in vitro fertilization (IVF) and oocyte donation (OD) may increase risk for placenta-mediated diseases. Comprehensive analysis of histopathological placental...

Apr 19, 2021

The role of palmitoleic acid (POA) in hypertension or blood pressure remains uncertain. We aim to investigate the epidemiological association between circulating POA and primary hypertension in humans...

Apr 19, 2021

Pituitary metastasis (PM) can be the initial presentation of an otherwise unknown malignancy. As PM has no clinical or radiological pathognomonic features, diagnosis is challenging. The authors descri...

Apr 19, 2021

Ammonium acid urate (AAU) crystals are rare in industrialized countries. Furthermore, the number of children with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) who develop severe acute kidney injury (AKI) after hospita...

Apr 19, 2021

Protective funnels devices are commonly used to deliver implants in primary breast augmentation (BA) yet there is a paucity of evidence-based data describing their safety in the literature.The purpose...

Apr 19, 2021

This review summarizes the published literature referring to the use and validity of the biomarker soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) when used for the assessment of patients wit...

Apr 15, 2021

To evaluate the effectiveness of inserting a retrievable inferior vena cava filter (IVCF) to prevent pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients with bone fractures and acute deep venous thrombosis (DVT) befo...

Apr 15, 2021

The diagnosis of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is complex, and the modality of treatment is surgery and targeted medication. Patients with CTEPH could have a poor prognosis if ...

Apr 15, 2021

Up to 50% of patients develop post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) after an above knee deep vein thrombosis (DVT). The aim of the study was to determine the effect of graduated compression stockings in prev...

Apr 15, 2021

Ten healthy Beagle dogs were used to compare selected echocardiographic parameters of right ventricular (RV) systolic function with high field cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). All dogs underw...