Publications
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| regenerative endodontics versus apexification in immature permanent teeth with apical periodontitis: a prospective randomized controlled study. | the aim of the study was to compare the outcomes of regenerative endodontic treatment (ret) and apexification on immature permanent teeth with pulp necrosis and apical periodontitis. | 2017 | 28864219 |
| toxicity and outcomes in patients with and without esophageal stents in locally advanced esophageal cancer. | esophageal stenting is often considered to relieve dysphagia in patients with locoregionally advanced esophageal cancer. we sought to determine the effects of stenting on the incidence of acute toxicity and oncologic outcomes in patients undergoing chemoradiation therapy (crt). | 2017 | 28864404 |
| charlson comorbidity index, inappropriate medication use and cognitive impairment : bermuda triangle. | the aim is to evaluate the association between the charlson comorbidity index (cci), polypharmacy, inappropriate medication use and cognitive impairment in long-term care facility patients. | 2017 | 28864869 |
| phenograph and visne facilitate the identification of abnormal t-cell populations in routine clinical flow cytometric data. | flow cytometric identification of neoplastic t-cell populations is complicated by the wide range of phenotypic abnormalities in t-cell neoplasia, and the diverse repertoire of reactive t-cell phenotypes. we evaluated whether a recently described clustering algorithm, phenograph, and dimensionality-reduction algorithm, visne, might facilitate the identification of abnormal t-cell populations in routine clinical flow cytometric data. | 2017 | 28865188 |
| frail questionnaire screening tool and short-term outcomes in geriatric fracture patients. | there are limited screening tools to predict adverse postoperative outcomes for the geriatric surgical fracture population. frailty is increasingly recognized as a risk assessment to capture complexity. the goal of this study was to use a short screening tool, the frail scale, to categorize the level of frailty of older adults admitted with a fracture to determine the association of each frailty category with postoperative and 30-day outcomes. | 2017 | 28866353 |
| a multi-modal, discriminative and spatially invariant cnn for rgb-d object labeling. | while deep convolutional neural networks have shown a remarkable success in image classification, the problems of inter-class similarities, intra-class variances, the effective combination of multimodal data, and the spatial variability in images of objects remain to be major challenges. to address these problems, this paper proposes a novel framework to learn a discriminative and spatially invariant classification model for object and indoor scene recognition using multimodal rgb-d imagery. thi ... | 2017 | 28866483 |
| effects of patients' affect on adverse procedural events during image-guided interventions. | to assess how a patient's affect on presentation relates to the likelihood of adverse events during their subsequent interventional image-guided procedures. | 2017 | 28867310 |
| personality traits in recent-onset-of-psychosis patients compared to a control sample by gender. | personality traits in recent onset of psychosis (rop) patients are an under-researched area. our aim was to examine clinical and clinically significant personality traits in rop patients compared with a healthy control sample by gender. data were obtained from 94 rop patients and a control sample matched in gender and age. the millon clinical multiaxial inventory and a sociodemographic scale were used. t for independent samples, u-mann-whitney and fisher tests were applied to make comparisons. a ... | 2017 | 28867518 |
| should subclinical hypothyroidism be an exclusion criterion for the diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome? | the purpose of the study was to examine whether patients with subclinical hypothyroidism (sch) should be excluded before making a diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos). | 2017 | 28868249 |
| [clinical efficacy of enhanced recovery after surgery in atrial caval shunting for type ⅱ budd-chiari syndrome]. | objective: to investigate the clinical efficacy of enhanced recovery after surgery(eras) in atrial caval shunting (acs) for type ⅱ budd-chiari syndrome(bcs). methods: the clinical data of patients underwent acs for type ⅱ bcs in the henan province people's hospital from january 2014 to june 2016 were prospectively analyzed.randomized and single-blind, controlled study was performed among the patients, and all of them underwent acs and were divided into control group (patients underwent tradition ... | 2017 | 28870052 |
| asymptotic confidence intervals for the pearson correlation via skewness and kurtosis. | when bivariate normality is violated, the default confidence interval of the pearson correlation can be inaccurate. two new methods were developed based on the asymptotic sampling distribution of fisher's z' under the general case where bivariate normality need not be assumed. in monte carlo simulations, the most successful of these methods relied on the (vale & maurelli, 1983, psychometrika, 48, 465) family to approximate a distribution via the marginal skewness and kurtosis of the sample data. ... | 2017 | 28872186 |
| in-hospital complications following ankle arthrodesis versus ankle arthroplasty: a matched cohort study. | ankle arthrodesis has been the traditional surgical treatment for end-stage hindfoot arthritis. however, utilization of total ankle arthroplasty (taa) is increasing as surgical techniques and implants have substantially improved. the purpose of this study was to compare the u.s. national rates of perioperative (in-hospital) complications between a statistically matched cohort of patients who underwent either an ankle arthrodesis or a taa. | 2017 | 28872529 |
| penalized estimation for proportional hazards models with current status data. | we provide a simple and practical, yet flexible, penalized estimation method for a cox proportional hazards model with current status data. we approximate the baseline cumulative hazard function by monotone b-splines and use a hybrid approach based on the fisher-scoring algorithm and the isotonic regression to compute the penalized estimates. we show that the penalized estimator of the nonparametric component achieves the optimal rate of convergence under some smooth conditions and that the esti ... | 2017 | 28872695 |
| one hundred twenty five fat myringoplasties: does marginal perforation matter? | to evaluate if calcified plaques adjacent to the perforation and marginal perforations are real contraindications to the fat graft myringoplasty. | 2017 | 28872767 |
| [analysis of commercial specifications and grades of wild and cultivated gentianae macrophyllae radix based on multi-indicative constituents]. | the study is aimed to analyze the commercial specifications and grades of wild and cultivated gentianae macrophllae radix based on multi-indicative constituents. the seven kinds of main chemical components containing in gentianae macrophyllae radix were determined by uplc, and then the quality levels of chemical component of gentianae macrophyllae radix were clustered and classified by modern statistical methods (canonical correspondence analysis, fisher discriminant analysis and so on). the qua ... | 2016 | 28875628 |
| [correspondence analysis between traditional commercial specifications and quantitative quality indices of notopterygii rhizoma et radix]. | this paper aims to explore a comprehensive assessment method combined traditional chinese medicinal material specifications with quantitative quality indicators. seventy-six samples of notopterygii rhizoma et radix were collected on market and at producing areas. traditional commercial specifications were described and assigned, and 10 chemical components and volatile oils were determined for each sample. cluster analysis, fisher discriminant analysis and correspondence analysis were used to est ... | 2016 | 28875629 |
| outcome of appendicitis in the elderly in universitas and pelonomi hospitals. | in the elderly population, appendicitis still poses a high mortality and morbidity. morbidity rates of 28-60% and mortality rates of 5-10% have been reported. the mortality rate is even higher in the presence of perforated appendicitis. various factors have been pointed out to contribute to this trend. | 2017 | 28876653 |
| neonatal rat age, sex and strain modify acute antioxidant response to ozone. | chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) is the third leading cause of death in the us and its impact continues to increase in women. oxidant insults during critical periods of early life appear to increase risk of copd through-out the life course. to better understand susceptibility to early life exposure to oxidant air pollutants we used fisher (f344), sprague-dawley (sd) and wistar (wis) male and female neonatal rat pups to assess: (a) if strain (i.e. genetics), sex, or stage of early lif ... | 2017 | 28880688 |
| are orthodontic systematic reviews registered a priori in prospero? | aim of this study was to assess the registration of orthodontic systematic reviews in prospero. | 2017 | 28881169 |
| more fishers and fewer martens due to cumulative effects of forest management and climate change as evidenced from local knowledge. | monitoring of fur-bearing species populations is relatively rare due to their low densities. in addition to catch data, trappers' experience provides information on the ecology and status of the harvested species. fisher (pekania pennanti) and american marten (martes americana) are mustelids that are sensitive to forest management and therefore considered to be ecological indicators of forest health. fisher populations have increased in eastern north america since the early 2000s and this could ... | 2017 | 28882186 |
| patient outcomes and cerebral infarction after ruptured anterior communicating artery aneurysm treatment. | anterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture and treatment is associated with high rates of dependency, which are more severe after clipping compared with coiling. to determine whether ischemic injury might account for these differences, we characterized cerebral infarction burden, infarction patterns, and patient outcomes after surgical or endovascular treatment of ruptured anterior communicating artery aneurysms. | 2017 | 28882863 |
| is infantile colic an early life expression of childhood migraine? | migraine is the mosyndrome and infantile colic is a common cause of infantile cry. the pathogenesis of migraine and colic has not been well established and different factors may cause them. there is an association between infantile colic and the occurrence of childhood migraine. we aimed to assess whether infantile colic could be noted as an early life expression of childhood migraine or not. | 2017 | 28883875 |
| ridge preservation after maxillary third molar extraction using 30% porosity plga/ha/β-tcp scaffolds with and without simvastatin: a pilot randomized controlled clinical trial. | to evaluate clinically and radiographically, in humans, the healing of maxillary third molars postextraction sockets after application of different ridge preservation techniques 3 months after tooth extraction. | 2017 | 28885317 |
| outcomes of abdominal surgery in patients with mechanical ventricular assist devices: a multi-institutional study. | the aim of this study was to examine the outcomes of elective and emergent abdominal operations performed in end-stage heart failure patients supported with ventricular assist devices (vads). | 2017 | 28885501 |
| a retrospective volume matched analysis of the submental artery island pedicled flap as compared to the forearm free flap: is it a good alternative choice for the reconstruction of defects of the oral cavity and oropharynx? | the submental artery island pedicled flap (smif) is an underused alternative for reconstruction of head and neck defects after tumor ablation. the purpose of this study was to perform a comparative evaluation of reconstructive outcomes based on surgical site and ablative defect volume in patients who underwent reconstruction with the smif versus the forearm free flap (fff). | 2017 | 28886357 |
| safety and effectiveness of oral misoprostol for induction of labour in a resource-limited setting: a dose escalation study. | oral misoprostol as an induction of labour (iol) agent is rapidly gaining popularity in resource-limited settings because it is cheap, stable at ambient temperatures, and logistically easier to administer compared to dinoprostone and oxytocin. we aim to investigate the safety and effectiveness of a regimen of oral misoprostol in papua new guinean women undergoing iol. | 2017 | 28886702 |
| early electrophysiological findings in fisher-bickerstaff syndrome. | the term fisher-bickerstaff syndrome (fbs) has been proposed to describe the clinical spectrum encompassing miller-fisher syndrome (mfs) and bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis. the pathophysiology of fbs and the nature of the underlying neuropathy (demyelinating or axonal) are still subject to debate. this study describes the main findings of an early neurophysiological study on 12 patients diagnosed with fbs. | 2017 | 28888467 |
| yamamoto new scalp acupuncture for postoperative pain management in cats undergoing ovariohysterectomy. | to evaluate the analgesic efficacy of yamamoto new scalp acupuncture (ynsa) as an adjuvant for postoperative pain management in cats. | 2017 | 28888802 |
| prevalence of endometriosis and its symptoms among young jordanian women with chronic pelvic pain refractory to conventional therapy. | this study sought to explore the prevalence and clinical manifestations of endometriosis in young women with chronic pelvic pain (cpp) refractory to conventional medical therapy. | 2017 | 28890178 |
| caloric restriction promotes rapid expansion and long-lasting increase of lactobacillus in the rat fecal microbiota. | previous studies indicated that caloric restricted diet enables to lower significantly the risk of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. in experimental animal models, life-long lasting caloric restriction (cr) was demonstrated to induce changes of the intestinal microbiota composition, regardless of fat content and/or exercise. to explore the potential impact of short and long-term cr treatment on the gut microbiota, we conducted an analysis of fecal microbiota composition in young and adult f ... | 2017 | 28891744 |
| [overall survival and renal function after partial and radical nephrectomy in malignant localized renal tumors.] | to evaluate the overall survival rate and renal function in our series after radical nephrectomy (rn) and partial nephrectomy (pn) in renal tumors in an early stage. | 2017 | 28891797 |
| polytrauma defined by the new berlin definition: a validation test based on propensity-score matching approach. | background: polytrauma patients are expected to have a higher risk of mortality than that obtained by the summation of expected mortality owing to their individual injuries. this study was designed to investigate the outcome of patients with polytrauma, which was defined using the new berlin definition, as cases with an abbreviated injury scale (ais) ≥ 3 for two or more different body regions and one or more additional variables from five physiologic parameters (hypotension [systolic blood press ... | 2017 | 28891977 |
| active surveillance of health care associated infections in neurosurgical patients. | health care associated infections (hcai) are frequent complications in neurosurgery. there is limited data available on the incidence and burden of hcai in neurosurgical patients of southeast asian region. | 2017 | 28892887 |
| distribution of sccmec elements and presence of panton-valentine leukocidin in methicillin-resistant staphylococcusepidermidis isolated from clinical samples in a university hospital of isfahan city, iran. | coagulase negative staphylococcus (cons) is considered as a major pathogen of nosocomial infections among immunosuppressed patients. | 2017 | 28892893 |
| diagnostic accuracy and surgical utility of mri in complicated diabetic foot. | diabetic foot complications pose a significant public health hazard and have negative effect on life quality. these complications are associated with increased risk of amputations and premature death. so focus is increasing on early treatment of complicated diabetic foot. | 2017 | 28892986 |
| diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging driven growth modeling for radiotherapy target definition in glioblastoma. | the clinical target volume (ctv) in radiotherapy is routinely based on gadolinium contrast enhanced t1 weighted (t1w + gd) and t2 weighted fluid attenuated inversion recovery (t2w flair) magnetic resonance imaging (mri) sequences which have been shown to over- or underestimate the microscopic tumor cell spread. gliomas favor spread along the white matter fiber tracts. tumor growth models incorporating the mri diffusion tensors (dti) allow to account more consistently for the glioma growth. the a ... | 2017 | 28893125 |
| proptosis: a forgotten observation by miller fisher on his syndrome. | 2017 | 28894030 | |
| association of gastrointestinal functional disorders and migraine headache: a population base study. | background migraine is one of the prevalent headaches. many of patients with migraine, complain of gastrointestinal symptoms. there is limited studies on relation of gastrointestinal symptoms and migraine headache at population level. methods in this population-based study, 1038 subjects older than 15 year from a rural area in fars province, south of iran. were investigated for functional gastrointestinal disorders. by cluster random sampling, 160 of these persons invited to receive endoscopy al ... | 2017 | 28894515 |
| a pilot study on the impact of dopamine, serotonin, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor genotype on long-term functional outcomes after subarachnoid hemorrhage. | many that survive an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage experience lasting physical disability, which might be improved by medications with effects on the dopaminergic, serotonergic, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor neurotransmitter systems. but it is not clear which patients are most likely to benefit from these therapies. the purpose of this pilot study was to explore the relationship of genetic polymorphisms in these pathways with 12-month functional outcomes after aneurysmal subarachnoi ... | 2017 | 28894586 |
| new prognostic factor telomerase reverse transcriptase promotor mutation presents without mr imaging biomarkers in primary glioblastoma. | magnetic resonance (mr) imaging biomarkers can assist in the non-invasive assessment of the genetic status in glioblastomas (gbms). telomerase reverse transcriptase (tert) promoter mutations are associated with a negative prognosis. this study was performed to identify mr imaging biomarkers to forecast the tert mutation status. | 2017 | 28894890 |
| splenectomy vs. rituximab as a second-line therapy in immune thrombocytopenic purpura: a single center experience. | immune thrombocytopenic purpura (itp) is a common hematological disease treated primarily by corticosteroids. the aim of the present study was to compare response rate between patients, underwent splenectomy vs. rituximab as second-line therapy. adult patients diagnosed with itp who did not respond to corticosteroids or relapsed during the period 1990-2014 were included in a quasi-experimental study. categorical variables were compared using fisher exact test. response to treatment was compared ... | 2017 | 28895035 |
| [miller fisher syndrome following treatment with certolizumab in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis]. | sindrome de miller fisher tras tratamiento con certolizumab en una paciente con artritis reumatoide. | 2017 | 28896005 |
| predicting preschool children's eating in the absence of hunger from maternal pressure to eat: a longitudinal study of low-income, latina mothers. | early work by klesges et al. (1983, 1986) suggested that mothers who frequently prompt their children to eat have children at greater risk for obesity. this is consistent with the hypothesis that controlling feeding practices override children's responsiveness to their internal fullness cues, increasing the risk of overeating and obesity (e.g., johnson & birch, 1994). subsequent cross-sectional research on pressure to eat, however, has been inconsistent. most studies have shown that maternal sel ... | 2017 | 28899652 |
| characterization of differences between prostate cancer patients presenting with de novo versus primary progressive metastatic disease. | men who present with metastatic disease can have de novo or primary progressive disease. we characterized and compared the outcomes between these 2 groups. | 2017 | 28899723 |
| morphometric characteristics and coi haplotype diversity of arctodiaptomus spinosus (copedoda) populations in soda pans in hungary. | arctodiaptomus spinosus (daday, 1891) is a characteristic species of the soda pan zooplankton in the great hungarian plain. the biogeographical distribution of the species is interesting, since its range expands from the pannonian biogeographic region to the other side of the carpathians, occurring in saline lakes in eastern anatolia, armenia, iran and in temporary waters in ukraine. our investigations focused on the morphometric characteristics and the coi haplotype diversity of four hungarian ... | 2017 | 28901808 |
| potential effects of hormone therapy in type 2 idiopathic macular telangiectasia. | to investigate the influence of hormone therapy with tamoxifen or estrogens on morphological changes in macular telangiectasia (mactel) type 2 patients as revealed clinically in multiple imaging modalities. | 2017 | 28903123 |
| winter bait stations as a multispecies survey tool. | winter bait stations are becoming a commonly used technique for multispecies inventory and monitoring but a technical evaluation of their effectiveness is lacking. bait stations have three components: carcass attractant, remote camera, and hair snare. our 22,975 km(2) mountainous study area was stratified with a 5 × 5 km sampling grid centered on northern idaho and including portions of washington, montana, and british columbia. from 2010-14, we conducted 563 sampling sessions at 497 bait statio ... | 2017 | 28904763 |
| clinical and angiographic outcomes following endovascular treatment of very small (3 mm or smaller) intracranial aneurysm: a single-center experience. | treatments for very small (3 mm or smaller) intracranial aneurysms (vsas) remain controversial. the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of endovascular treatment for vsas and to evaluate clinical risk factors associated with complications.this retrospective study enrolled 82 vsa patients who underwent coil embolization in our institution. angiographic outcomes were assessed according to the meyers classification. the clinical results were evaluated using the modified rankin scale (mrs ... | 2017 | 28906352 |
| infection of eight mesocarnivores in new hampshire and vermont with a distinct clade of canine distemper virus in 2016-2017. | three fishers (martes pennanti), 2 gray foxes (urocyon cinereoargenteus), 1 mink (neovison vison), 1 skunk (mephitis mephitis), and 1 raccoon (procyon lotor), from vermont and new hampshire, had lesions on autopsy consistent with canine distemper virus (cdv) infections diagnosed in a 12-mo period in 2016-2017. lesions of cdv infection were most commonly noted in the lungs (8 of 8 animals), urothelium (5 of 8), biliary tract (5 of 8), gastrointestinal tract (4 of 7), and brain (4 of 6). splenic l ... | 2019 | 31023162 |
| genetic characteristics of canine distemper viruses circulating in wildlife in the united states. | canine distemper virus (cdv) is a highly contagious disease of wild and domestic mammals. maintenance of cdv among wildlife plays an important role in the disease epidemiology. wild animals, including raccoons (procyon lotor) and gray foxes (urocyon cinereoargenteus), serve as reservoirs of cdv and hamper the control of the disease. recently, we discovered that at least three different cdv lineages (america-3 [edomex], america-4, and america-5] that are genetically different from the available v ... | 2020 | 31926508 |