Publications
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| [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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| validity of carrea's index in stature estimation among two racial populations in india. | stature is considered to be one of the "big fours" in forensic anthropology. though carrea's index was published as early as 1920 it has not been validated in any other population apart from the brazilians. | 2017 | 27555731 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| [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 |
| trust in health information sources differs between young/middle and oldest old. | examine differences in trust of health information sources between the oldest old and young/middle old. | 2017 | 23941098 |
| vitamin d insufficiency/deficiency in hiv-infected inner city youth. | high prevalence of vitamin d deficiency among hiv-infected individuals has been reported in many studies. increasing evidence for vitamin d's role in innate and cell-mediated immunity suggests that vitamin d insufficiency or deficiency is worrisome particularly for hiv-infected individuals who are already at increased risk of infection. it is unknown whether vitamin d deficiency and supplementation will have any effects on hiv infection, including cd4 counts/cd4% and hiv plasma rna. | 2017 | 23881908 |
| effect of the c3435t polymorphism of the multidrug resistance 1 gene on the severity of inflammatory bowel disease in iranian azeri turks. | multidrug resistance 1 (mdr1) gene encodes for p-glycoprotein (p-gp), a transmembrane efflux pump transferring both exogenous and endogenous substrate from the cells. in the human gastrointestinal tract, p-gp is found in high concentrations on the epithelial cells of the colon and small intestine. it is hypothesized that the expression level of mdr1 gene is related to susceptibility of both forms of inflammatory bowel disease (ibd). the aim of this study was to investigate the association of c34 ... | 2017 | 23828747 |
| assessment of the biodistribution of an [(18) f]fdg-loaded perfluorocarbon double emulsion using dynamic micro-pet in rats. | perfluorocarbon (pfc) double emulsions loaded with a water-soluble, therapeutic agent can be triggered by ultrasound in a process known as acoustic droplet vaporization. elucidating the stability and biodistribution of these sonosensitive vehicles and encapsulated agents is critical in developing targeted drug delivery strategies using ultrasound. [(18) f]fluorodeoxyglucose (fdg) was encapsulated in a pfc double emulsion and the in vitro diffusion of fdg was assessed using a franz diffusion cell ... | 2017 | 23613440 |
| management of vesicovaginal fistulae: a multicenter analysis from the fellows' pelvic research network. | vesicovaginal fistulae (vvf) are the most commonly acquired fistulae of the urinary tract, but we lack a standardized algorithm for their management. the purpose of this multicenter study was to describe practice patterns and treatment outcomes of vvf in the united states. | 2017 | 24368481 |
| prevalence and significance of perivascular soft tissue surrounding the hepatic artery after liver transplantation. | the objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and significance of perivascular soft tissue surrounding the hepatic artery on computed tomography (ct) after liver transplantation. | 2017 | 24448505 |
| granisetron versus ondansetron for post-operative nausea and vomiting prophylaxis in elective craniotomies for brain tumors: a randomized controlled double-blind study. | post-operative nausea and vomiting (ponv) pose unique challenges in neurosurgical patients that warrant its study separate from other surgical groups. | 2017 | 25886108 |
| a comparison of different oral therapies versus no treatment for erectile dysfunction in 196 radical nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy patients. | we retrospectively analyzed the effects on the erectile function (ef) of no treatment (nt), and an oral therapy (ot; on-demand therapy (od) or a regimented rehabilitation (rr) program with phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors (pde5-is)), in a cohort of 196 consecutive patients following nerve-sparing radical retropubic prostatectomy (nsrrp). patients undergoing bilateral nsrrp (bp; n = 147) and unilateral nsrrp (up; n = 49), chose between ot (pde5-is od or rr program) and nt. patients who chose o ... | 2017 | 25056808 |
| a "placement of death" approach for studies of treatment effects on icu length of stay. | length of stay in the intensive care unit (icu) is a common outcome measure in randomized trials of icu interventions. because many patients die in the icu, it is difficult to disentangle treatment effects on length of stay from effects on mortality; conventional analyses depend on assumptions that are often unstated and hard to interpret or check. we adapt a proposal from rosenbaum that addresses concerns about selection bias and makes its assumptions explicit. a composite outcome is constructe ... | 2017 | 25085115 |
| follow-up of children with hemoglobinopathies diagnosed by the brazilian neonatal screening program in the state of pernambuco. | to determine the geographical distribution of hemoglobinopathies in the state of pernambuco, to characterize the children with these diseases and to describe factors associated with their follow-up at the referral center during the period from 2003 to 2010. | 2017 | 25031163 |
| jump-landing mechanics after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a landing error scoring system study. | the landing error scoring system (less) is a clinical evaluation of jump-landing mechanics and may provide useful information in assisting with return-to-sport decisions in patients after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (aclr). however, it is currently unknown how patients with aclr perform on the less compared with healthy controls. | 2017 | 24905666 |
| nutritional profile in rheumatoid arthritis. | atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis (ra) patients may be aggravated by obesity. | 2017 | 24878796 |
| risk factors associated with shoulder pain and disability across the lifespan of competitive swimmers. | the prevalence of shoulder pain among competitive swimmers is high, but no guidelines exist to reduce shoulder injuries. elucidating differences between swimmers with and without shoulder pain can serve as a basis for the development of a program to prevent shoulder injury that might lead to pain and dysfunction. | 2017 | 22488280 |
| biomarker changes during acute heart failure treatment. | biomarker changes may provide physicians with objective evidence of treatment efficacy in patients with acute decompensated heart failure (adhf) and facilitate early hospital discharge. the authors hypothesize that mid-regional-pro-adrenomedullin (mr-proadm), c-terminal-pro-endothelin-1 (ct-pro-et-1), and mid-regional-pro-atrial natriuretic peptide (mr-proanp) change during the first 24 hours of adhf therapy. eligible patients had an emergency department diagnosis of adhf and fulfilled modified ... | 2017 | 22432555 |
| tnf-r2 expression in acquired middle ear cholesteatoma. | acquired middle ear cholesteatoma is a disease which promotes bone erosion resulting in potentially serious complications. the tumor necrosis factor alpha (tnf-α) is present in cholesteatoma and it is related to bone erosion, as shown by different authors. to understand the aggressiveness characteristics of cholesteatoma is necessary, however, to better address the presence and distribution of their receptors. | 2017 | 21860983 |
| volubility as a mediator in the associations between conversational language measures and child temperament. | despite support for the use of conversational language measures, concerns remain regarding the extent to which they may be confounded with aspects of child temperament, extraversion in particular. | 2017 | 22026571 |
| joint reconstruction of activity and attenuation map using lm spect emission data. | attenuation and scatter correction in single photon emission computed tomography (spect) imaging often requires a computed tomography (ct) scan to compute the attenuation map of the patient. this results in increased radiation dose for the patient, and also has other disadvantages such as increased costs and hardware complexity. attenuation in spect is a direct consequence of compton scattering, and therefore, if the scattered photon data can give information about the attenuation map, then the ... | 2017 | 26236067 |
| effect of intraoperative intravenous crystalloid infusion on post-operative nausea and vomiting after diagnostic gynaecological laparoscopy: comparison of 30 ml/kg and 10 ml/kg and to report the effect of the menstrual cycle on the incidence of post-operative nausea and vomiting. | primary to compare effect of 30 ml/kg and 10 ml/kg crystalloid infusion on post-operative nausea and vomiting after diagnostic gynaecological laparoscopy. secondary to correlate incidence of post-operative nausea and vomiting associated with different phases of menstrual cycle. | 2017 | 25885729 |
| pathways to renal biopsy and diagnosis among patients with anca small-vessel vasculitis. | antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody small-vessel vasculitis (anca-svv) is an autoimmune systemic process increasingly recognised since the advent of antibody testing for the disease. prompt diagnosis and institution of immunosuppressive therapy has been shown to improve patient outcome. the goal of this study was to better understand how patients navigate the health care system from symptom presentation to biopsy diagnosis, and to study the effects of prompt versus delayed diagnosis. | 2017 | 23343774 |
| event processing for modular gamma cameras with tiled multi-anode photomultiplier tubes. | multi-anode photomultiplier tubes (mapmts) are good candidates as light sensors for a new generation of modular scintillation cameras for single-photon emission computed tomography (spect) and positron emission tomography (pet) applications. mapmts can provide improved intrinsic spatial resolution (<1mm) compared to arrays of larger individual pmts due to their small anode sizes, and the increased number of channels also allows accurate estimation of depth-of-interaction (doi). however, the area ... | 2017 | 26346627 |
| vitiligo and associated autoimmune disease: retrospective review of 300 patients. | vitiligo, the most common cutaneous depigmentation disorder, has reported associations with other autoimmune diseases. however, literature on the strengths of the associations is conflicting, and no data on the subject exist from a canadian population. | 2017 | 22784519 |
| comparison of recruitment efforts targeted at primary care physicians versus the community at large for participation in alzheimer disease clinical trials. | inefficient and delayed recruitment into clinical trials in alzheimer disease are major obstacles impeding progress in the discovery of more effective therapeutic strategies to combat this disease. despite widespread recognition of this problem, limited empirical data demonstrating the effectiveness of specific recruitment strategies are available to guide recruitment endeavors. this study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of recruitment efforts targeting either the primary care health ... | 2017 | 19571728 |
| pilot study to show the feasibility of a multicenter trial of home-based assessment of people over 75 years old. | this report describes a pilot study to evaluate feasibility of new home-based assessment technologies applicable to clinical trials for prevention of cognitive loss and alzheimer disease. | 2017 | 20592583 |
| study/experimental/research design: much more than statistics. | the purpose of study, experimental, or research design in scientific manuscripts has changed significantly over the years. it has evolved from an explanation of the design of the experiment (ie, data gathering or acquisition) to an explanation of the statistical analysis. this practice makes "methods" sections hard to read and understand. | 2017 | 20064054 |
| early response of hepatic malignancies to locoregional therapy-value of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. | the objective of our study was to determine the usefulness of the diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging and proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (h-mrs) of hepatic malignancies for the assessment of response to locoregional treatment. | 2017 | 21412085 |
| 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 |