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Liver volume in thalassaemia major: relationship with body weight, serum ferritin, and liver function
Background: It is not known whether body weight alone can adjust for the volume of liver in the calculation of the chelating dose in β-thalassaemia major patients, who frequently have iron overload and hepatitis....
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Outcomes of Surgery for Mid and Distal Rectal Cancer in the Elderly
This study aimed to evaluate the surgical strategies, operative results, and oncological outcomes of elderly patients who underwent curative resection for mid and distal rectal cancer. Comparison was made with...
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Laparoscopic and Open Anterior Resection for Upper and Mid Rectal Cancer: An Evaluation of Outcomes
This study was designed to compare the outcomes of laparoscopic anterior resection with open operation for mid and upper rectal cancer.
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Anastomotic Leakage is Associated with Poor Long-Term Outcome in Patients After Curative Colorectal Resection for Malignancy
The impact of anastomotic leakage on long-term outcomes after curative surgery for colorectal cancer has not been well documented. This study aimed to investigate the effect of anastomotic leakage on survival ...
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The Impact of Postoperative Complications on Long-Term Outcomes Following Curative Resection for Colorectal Cancer
This study aimed to investigate the impact of postoperative complications on long-term survival and disease recurrence in patients who underwent curative resection for colorectal cancer.
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Bidirectional Effects of Fentanyl on Dendritic Spines and AMPA Receptors Depend Upon the Internalization of Mu Opioid Receptors
Fentanyl is a frequently used and abused opioid analgesic and can cause internalization of mu opioid receptors (MORs). Receptor internalization modulates the signaling pathways of opioid receptors. As changes ...
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NeuroD Modulates Opioid Agonist-Selective Regulation of Adult Neurogenesis and Contextual Memory Extinction
Addictive drugs, including opioids, modulate adult neurogenesis. In order to delineate the probable implications of neurogenesis on contextual memory associated with addiction, we investigated opioid agonist-s...
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Open Access31st Annual Meeting and Associated Programs of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC 2016): part one
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Racial Disparities in Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty: Analysis of 125,901 Patients in National US Private Payer Database
There is a relative paucity of studies that characterized racial disparities in revision total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Therefore, this study was specifically conducted to evaluate the following: (1) incidence...
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Open AccessCharacteristics and outcomes of patients admitted to adult intensive care units in Hong Kong: a population retrospective cohort study from 2008 to 2018
Globally, mortality rates of patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) have decreased over the last two decades. However, evaluations of the temporal trends in the characteristics and outcomes of ICU ...
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Prognostic impact of the adverse molecular-genetic profile on long-term outcomes following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in acute myeloid leukemia
The impact of adverse risk genetic profiles on outcomes in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT) has not been fully elucidated. Accordingly, w...
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The Role of Tibial Force Sensors in Total Knee Arthroplasty
Increasing demand for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and the costs associated with revision surgery drive investigations aimed at determining etiologies for aseptic failure. Additionally, clinically significant...
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Open AccessProspective validation of the role of PET/CT in detecting disease after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in advanced ovarian cancer
The study aimed to compare the diagnostic accuracies of 2-[18F]FDG PET/CT and contrast-enhanced CT (ceCT) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) in advanced ovarian cancer (OC).
