Publications
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| healthcare professionals' preferences and perceived barriers for routine assessment of patient-reported outcomes in pediatric oncology practice: moving toward international processes of change. | using patient-reported outcomes (pros) in clinical practice has been shown to enhance detection of health-related quality of life problems and satisfaction with care in children with cancer. this study seeks to identify which pro information healthcare professionals (hcps) find useful and what the perceived barriers for routinely assessing pros are. | 2016 | 27511830 |
| gestational diabetes mellitus: an evaluation of gynecologists' knowledge of guidelines and counseling behavior. | knowledge of risks, adequate pre- and post-partum care, and counseling is essential to reduce short- and long-term consequences for women with gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) and their offspring. our study explored the current gdm guideline knowledge and practiced patient counseling of private gynecologists in germany. | 2016 | 27511382 |
| instrumentation failure after posterior vertebral column resection in adult spinal deformity. | retrospective study of instrumentation failure after posterior vertebral column resection (pvcr) in adult spinal deformity (asd) patients. | 2017 | 27509190 |
| the effects of work on the health of nurses who work in clinical surgery departments at university hospitals. | to analyze the effects of work on the health of nurses who work in clinical surgery departments at university hospitals in relation to physical, social and psychological suffering and pain. | 2016 | 27508914 |
| early indicators of relapses vs pseudorelapses in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder. | the purpose of this study was to review cases of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (nmosd) relapses and pseudorelapses to identify early features that differentiate between them at onset of symptoms. | 2016 | 27508210 |
| volumetric image classification using homogeneous decomposition and dictionary learning: a study using retinal optical coherence tomography for detecting age-related macular degeneration. | three-dimensional (3d) (volumetric) diagnostic imaging techniques are indispensable with respect to the diagnosis and management of many medical conditions. however there is a lack of automated diagnosis techniques to facilitate such 3d image analysis (although some support tools do exist). this paper proposes a novel framework for volumetric medical image classification founded on homogeneous decomposition and dictionary learning. in the proposed framework each image (volume) is recursively dec ... | 2017 | 27507326 |
| prognostic features for objectively defined urinary continence after radical cystectomy and ileal orthotopic neobladder in a contemporary cohort. | we objectively quantified daytime and nocturnal continence rates, and defined predictive features for favorable continence outcomes after radical cystectomy and orthotopic ileal neobladder creation. | 2017 | 27506691 |
| eye movements and information geometry. | the human visual system uses eye movements to gather visual information. they act as visual scanning processes and can roughly be divided into two different types: small movements around fixation points and larger movements between fixation points. the processes are often modeled as random walks, and recent models based on heavy tail distributions, also known as levý flights, have been used in these investigations. in contrast to these approaches we do not model the stochastic processes, but we ... | 2016 | 27505658 |
| characteristic functionals in imaging and image-quality assessment: tutorial. | characteristic functionals are one of the main analytical tools used to quantify the statistical properties of random fields and generalized random fields. the viewpoint taken here is that a random field is the correct model for the ensemble of objects being imaged by a given imaging system. in modern digital imaging systems, random fields are not used to model the reconstructed images themselves since these are necessarily finite dimensional. after a brief introduction to the general theory of ... | 2016 | 27505644 |
| predictors of mortality in paediatric myocarditis. | paediatric myocarditis can present as mild flu like symptoms to fulminent form. early identification of the severity of illness and prioritization of intensive care is helpful especially in developing countries with limited resources. | 2016 | 27504368 |
| licoricidin, an isoflavonoid isolated from glycyrrhiza uralensis fisher, prevents uva-induced photoaging of human dermal fibroblasts. | licoricidin is an isoflavonoid isolated from glycyrrhiza uralensis fisher. in this study, we investigated the effects of licoricidin on photoaging of uva-irradiated human dermal fibroblasts (hdfs). | 2017 | 27502959 |
| permutation-based inference for the auc: a unified approach for continuous and discontinuous data. | we investigate rank-based studentized permutation methods for the nonparametric behrens-fisher problem, that is, inference methods for the area under the roc curve. we hereby prove that the studentized permutation distribution of the brunner-munzel rank statistic is asymptotically standard normal, even under the alternative. thus, incidentally providing the hitherto missing theoretical foundation for the neubert and brunner studentized permutation test. in particular, we do not only show its con ... | 2016 | 27502845 |
| significance testing needs a taxonomy: or how the fisher, neyman-pearson controversy resulted in the inferential tail wagging the measurement dog. | accurate measurement and a cutoff probability with inferential statistics are not wholly compatible. fisher understood this when he developed the f test to deal with measurement variability and to make judgments on manipulations that may be worth further study. neyman and pearson focused on modeled distributions whose parameters were highly determined and concluded that inferential judgments following an f test could be made with accuracy because the distribution parameters were determined. neym ... | 2016 | 27502529 |
| a breastfeeding quality improvement project in rural primary care. | breastfeeding is the gold standard nutrition for infants, and more than three-fourths of us mother-infant couplets initiate breastfeeding at birth. however, breastfeeding rates plummet after hospital discharge, when mother-infant couplets enter primary care. this quality improvement project examined the effect of a primary care intervention on breastfeeding rates from the newborn visit through the 4-month visit. | 2016 | 27502513 |
| [clinical application of modified minimally cardiopulmonary bypass: compared with conventional cardiopulmonary bypass]. | to evaluate the safety and effects on blood transfusion of modified minimally cardiopulmonary bypass (cpb). | 2016 | 27502137 |
| [clinical experience of 2 543 cases of congenital heart diseases undergoing totally thoracoscopic cardiac surgery in a single center]. | to summarize the experience of totally thoracoscopic cardiac surgical (ttcs) at congenital heart diseases (chd) treatment. | 2016 | 27502132 |
| [a randomized single blind study of the efficacy of pregabalin in the treatment of opioid withdrawal syndrome]. | to study the efficacy and safety of pregabalin (lyrica) in the complex treatment of opioid withdrawal syndrome (ows). | 2017 | 27500873 |
| [mini-orbitozygomatic craniotomy in surgery for supratentorial aneurysms and tumors of the anterior and middle cranial fossae]. | progress in microneurosurgical techniques, neuroanesthesiology, and intraoperative imaging enables surgery using small incisions and craniotomy, in accordance with the keyhole surgery concept. supraorbital craniotomy is the most widespread minimally invasive approach. there are a number of supraorbital craniotomy modifications, regarding different soft tissue incisions and the extent of craniotomy. we present the first results of using mini-orbitozygomatic craniotomy for aneurysms of the anterio ... | 2017 | 27500773 |
| prospective pilot study to detect dogs with non food-induced canine atopic dermatitis using fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. | the diagnosis of canine atopic dermatitis (cad) remains challenging due to the lack of a simple biomarker or metabolic profile. in human medicine, fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ftir) is an analytical technique used for several diseases. it requires a small amount of sample and allows the identification of structural moieties of biomolecules on the basis of their infrared absorption, with limited sample pretreatment. | 2016 | 27500559 |
| the impact of oral care on oral health status and prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in critically ill patients. | ventilator-associated pneumonia is one of the most common nosocomial infections which increase mortality rate and length stay of hospitalisation. oral care would not only improve patient's oral health and well-being, but it can also reduce the incidence rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia. | 2017 | 27499527 |
| rack1 overexpression associates with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma growth and poor prognosis. | the receptor for activated protein kinase c (rack1) is a scaffold protein involved in multiple intracellular signal pathways. previous studies have shown that rack1 is associated with the progression of multiple cancer types, including hepatocellular carcinoma and gastric cancer. however, the role of rack1 in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (pdac) remains unclear. | 2016 | 27498047 |
| measurement of kyphosis and vertebral body height loss in traumatic spine fractures: an international study. | to investigate whether wide variations are seen in the measurement techniques preferred by spine surgeons around the world to assess traumatic fracture kyphosis and vertebral body height loss (vbhl). | 2017 | 27497753 |
| blood capillary rarefaction and lymphatic capillary neoangiogenesis are key contributors to renal allograft fibrosis in an ace inhibition rat model. | chronic allograft fibrosis is the major cause of graft loss in kidney transplantation. progression can only be reduced by inhibition of the renin-angiotensin system (ras). we tested the hypothesis that the protection provided by angiotensin-converting enzyme (ace) inhibition also decreases capillary rarefaction, lymphangiogenesis, and podocyte injury in allograft fibrosis. fisher kidneys were transplanted into bilaterally nephrectomized lewis rats treated with enalapril (60 mg/kg per day) (ace i ... | 2016 | 27496878 |
| hypertension in pregnant renal and liver transplant recipients. | pregnancies in transplant recipients involve risks for both grafts and the fetus, and need to be carefully managed. hypertension is the most frequent complications in pregnant transplant recipients, especially in renal transplant recipients. strict control of blood pressure is essential for a favorable obstetric outcome and long-term graft survival. the aim of the study was to evaluate the influence of hypertension on obstetric outcome and graft function in pregnant renal transplant recipients ( ... | 2016 | 27496481 |
| inadequate anti-oxidative responses in kidneys of brain-dead rats. | brain death (bd)-related lipid peroxidation, measured as serum malondialdehyde (mda) levels, correlates with delayed graft function (dgf) in renal transplant recipients. how bd affects lipid peroxidation is not known. the extent of bd-induced organ damage is influenced by the speed at which intracranial pressure increases. to determine possible underlying causes of lipid peroxidation, we investigated the renal redox balance by assessing oxidative and anti-oxidative processes in kidneys of brain- ... | 2016 | 27495771 |
| an approximate stationary solution for multi-allele neutral diffusion with low mutation rates. | we address the problem of determining the stationary distribution of the multi-allelic, neutral-evolution wright-fisher model in the diffusion limit. a full solution to this problem for an arbitrary k×k mutation rate matrix involves solving for the stationary solution of a forward kolmogorov equation over a (k-1)-dimensional simplex, and remains intractable. in most practical situations mutations rates are slow on the scale of the diffusion limit and the solution is heavily concentrated on the c ... | 2016 | 27495379 |
| preventive effects of cilostazol against the development of shunt-dependent hydrocephalus after subarachnoid hemorrhage. | objective chronic hydrocephalus develops in association with the induction of tenascin-c (tnc), a matricellular protein, after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (sah). the aim of this study was to examine if cilostazol, a selective inhibitor of phosphodiesterase type iii, suppresses the development of chronic hydrocephalus by inhibiting tnc induction in aneurysmal sah patients. methods the authors retrospectively reviewed the factors influencing the development of chronic shunt-dependent hydroc ... | 2017 | 27494819 |
| clinical correlates of computationally derived visual field defect archetypes in patients from a glaucoma clinic. | to assess the clinical validity of visual field (vf) archetypal analysis, a previously developed machine learning method for decomposing any humphrey vf (24-2) into a weighted sum of clinically recognizable vf loss patterns. | 2017 | 27494512 |
| modular hamiltonian for excited states in conformal field theory. | we present a novel replica trick that computes the relative entropy of two arbitrary states in conformal field theory. our replica trick is based on the analytic continuation of partition functions that break the z_{n} replica symmetry. it provides a method for computing arbitrary matrix elements of the modular hamiltonian corresponding to excited states in terms of correlation functions. we show that the quantum fisher information in vacuum can be expressed in terms of two-point functions on th ... | 2016 | 27494465 |
| mental health status following severe sulfur mustard exposure: a long-term study of iranian war survivors. | this study aimed to describe the mental health status of sulfur mustard-exposed survivors suffering from severe respiratory and ophthalmological problems. | 2017 | 27494204 |
| ischemia-induced angiogenesis is attenuated in aged rats. | to study whether focal angiogenesis is induced in aged rodents after permanent distal middle cerebral artery occlusion (mcao), young adult (3-month-old) and aged (24-month-old) fisher 344 rats underwent mcao and sacrificed up to two months after mcao. immunohistochemistry and synchrotron radiation microangiography were performed to examine the number of newly formed blood vessels in both young adult and aged rats post-ischemia. we found that the number of capillaries and small arteries in aged b ... | 2016 | 27493831 |
| tert promoter mutation predicts radioiodine-refractory character in distant metastatic differentiated thyroid cancer. | telomerase reverse transcriptase (tert) promoter mutation has been reported to be associated with aggressive characteristics in differentiated thyroid cancer (dtc). this study examined the status of tert mutation in distant metastatic dtc and evaluated the correlation between tert mutation and radioiodine uptake, as well as that between tert mutation and therapy response. | 2017 | 27493271 |
| a novel adhesion index for verifying the extent of adhesion for the extensor digitorum communis in patients with metacarpal fractures. | this study aims to determine if the relative displacement between the extensor digitorum communis (edc) tendon and its surrounding tissues can be used as an adhesion index (ai) for assessing adhesion in metacarpal fractures by comparing two clinical measures, namely single-digit-force and extensor lag (i.e., the difference between passive extension and full active extension). the fisher-tippett block-matching method and a kalman-filter algorithm were used to determine the relative displacements ... | 2016 | 27492808 |
| evaluation of anaphylaxis management in a pediatric emergency department. | in 2006, the national institute of allergy and infectious disease established evidence-based treatment guidelines for anaphylaxis. the purpose of our study was to evaluate provider adherence to guidelines-based management for anaphylaxis in a tertiary care pediatric emergency department (ed). | 2016 | 27490724 |
| discrete biogeography based optimization for feature selection in molecular signatures. | biomarker discovery from high-dimensional data is a complex task in the development of efficient cancer diagnoses and classification. however, these data are usually redundant and noisy, and only a subset of them present distinct profiles for different classes of samples. thus, selecting high discriminative genes from gene expression data has become increasingly interesting in the field of bioinformatics. in this paper, a discrete biogeography based optimization is proposed to select the good su ... | 2015 | 27490166 |
| skeletal muscle measures as predictors of toxicity, hospitalization, and survival in patients with metastatic breast cancer receiving taxane-based chemotherapy. | severe skeletal muscle (sm) loss (sarcopenia) is associated with poor cancer outcomes, including reduced survival and increased toxicity. this study investigates sm measures in metastatic breast cancer (mbc) patients receiving first-line taxane-based chemotherapy and evaluates associations with treatment toxicity and other outcomes. | 2017 | 27489287 |
| deepshape: deep-learned shape descriptor for 3d shape retrieval. | complex geometric structural variations of 3d models usually pose great challenges in 3d shape matching and retrieval. in this paper, we propose a novel 3d shape feature learning method to extract high-level shape features that are insensitive to geometric deformations of shapes. our method uses a discriminative deep auto-encoder to learn deformationinvariant shape features. first, a multiscale shape distribution is computed and used as input to the auto-encoder. we then impose the fisher discri ... | 2016 | 27482929 |
| association between socioeconomic status and participation in colonoscopy screening program in first degree relatives of colorectal cancer patients. | approximately 15% to 25% of colorectal cancer (crc) cases have positive family history for disease. colonoscopy screening test is the best way for prevention and early diagnosis. studies have found that first degree relatives (fdrs) with low socioeconomic status are less likely to participate in colonoscopy screening program. | 2016 | 27482334 |
| prediction of g-protein coupled receptors and their subfamilies by incorporating various sequence features into chou's general pseaac. | the g-protein coupled receptors are the largest superfamilies of membrane proteins and important targets for the drug design. g-protein coupled receptors are responsible for many physiochemical processes such as smell, taste, vision, neurotransmission, metabolism, cellular growth and immune response. so it is necessary to design a robust and efficient approach for the prediction of g-protein coupled receptors and their subfamilies. | 2016 | 27480744 |
| [clinical features and prognosis of cd20-positive classical hodgkin lymphoma]. | to explore the clinical characteristics and prognosis of cd20-positive classical hodgkin lymphoma (chl). | 2016 | 27480653 |
| evaluation of paraspinal fat pad as an indicator of posterior ligamentous complex injury in cervical spine trauma. | purpose to determine if the obliteration of a cervical space, the paraspinal fat pad (pfp), can be used as an indicator at computed tomography (ct) of an injury of cervical spine posterior ligamentous complex (plc). materials and methods this retrospective study was approved by the institutional board review; written informed consent was obtained from healthy subjects and was waived for patients. first, pfp appearance was evaluated in an anatomic specimen and in 10 healthy subjects on spine ct s ... | 2017 | 27479806 |
| prognostic value of p16 status on the development of a complete response in involved oropharynx cancer neck nodes after cisplatin-based chemoradiation: a secondary analysis of nrg oncology rtog 0129. | to determine the relationship between p16 status and the regional response of patients with node-positive oropharynx cancer treated on nrg oncology rtog 0129. | 2016 | 27478170 |
| distal anterior cerebral artery (pericallosal artery) aneurysms: report of 19 cases and literature review. | to evaluate the follow-up results of patients who underwent surgical treatment for distal anterior cerebral artery (pericallosal artery) aneurysms and compare our results with the literature. | 2017 | 27476925 |
| [gastroschisis: a pandemic with increasing rates? eclamc experience in chile 1982-2015]. | several communications have reported a significant increase in the prevalence of gastroschisis at birth in the last three decades. in many countries it is referred to as "a pandemic strongly associated to low maternal age". | 2017 | 27476074 |
| factors affecting poor nutritional status after small bowel resection in patients with crohn disease. | in crohn disease, bowel-preserving surgery is necessary to prevent short bowel syndrome due to repeated operations. this study aimed to determine the remnant small bowel length cut-off and to evaluate the clinical factors related to nutritional status after small bowel resection in crohn disease.we included 394 patients (69.3% male) who underwent small bowel resection for crohn disease between 1991 and 2012. patients who were classified as underweight (body mass index < 17.5) or at high risk of ... | 2016 | 27472702 |
| effects of near-infrared led therapy on experimental tooth replantation in rats. | dental avulsion damages periodontal tissues and may induce dentoalveolar ankylosis and root resorption after replantation. the aim of this work was to evaluate the effects of light-emitting diode (led) therapy after tooth replantation. | 2017 | 27472656 |
| deep filter banks for texture recognition, description, and segmentation. | visual textures have played a key role in image understanding because they convey important semantics of images, and because texture representations that pool local image descriptors in an orderless manner have had a tremendous impact in diverse applications. in this paper we make several contributions to texture understanding. first, instead of focusing on texture instance and material category recognition, we propose a human-interpretable vocabulary of texture attributes to describe common tex ... | 2017 | 27471340 |
| endoscopic posterior cricoid split with costal cartilage graft: a fifteen-year experience. | to evaluate outcomes of the endoscopic posterior cricoid split with rib graft (epcs/rg) procedure in the treatment of subglottic stenosis (sgs), posterior glottic stenosis (pgs), and bilateral vocal fold immobility (bvfi). | 2017 | 27470697 |
| case report: on the use of the hid-ion ampliseq™ ancestry panel in a real forensic case. | in the absence of any other conclusive forensic evidence, dna profiling is the method of choice for body identification. this study focuses on the case of a carbonized corpse whose complete autosomal short tandem repeat (str) profile could not lead to direct identification by the investigators. to assist in the progress of investigation, we endeavoured to determine the biogeographical origin and eye colour of the deceased individual. along with y chromosome and mitochondrial dna analyses, we app ... | 2017 | 27470319 |
| relative adc and location differ between posterior fossa pilocytic astrocytomas with and without gangliocytic differentiation. | pilocytic astrocytomas, the most common posterior fossa tumors in children, are characterized by kiaa1549-braf fusions and shows excellent 5-year survival rates. pilocytic astrocytoma with gangliocytic differentiation, a recently defined pilocytic astrocytoma variant that includes glial and neuronal elements similar to a ganglioglioma, may be distinguished from a classic ganglioglioma by molecular, radiologic, and histopathologic features. this study investigated whether imaging could distinguis ... | 2016 | 27469209 |
| vascular imaging outcomes of childhood primary angiitis of the central nervous system. | inflammation affecting cerebral blood vessels is a common cause of stroke in children. arterial abnormalities on vascular imaging are an important risk factor for stroke recurrence. we aimed to describe the vascular imaging outcomes in children with primary angiitis of the central nervous system after 12 months and identify factors associated with vascular progression and stroke recurrence. | 2016 | 27469076 |
| treatment of adolescent patients with class ii division 1 malocclusion using eruption guidance appliance: a comparative study with twin-block and activator-headgear appliances. | the aim of this study was to evaluate the compliance and short-term effects of eruption guidance appliance (ega) in adolescents with class ii division 1 malocclusion in comparison with twin-block appliance (tba) and activator-headgear appliance (a-hg). dental records of 1886 patients were viewed in this retrospective study 129 patients treated with one of these three functional appliances were identified. 123 fulfilled the inclusion criteria and data were extracted from the dental records. gende ... | 2016 | 27464384 |
| differentiation of tumor vasculature heterogeneity levels in small animals based on total hemoglobin concentration using magnetic resonance-guided diffuse optical tomography in vivo. | insight into the vasculature of the tumor in small animals has the potential to impact many areas of cancer research. the heterogeneity of the vasculature of a tumor is directly related to tumor stage and disease progression. in this small scale animal study, we investigated the feasibility of differentiating tumors with different levels of vasculature heterogeneity in vivo using a previously developed hybrid magnetic resonance imaging (mri) and diffuse optical tomography (dot) system for small ... | 2016 | 27463894 |
| misrepresenting a. fisher v. u. texas--response. | 2016 | 27463663 | |
| misrepresenting a. fisher v. u. texas. | 2016 | 27463662 | |
| labor stimulation with oxytocin: effects on obstetrical and neonatal outcomes. | to evaluate the effects of labor stimulation with oxytocin on maternal and neonatal outcomes. | 2016 | 27463109 |
| assessment of nurse's knowledge about glasgow coma scale at a university hospital. | to assess knowledge of nurses of emergency services and intensive care units about glasgow coma scale. | 2017 | 27462896 |
| overweight effect on spirometric parameters in adolescents undergoing exercise. | to evaluate effects of overweight on spirometric parameters in adolescents who underwent bronchial provocation test for exercise. | 2017 | 27462892 |
| what operation for recurrent rectal prolapse after previous delorme's procedure? a practical reality. | to report our experience with perineal repair (delorme's procedure) of rectal prolapse with particular focus on treatment of the recurrence. | 2016 | 27462393 |
| trismus in head and neck cancer patients treated by telecobalt and effect of early rehabilitation measures. | trismus is one of the common late side effects of radiotherapy (rt) of head and neck cancers. it occurs in about 30% of patients treated by telecobalt. it, in turn, leads to significant morbidity, including malnutrition, difficulty in speaking, and compromised oral hygiene with severe psychosocial, and economic impacts. | 2017 | 27461633 |
| analysis of pre- and post-pregnancy issues in women with hyperemesis gravidarum. | the purpose of this study is to determine the frequency of reporting of both pre-pregnancy and post-pregnancy psychosocial and physical issues in women with hyperemesis gravidarum (hg). conditions in 449 women with hg were compared to 459 unaffected women (controls). binary responses were analyzed using either chi-squared or fishers exact test. continuous responses were analyzed using a t-test. among 60 pre-pregnancy conditions surveyed, 10 common (>5%) maternal pre-pregnancy conditions were sig ... | 2017 | 27460690 |
| pediatric miller fisher syndrome complicating an epstein-barr virus infection. | miller fisher syndrome, a variant of guillain-barré syndrome, is an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that may occur weeks after a bacterial or viral infection. campylobacter jejuni and haemophilus influenzae are frequently reported etiological agents. | 2016 | 27460528 |
| a decision support system for automatic sleep staging from eeg signals using tunable q-factor wavelet transform and spectral features. | automatic sleep scoring is essential owing to the fact that conventionally a large volume of data have to be analyzed visually by the physicians which is onerous, time-consuming and error-prone. therefore, there is a dire need of an automated sleep staging scheme. | 2016 | 27456762 |
| procalcitonin is a strong predictor of urine culture results in patients with obstructing ureteral stones: a prospective, pilot study. | the appropriate management of infected obstructing ureteral calculi is prompt genitourinary decompression. urine cultures are the gold standard for confirming infection but often take 24-48 h to result. although white blood cell (wbc) count is an important diagnostic laboratory test, it is a nonspecific inflammatory marker. similarly, urinalysis (ua) can be misleading in the setting of a contaminated sample, bladder colonization, or in cases of a completely obstructed the upper urinary tract. pr ... | 2017 | 27453647 |
| optimal designs for copula models. | copula modelling has in the past decade become a standard tool in many areas of applied statistics. however, a largely neglected aspect concerns the design of related experiments. particularly the issue of whether the estimation of copula parameters can be enhanced by optimizing experimental conditions and how robust all the parameter estimates for the model are with respect to the type of copula employed. in this paper an equivalence theorem for (bivariate) copula models is provided that allows ... | 2016 | 27453616 |
| high preoperative and postoperative levels of carcinoembryonic antigen and cyfra 21-1 indicate poor prognosis in patients with pathological stage i nonsmall cell lung cancer. | serum carcinoembryonic antigen (cea) and the soluble fragment of cytokeratin 19 (cyfra 21-1) are supposed to have a prognostic role in patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer (nsclc) after surgery, but it has not been used as an adjunct to the tumor-node-metastasis (tnm) staging system to provide therapy options for patients with pathological stage i nsclc. this study was designed to investigate the effect of serum levels of cea and cyfra 21-1 before and after surgery on the prognosis of patient ... | 2015 | 27453414 |
| terson's syndrome - pathophysiologic considerations of an underestimated concomitant disease in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. | terson syndrome (ts) is a common and underestimated concomitant disease in patients suffering from subarachnoid hemorrhage (sah). aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of an initial unconsciousness and raised intracranial pressure (icp) on the development of ts. we performed a retrospective analysis of 213 prospective collected sah patients screened for ts to investigate the impact of an initial unconsciousness and raised icp on the development of ts. a univariate analysis followed by ... | 2016 | 27452126 |
| [evaluation of breast her2+ cancer pathologic response after a taxan plus trastuzumab-based chemotherapy]. | in our study, we aimed to assess the pathologic complete response after neo-additive chemotherapy that contains a taxan associated to trastuzumab for patients treated from breast cancer at the institute jean-godinot between 2012 and 2014, and to evaluate factors associated to this pathologic complete response. | 2017 | 27451068 |
| risk factors for postoperative shivering after oral and maxillofacial surgery. | postoperative shivering is a frequent complication of anesthesia. however, there are few reports about postoperative shivering in oral and maxillofacial surgery. postoperative shivering in patients after osteotomy was observed from april 2008 to september 2015. this retrospective study investigated the risk factors of postoperative shivering in oral and maxillofacial surgery. | 2016 | 27450750 |
| increased serum concentrations of transforming growth factor-β1 (tgf-β1) in patients with guillain-barré syndrome. | guillain-barré syndrome (gbs) is an acquired demyelinating peripheral neuropathy. it has shown that macrophage activation contribute to the pathogenesis of gbs. therefore macrophage-mediated factors could be the potential markers for disease diagnosis and status of gbs. | 2016 | 27450064 |
| unmet informational and supportive care needs of patients following cystectomy for bladder cancer based on age, sex, and treatment choices. | assessing the unmet needs of cancer patients can help providers tailor health care services to patients' specific needs. this study examines whether the unmet informational and supportive care needs of the patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer vary by the patients' age, sex, or individual treatment choices. | 2016 | 27449687 |
| hbv/hiv co-infection and apobec3g polymorphisms in a population from burkina faso. | apolipoprotein b mrna editing enzyme catalytic polypeptide-like 3g (apobec3g) is a potent host defense factor, which interferes with hiv-1 and hbv. our study had three objectives, to screen a population of hiv-1 infected and uninfected patients in burkina faso for hbv, to screen the population for apobec3g variants rs6001417, rs8177832, and rs35228531 previously described, and to analyze the effect of these three variants and their haplotypes on hiv-1/hbv co-infection in burkina faso. | 2016 | 27449138 |
| risk factors for pelvic insufficiency fractures and outcome after conservative therapy. | the prevalence of osteoporosis has continuously increased over the past decades and it is set to increase substantially as life expectancy rises steadily. fragility or osteoporotic fractures of the pelvis often occur after low energy falls e.g. from standing, however, some patients present with assumed insufficiency fractures of the pelvis without a previous trauma. osteoporotic fractures impose a tremendous economic burden and these fractures deserve attention as they lead to a decrease in mobi ... | 2017 | 27448040 |
| assessment of satisfaction level of edentulous patients rehabilitated with implant-supported prostheses. | edentulism usually leads to esthetic, functional, and emotional discomfort resulting in a loss of self-esteem and a decrease of the patient's quality of life. dental implants provide new possibilities to ensure the comfort and efficacy of prosthetic rehabilitation. the aim of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction level of patients rehabilitated using the brånemark protocol or overdenture implant-supported prostheses. | 2017 | 27447157 |
| sinus floor elevation using the lateral approach and bone window repositioning i: clinical and radiographic results in 102 consecutively treated patients followed from 1 to 5 years. | to determine the potential complications and clinical outcomes using the lateral sinus elevation technique with window repositioning. | 2017 | 27447149 |
| efficient isomerization of methyl arabinofuranosides into corresponding arabinopyranosides in presence of pyridine. | fisher glycosylation, the oldest but efficient reaction towards alkyl glycosides, suffers nonetheless from lack of selectivity, especially when dealing with pentoses. in this case, a mixture of the four isomers, namely the furanosides and the pyranosides, is formed. according to previous studies, the rate and selectivity of the reaction depend greatly on the reaction time and the temperature. in this report, another factor was evaluated, the introduction of a weak nucleophilic base. interestingl ... | 2016 | 27447058 |
| automated fine structure image analysis method for discrimination of diabetic retinopathy stage using conjunctival microvasculature images. | the conjunctiva is a densely vascularized mucus membrane covering the sclera of the eye with a unique advantage of accessibility for direct visualization and non-invasive imaging. the purpose of this study is to apply an automated quantitative method for discrimination of different stages of diabetic retinopathy (dr) using conjunctival microvasculature images. fine structural analysis of conjunctival microvasculature images was performed by ordinary least square regression and fisher linear disc ... | 2016 | 27446692 |
| food security and nutritional status of children under-five in households affected by hiv and aids in kiandutu informal settlement, kiambu county, kenya. | hiv and aids affect most the productive people, leading to reduced capacity to either produce food or generate income. children under-fives are the most vulnerable group in the affected households. there exists minimal information on food security status and its effect on nutritional status of children under-fives in households affected by hiv and aids. the aim of this study was to assess food security and nutritional status of children under-five in households affected by hiv and aids in kiandu ... | 2016 | 27443524 |
| infective complications after retrograde intrarenal surgery: a new standardized classification system. | retrograde intrarenal surgery (rirs) is considered a safe procedure; however, infective complications are potentially serious postoperative complications. the aim of this multicentre study was to evaluate prospectively the prevalence of infective complications after rirs and identify risk factors. | 2016 | 27443315 |
| [endometrial ablation with thermal balloon, experience in a private hospital]. | traditionally, the treatment for menorrhagia includes pharmacological therapies (hormones and uterotonics) or surgical (dilatation/curettage and hysterectomy). recently the fda approved a non-invasive therapeutic option, known as endometrial ablation. which it consists in a thermal balloon delivers (thermachoice y thermablate eas) which energy destroys the uterine lining, thus reducing the bleeding and even producing amenorrhea. and could offer other benefits such as reduction of the surgical ti ... | 2016 | 27443096 |
| evaluation of brace treatment for infant hip dislocation in a prospective cohort: defining the success rate and variables associated with failure. | the use of a brace has been shown to be an effective treatment for hip dislocation in infants; however, previous studies of such treatment have been single-center or retrospective. the purpose of the current study was to evaluate the success rate for brace use in the treatment of infant hip dislocation in an international, multicenter, prospective cohort, and to identify the variables associated with brace failure. | 2016 | 27440570 |
| the genetic architecture of local adaptation and reproductive isolation in sympatry within the mimulus guttatus species complex. | the genetic architecture of local adaptation has been of central interest to evolutionary biologists since the modern synthesis. in addition to classic theory on the effect size of adaptive mutations by fisher, kimura and orr, recent theory addresses the genetic architecture of local adaptation in the face of ongoing gene flow. this theory predicts that with substantial gene flow between populations local adaptation should proceed primarily through mutations of large effect or tightly linked clu ... | 2017 | 27439150 |
| role of tissue transglutaminase in age-associated ventricular stiffness. | aging is associated with increased cardiomyocyte loss, left-ventricular hypertrophy, and the accumulation of extracellular matrix, which results in declining cardiac function. the role of the matrix crosslinking enzyme, tissue transglutaminase (tg2), in age-related myocardial stiffness, and contractile function remains incompletely understood. in this study, we examined the role of tg2 in cardiac function, and determined whether tg2 inhibition can prevent age-associated changes in cardiac functi ... | 2017 | 27438265 |
| miller fisher syndrome: a case report highlighting heterogeneity of clinical features and focused differential diagnosis. | miller fisher syndrome (mfs) is a rare variant of guillain-barré syndrome (gbs) that has a geographically variable incidence. it is largely a clinical diagnosis based on the cardinal clinical features of ataxia, areflexia, and opthalmoplegia, however, other neurological signs and symptoms may also be present. serological confirmation with the anti-gq1b antibody is available and allows for greater diagnostic certainty in the face of confounding symptoms. a self-limiting course is typical of mfs. ... | 2016 | 27437164 |
| ophthalmoplegic guillain-barré syndrome: an independent entity or a transitional spectrum? | ophthalmoplegia can occur in both miller fisher syndrome (mfs) and guillain-barré syndrome (gbs) with typical limb involvement. however, ophthalmoplegic gbs (ogbs) has been poorly defined. we aimed to characterize ogbs and clarify the pathophysiological implications across the overall gbs spectrum. twenty gbs and seven mfs patients from three university based teaching hospitals in korea were enrolled and analyzed. six gbs patients who were classified as ogbs commonly also had facial diplegia (50 ... | 2016 | 27436763 |
| is the dresden technique a mechanical design of choice suitable for the repair of middle third achilles tendon ruptures? a biomechanical study. | to compare the mechanical failure of the dresden technique for achilles tendon repair with the double modified kessler technique controlled repair technique. the maximum resistance of the two repair techniques are also compared. | 2016 | 27435986 |
| computed tomography utilization for the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in children decreases with a diagnostic algorithm. | the primary objective of this project was to decrease computed tomography (ct) utilization for the diagnosis of appendicitis in an academic children's hospital emergency department (ed) through a multidisciplinary quality improvement initiative. | 2016 | 27433918 |
| comparative sensitivity of intraoperative motor evoked potential monitoring in predicting postoperative neurologic deficits: nondegenerative versus degenerative myelopathy. | retrospective review. | 2016 | 27433429 |
| overlap of myasthenia gravis and miller fisher syndrome. | in this case report, we describe a patient with myasthenia gravis (mg) and miller fisher syndrome (mfs) overlap. a 69-year-old woman presented with acute bilateral ptosis, ophthalmoplegia, ataxic gait, and areflexia. the mfs diagnosis was confirmed with by a positive anti-gq1b igg antibody test result. mg was diagnosed from electrophysiological, edrophonium, and serological test results. although intravenous immunoglobulin therapy is effective for both diseases, two courses of the therapy did no ... | 2016 | 27432103 |
| the relationship between hba₁c and ultrasound plaque textures in atherosclerotic patients. | diabetes mellitus (dm) is associated to the morphological and componential characteristics of atheromatous plaques. it has proven that plaque textures are related to plaque components and beneficial for atherosclerotic risk stratification. the aim of this study is to compare plaque textures in patients with and without dm, and examine the relationship between hba1c levels and the ultrasound plaque textures in atherosclerotic patients. | 2016 | 27431674 |
| conjunctival chemosis as a specific feature of pseudomonas aeruginosa corneal ulcers. | timely identification of a bacterial agent and its corresponding antibiotic sensitivity pattern is paramount in the management of infective corneal ulcers. isolating the microbiological agents can take time; during this time, the initial therapy used is a chosen form of broad-spectrum antibiotics. there are no specific features of bacterial corneal ulcers that aid in identification of the involved pathogen with certainty. a clinical "marker" would undoubtedly be useful in the management of corne ... | 2016 | 27429077 |
| cerebrospinal fluid analysis for hiv replication and biomarkers of immune activation and neurodegeneration in long-term atazanavir/ritonavir monotherapy treated patients. | cerebrospinal fluid (csf) viral escape is a concern in ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitors monotherapy. the aim was to assess hiv-rna, biomarkers of immune activation and neurodegeneration, and atazanavir concentrations in csf of patients on successful long-term atazanavir/ritonavir (atv/r) monotherapy. | 2016 | 27428202 |
| prevalence of domestic violence in hong kong chinese women presenting with urinary symptoms. | to determine the prevalence of domestic violence and its risk factors in women presenting with urinary symptoms. | 2016 | 27428060 |
| detection of new pathogenic mutations in patients with congenital haemolytic anaemia using next-generation sequencing. | congenital haemolytic anaemia (cha) refers to a group of genetically heterogeneous disorders, mainly caused by changes in genes encoding globin chains, cytoskeletal proteins and red cell enzymes, in which accurate diagnosis can be challenging with conventional techniques. | 2016 | 27427187 |
| d-dimers (dd) in cvst. | we were interested in further confirming whether d-dimers (dd) are indeed elevated in cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (cvst) as reported in those studies. | 2017 | 27426719 |
| socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of benzodiazepine long-term users: results from a tertiary care center. | the use of benzodiazepines (bdzs) represents a critical issue since a long-term treatment may lead to dependence. this study aimed at evaluating socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of bzd long-term users who followed a detoxification program at a tertiary care center. | 2016 | 27423363 |
| dynamic characterization of external and internal mass transport in heterotrophic biofilms from microsensors measurements. | knowledge of mass transport mechanisms in biofilm-based technologies such as biofilters is essential to improve bioreactors performance by preventing mass transport limitation. external and internal mass transport in biofilms was characterized in heterotrophic biofilms grown on a flat plate bioreactor. mass transport resistance through the liquid-biofilm interphase and diffusion within biofilms were quantified by in situ measurements using microsensors with a high spatial resolution (<50 μm). ex ... | 2016 | 27423049 |
| applying the fisher score to identify alzheimer's disease-related genes. | biologists and scientists can use the data from alzheimer's disease (ad) gene expression microarrays to mine ad disease-related genes. because of disadvantages such as small sample sizes, high dimensionality, and a high level of noise, it is difficult to obtain accurate and meaningful biological information from gene expression profiles. in this paper, we present a novel approach for utilizing ad microarray data to identify the morbigenous genes. the fisher score, a classical feature selection m ... | 2016 | 27420981 |
| prediction of cognitive outcome based on the progression of auditory discrimination during coma. | to date, no clinical test is able to predict cognitive and functional outcome of cardiac arrest survivors. improvement of auditory discrimination in acute coma indicates survival with high specificity. whether the degree of this improvement is indicative of recovery remains unknown. here we investigated if progression of auditory discrimination can predict cognitive and functional outcome. | 2016 | 27417560 |
| illness representations, coping, and illness outcomes in people with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. | cancer is associated with negative health and emotional outcomes in those affected by it, suggesting the need to better understand the psychosocial determinants of illness outcomes and coping. the common sense model is the leading psychological model of self-regulation in the face of illness and assumes that subjective illness representations explain how people attempt to cope with illness. this systematic review and meta-analysis examines the associations of the common sense model's illness rep ... | 2017 | 27412423 |