Pain Management

Group-regularized individual prediction: theory and application to pain.

Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) has become an important tool for identifying brain representati...

Relationship between vitamin D status and vascular complications in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

We aimed to investigate the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) and microvascula...

Measuring empathy for human and robot hand pain using electroencephalography.

This study provides the first physiological evidence of humans' ability to empathize with robot pain...

Hypercalcemia of Malignancy.

A 60-year-old man initially presented with pain in the right upper quadrant in October 2010. A compu...

Botulinum toxin injection in the pediatric population with medically refractory neuropathic bladder.

INTRODUCTION: Botulinum toxin injection (BTI) has been advocated as a second line therapy in managem...

Pain Intensity Recognition Rates via Biopotential Feature Patterns with Support Vector Machines.

BACKGROUND: The clinically used methods of pain diagnosis do not allow for objective and robust meas...

Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease Using Enhanced Probabilistic Neural Network.

Early and accurate diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) remains challenging. Neuropathological stud...

MDD-SOH: exploiting maximal dependence decomposition to identify S-sulfenylation sites with substrate motifs.

UNLABELLED: S-sulfenylation (S-sulphenylation, or sulfenic acid), the covalent attachment of S-hydro...

Compression Stockings versus Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Devices in the Management of Occupational Leg Swelling.

Background Occupational edema is reported to occur in healthy individuals after working in a sitting...

Teriparatide for the rapid resolution of delayed healing of atypical fractures associated with long-term bisphosphonate use.

Bisphosphonates (BPs) are the most widely used drugs to treat osteoporosis. However, recent reports ...

Pharmacokinetic profiles of meloxicam in turtles (Trachemys scripta scripta) after single oral, intracoelomic and intramuscular administrations.

Meloxicam is an anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug used to treat many pathological conditions in t...

Hedge Scope Detection in Biomedical Texts: An Effective Dependency-Based Method.

Hedge detection is used to distinguish uncertain information from facts, which is of essential impor...

Perspectives on next steps in classification of oro-facial pain - part 1: role of ontology.

The purpose of this study was to review existing principles of oro-facial pain classifications and t...

Retzius-sparing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: Critical appraisal of the anatomic landmarks for a complete intrafascial approach.

To provide an overview of the anatomical landmarks needed to guide a retropubic (Retzius)-sparing ro...

Efficacy of Postoperative Pain Management Using Continuous Local Anesthetic Infusion at the Iliac Crest Bone Graft Site in Patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Parallel, Double-Blinded, Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.

Study Design Randomized controlled trial. Objective Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a commo...

Lidocaine 5% Patch for Treatment of Acute Pain After Robotic Cardiac Surgery and Prevention of Persistent Incisional Pain: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind Trial.

OBJECTIVES: To test the hypotheses that lidocaine 5% patches decrease the severity of acute pain and...

Soluble CD163 and monocyte populations in response to antiretroviral therapy and in relationship with neuropsychological testing among HIV-infected children.

BACKGROUND: Monocytes play a central role in HIV neuropathogenesis, but there are limited data on mo...

Lumbar Ultrasound Image Feature Extraction and Classification with Support Vector Machine.

Needle entry site localization remains a challenge for procedures that involve lumbar puncture, for ...

Response to: "No evidence for improved TORS post-treatment feeding tube dependency rate relative to standard therapy in early stage oropharyngeal cancer".

No evidence for improved TORS post-treatment feeding tube dependency rate relative to standard therapy in early stage oropharyngeal cancer.

Machine learning on encephalographic activity may predict opioid analgesia.

BACKGROUND: Opioids are used for the treatment of pain. However, 30-50% of patients have insufficien...