A late neurological complicatio ...
Though a possible cause of late neurological deficits after posterior cervical reconstruction surgery was reported to be an iatrogenic foraminal ste ...
Transcatheter aortic valve impl ...
Background: Report of our single centre experiences with transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in a group of high-risk patients without ext ...
One-stage surgical management f ...
Background: Hydatid disease remains a serious health problem in Mediterranean areas. We reviewed the efficacy of a single-stage operation in coexist ...
Staphylococcal toxins in sudden ...
Around two thirds of sudden unexpected deaths in infancy (SUDI) remain unexplained following postmortem examination. It has been postulated that a s ...
Medico-legal autopsy in postope ...
Sudden unexpected postoperative hemodynamic collapse with a high mortality develops in 1–3% of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery (C ...
Clinical acupuncture research i ...
In recent years, acupuncture has rapidly become part of mainstream medicine in the West, where new developments in acupuncture clinical research show ...
Stem cell niches and endogenous ...
Adult stem cells are responsible for homeostasis and repair of many tissues. Endogenous adult stem cells reside in certain regions of organs, known ...
Usefulness of transnasal endosc ...
Background Early gastric cancer located from the pyloric ring to inside the duodenal bulb (DB) is not easily treated by endoscopic submucosal dissec ...
IL-6 serum levels predict posto ...
Background Despite progress in surgical techniques and perioperative care, gastrectomy remains a procedure of significant morbidity. Several scoring ...
Surgical treatment for achalasi ...
Achalasia is a rare motor disorder of the esophagus, characterized by the absence of peristalsis and impaired swallow-induced relaxation. In the pas ...
En bloc resection and extended ...
We present the technical details of en bloc resection and extended replacement of an infected aortic arch. A 74-year-old man underwent emergent surg ...
Endovascular management for rup ...
Surgery for a complicated Stanford B acute aortic dissection, such as rupture or malperfusion, is still a challenge. We undertook endovascular thera ...
Surgically treated aggressive m ...
True sarcoma of thymus has no epithelial component. This tumor behaves aggressively with invasion of adjacent structures. Only a few anecdotal case ...
Drug-related renal dysfunction ...
Because of its high blood flow and function to excrete and metabolize xenobiotics, the kidney is especially prone to injury by drugs and chemicals. I ...
Intravitreal bevacizumab for tr ...
Purpose To report the long-term effect of intravitreal bevacizumab on serous macular detachment (SMD) in central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO). Met ...
Differential diameter responses ...
Background Diabetic retinopathy is assumed to be due to impaired retinal autoregulation, involving both pressure autoregulation and metabolic autore ...
Retinal functional changes meas ...
Background Antimalarial drugs such as chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) are mainly used in the treatment of rheumatologic diseases, and ...
Correlation between nerve fibre ...
Background To measure retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) thickness with spectral-domain OCT (SD-OCT) in patients with glaucoma, and to evaluate the co ...
Identification of immunodominan ...
Background A high incidence of autoantibodies to lens proteins has been found in sera of patients with uveitis. We showed previously that the anti-l ...
Restoration of the photorecepto ...
Background To evaluate the prognostic value of foveal microstructures as determined using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) in e ...
Sociocultural and psychological ...
Background Compliance with occlusion therapy for amblyopia in children is low when their parents have a low level of education, speak Dutch poorly, ...
Combining NovaSure® endometrial ...
Since NovaSure® endometrial ablation (GEA) is not reliable as contraception, a reliable permanent contraceptive method which can be offered during t ...
Cardiac and gingival metastasis ...
Uterine epithelioid angiosarcomas are extremely rare; only 24 cases have been documented worldwide. We present a unique case of cardiac and gingival ...
Bowel cancer and previous mesh ...
We report two cases of large bowel cancer adjacent to mesh following previous abdominal sacrocolpopexy. As far as we are aware, there have been no ...
Total laparoscopic hysterectomy ...
This report is on recovery and long-term outcomes in a small-scale randomised controlled trial (RCT) after total laparoscopic hysterectomy versus to ...