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**ang-Hui **e
Medicine & Public Health
English
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Enteroscopic Therapy Techniques
Enteroscopy offered the opportunity for the treatment of various small bowel diseases. In this chapter, we presented interesting cases with enteroscopic therapy in different conditions, especially in patients ...
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Vascular Disorders of the Small Intestines
Vascular lesions constituted a major proportion (21% to 57%) of all small intestinal obscure gastrointestinal bleeding cases. It is one important cause of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding and diagnosis is cha...
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Progress on Schistosomiasis Research in China
Schistosomiasis japonica is one of the most important parasitic diseases in China despite a documented history of more than 2100 years. The study and use of diagnostic techniques play an important role in targ...
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A Newborn Girl with Blisters
Incontinentia pigmenti is caused by a mutation in NEMO/IKKγ gene which locates on X chromosome, which is lethal for male fetuses. It involves skin, teeth, hair or neurologic system. The cutaneous lesions distribu...
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Endemicity, Diagnosis and Treatment of Schistosomiasis in China
Schistosomiasis is a chronic helminthic infection that establishes a long-term, multi-year relationship with its human host in endemic populations. Acute schistosomiasis can occur in non-immune individuals 14–...
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Cutaneous Angiosarcoma on Scalp and Face in an Elderly Patient
Angiosarcoma (AS) is a rare and highly aggressive tumor derived from vascular endothelial cells, predisposing the skin and superficial soft tissues. Cutaneous lesion is the most common presentation. Cutaneous ...
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Nephrology in China
The Chinese Mainland is a big country with an area of 9,597,000 km2 and over 1.4 billion population. The Chinese Society of Nephrology (CSN) was established in 1980 and made many significant advances in the last ...
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Viral Dermatoses in HIV/AIDS Patients
Specific manifestations of viral dermatoses may serve as diagnostic clues of HIV/AIDS as well as indicators of patients’ immune status. For example, oral hairy leukoplakia facial molluscum contagiosum are mark...
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Tumors of the Skin
Skin tumor is the most intriguing topic for the clinicians. This chapter covers a wide range of issues and provides with informative clues and tips associated with clinical features and pathological presentati...
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Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography in Surgically Altered Anatomy
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is an important procedure for treatment of biliary and pancreatic diseases. In patients with normal anatomy, a conventional duodenoscope is used for all th...
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Multifactorial Diseases with Immunological Involvement
Urticaria is a disease with transient itching wheals/hives and/or angioedema. Urticaria is divided into acute urticaria (AU) or chronic urticaria (CU, duration more than 6 weeks) [1]. Urticaria may be the skin...
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Skin Diseases Caused by Factors from the Environment
Members of the order Diptera, the family Culicidae, mosquitoes are vectors for the transmission of many diseases worldwide. There are over 3000 different species of mosquitoes, which grouped into more than 40 ...
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Technical Notes
As the leader in develo** Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) in China, we accomplished the first case in China in 1992. After 2005, we began regular VATS lobectomy and have completed more than 2500 ...
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Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is an infectious disease in the lungs that is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria spread primarily via the respiratory tract directly from the patients excreting the ba...
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Organ Transplantation in HBV-Infected Patients
Organ transplantation in the HBsAg-positive patient is effective and life-saving, but the prevention or management of hepatitis B virus (HBV) recurrence and/or reactivation has been a challenge. For liver tran...
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Biomedical Application of Soft Nano-/Microparticles
In recent years, the soft hydrogel nano-/microparticles have been investigated intensively. Their great porosity, elasticity, and biocompatibility benefit their application, especially in the biomedical field ...
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Physiology of Gametogenesis
Gametogenesis is a biological process by which diploid or haploid precursor cells undergo cell division and differentiation to form mature haploid gametes. The biology of gamete production is different between...
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Measuring the Levels of EPA and DHA in Nutraceutical Oils
Omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaeonic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) have been linked to several health benefits (1, 2). In 2004, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States granted t...
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The Ubiquitin Proteasome System in Endothelial Cell Dysfunction and Vascular Disease
Protein homeostasis is a critical cellular process to maintain protein function. Because the genome encodes for a very large number of discrete proteins and only a fraction of this number are needed or utilize...
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Data Warehouse Approach to Build a Decision-Support Platform for Orthopedics Based on Clinical and Academic Requirements
The continuous quality improvement has become a trend in the contemporary medical society, and that can be achieved by the specialty database implement. Decision-support system in the academic and clinical asp...
