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Orthopedics

Appropriate referral and selection of patients with chronic pain for Spinal Cord Stimulation: European consensus recommendations and e-health tool.

Mar 19, 2020

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is an established treatment for chronic neuropathic, neuropathic-like and ischaemic pain. However, the heterogeneity of patients in daily clinical practice makes it often...

Inhibition of ice recrystallization during cryopreservation of cord blood grafts improves platelet engraftment.

Mar 19, 2020

Platelet engraftment following cord blood (CB) transplantation remains a significant hurdle to this day. The uncontrolled growth of ice, a process referred to as ice recrystallization, is one of sever...

Furosemide administration results in a transient alteration in calcium balance in mature horses.

Mar 19, 2020

Previous research documented that furosemide negatively impacted calcium balance for 3 days but did not determine when calcium balance returned to baseline. This study hypothesized that furosemide's ...

Is the buccal alveolar bone less affected by mini-implant assisted rapid palatal expansion than by conventional rapid palatal expansion? - A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Mar 19, 2020

To systematically review the existing literature comparing mini-implant assisted rapid palatal expansion (MARPE) and conventional rapid palatal expansion (RPE) regarding the effect on the buccal alveo...

Bone augmentation by octacalcium phosphate and collagen composite coated with poly-lactic acid cage.

Mar 19, 2020

Although octacalcium phosphate and collagen composite (OCP/Col) has demonstrated excellent bone regeneration, it has never achieved bone augmentation. The present study investigated whether it could b...

Influence of short-term dexamethasone on the efficacy of Lu-PSMA-617 in patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Mar 19, 2020

Corticosteroids alone or in combination therapy are associated with favorable biochemical responses in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). We speculated that the intermittent addi...

The Effect of Plasma Lipids and Lipid-Lowering Interventions on Bone Mineral Density: A Mendelian Randomization Study.

Mar 13, 2020

Several epidemiological studies have reported a relationship between statin treatment and increased bone mineral density (BMD) and reduced fracture risk, but the mechanism underlying the purported rel...

Liquid nitrogen waterless fracking for the environmental protection of arid areas during unconventional resource extraction.

Mar 13, 2020

Many arid and semi-arid regions are rich in shale gas or coalbed methane. However, hydraulic-fracturing, commonly used for reservoir stimulation, has serious environmental impacts such as the consumpt...

An exemplar pyramid feature extraction based humerus fracture classification method.

Mar 13, 2020

Humerus fracture have been widely seen disease in the orthopedic clinics and classification of them is a hard process for orthopedist. The main aim of the proposed method is to classify humerus fractu...

Training Load, Neuromuscular Readiness, and Perceptual Fatigue Profile in Youth Elite Long-Jump Athletes.

Mar 13, 2020

To describe and identify individual trends and changes in training load, neuromuscular readiness, and perceptual fatigue measures in 2 youth elite long jumpers, finalists at the European Athletics U18...

Do Athlete Monitoring Tools Improve a Coach's Understanding of Performance Change?

Mar 13, 2020

To assess a coach's subjective assessment of their athletes' performances and whether the use of athlete-monitoring tools could improve on the coach's prediction to identify performance changes.Eight ...

The effect of adrenocorticotropic hormone on alpha-2-macroglobulin in osteoblasts derived from human mesenchymal stem cells.

Mar 13, 2020

Nowadays, alpha-2-macroglobulin (A2M) gene has allocated escalating interest among several genes involved in the pathogenesis of avascular necrosis of the femoral head (ANFH). This molecule could inte...

Prophylactic use of platelets in critically ill patients with thrombocytopaenia: A retrospective two-centre observational study.

Mar 13, 2020

We report the use and effect of prophylactic platelet transfusions in critically ill thrombocytopaenic patients, comparing patients with or without bone marrow failure as a cause of thrombocytopaenia....

Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa: Personal ornaments, bone artifacts, and ocher from Panga ya Saidi, Kenya.

Mar 13, 2020

African Middle Stone Age (MSA) populations used pigments, manufactured and wore personal ornaments, made abstract engravings, and produced fully shaped bone tools. However, ongoing research across Afr...

Carcinogenesis and precancerosis transformation of chronic osteomyelitis: 6 cases report and literature review.

Mar 13, 2020

Malignant transformation is a rare and late complication of chronic osteomyelitis. This study presented the results of six cases of carcinogenesis and precancerosis transformations arising from chroni...

Esculentoside A protects against osteoarthritis by ameliorating inflammation and repressing osteoclastogenesis.

Mar 13, 2020

Osteoarthritis is a relatively common disorder of articular deterioration related to cartilage damage, subchondral bone remodelling, inflammation and metabolism. Agents that can inhibit cartilage degr...

Basic morphometry, microcomputed tomography and mechanical evaluation of the tibiotarsal bone of a dual-purpose and a broiler chicken line.

Mar 12, 2020

Continuous loading of the skeleton by the body's weight is an important factor in establishing and maintaining bone morphology, architecture and strength. However, in fast-growing chickens the appendi...

Single versus double screw fixation for the treatment of scaphoid waist fractures: Finite element analysis and preliminary clinical results in scaphoid nonunion.

Mar 12, 2020

This study aims to compare the single versus double screw fixation of scaphoid waist fractures using finite element analysis, and to present the preliminary clinical results of double screw fixation i...

Factors affecting re-displacement in pediatric forearm fractures and the role of cast indices.

Mar 12, 2020

This study aims to investigate the factors affecting the loss of reduction in pediatric diaphyseal forearm fractures and to compare the three-point index (TPI) with the cast index, padding index, Cant...

Orthopedic treatment, complications, and cost analysis of 67 soldiers injured in a three-month period.

Mar 12, 2020

This study aims to analyze the musculoskeletal injury types, injury mechanisms, treatment modalities, complications, and costs of 67 consecutive soldiers wounded in the battlefield in Syria civil war ...

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