Pediatrics

Deep Wound Infections After Pediatric Scoliosis Surgery.

STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective clinical and radiographic review.

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 management of neuropathic bladder in pediatric population for refractory patients to conventional medical management such as anticholinergics. The purpose was to review the safety and efficacy of BTI in children with neuropathic bladder refractory to conservative non-surgical measures. We hypothesized that...

Putative cancer-initiating stem cells in cell culture models for molecular subtypes of clinical breast cancer.

Cancer-initiating stem cells (CISC) represent a minor subpopulation of heterogeneous breast cancer. CISC are responsible for the acquired resistance t...

Predictive classification of pediatric bipolar disorder using atlas-based diffusion weighted imaging and support vector machines.

Previous studies have reported abnormalities of white-matter diffusivity in pediatric bipolar disorder. However, it has not been established whether t...

Pediatric decision support using adapted Arden Syntax.

BACKGROUND: Pediatric guidelines based care is often overlooked because of the constraints of a typical office visit and the sheer number of guideline...

Phenolic composition and medicinal usage of Linn.: Antifungal activity or inhibition of virulence?

is a Myrtaceae plant whose medicinal properties are recognized in several locations. The use of teas and tinctures prepared from their leaves has bee...

Robotic surgery in children: adopt now, await, or dismiss?

The role of robot-assisted surgery in children remains controversial. This article aims to distil this debate into an evidence informed decision-makin...

Synbiotic enhances immune responses against infectious bronchitis, infectious bursal disease, Newcastle disease and avian influenza in broiler chickens.

Increased susceptibility of birds to avian pathogens in intensive husbandry system has emphasized on necessity of improvement of innate and specific i...

Development of the brain's structural network efficiency in early adolescence: A longitudinal DTI twin study.

The brain is a network and our intelligence depends in part on the efficiency of this network. The network of adolescents differs from that of adults ...

Genome instability model of metastatic neuroblastoma tumorigenesis by a dictionary learning algorithm.

BACKGROUND: Metastatic neuroblastoma (NB) occurs in pediatric patients as stage 4S or stage 4 and it is characterized by heterogeneous clinical behavi...

Test-retest reliability of KINARM robot sensorimotor and cognitive assessment: in pediatric ice hockey players.

BACKGROUND: Better diagnostic and prognostic tools are needed to address issues related to early diagnosis and management of concussion across the con...

Machine-learning to characterise neonatal functional connectivity in the preterm brain.

Brain development is adversely affected by preterm birth. Magnetic resonance image analysis has revealed a complex fusion of structural alterations ac...

Robotic Therapy and the Paradox of the Diminishing Number of Degrees of Freedom.

There has been remarkable growth in the development and application of robotics to ameliorate or remediate impairment. This growth is associated with ...

Assessing hippocampal development and language in early childhood: Evidence from a new application of the Automatic Segmentation Adapter Tool.

Volumetric assessments of the hippocampus and other brain structures during childhood provide useful indices of brain development and correlates of co...

A Context-Aware Interactive Health Care System Based on Ontology and Fuzzy Inference.

In the present society, most families are double-income families, and as the long-term care is seriously short of manpower, it contributes to the rapi...

A Controlled Trial Using Natural Language Processing to Examine the Language of Suicidal Adolescents in the Emergency Department.

What adolescents say when they think about or attempt suicide influences the medical care they receive. Mental health professionals use teenagers' wor...

Machine learning in burn care and research: A systematic review of the literature.

BACKGROUND: To date, there are no reviews on machine learning (ML) in burn care. Considering the growth of ML in medicine and the complexities and cha...

Discrimination of driver and passenger mutations in epidermal growth factor receptor in cancer.

Cancer is one of the most life-threatening diseases and mutations in several genes are the vital cause in tumorigenesis. Protein kinases play essentia...

A risk management model for familial breast cancer: A new application using Fuzzy Cognitive Map method.

Breast cancer is the most deadly disease affecting women and thus it is natural for women aged 40-49 years (who have a family history of breast cancer...

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 common spinal deformity that affects every population. ...