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Diagnostic
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Maladies infectieuses
Diagnostic médical
Maladies auto-immunes
Biopsie
Diagnostic différentiel
Symptômes
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Maladies héréditaires
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Qualité de vie
Symptômes
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Symptômes
Maladies cardiaques
Symptômes
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Symptômes
Maladies chroniques
Symptômes
Prévention
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Maladies cardiovasculaires
Prévention
Traitements
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Maladies auto-immunes
Traitement
Infections virales
Traitement
Complications
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Hypertension
Complications
Effets secondaires
Traitement
Maladies auto-immunes
Complications
Facteurs de risque
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Cancer
Facteurs de risque
Alimentation
Facteurs de risque
Stress
Facteurs de risque
Maladies respiratoires
Facteurs de risque
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Department of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Penn.
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John Sealy Distinguished Centennial Chair in Cardiology, Chief, Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston.
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John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School, University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, La.
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Cardiology Division, NYU Langone Health and NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY. Electronic address: Chayakrit.Krittanawong@nyulangone.org.
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Departments of Neurology, Physiology and Pharmacology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Amoskor@tauex.tau.ac.il.
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Departments of Neurology and Pathology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Global Brain Health Institute, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Department of Pathology, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Division of Kidney Disease and Hypertension, The Glomerular Disease Center at Northwell Health Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, 100 Community Drive, 2nd floor, Great Neck, NY 11021, USA. Electronic address: Psharma7@northwell.edu.
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Selzman Kidney Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, 7200 Cambridge Street, 8th Floor Suite 8B, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/@NephDr.
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Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia Espinho EPE, Internal Medicine, Portugal.
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Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia Espinho EPE, Internal Medicine, Portugal.
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Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia Espinho EPE, Internal Medicine, Portugal.
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Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia Espinho EPE, Internal Medicine, Portugal.
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IBM Research, Beijing, China. Electronic address: monkeytzf@gmail.com.
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IBM Research, Beijing, China.
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Center for Computational Health, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA.
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Center for Computational Health, IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA.
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IBM Research, Beijing, China. Electronic address: meijing@cn.ibm.com.
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CEG, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CEG, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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This article was updated on July 19, 2023, because of a previous error, which was discovered after the preliminary version of the article was posted online. On page 1080, in the last sentence of the R...
The risk of fracture-related nerve injury associated with forearm fractures in children is unknown. The purposes of the present study were to calculate the risk of fracture-related nerve injury and to...
Four thousand, eight hundred and sixty-eight forearm fractures (ICD-10 codes S52.0 to S52.7) that had been treated in our tertiary level pediatric hospital between 2014 and 2021 were identified in our...
The risk of a fracture-related nerve injury was 0.7% (33 of 4,868). Only 2 injuries were permanent; thus, the risk of permanent nerve injury associated with a forearm fracture was 0.04% (2 of 4,868). ...
Nerve injury following a pediatric forearm fracture is rare and has an excellent potential for spontaneous recovery. In the present study, all of the permanent nerve injuries occurred in association w...
Prognostic Level III . See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence....
The management of complex forearm injuries is challenging, not only because of the anatomical complexity of the region but also because of the dramatic functional consequences of these injuries. Prese...
This study aims to point out the key principles for the management of multicomponent soft tissue injuries of the wrist and forearm to discuss whether we should expand the term "spaghetti" from the wri...
Data from a total of 50 patients (44 males, 6 females; mean age: 48.5±25.7 years; range, 10 to 70 years) who were treated for multicomponent soft tissue injuries of the wrist and forearm, including at...
In the wrist injury group, a mean of 12.27±3.53 structures at the volar side were injured. It took a mean time of 1.8±0.4 h for emergency surgical repair and, after a mean of 16.6±5.3 month follow-up,...
We propose to merge the severe wrist and proximal forearm laceration of multiple tendons/muscles with at least one major artery and one major nerve as a whole, namely the spaghetti-ketchup injury, sin...
The aim of this article is to review the evaluation and management of pediatric forearm malunions. Acceptable parameters for nonoperative management of pediatric forearm fractures are reviewed, follow...
The primary goal in operative fixation of forearm fractures is to restore length, rotational stability, and maintenance of the radial bow. Plate osteosynthesis is well regarded as the gold standard of...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate characteristics of reinjury following forearm fractures in adolescents. An Institutional Review Board-approved retrospective cohort study of forearm fractures...
Nonunion or malunion of forearm fractures may result in restricted range of motion or persistent pain, leading to limitations in activities of daily living. Complications may also present in the form ...
The forearm is the most common site of fracture in children. At the time of initial assessment, a thorough examination and neurovascular assessment of the limb is necessary. X-rays allow evaluation of...
A 28-year-old man sustained a complex forearm injury from high-energy trauma, causing ulnar nerve injury, a bone defect, forearm malunion and synostosis. A 3D-printed titanium truss cage was used to s...
The validity of forearm fracture diagnoses recorded in five Norwegian hospitals was investigated using image reports and medical records as gold standard. A relatively high completeness and correctnes...
In Norway, forearm fractures are routinely recorded in the Norwegian Patient Registry (NPR). However, these data have not been validated. Data from patient administrative systems (PAS) at hospitals ar...
This hospital-based validation study included women and men aged ≥ 19 years referred to five hospitals for treatment of a forearm fracture during selected periods in 2015. Administrative data for the ...
Among the 8482 reviewed image reports and medical records, 624 patients were identified with an incident forearm fracture during the study period. The sensitivity of PAS registrations was 90.4% (95% C...
A relatively high sensitivity of forearm fracture diagnoses was found in PAS. PPV varied depending on the algorithms used to define cases. Choice of algorithm should therefore depend on study purposes...