Adolescent spinal injuries such as flexion-distraction injuries with posterior ligament complex (PLC) stripping require specialized management because of the unique interplay between injury ...
Aim To study the left ventricular (LV) contractile and pumping function during the recovery phase following ligation of the anterior descending coronary artery (CA).Material and me...
The value of video-based self-assessment in enhancing surgical skills is uncertain. This study investigates the feasibility and estimates sample size for a full-scale randomized controlled t...
Chronic low back pain (LBP) is influenced by a broad spectrum of patient-specific factors as codified in domains of the biopsychosocial model (BSM). Operationalizing the BSM into research an...
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH)-related vertebral fractures often require surgical intervention due to associated spinal instability and neurological deficits. This study pre...
Respiratory infections are the most serious condition in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients; therefore, a thorough comprehension of the diversity and dominant microbial species in CF airways has ...
This study aims to analyze various influencing factors among generations X (Gen X), Y (Gen Y), and Z (Gen Z) of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered mental health virtual assistants.A cross-...
Substance use among physicians can have negative impacts on their health, quality of life, and patient care. While Physician Health Programs (PHPs) have proven effective, many physicians wit...
Second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs) are widely used in treating schizophrenia and related disorders, also other mental disorders. However, the efficacy and safety of SGAs for treating ot...
Previous research shows that the propensity to endorse conspiracy theories is associated with disrupted forms of epistemic trust, i.e., the appropriate openness towards interpersonally commu...
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is highly prevalent in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), and it is a strong predictor of adverse outcomes. We aimed to determi...
In their systematic review on parent illness representations in their children with anorexia nervosa (AN), Marchetti and Sawrikar (International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2023) integrate ...
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common genetic kidney disease. Its main feature is the progressive enlargement of both kidneys with progressive loss of kidne...
People with Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT) frequently report problems with balance, which lead to an increased risk of falls. Evidence is emerging of training interventions to improve bal...
The discovery of two types of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) (EBV-1 and EBV-2) that have different biological properties stimulated the search for neoplasms associated with each type of the virus....
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a cognitive dysfunction syndrome defined mostly by memory or other cognitive impairments, and may serve as a precursor to Alzheimer's disease (AD). In rece...
Diffusion imaging holds great potential for the non-invasive assessment of the glymphatic system in humans. One technique, diffusion tensor imaging along the perivascular space (DTI-ALPS), h...
High-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) is a highly conserved nonhistone nuclear protein found in the calf thymus and participates in a variety of intracellular processes such as DNA transcription...
Haploinsufficiency of the Lysine Methyltransferase 2C (KMT2C) gene results in the autosomal dominant disorder, Kleefstra syndrome 2. It is an extremely rare neurodevelopmental condition, wit...
Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived sensory neurons (hiPSC-SNs) and human dorsal root ganglia neurons (hDRG-N) are popular tools in the field of pain research; however, few groups ma...
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