Long-term hemodialysis patients experience many hand diseases caused by dialysis-related amyloidosis (DRA), with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) being the most common. For the patients with arteriovenous...
This prospective study included 275 hemodialysis patients between March 2013 and July 2019. 43 patients were diagnosed with CTS, involving surgical treatment on 70 wrists. We performed mini-open carpa...
The incidence of CTS in hemodialysis patients was 15.6%. Longer dialysis durations were related to higher proportions of patients with CTS. There was no significant difference in blood loss (p=0.184) ...
CTS is a very common disease among hemodialysis patients. WALANT provided sufficient hemostasis without a tourniquet, despite the patients' high bleeding tendency. The technique also had the advantage...
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The 3D Morphable Model (3DMM) is a powerful statistical tool for representing 3D face shapes. To build a 3DMM, a training set of face scans in full point-to-point correspondence is required, and its m...
We retrospectively reviewed the estimated glomerular filtration rates (eGFR) calculated by three equations: (1) Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study (MDRD), (2) Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiol...
Local knowledge and uses of forage resources are highly dynamic, and can be mediated by multiple factors, such as seasonality, floristic diversity and the morphophysiological characteristics of plants...
Curative resection is the only potential treatment for cure in patients with perihilar biliary tract cancer (PBTC). However, post hepatectomy liver failure (PHLF) due to insufficient future liver remn...
Between April 2019 and December 2021, 15 patients with locally advanced PBTC (LA-PBTC) underwent sequential treatment consisting of PVE followed by preoperative chemotherapy. The feasibility and effic...
Thirteen of 15 patients (86.6%) underwent curative resection. The median duration time between PVE and surgery was 144 days. FRLV/TLV ratio was 31.3% at prePVE, 38.4%, at two weeks after PVE, and 45.7...
Sequential PVE and systemic chemotherapy contribute to the sufficient hypertrophy of FRLV without compromising resectability in patients with LA-PBTC....
Duodenal perforation is considered as one of gastrointestinal emergency with high morbidity and mortality rate. The MSCs have the ability to improve wound healing by releasing several growth factors a...
MSCs were isolated from rat umbilical cord and injected into duodenal wound site at doses of 1.5x10 [(Putra et al., 2018) 66 cells for T1 group and 3x10 [(Putra et al., 2018) 66 cells for T2 group. Th...
Results showed a significant increase in VEGF and CD31 expression on days 3 and 7 (p < 0,05). The VEGF level was significantly decreased on day 7 compared to day 3....
The administration of MSCs improved the angiogenesis process in duodenal perforation by enhancing VEGF and CD31 expression....
Rectal toxicity remains a major threat to quality of life of patients, who receive brachytherapy to the abdominal pelvic area. Estimating the risk of toxicity development is essential to maximize ther...
To identify relevant studies since 1995, MEDLINE database was searched on August 31, 2021, using terms related to "pelvic cancers", "brachytherapy", "prediction models", and "rectal toxicity". Papers ...
Thirty models (...
Existing models have limited clinical application due to poor quality of methodology. The following key issues should be considered in future studies: 1) Measuring patient-reported outcomes to address...
Glioma is the most common primary brain tumor in adults with poor prognosis. The glioma patients benefit from STUPP strategy, including maximum and safe resection and adjuvant radiotherapy and chemoth...
The arsenic trioxide has the potent therapeutic effect on glioma. However, the safety and efficacy of local interstitial chemotherapy with arsenic trioxide in newly diagnosed glioma patients is unclea...
All patients received partial or complete tumor resection and intraoperative implantation of Ommaya reservoirs followed by standard radiotherapy. Arsenic trioxide with the starting dose 0.3 mg was adm...
No hematological or grade 4 non-hematological toxicity was observed in any patient during arsenic trioxide treatment. The maximum tolerated dose of 1.5 mg of arsenic trioxide was safe and well tolerat...
These results suggest that arsenic trioxide is safe and well tolerated with local delivery into the tumor cavity of the brain, and the dose recommended for a phase II trial is 1.5 mg....
The aim of this study was to determine if robotic surgery can reproduce the technical advantages and oncologic outcomes of laparoscopic surgery for the treatment of locally advanced colorectal cancer ...
We retrospectively reviewed the prospectively maintained data of patients with locally advanced colorectal cancer invading the urinary bladder undergoing robotic or laparoscopic surgery between June 2...
A total of 41 patients (M:F = 32:9; median age: 63 [42-88] years) were analysed; 32 underwent laparoscopic surgery and 9 underwent robotic surgery. There was no statistically significant difference be...
Robotic surgery can reproduce the technical advantages and oncologic outcomes of laparoscopic surgery for the treatment of locally advanced colorectal cancer invading the urinary bladder. However, lar...
The underlying mechanism for increased reaction rates in micellar catalysis-based organic synthesis is a reduced entropy barrier for the reaction. A two-dimensional localization of reactants and catal...
Quantum chemistry, the COSMO-RS implicit solvent model and statistical thermodynamics were employed to predict the stability of a range of reactants, catalysts and intermediates in a series of surfact...
The predicted reaction rates for the proposed mechanism show that the entropy reduction leads to a larger prefactor for the reaction. The resulting reaction rate can be significantly higher than conve...
