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French patients on daily hemodialysis: clinical characteristics and treatment...
Abstract Background Increasing the weekly frequency of hemodialysis sessions has positive effects, on the control of several biological data of patients. However, knowledge... -
Clinical course and prognostic factors of childhood Takayasu’s arteritis: ove...
Abstract Background Childhood Takayasu’s arteritis (c-TA) is scarcely reported but is characterized by devastating morbidity and mortality. This study aims to investigate the... -
Relationship between pulmonary function and albuminuria in type 2 diabetic pa...
Abstract Background Albuminuria is the early manifestation of the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy (DN). The current study was to investigate the relationship of pulmonary... -
Role of point-of-care ultrasound during the COVID-19 pandemic: our recommenda...
Abstract COVID-19 is a viral disease due to the infection of the novel Corona virus SARS-CoV-2, that has rapidly spread in many countries until the World Health Organization... -
Comparing dialysis centre mortality outcomes across Australia and New Zealand...
Abstract Background Comparing the mortality profiles of dialysis centres is important to ensure that high standards of care are maintained. We compare the performance of... -
Clinico-pathological characteristics and outcomes of patients with biopsy-pro...
Abstract Background This study aimed to investigate renal outcomes and their predictors in biopsy-proven hypertensive nephrosclerosis (HN) patients and to compare... -
Combination of lymphovascular invasion and the AJCC TNM staging system improv...
Abstract Background This study sought to explore whether lymphovascular invasion can affect the prognosis of patients with stage N0 gastric cancer and to evaluate the survival... -
Long-term outcomes of coronary artery bypass grafting versus stent-PCI for un...
Abstract Background Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery has traditionally represented the standard of care for left main coronary artery (LMCA) disease. However,... -
Deltopectoral flap revisited for reconstruction surgery in patients with adva...
Abstract Background We present the cases of 2 patients with invasive thyroid cancer, who underwent reconstructive surgery using a deltopectoral flap. Although the overall rate... -
Synergistic toxicity in an in vivo model of neurodegeneration through the co-...
Abstract Although it has been suggested that the co-expression of multiple pathological proteins associated with neurodegeneration may act synergistically to induce more...