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Open AccessCerebral lesions sites in neurosarcoidosis: a lesion map** study
Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disease of unknown etiology affecting the central nervous system in up to 15% of the patients. Diagnosis of neurosarcoidosis is very challenging due to the heterogeneity of its c...
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Open AccessCardiovascular autonomic regulation correlates with cognitive performance in patients with a history of traumatic brain injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) may afflict brain areas contributing to both cardiovascular autonomic regulation and cognitive performance. To evaluate possible associations between both functions in patients wit...
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4DCT ventilation function image-based functional lung protection for esophageal cancer radiotherapy
4DCT (four-dimensional computed tomography) can effectively obtain functional lung ventilation images for patients and integrate them into radiotherapy treatment planning. Studies have not been performed on es...
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Correction to: Erectile Dysfunction
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Abdominal Multi-organ Localization with Adaptive Random Forest in CT Images
Medical image localization plays an important role in digital medical research, therapy planning, and delivery. However, the presence of noise and low contrast renders automatic abdominal multi-organ localizat...
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Erectile Dysfunction
Male erectile dysfunction (ED) increases with age and afflicts 52% of the 40–70 year old men. Neurological, endocrine, vascular, inflammatory, metabolic diseases, traumata, tumorous causes, illicit or “recreat...
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Open AccessCardiovascular medication seems to promote recovery of autonomic dysfunction after stroke
Stroke may compromise cardiovascular–autonomic modulation (CAM). The longitudinal post-stroke CAM alterations remain unclear as previous studies excluded patients with cardiovascular medication. This study eva...
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Open AccessValidation of the Composite Autonomic Symptom Score 31 in the German language
The Composite Autonomic Symptom Score 31 (COMPASS 31) is a validated, 31-item self-assessment questionnaire assessing autonomic symptoms in six domains, orthostatic intolerance, vasomotor, secretomotor, gastro...
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Open AccessOccurence of Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms, Anxiety and Depression in the Acute Phase of Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke
Rates of post-traumatic stress symptoms, anxiety and depression are increased in patients having experienced a transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke several months ago. However, data of psychiatric symptom...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Neck cooling induces blood pressure increase and peripheral vasoconstriction in healthy persons
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10072-021-05355-3
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Open AccessPrevalence and influencing factors of chronic post-traumatic stress disorder in patients with myocardial infarction, transient ischemic attack (TIA) and stroke – an exploratory, descriptive study
Cardio- and cerebrovascular events such as myocardial infarction (MI), stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) are leading causes of death and disability and have also been associated with poor mental outco...
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3D printing of RDX-based aluminized high explosives with gradient structure, significantly altering the critical dimensions
The vulnerability of weapon and ammunition has been attracting more and more researcher’s attention in order to improve their system survival in battlefield and security of production, transport and service ma...
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Open AccessCardiovascular fingolimod effects on rapid baroreceptor unloading are counterbalanced by baroreflex resetting
Initial cardiovascular fingolimod effects might compromise baroreflex responses to rapid blood pressure (BP) changes during common Valsalva-like maneuvers. This study evaluated cardiovascular responses to Vals...
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Open AccessNeck cooling induces blood pressure increase and peripheral vasoconstriction in healthy persons
Noninvasive temperature modulation by localized neck cooling might be desirable in the prehospital phase of acute hypoxic brain injuries. While combined head and neck cooling induces significant discomfort, pe...
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Strategy for chemically riveting catenated nitrogen chains
Catenated nitrogen chains (CNCs) attract considerable attention because of their structural novelty, their high energy, and their potential as precursors for all-nitrogen materials. However, pure CNCs are unst...
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Autonomic dysfunction in the neurological intensive care unit
Autonomic dysfunction is common in neuro-critical care patients and may compromise the function of various organs. Among the many diseases causing or being associated with autonomic dysfunction are traumatic b...
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Open AccessSeverity of traumatic brain injury correlates with long-term cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction
After traumatic brain injury (TBI), central autonomic dysfunction might contribute to long-term increased mortality rates. Central autonomic dysfunction might depend on initial trauma severity. This study was ...
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Thermal decomposition and sensitivities of RDX/SiO2 nanocomposite prepared by an improved supercritical SEDS method
A kind of classic nanocomposite, in which nano-RDX (~60 nm) was embedded inside as the core and nano-SiO2 (~6 nm) compactly coated on its surface, was successfully prepared by an improved supercritical SEDS metho...
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Open AccessValsalva maneuver unveils central baroreflex dysfunction with altered blood pressure control in persons with a history of mild traumatic brain injury
Patients with a history of mild TBI (post-mTBI-patients) have an unexplained increase in long-term mortality which might be related to central autonomic dysregulation (CAD). We investigated whether standardize...
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Open AccessOptimal beam arrangement for pulmonary ventilation image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy for lung cancer
The principal aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of incorporating four-dimensional (4D)-computed tomography (CT)-based functional information into treatment planning and to evaluate the potentia...
