BACKGROUND: Despite the greater sensitivity of the new dengue clinical classification proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2009, there is a need for a better definition of warning signs and clinical progression of dengue cases. Classic ...
Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA
Jun 28, 2019
PURPOSE: A blood transfusion after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is associated with an increase in complication and infection rates. However, no studies have been conducted to predict transfusion after TKA using a machine learning algorithm. The purp...
Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association
Jan 29, 2019
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Many patients with cirrhosis who undergo esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) screening for esophageal varices (EVs) are found to have no or only small EVs. Endoscopic screening for EVs is therefore a potentially deferrable procedure t...
Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine
Jun 6, 2018
Implications of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) in colonic polyps remain elusive. A prospective study was conducted with 188 consecutive subjects who underwent colonoscopy at a tertiary referral center. Biochemical parameters, serum PAI-1 l...
Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver
Feb 7, 2015
BACKGROUND: The diagnostic performance of biochemical scores and artificial neural network models for portal hypertension and cirrhosis is not well established.
OBJECTIVE AND BACKGROUND: Clinically significant posthepatectomy liver failure (PHLF B+C) remains the main cause of mortality after major hepatic resection. This study aimed to establish an aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio combined with a...
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
Oct 1, 2020
Two distinct phenotypes of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with differential clinical outcomes and responses to randomly assigned treatment have consistently been identified in randomized controlled trial cohorts using latent class analys...
[Rinsho ketsueki] The Japanese journal of clinical hematology
Jan 1, 2020
Although antiplatelet drugs are widely used for the prevention and treatment of atherothrombosis, clinical tests capable of evaluating their efficacy have not been established. Focusing on platelet aggregates in blood, we announced the world's first ...
Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
Nov 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: Thrombocytosis in patients with cancer is reportedly associated with an increased expression of angiogenic factors and a poor prognosis in some cancer types. The aim of this study was to analyze the clinicopathological significance and pr...
African journal of medicine and medical sciences
Jun 1, 2015
BACKGROUND: The current widespread distribution and use of Yoyo bitters; an herbal bitters made in Nigeria calls for an assessment of its content, efficacy and extent to which this product achieves the labelled claim of being an herbal cleanser.
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