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A best evidence topic was constructed according to a structured protocol. The question addressed was whether the application of an enhanced recovery protocol or pathway improves patient outcomes after cardiac surgery. A total of 3091 papers were found using the reported search. Finally, 12 papers represented the best available evidence to answer…[Read more]

BACKGROUND Angioleiomyomas are usually small and relatively rare painful soft tissue tumors, and are usually less than 2 cm in diameter. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging features of typical angioleiomyomas are not well understood, and their association with histologic subtypes is not clear. In the present study, MR images of average sized…[Read more]

Oxytocin (OT) has been implicated in various aspects of social behaviors. During the past decades there has been a surge of interest in the therapeutic potential of OT in psychiatric disorders, especially those characterized by social deficits, which the available therapeutic agents, cannot fully target. This systematic review and meta-analysis…[Read more]

Diabetes mellitus (DM) can cause systemic metabolic disorders, but the impact of gender on DM-related metabolic changes is rarely reported. Herein, we analyzed metabolic alterations in the heart, liver, and kidney of male and female mice from normal to diabetes via a 1H NMR-based metabolomics method and aimed to investigate sex-specific metabolic…[Read more]

E0 and E10 presented highest DC%, while E20 and E30 showed similar and lowest DC%. KHN and FS were decreased with the addition of HApNPs, while EM was not influenced by the incorporation of HApNPs. E10 presented statistically similar TP to E0, while this property decreased for E20 and E30 (p less then 0.05). Incorporation of HApNPs into dental…[Read more]

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to explore the adverse effects of chemotherapeutic agents used in the treatment of ovarian and cervical cancer by analysing patients’ views posted in online discussion forums. METHOD UK-centred online discussion forums were used to identify discussion threads on ovarian and cervical cancer between 2008 and 2017. The…[Read more]

Background Health care-associated infections during previous coronavirus epidemics involving severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome resulted from human-to-human transmission in hemodialysis (HD) facilities. The effect of a strategy of HD with cohort isolation-separate dialysis sessions for close contacts of patients…[Read more]

The diagnosis of NBS is initially based on clinical manifestations and is confirmed by genetic analysis. Prenatal molecular genetic diagnosis is possible if disease-causing mutations in both alleles of the NBN gene are known. No specific therapy is available for NBS; however, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation may be one option for some…[Read more]