Mar 02, 2020

Stillbirth is a devastating adverse pregnancy outcome which may occur without any obvious reason, or may occur in the context of fetal growth restriction, preeclampsia or other obstetric complications...

Mar 02, 2020

To review our experience with Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) for respiratory support in neonates. From 1989 to 2018 2,114 patients underwent respiratory ECMO support, with 764(36%) neonat...

Mar 02, 2020

Nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT) is a novel regulator of energy homeostasis in adipocytes. NNMT expression in adipose tissue is increased in obesity and diabetes. Knockdown of NNMT prevents mic...

Mar 02, 2020

Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT), a crucial regulator of vascular homeostasis, is actively involved in vascular dysfunction during aging. PVAT releases various adipocytokines, chemokines and growth ...

Mar 02, 2020

Panax ginseng C.A. Mey. (Korean ginseng) has been widely used in traditional medicine to treat diabetes mellitus for thousands of years. It also plays a key role in health maintenance owing to its ant...

Mar 02, 2020

In this retrospective study, we compared tooth loss between patients receiving periodontal therapy (PT) in four German university centres, stratified according to periodontal treatment phase.Overall, ...

Mar 02, 2020

Spontaneous recanalization of coronary thrombus (SRCT) is a rare in vivo appearance, with a nonspecific angiographic aspect. The aim of this study was to investigate the importance of optical coherenc...

Mar 02, 2020

The pro-inflammatory adipokine resistin induces a phenotypic switch of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC), a process decisive for atherosclerosis, including morphological changes, increased synthetic...

Mar 02, 2020

5-lipoxygenase is a key enzyme in the synthesis of leukotrienes from arachidonic acid. The produced leukotrienes are involved in inflammatory diseases including psoriasis, asthma, and atherosclerosis....

Mar 02, 2020

We investigated the association between acculturation strategies and cardiometabolic risk among South Asian (SA) immigrants in the US.In this cross-sectional analysis of data from 849 SA participants ...

Mar 02, 2020

Molecular imaging with Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) and F-sodium-fluoride (NaF) captures arterial inflammation and micro-calcification and can reveal potentially unstable atherosclerotic plaques.We perfor...

Feb 28, 2020

Palliative care (PC) and hospice care are underutilized for patients with end-stage liver disease, but factors associated with these patterns of utilization are not well understood. We examined pati...

Feb 28, 2020

We examined the association between surveillance for deep vein thrombosis (DVT) among medical-surgical critically ill patients by twice-weekly ultrasonography and 90-day all-cause mortality.This was a...

Feb 28, 2020

The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality and diagnostic performance of virtual monochromatic images (VMI) obtained with dual-layer dual-energy computed tomography (DL-DECT) during indirect CT...

Feb 28, 2020

: Thrombophilia testing is frequently performed in both seemingly provoked and unprovoked portal vein thrombosis (PVT), yet the clinical implications of these expensive laboratory tests are unknown. W...

Feb 28, 2020

Proper wound healing necessitates both coagulation (the formation of a blood clot) and fibrinolysis (the dissolution of a blood clot). A thrombus resistant to clot dissolution can obstruct blood flow,...

Feb 28, 2020

A shift has occurred in interventional cardiology from transfemoral to transradial access due to a 70%-80% decrease in complications. This shift has not yet taken place in other interventional special...

Feb 28, 2020

Patients with bicuspid aortic valve (AV) stenosis were excluded from the pivotal evaluations of transcatheter AV replacement (TAVR) devices. We sought to evaluate the outcomes of TAVR in patients wit...

Feb 28, 2020

The 2017 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) hypertension guideline recommended 130/80 mm Hg as blood pressure (BP) target goals. However, the generalisability of this ...

Feb 28, 2020

World demography is changing as the population ages and there are more people with disabilities having problems to stay independently at home. Innovative technologies could help extend the independenc...