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Evaluation of the irradiated volume of the heart and cardiac substructures after left breast radiotherapy
(2020)
Backround/Aim: Adjuvant radiotherapy in patients with cancer of the left breast may lead to impaired cardiac function. The aim of our prospective study is to evaluate (i) doses to the irradiated volume of the heart and its ...
Malnutrition surveillance among refugee children living in reception centres in Greece: A pilot study
(2019)
Background The health of asylum seekers is of cardinal importance for the future health of Europe. The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to assess malnutrition prevalence among refugee children living in reception ...
Measuring performance on the Healthcare Access and Quality Index for 195 countries and territories and selected subnational locations: A systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
(2018)
Background A key component of achieving universal health coverage is ensuring that all populations have access to quality health care. Examining where gains have occurred or progress has faltered across and within countries ...
A Prospective Validation of the Updated Movement Disorders Society Research Criteria for Prodromal Parkinson's Disease
(2020)
Objective: The objective of this study was to validate the recently updated research criteria for prodromal Parkinson's disease (pPD) proposed by the International Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Society. Methods: ...
Outcomes in meningitis/ventriculitis treated with intravenous or intraventricular plus intravenous colistin
(2016)
Background: The aim of this work is to evaluate the outcome of patients treated with intrathecal colistin for meningitis/ventriculitis. Methods: This retrospective case series study included patients presenting with ...
A chronic alcoholic man with high fever, neck rigidity and loss of consciousness: Remember the Austrian syndrome a commonly unrecognised invasive pneumococcus triad
(2018)
Austrian syndrome is a rare medical condition characterised by the triad of pneumonia, meningitis and endocarditis due to Streptococcus pneumoniae. Native aortic valve insufficiency is the most common cause of cardiac ...
Replication of PTPRC as genetic biomarker of response to TNF inhibitors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
(2016)
Genetic biomarkers could be useful for orienting treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but none has been convincingly validated yet. Putative biomarkers include 14 single nucleotide polymorphisms that have ...
A Positive Regulatory Loop between a Wnt-Regulated Non-coding RNA and ASCL2 Controls Intestinal Stem Cell Fate
(2016)
The canonical Wnt pathway plays a central role in stem cell maintenance, differentiation, and proliferation in the intestinal epithelium. Constitutive, aberrant activity of the TCF4/β-catenin transcriptional complex is the ...
The autophagic response to oxidative stress in osteoarthritic chondrocytes is deregulated
(2018)
It has been reported that oxidative stress (OS) is involved in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis (OA) and that defective autophagy is accompanying this age-related disease. Moreover, it has been proposed that induction ...
On the pathogenicity of the plasminogen K330E mutation for hereditary angioedema
(2018)
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