Prediction of Stroke Risk in At ...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a large public health problem that affects about 1% of the population in the United States. It confers an increased risk ...
Imaging of Coronary Inflammatio ...
Conventional algorithms and noninvasive imaging tests for the identification of stable, hemodynamically significant coronary artery disease offer li ...
Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch: An ...
Prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM) is present when the effective orifice area of the inserted prosthetic valve is too small in relation to body size. ...
Helicobacter pylori Induces Exp ...
Background Helicobacter pylori is pathogenic bacterium that is associated with several gastric diseases in humans. Disease is characterized by sever ...
High diagnostic accuracy of pro ...
Objectives The accuracy of computed tomography (CT) for assessment of coronary stents is as yet unproven and radiation exposure has been a concern. ...
“Number needed to read”—How to ...
Purpose To evaluate the effect of the number of readers on the statistical results in peripheral MRA. Materials and methods 40 patients with periphe ...
Modifi ed Norwood procedure wit ...
First-stage palliation of hypoplastic left heart syndrome has been revolutionized by the recent introduction of a right ventricle-to-pulmonary arter ...
Caspase-3-independent photorece ...
Background Retinal degeneration is followed by significant changes in the structure and function of photoreceptors in humans and several genetic ani ...
The prevalence and characterist ...
Few studies were performed to evaluate the prevalence of latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA) and the difference of chronic complications bet ...
Postsynaptic degeneration as re ...
Impairment of synaptic plasticity underlies memory dysfunction inAlzheimer’s disease (AD). Molecules involved in this plasticity such as PSD-95, a m ...
Enhanced activation of autophag ...
Erythropoiesis in β-thalassemia patients is ineffective, primarily because of death of the erythroid progenitor cells at the polychromatic normoblas ...
Genome-wide high density single ...
The current study investigated molecular cytogenetic characteristics of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) using genome-wide, single nucleotide polymorp ...
New software for raw data mask ...
Objective Increased activity of myocardial perfusion tracer technetium-99m in liver and hepatobiliary system causes streak artifacts, which may affe ...
Tumor angiogenesis as prognosti ...
The goal of this analysis was to characterize the survival impact of angiogenesis in the patients with highrisk breast cancer, particularly the pred ...
PD-1 polymorphisms are associat ...
The programmed death-1 (PD-1) is a potent immunoregulatory molecule which is responsible for the negative regulation of T-cell activation and periph ...
Aromatase immunoreactivity is i ...
Mammographic breast density (MBD) is one of the strongest risk factors for breast cancer. Unfortunately, the biologic basis underlying this associat ...
Germline ATM mutational analysi ...
Biallelic inactivation of ATM gene causes the rare autosomal recessive disorder Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T). Female relatives of A-T patients have a ...
Leptomeningeal metastases from ...
Leptomeningeal metastasis (LM) usually occurs late during the course of breast cancer. The aim of this study was to characterize the clinical featur ...
A middle-age woman with subcuta ...
Subcutaneous sarcoidosis (SS) is an unusual and specific subtype of nodular sarcoidosis 1. The presence of SS with no elements of systemic manifestat ...
Cognitive functions correlate w ...
Purpose Spina bifida cystica (SBC) is a group of neurodevelopmental defects caused by improper neural tube closure, which may be responsible for def ...
Pediatric intramedullary cavern ...
Cavernous malformations of the conus medullaris are rare lesions; only 9 cases have been reported in the literature.Most cases are described in adul ...
A case of hypokalemia-induced f ...
An 84-year-old man was referred to our hospital for atrioventricular block and severe hypokalemia. He had been treated for hypertension since 2007 w ...
A rare case of Barrett’s adenoc ...
We present a rare case of Barrett’s cancer with a particular histology composed of various differentiated adenocarcinoma (AC) and squamous cell carc ...
Risk factors in burning mouth s ...
Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a multifactorial condition which is still poorly understood. The aimof this study was to evaluate a group of patient ...
Impaired somatosensation in ton ...
Smoking has been indicated as a risk factor for oral diseases and can lead to altered sense of taste. So far, the effects of sensory changes on the to ...