Showing papers in "Medicine in 2017"

TL;DR: Early detection of colorectal cancer in children is important for better prognosis, and active evaluation, including a pediatric colonoscopy, in a child with suspected malignancy is recommended.

TL;DR: Nonadherence to antihypertensive medications was noticed in 45% of the subjects studied and a higher proportion of uncontrolled blood pressure (BP) patients was nonadherent to medication.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis confirmed the relation between some prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal factors with autism, but it was still unclear that whether these factors are causal or play a secondary role in the development of autism.

TL;DR: The high pooled prevalence of NAFLD in T2DM patients found in this study significantly underscores the need for early assessment ofNAFLD and the importance of strengthening the management of NA FLD inT2 DM patients.

TL;DR: The atherogenic index of plasma (AIP), a new comprehensive lipid index, might be a strong marker for predicting the risk of CAD in the Chinese Han population and was an independent risk factor for CAD.

TL;DR: Mortality within 2 years postdiagnosis of HCC was significantly higher in patients treated with SR than LT, and the presence of decompensated cirrhosis and alcoholic liver disease increased within2 years mortality.

TL;DR: The findings of this meta-analysis suggest the correlation of PD-L1 overexpression with worse OS in patients with solid tumors, however, the correlations differed according to tumor types.

TL;DR: Higher BMI, preoperative disc degeneration at adjacent segment and intraoperative superior facet joint violation are risk factors for ASD and patients who are overweight or obesity should be fully informed of the risk of ASD.

TL;DR: The POPF-related mortality rate has remained at approximately 1% over the past 25 years and adequately designed venting drains were never tested in randomized controlled trials (RCTs).

TL;DR: The RYGB and SG yielded similar in weight-loss effect and both were superior to LAGB, indicating low heterogeneity between studies, and the node splitting analysis showed that the studies were consistent between direct and indirect comparisons.

TL;DR: A systematic review and meta-analysis of all relevant evidence on the effect of timing of preoperative surgical antibiotic prophylaxis on surgical site infection (SSI) found no significant difference when SAP was administered 120–60 minutes prior to incision compared to administration 60–0 minutes before incision.

TL;DR: The diagnostic value of AFP was improved by combining it with PIVKA-II, but adding AFP-L3 did not contribute to the ability to distinguish between HCC and non-HCC liver cirrhosis.

TL;DR: Regular exercise incorporating elastic RET should be used to attenuate muscle mass loss and prevent physical difficulty in obese older adults with sarcopenia on reconditioning therapy.

TL;DR: DM increased the risk of PD during a mean follow-up of 7.3 years, and mechanistic research on the effect of DM on PD is needed.

TL;DR: There is increasing evidence regarding the relationship between metabolic syndrome and mortality as discussed by the authors, and there is a clear need to identify and manage individual compon-tional conditions and their management.

TL;DR: Advanced stage might be associated with poor prognosis among PBL HIV-negative patients in Chinese, and Kaplan–Meier curve revealed obvious differences in patient survival between patients in primary stages and advanced stages, as well as between patients with kidney involvement and those without kidney involvement.

TL;DR: Investigation of suspected iron, vitamin B12 or folate deficiency should first be directed at establishing that the deficiency state exists, but this can be challenging because of the limitations of available biomarkers for evaluating tissue status.

TL;DR: LCC exhibited better survival outcomes than RCC after curative resection after stage III cancers, especially in stage III, LCC showed better oncologic outcomes.

TL;DR: It was found that higher OC and &bgr;-CTX level were associated with lower BMD, and poor 25(OH)D, Ca, P status were not associated with an increased risk of low BMD.

TL;DR: LUS can help to diagnose adult pneumonia with high accuracy and heterogeneity of sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic odds ratio is assessed using the Mantel–Haenszel method.

TL;DR: Most of the patients with transient postoperative RLN injury recovered normal vocal cord mobility within 6 months, and the most common performed treatment was speech therapy in this cohort speech therapy.

TL;DR: Melanoma education for AA patients and health care providers is needed to increase disease awareness, facilitate early detection, and promote access to effective treatment.

TL;DR: Almost one-third of the obese individuals are in metabolic health, however, they are still at higher risk of advancing to unhealthy state, and it is still needed to advise MHO individuals to maintain or adopt a healthy lifestyle, so as to counterbalance the adverse effects of obesity.

TL;DR: This study prospectively added to the diagnostic protocol specific real-time (RT) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays targeting various endocarditis agents, and applied them to all patients with BCNE admitted to the 4 public hospitals in Marseille, France from January 2010 to December 2015, increasing the diagnostic efficiency by 24.3%.

TL;DR: For patients with EEC and ACH, treatments with progestin, with or without IUD, or IUD alone can reach good CR rate; however, the pregnancy outcomes might be worse in patients treated with Iud alone.

TL;DR: The treatment of colorectal cancer continues to progress, and the patient's efficacy and quality of life have improved, according to the clinical situation in China.

TL;DR: It is illustrated that the IPE programs vary substantially across countries, and there is a need to strengthen health education policies at global level aiming at initiating IPe programs in relevant institutions.

TL;DR: For patients with AIS, higher NLR was associated with poorer functional outcome at 3 months and may be associated with a higher risk of developing sICH and this readily available and inexpensive marker may be helpful in future clinical and research work.

TL;DR: The study showed that the French Canadian presentation of this subtype of IVL is more frequently observed with neurological rather than cutaneous involvement, and an early diagnosis is of primary importance since almost a quarter of patients receive a post-mortem diagnosis.

TL;DR: An improved outcome with significant decrease in mortality and treatment-related morbidity was observed in patients diagnosed after 2000, and was related to the implementation of less toxic regimens adapted to the disease activity and stage, and a drastic reduction in the cumulated CYC and CS dose.