Prediction of Sustained Virolog ...
Background Sustained virological response (SVR) rates in patients with hepatitis C are heterogeneous and are influenced by a wide range of host and ...
Treatment of Genotype 4 Hepatit ...
Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) recurrence after liver transplantation (LT) is universal and tends to be more aggressive. Data on post-transplant ...
Helicobacter pylori VacA Reduce ...
Background Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin, VacA, stimulates apoptosis via a mitochondria-dependent pathway. VacA induces apoptosis via ac ...
Validation of the Psychometric ...
Background The psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score (PHES) is a battery of neuropsychological tests used in the diagnosis of minimal hepatic en ...
The Role of the Epiglottis in t ...
Repeatable epiglottic movement patterns were recorded during a videofluoroscopic swallow evaluation of 95 patients who had undergone a total or part ...
Normal Swallowing Acoustics Acr ...
Cervical auscultation has been proposed as an augmentative procedure for the subjective clinical swallowing examination due to the tangible differen ...
Optimization of patient dose an ...
The purpose of this study is to retrospectively analyze the effect of z-axis modulation for CT head protocols on patient dose and image quality in p ...
Gastric pneumatosis: the role o ...
Gastric pneumatosis is rare, with causes ranging from benign to lethal. The purpose of this pictorial essay is to present a series of cases of gastr ...
Well-Differentiated Thyroid Car ...
Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) and follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) are the most common differentiated thyroid cancers. Previous studies report ...
Pharyngo-laryngeal examination ...
The prognosis of cancer patients is highly dependent on the time of diagnosis. Early, stage 1 disease is often curable whereas late stage diseases a ...
Surgery and postoperative radio ...
Since 1992 we have prospectively included all head and neck cancer patients in our health region in a departmental based register. Our hospital take ...
Percutaneous endoscopic gastros ...
The aim of this study was to review our experience in percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) performed in patients with cancer of the upper aerod ...
Safety and patient selection of ...
Patient’s low compliance of conventional hearing aids has lead to innovation of totally implantable hearing devices such as Esteem, Envoy system. Th ...
Recurrent malignant otitis exte ...
Necrotizing (malignant) external otitis (NEO) is an infection involving the temporal and the adjacent bones. It is a rare type of external otitis th ...
Return to theatre in secondary ...
The aim of this study is to examine the incidence of return to theatre (RTT) for post-operative haemorrhage following coblation and dissection tonsi ...
Parapharyngeal space tumors wit ...
Parapharyngeal space (PPS) tumors are rare and benign in 80% of cases. Since surgeons Wrst resected this anatomical region, the surgical approach to ...
Clinical pathological analysis ...
Aneurysmal bone cysts (ABCs) are benign osteolytic lesions that occur rarely in the jaws. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical, rad ...
Evaluation of bacterial adheren ...
Several promising candidate drugs that target bacterial adherence and biofilm formation are being developed. Such hopeful drugs cannot be studied in ...
The efficacy of nasal surgery i ...
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of surgical intervention for nasal pathologies on obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and c ...
MMP-2 expression in 102 patient ...
In order to evaluate the potential of matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP-2) as a prognostic factor for glottic laryngeal cancer. One hundred and two su ...
Novel composite implant in cran ...
Bioactive glass (BAG) and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) have been used in clinical applications. Antimicrobial BAG has the ability to attach chemic ...
A morphometric analysis of the ...
The septal nuclei are assumed to play a significant role in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia and affective disorders. The aim of this study was ...
Patient’s trust in their psychi ...
Investigating and characterizing the degree and correlates of patient’s trust in their treating psychiatrists across a range of psychiatric disorder ...
Diagnostic criteria for bipolar ...
To assess the clinical validity of individual DSM-IV criteria for hypomania. In an international sample of 5,635 patients with major depressive epis ...
Adult attention deficit hyperac ...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is now recognized as a common disorder both in child and adult psychiatry. Adult patients with a dia ...