Aug 13, 2020

Venous thromboembolism is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. The impact of the US Surgeon General's in 2008 has been lower than expected given the public health impact of this disease. This sc...

Aug 13, 2020

The early screening of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) can lead to effective treatment. Thus, accurate and reliable atherosclerotic carotid wall detection and plaque measurements are crucial. Current me...

Aug 13, 2020

Left ventricular stroke work is an important prognostic marker to analyze cardiac function. Standard values for children are, however, missing. For clinicians, standards can help to improve the treatm...

Aug 13, 2020

Given the growing body of critical care clinical research publications, core outcome sets (COSs) are important to help mitigate heterogeneity in outcomes assessed and measurement instruments used, and...

Aug 13, 2020

Subjective memory complaints (SMCs) among stroke patients are common. To date, reports on SMCs using the Subjective Memory Complaint Questionnaire (SMCQ) are limited. We provided descriptive informati...

Aug 13, 2020

Moyamoya disease is a progressive, steno-occlusive arteriopathy involving the internal carotid artery and its branches and causing recurrent stroke episodes in children. Patients with moyamoya disease...

Aug 13, 2020

To examine an approach for selecting small sets of diagnosis codes with high prediction performance in large datasets of electronic medical records.Modelling study using national hospital and mortalit...

Aug 13, 2020

Myocardial fibrosis, resulting from ischemic injury, increases tissue resistivity in the infarct area, which impedes heart synchronous electrical propagation. The uneven conduction between myocardium ...

Aug 13, 2020

For the first time in the history of the modern era smoking tobacco is not the most popular inhaled product. After a flurry of legislature, cannabis has come to the forefront of both medicinal and rec...

Aug 13, 2020

Repeat teenage mothers, those who give birth to a second or higher order infant prior to age 20, are at elevated risk for adverse perinatal outcomes compared to first-time teenage mothers. The objecti...

Aug 13, 2020

To assess the Support, Educate, Empower (SEE) personalized glaucoma coaching program impact on 1) eye drop instillation technique and 2) eye drop instillation self-efficacy.A prospective pre-post pilo...

Aug 13, 2020

A mass of evidence has identified a promoting of nitric oxide (NO) production in endothelial cells using natural products as a potential strategy to prevent and treat hypertension. This study investig...

Aug 13, 2020

Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) is a heritable cancer predisposition syndrome resulting from mutations in the NF1 tumor suppressor gene. Genotype-phenotype correlations for NF1 are rare due to the larg...

Aug 13, 2020

Most cancer cells exacerbate the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) to enhance biosynthetic precursors and antioxidant defenses. Metformin, which is used as a first-line oral drug for the treatment of ty...

Aug 13, 2020

Pulse wave velocity (PWV), an indicator of vascular stiffness, increases with age and is increasingly recognized as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Although many mechanica...

Aug 13, 2020

Worldwide, PAD (peripheral arterial disease) is a disease with high morbidity, affecting more than 200 million people. Our objective was to analyze the surgical treatment for PAD performed in the Unif...

Aug 13, 2020

Myeloperoxidase (MPO) is a vital component of the innate immune system, which produces the potent oxidant hypochlorous acid (HOCl) to kill invading pathogens. However, an overproduction of HOCl during...

Aug 13, 2020

Cardiac lipoma and lipomatous hypertrophy of interatrial septum (LHIS) are very rare disorders with distinct pathological features. While cardiac lipoma is a well-circumscribed encapsulated tumor of m...

Aug 13, 2020

Diastolic dysfunction (DD) in transthoracic echocardiography (TTE), which is a poorly understood entity due to its limited treatment, is frequently encountered in daily clinical practice of cardiolog...

Aug 13, 2020

Suffering type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) appears to promote the occurrence of respiratory infections. However, studies to evaluate the risk of hospital admission due to exacerbations in patients with...