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Effect of Treatment of Mild Gestational Diabetes on Long-Term Maternal Outcomes.

OBJECTIVE: The main purpose of this article is to evaluate whether identification and treatment of women with mild gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) during pregnancy affects subsequent maternal body mass index (BMI), anthropometry, metabolic…

Most Patients With Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Who Failed Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy Also Have Functional Esophageal Disorders.

BACKGROUND & AIMS: As many as 45% of patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) still have symptoms after receiving once-daily proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy. We aimed to compare reflux characteristics and patterns between responders…

Proton pump inhibitors impact on post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis.

Low vitamin D level and impact on severity and recurrence of Clostridium difficile infections.

BACKGROUND: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has recently markedly increased, incurring greater health care-associated costs and hospitalizations especially in vitamin D deficient patients. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to evaluate the…

Factors Predicting Recurrence of Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) in Hospitalized Patients: Retrospective Study of More Than 2000 Patients.

BACKGROUND: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has increased in incidence and severity worldwide, causing direct costs estimated to range from US $3.2 billion to $4.8 billion. The aim of this study was to investigate and identify factors that…

Role of inflammation in the aging bones.

Chronic inflammation in aging is characterized by increased inflammatory cytokines, bone loss, decreased adaptation, and defective tissue repair in response to injury. Aging leads to inherent changes in mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) differentiation,…

Survey analysis of the American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination.

OBJECTIVE: To determine how other program directors use the American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination (ABSITE) scores in the resident evaluation process. DESIGN: A cover letter and a printed one-page survey of eight questions about individual…

Tags: *Educational Measurement, *Internship and Residency, *Specialty Boards, 1996, Abdu R A, Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960), General Surgery/*education, Humans, Surveys and Questionnaires, United States

Urgent management of a giant scrotal hernia.

An unusual case of giant scrotal hernia is presented. Hernias of this magnitude are extremely rare, even in underdeveloped countries, and their repair is challenging to the surgeon and stressful to the patient. Only a few case reports on the use of…

Tags: 1990, Abdu R A, Abscess/etiology/therapy, Diabetes Complications, Genital Diseases, Hernia/complications, Herniorrhaphy, Humans, Male, Male/complications/surgery, Middle Aged, Postoperative Complications/therapy, Scrotum/*surgery, The American surgeon

Massive Intradural Dermoid Cyst Without Sinus Tract.

Dermoid cysts can present as a rare, benign, congenital intracranial tumor of neuroectoderm origin trapped during embryogenesis. Past clinical reports have reported lesions in the posterior fossa, at the midline, and in the intradural region all in…

Tags: *Cerebellar Neoplasms, *Dermoid Cyst, 2017, Abouhassan William, Chao John Kuang, Humans, Lehman James A Jr, The Journal of craniofacial surgery

Isolated Post-Shunt Metopic Synostosis and Neural Tube Defects.

BACKGROUND: Craniosynostosis is an uncommon complication after shunting procedures for congenital hydrocephalus. We report a case of a child with myelomeningocele and normocephaly at the time of birth. She underwent ventricular shunting for Chiari…

Tags: 2018, Abouhassan William, Arnold-Chiari Malformation/complications/*surgery, Chao John Kuang, Craniosynostoses/*etiology, Female, Humans, Hydrocephalus/complications/congenital/*surgery, Infant, Meningomyelocele/complications/*surgery, Murthy Ananth S, Newborn, Postoperative Complications/*etiology, Slit Ventricle Syndrome/etiology, The Journal of craniofacial surgery, Third Ventricle, Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt/*adverse effects

Activation of mechanosensitive ion channel TRPV4 normalizes tumor vasculature and improves cancer therapy.

Tumor vessels are characterized by abnormal morphology and hyperpermeability that together cause inefficient delivery of chemotherapeutic agents. Although vascular endothelial growth factor has been established as a critical regulator of tumor…

The pathology of lysosomal storage diseases.

Tags: 1995, Agamanolis D P, Electron, Humans, Lysosomal Storage Diseases/*complications/enzymology/genetics/*pathology, Lysosomes/enzymology, Microscopy, Pathology annual

Neonatal glycine encephalopathy: biochemical and neuropathologic findings.

A patient with neonatal glycine encephalopathy who had severe neurologic retardation, spasticity, and seizures died at 17 years of age. Glycine concentration was markedly elevated in brain tissue, especially in the cerebellum. Neuropathologic study…

A unique view on male infertility around the globe.

BACKGROUND: Infertility affects an estimated 15% of couples globally, amounting to 48.5 million couples. Males are found to be solely responsible for 20-30% of infertility cases and contribute to 50% of cases overall. However, this number does not…

Tags: 2015, Africa South of the Sahara/epidemiology, Africa/epidemiology, Agarwal Ashok, Asia/epidemiology, Australia/epidemiology, Chyatte Michelle Renee, Europe/epidemiology, Hamada Alaa, Humans, Infertility, Latin America/epidemiology, Male, Male/*epidemiology/psychology, Middle East/epidemiology, Mulgund Aditi, North America/epidemiology, Prevalence, Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E

Nosocomial (Health Care-Associated) Legionnaire's Disease.

Nosocomial Legionnaire's disease is most frequently associated with presence of the organism in hospital water systems. Patients are often susceptible as a result of age, underlying comorbidities, or immunosuppression. Prevention focuses on reducing…

Tags: *Cross Infection/diagnosis/epidemiology/prevention & control, *Disease Outbreaks, *Health care-associated, *Legionella, *Legionnaires' Disease/diagnosis/epidemiology/prevention & control, *Nosocomial, *Outbreaks, *Prevention, 2017, Abell Virginia, Agarwal Shanu, Department of Internal Medicine, File Thomas M Jr, Hospitals, Humans, Infectious disease clinics of North America, NEOMED College of Medicine, Water Microbiology

Coaching From the Sidelines: Examining the Impact of Teledebriefing in Simulation-Based Training.

INTRODUCTION: Although simulation facilities are available at most teaching institutions, the number of qualified instructors and/or content experts that facilitate postsimulation debriefing is inadequate at many institutions. There remains a paucity…

Tags: *Formative Feedback, *Simulation Training, *Telecommunications, 2016, Ahmed Rami A, Atkinson Steven Scott, Department of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medical Technicians/*education, Gable Brad, Gardner Aimee K, Humans, Mentors, NEOMED College of Medicine, Simulation in healthcare : journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, Yee Jennifer

A Pilot Curriculum to Integrate Standardized Patient Simulation into Clinical Pastoral Education.

INTRODUCTION: We describe a novel means of experiential learning for clinical pastoral care residents using standardized patient (SP) simulations. METHODS: A prospective cohort study involving 7 clinical pastoral care residents was performed. All…

Iatrogenic emergency medicine procedure complications and associated trouble-shooting strategies.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to provide a consolidated reference for the acute management of selected iatrogenic procedural injuries occurring in the emergency department (ED). DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: A literature search was performed…

MicroRNA-602 and microRNA-608 regulate sonic hedgehog expression via target sites in the coding region in human chondrocytes.

OBJECTIVE: Hedgehog (HH) signaling has recently been associated with cartilage degradation in osteoarthritis (OA). Because interleukin-1beta (IL-1beta) has been implicated as a principal instigator of OA, we sought to determine whether

Tags: 2015, Academic Medical Centers, Aged, Akhtar Nahid, Analysis of Variance, Animal, Animals, Anterior Cruciate Ligament/surgery, Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), Blotting, Cells, Chondrocytes – Physiology, Chondrocytes/drug effects/*metabolism/pathology, Cultured, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Disease Models, Female, Funding Source, Gene Expression Regulation/genetics/*physiology, Haqqi Tariq M, Hedgehog Proteins/genetics/*metabolism, HEK293 Cells, Human, Humans, Immunohistochemistry, In Vitro Techniques, Interleukin-1beta/pharmacology, Knee/etiology/*metabolism/pathology, Makki Mohammad S, Male, Matrix Metalloproteinase 13/metabolism, MicroRNAs/genetics/*metabolism, Middle Age, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, Ohio, Open Reading Frames/genetics/*physiology, Osteoarthritis, Osteoarthritis – Epidemiology, Osteoarthritis – Physiopathology, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Rabbits, Signal Transduction/genetics/physiology, T-Tests, Transfection, Up-Regulation/drug effects/genetics/physiology, Western

Treatment of asymptomatic hyperuricemia and prevention of vascular disease: a decision analytic approach.

OBJECTIVE: Elevated serum urate may be associated with an increase in cardiovascular (CV) disease. Treating asymptomatic hyperuricemia with urate-lowering drugs such as allopurinol may reduce CV events. We designed a model to simulate the effect of…

Tags: *Markov Chains, 2014, Aged, Akkineni Roopa, Albert Daniel A, Allopurinol – Therapeutic Use, Allopurinol/*therapeutic use, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, Choi Hyon K, DECISION ANALYSIS, Decision Support Techniques, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Gout Suppressants – Therapeutic Use, Gout Suppressants/*therapeutic use, Human, Humans, HYPERURICEMIA, Hyperuricemia – Complications, Hyperuricemia – Diagnosis, Hyperuricemia – Drug Therapy, Hyperuricemia/complications/*diagnosis/*drug therapy, Lee Alexandra, Male, Middle Age, Middle Aged, Miller Katherine L, Probability, Prospective Studies, Risk Assessment, Severity of Illness Index, Severity of Illness Indices, Sex Factors, Tapp Stephanie, The Journal of rheumatology, Tosteson Anna N A, Treatment Outcome, Treatment Outcomes, Uric Acid – Blood, Uric Acid/blood, Vascular Diseases – Etiology, Vascular Diseases – Prevention and Control, Vascular Diseases/etiology/*prevention & control, Zhu Yanyan

Carboplatin and paclitaxel for the treatment of advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the activity and toxicity of carboplatin and paclitaxel (taxol) in the treatment of advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer. STUDY DESIGN: This was a retrospective review of 18 consecutive…

The Capillary Index Score as a Marker of Viable Cerebral Tissue: Proof of Concept-The Capillary Index Score in the MR CLEAN (Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial of Endovascular Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke in the Netherlands) Trial.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The capillary index score (CIS) is based on the hypothesis that areas lacking capillary blush on pretreatment cerebral digital subtraction angiograms correspond to nonviable cerebral tissue. METHODS: Pretreatment digital…

Tags: *cerebral cortex, *infarction, *stroke, *tissue, 2016, Al-Ali Firas, Angiography, Bender Evin N, Berkhemer Olvert A, Brain, Brain Ischemia/*diagnostic imaging/therapy, Brain/*diagnostic imaging, Capillaries, Capillaries/*diagnostic imaging, Cerebral Ischemia, Cerebral Ischemia – Therapy, Checklists, Comparative Studies, Computed Tomography Angiography/*methods, Digital Subtraction – Methods, Digital Subtraction/*methods, Dillon William P, Dippel Diederik W J, Elias John J, Endovascular Procedures/methods, Evaluation Research, Human, Humans, Lingsma Hester F, Majoie Charles B L M, Multicenter Studies, RANDOMIZED controlled trials, Roos Yvo B W E M, Scales, stroke, Stroke – Therapy, Stroke/*diagnostic imaging/therapy, Treatment Outcome, Treatment Outcomes, Validation Studies, van der Lugt Aad, van Oostenbrugge Robert J, van Zwam Wim H, Yousman Wina P

Inhibition of monoamine oxidase by derivatives of piperine, an alkaloid from the pepper plant Piper nigrum, for possible use in Parkinson's disease.

A series of compounds related to piperine and antiepilepsirine was screened in a monoamine oxidase A and B assay. Piperine is an alkaloid from the source plant of both black and white pepper grains, Piper nigrum. Piperine has been shown to have a…

Incorporating teaching dermatoethics in a busy outpatient clinic.

Electronic medical records for the orthopaedic practice.

Electronic medical records (EMR) will be the standard method of medical documentation within the next decade. Making the conversion from paper to digital records will be costly in terms of actual cash outlay for an EMR system and the time investment…

Tags: 2007, Alexander Ian, Clinical orthopaedics and related research, Computerized/instrumentation/*organization & administration/trends, Humans, Medical Records Systems, Medical/*organization & administration/trends, Organizational Innovation, Orthopedics/methods/*organization & administration, Practice Management

Absolute CD4 counts obtained by a three-color flow-cytometric method without the use of a hematology analyzer.

We evaluated the Ortho TRIO-Cytoronabsolute system for determining absolute CD4 counts. The CD4 counts in our blood specimens from 100 individuals ranged from 3 to 1,962; the percent CD4 ranged from 1.3 to 62.2, respectively. The TRIO system was…

Tags: 1998, Alexander T S, CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes/*pathology, Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology, Flow Cytometry/*methods, Humans, Lymphocyte Count/*methods

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Diagnostic Testing: 30 Years of Evolution.

A concern during the early AIDS epidemic was the lack of a test to identify individuals who carried the virus. The first HIV antibody test, developed in 1985, was designed to screen blood products, not to diagnose AIDS. The first-generation assays…

Tags: 2016, Alexander Thomas S, Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI, Diagnostic Tests, HIV Infections/*diagnosis, HIV/immunology/isolation & purification, Humans, Immunoassay/*methods/trends, Routine/*methods/trends

Endometrial rollerball ablation.

OBJECTIVE: To study a standardized technique for endometrial rollerball ablation and various methods of preoperative preparation. STUDY DESIGN: All patients had refractory symptomatic menorrhagia and previously failed conservative surgery and other…

Sarcoidosis appearing in a tattoo.

BACKGROUND: Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease that may present as tattoo granulomas. OBJECTIVE: A patient with systemic sarcoidosis who developed a granulomatous reaction within a tattoo is presented to stimulate interest in this unusual phenomenon.…

Tags: 2008, Abdomen, Adult, Ali Saba M, Brodell Robert T, Coloring Agents/adverse effects, Diagnosis, Differential, Female, Gilliam Anita C, Humans, Journal of cutaneous medicine and surgery, Sarcoidosis/*diagnosis/*etiology/pathology, Skin Diseases/*diagnosis/*etiology/pathology, Tattooing/*adverse effects

Transcending the language barrier–creation of a multilingual dermatology website.

In a linguistically diverse society, healthcare professionals must overcome the daunting task of effectively communicating with patients who speak a different language. In effort to aid healthcare professionals and their patients, an on-line…

Tags: *Dermatology, *Language, 2007, Ali Saba M, Communication Barriers, Dermatology online journal, Feldman Steven R, Health Education, Hinckley Michael R, Humans, Internet/*organization & administration, Medical Informatics/organization & administration, Needs Assessment, Program Development

Positive outcome in a patient with coronavirus disease 2019 and common variable immunodeficiency after intravenous immunoglobulin.

Tags: 2020, Aljaberi R, Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, Betacoronavirus/isolation & purification, Common Variable Immunodeficiency/immunology/therapy, Coronavirus Infections/diagnosis/immunology/therapy, Female, Hospital List, Humans, Immunoglobulins Intravenous/therapeutic use, journalArticle, Middle Aged, Pandemics, Pneumonia Viral/diagnosis/immunology/therapy, Treatment Outcome, Wishah K

Administrative retreats: a new twist to avoid "administrative isolation".

Tags: *Administrative Personnel, *Interpersonal Relations, 2006, Allen David D, American journal of pharmaceutical education, Calhoun Larry D, Education, Humans, Pharmacy/*organization & administration, Schools

A plant lignan, 3'-O-methyl-nordihydroguaiaretic acid, suppresses papillomavirus E6 protein function, stabilizes p53 protein, and induces apoptosis in cervical tumor cells.

Persistent infection with oncogenic human papillomaviruses (HPVs) is the most important factor in the induction of uterine cervical cancer, a leading cause of cancer mortality in women worldwide. Upon cell transformation, continual expression of the…

A case of black esophagus with histopathologic description and characterization.

Black esophagus, or acute necrotizing esophagitis, is a blackening of the esophagus that is usually distal with a sharp demarcation at the gastroesophageal border. Black esophagus is known to the gastroenterology community; however, to our knowledge…

Tags: 2011, Acute Disease, Altenburger Dana L, Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine, Esophagitis/complications/*diagnosis, Esophagus/blood supply/*pathology, Fatal Outcome, Female, Garavaglia Jan, Humans, Ischemia/complications/*pathology, Li Shuan, Middle Aged, Necrosis, Substance-Related Disorders, Wagner Aaron S

A Case of Nodal Anthracosis Presenting as PET-Positive Mediastinal and Hilar Lymphadenopathies.

Tags: 2020, Aged, Alzubi J, Anthracosis/complications/diagnostic imaging, Female, Gupta A, Hospital List, Humans, Hussein H, Jabri A, journalArticle, Lung, Lymphadenopathy/diagnostic imaging/etiology, Mayo Clinic proceedings, Mediastinum, Positron-Emission Tomography

Finding the evidence with eponyms.

Tags: *Dermatology, *Eponyms, *Terminology as Topic, 2013, 20th Century, Amarnani Ajay, Brodell Robert T, Department of Internal Medicine, Dermatology, History, Humans, JAMA dermatology, Mostow Eliot N, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nomenclature, Skin Diseases – History, Skin Diseases/*history

Concurrent treatment of chronic psoriasis and asthma with ustekinumab.

A 56-year-old woman with a 40-year history of guttate flares of psoriasis associated with stress and infection as well as chronic asthma was treated with subcutaneous injections of ustekinumab, repeated after 1 month and then every 3 months. Her…

Vascular access for HD: aligning payment with quality.

The Fistula First Breakthrough Initiative (FFBI) has improved the awareness of the value of fistula creation in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The FFBI Health Policy Workgroup has been charged with reviewing the relationship of policy…

Transition of patients from chronic kidney disease to end-stage renal disease: better practices for better outcomes.

Tags: 2006, Amedia Chester A, Anemia/complications, Cardiovascular Diseases/complications, Chronic Disease, Chronic/complications/*therapy, Department of Internal Medicine, Disease management : DM, Humans, Hypertension/complications, Kidney Diseases/complications/*therapy, Kidney Failure, NEOMED College of Medicine, Perazella Mark A, Practice Guidelines as Topic

Investigating the impact of student loan debt on new practitioners

United States student loan debt has surpassed $1.7 trillion and continues to rise. Generally described as a “crisis,” the state of student loan debt in the United States is a subject of increasing consideration, research, and analysis by federal…

Tags: 2021, Career Choice, Humans, Internship and Residency, Ohio, Quality of Life, Training Support, United States

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