Peripheral nerve injuries induce long-lasting physiological and severe functional impairment due to motor, sensory, and autonomic denervation. Preclinical models allow us to study the process of nerve...
Abnormal tumor vascularization and escalating tumor size represent two major impediments that make cancer surgery impossible or complicated....
Herein, we report the case of a giant thymoma (type AB) in a 58-year-old woman who presented with cough and yellow sputum. The thymoma grew extensively from the neck to the upper mediastinum. The pati...
Intraoperative nerve monitoring was helpful in identifying the non-recurrent inferior laryngeal nerve and left recurrent laryngeal nerve....
Radial, ulnar, or median nerve injuries are common peripheral nerve injuries. They usually present specific abnormal signs on the hands as evidence for hand surgeons to diagnose. However, without spec...
Based on expert experience, we selected three hand gestures with predetermined features and rules as three independent binary classification tasks for abnormal gesture detection. Images from patients ...
The study included 1,344 images, twenty-two patients, and thirty-four volunteers. In rule-based models, eight features were finally selected. The accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity were (1) 98.2, ...
Our study provides a helpful tool for detecting abnormal gestures in radial, ulnar, or median nerve injuries with satisfying accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity. It confirms that hand pose estimati...
Because of limited differentiation to endothelium from mesenchymal stem cells, it has been strongly recommended to use endothelial progenitor cells for the regeneration of the damaged endothelium of c...
Established immortalized circulating endothelial progenitor cells showed expression of human telomerase reverse transcriptase transcript by RT-PCR. They also showed the expression of vascular endothel...
Telomerase reverse transcriptase-circulating endothelial progenitor cells from fetal brain vasculature could repair erectile dysfunction of rats with cavernous nerve injury....
To investigate small nerve fibre damage and inflammation at the level of the sub-basal nerve plexus (SNP) of severe obese patients and compare the results with those of healthy subjects....
This cross-sectional, observational study investigated the data of 28 patients (14 out of 28 prediabetic or diabetic) with severe obesity (Body Mass Index; BMI ≥ 40) and 20 healthy subjects. Corneal n...
Mean age was 48.4±7.4 and 45.1 ± 5.8 in the control and obese group, respectively (p = 0.09). Mean BMI were 49.1 ± 7.8 vs. 23.3 ± 1.4 in obese vs. control group, respectively (p < 0.001). Mean CNFD, C...
Imaging with IVCM is a feasible, non-invasive method to detect and quantify occult corneal nerve damage and increased inflammation in patients with obesity. This study suggests that obesity may be a s...
We herein report a case of optic neuritis and ischemic optic neuropathy associated with herpes zoster ophthalmicus and decreased visual acuity....
A 65-year-old man with no special medical history had a headache on the right side in December 2019, and a few days later, a facial rash appeared on the same side. A dermatologist diagnosed him with h...
Various complications can occur with herpes zoster ophthalmicus, however, few reports have described cases of herpes zoster ophthalmicus associated with optic neuritis and ischemic optic neuropathy. T...
To observe the effect of methylene blue combined with ropivacaine intercostal nerve block on postoperative analgesia after autologous costal cartilage augmentation rhinoplasty....
In this study 100 female patients who underwent autologous costal cartilage comprehensive augmentation rhinoplasty in Chongqing Huamei Plastic Surgery Hospital from April to November 2021 were randoml...
The VAS scores of the experimental group were lower than those of the control group at all time points. At 6 h, 24 h and 48 h after surgery, the VAS score of the experimental group was lower than that...
Intercostal nerve block with methylene blue combined with ropivacaine can achieve good postoperative analgesic effects in augmentation rhinoplasty with autologous costal cartilage....
A prospective cohort study....
To investigate whether the immediate and short-term effects of preoperative electrical peripheral nerve stimulation (ePNS) on performance of the 10-second test could predict the early postoperative ou...
Previous studies have shown that early clinical improvement in CSM patients may be because of reversal of spinal cord ischemia after spinal cord compression....
We conducted a 10-second test before surgery, after ePNS, and at discharge (one week after surgery) in 44 patients with CSM who underwent C3-C7 laminoplasty and evaluated their correlations. The effec...
The preoperative 10-second test showed the most improvement immediately after the administration of ePNS, with a gradual decrease for the first 30 minutes after completion. After the initial 30 minute...
Early postoperative outcomes after CSM surgery may be predicted by the results of preoperative ePNS....
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Our aim was to investigate the involvement of posterior pole structures in eyes affected by keratoconus (KC). Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT angiography (OCTA) were used to determine the s...
Observational, cross-sectional, case-control analysis....
Single-center investigation involving patients with KC and healthy control subjects. Enrolled subjects underwent anterior segment OCT combined with Placido-disk topography, macular and optic nerve hea...
Overall, 32 eyes with KC and an equal number of age- and axial length-matched control eyes were included in the analysis. Almost all (97%) of eyes with KC were classified as early stage. KC displayed ...
Early-stage KC may be characterized by a posterior bowing of the LC along with a subtle peripapillary RNFL thinning and vascular impairment. These findings support the hypothesis that KC may be a corn...
Background and aim Different imaging modalities have been used as preoperative assessment tools since the emergence of dental implants. This study aimed to compare the detection and presence of mental...
