Abstract The segmentation of the lesion plays a core role in diagnosis and monitoring of multiple sclerosis (MS). Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the most frequent image modality used to evaluate such lesions. Because of the massive amount of data, manual segmentation cannot be achieved within a sensible time that restricts the usage of accurate quantitative measurement in clinical practice. Therefore, the need for effective automated segmentation techniques is critical. However,...
Fri Jul 17, 2020 03:00
Evaluation of trends and utilization of speech-language-pathology (SLP) services, including stroboscopy, before and after medialization laryngoplasty (ML) over 11 years.
Sat Jul 18, 2020 03:00
To investigate sex bias in laryngology research and publishing.
Sat Jul 18, 2020 03:00
To complete the validation and to study the psychometric properties of the Brazilian Portuguese version of the Vocal Fatigue Index (IFV).
Sat Jul 18, 2020 03:00
The aim of this in vitro study was to determine the influence of bone density, orthodontic mini-implant (OMI) size, and the surgical procedure on temperature increase during implant site osteotomy and placement. OMIs of different sizes (2.0×7, 2.3×7, 2.0×11, and 2.3×11mm) were placed in artificial bone blocks of different densities (D1–D4). Optionally, the drilling and insertion angle was 90° or 60° to the bone surface. A total of 160 OMIs were inserted, and predrilling was performed in 80 cases.
Sat Jul 18, 2020 03:00
The aim of this study was to develop a simulated technical skills examination specific to oral and maxillofacial surgery, assessing the validity of the test and its psychometric properties and obtaining feedback on the examination from both resident trainees and expert evaluators. The Oral and Maxillofacial Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OMOSATS) examination is a simulated procedure-based eight-station technical skills examination. Fourteen oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS)...
Sat Jul 18, 2020 03:00
Condylar hyperactivity (CH) is a rare condition that entails a progressive deviation and deformation of the mandible. There is no consensus regarding characteristic histopathological features or a standardized diagnostic process; thus, histopathological analysis of the condyle cannot confirm or exclude an active CH after condylectomy is performed. An electronic search was performed in Medline, Embase, Web of Science, LILACS and grey literature up to December 2019. Additionally, a manual search was...
Fri Jul 17, 2020 03:00
Throat packs are commonly used in maxillofacial surgeries. However, the evidence to support the benefits of their use is controversial. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of throat packs in preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting, and their influence on the incidence of sore throat and dysphagia in patients undergoing orthognathic surgery. This was a prospective double-blind randomized study with 54 patients, who were randomized to two groups: with throat pack (n = 27) and...
Fri Jul 17, 2020 03:00
Abstract Introduction The purpose of our study was to evaluate the incidence and to identify risk factors of subsequent vertebral fractures after hip fractures, and to determine whether the subsequent vertebral fracture increases the mortality rate of elderly hip fracture patients. Materials and methods From January 2009 to July 2016, 1,554 patients...
Sat Jul 18, 2020 03:00
To examine the factors associated with loss to follow-up (LTFU) in an ongoing preference-based randomized waitlist controlled trial of mindfulness-based cancer recovery (MBCR) and Taichi/Qigong (TCQ) for cance...
Fri Jul 17, 2020 03:00
The global incidence of HIV infection is not significantly decreasing, especially in sub-Saharan African countries. Though there is availability and accessibility of free HIV services, people are not being dia...
Thu Jul 16, 2020 03:00
Migraine is a neurological disorder causing unbearable pain. Dietary approach is proposed as a preventive way of reducing the severity of migraine headaches. The present study aimed to examine the association ...
Thu Jul 16, 2020 03:00
Publication date: July 2020Source: Journal of Phonetics, Volume 81Author(s):
Sat Jul 18, 2020 23:23
Background. One of the key concerns of the clinician is to identify and manage risk factors for major adverse cardiovascular events (MACEs) in nondiabetic and diabetic patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) undergoing stent implantation. Mean corpuscular volume (MCV) is a marker of erythrocyte size and activity and is associated with prognosis of cardiovascular disease. However, the role of admission MCV in predicting MACEs following stent implantation in diabetes mellitus (DM), non-DM, or whole...
Sat Jul 18, 2020 17:05
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a health disorder characterized by metabolic abnormalities that predict an increased risk to develop cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes. Biomarkers can provide an insight into the novel mechanism for MetS and can be potentially used for personalized response to therapies. We exploited a targeted HPLC-MS/MS method to characterize plasma amino acids and carnitine metabolic profile in MetS patients. A training set (40 cases and 40 controls) and validation set...
Sat Jul 18, 2020 16:20
Background. Hyperuricemia has long been associated with increased cardiovascular risk, and arterial stiffness is proposed as a mediator. The present study is aimed at examining the associations of uric acid (UA) in blood and urine with arterial stiffness in a Chinese cohort. Methods. A total of 2296 participants (mean age: 43.0 years) from our previously established cohort of Hanzhong Adolescent Hypertension Study were included. The participants were classified as subjects with or without arterial...
Fri Jul 17, 2020 12:20
A diagnosis of intra-amniotic infection is typically made based on clinical criteria, including maternal intrapartum fever and one or more of the following: maternal leukocytosis, purulent cervical drainage, or fetal tachycardia. The diagnosis can also be made in patients with an isolated fever of 39°C, or greater, without any other clinical risk factors present. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2, has been noted to have varying signs and symptoms over the course...
Sat Jul 18, 2020 19:35
We report three critically ill pediatric patients (aged 6–10 years), presenting with features of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) from April 4 to May 10, 2020, to a tertiary-care center in New Jersey, United States. All patients tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and were previously healthy. Clinical presentations were similar with fever, abdominal pain, gastrointestinal complaints, and/or rash. One patient had altered mental...
Sat Jul 18, 2020 12:20
Abstract We present selected topics of population genetics and molecular phylogeny. As several excellent review articles have been published and generally focus on European and American scientists, here, we emphasize contributions by Japanese researchers. Our review may also be seen as a belated 50-year celebration of Motoo Kimura’s early seminal paper on the molecular clock, published in 1968.
Sat Jul 18, 2020 03:00
Publication date: Available online 18 July 2020Source: Gait & PostureAuthor(s): David C. Kingston, A. Gary Linassi, Audrey R. Zucker-Levin
Sat Jul 18, 2020 20:35
Publication date: Available online 17 July 2020Source: Gait & PostureAuthor(s): Pieter Meyns, Patricia Van de Walle, Kaat Desloovere, Stefanie Janssens, Sofie Van Sever, Ann Hallemans
Fri Jul 17, 2020 18:23
Publication date: Available online 17 July 2020Source: Gait & PostureAuthor(s): Alireza Sedighi, Elaheh Rashedi, Maury A. Nussbaum
Fri Jul 17, 2020 18:23
Publication date: Available online 16 July 2020Source: Gait & PostureAuthor(s): Yasin Yurt, İlker Yatar, Mehtap Malkoç, Emine Handan Tüzün, Serpil Mıhçıoğlu, Yasemin Ercan
Fri Jul 17, 2020 18:23
Publication date: Available online 16 July 2020Source: Gait & PostureAuthor(s): Lindsey Brown-Taylor, Jordan Wilson, Michael McNally, Jennifer Perry, Rebecca D. Jackson, Timothy E. Hewett, John Ryan, Michael V. Knopp, Jason E. Payne, Stephanie Di Stasi
Fri Jul 17, 2020 18:23
Publication date: Available online 16 July 2020Source: Gait & PostureAuthor(s): Panagiotis E. Chatzistergos, Aoife Healy, Gayathri Balasubramanian, Lakshmi Sundar, Ambady Ramachandran, Nachiappan Chockalingam
Fri Jul 17, 2020 18:23
This work presents a protocol to administrate Spanish Curriculum-Based Measures for the early detection of reading, math, and writing difficulties. These tools could help practitioners and applied researchers working in the context of the Response to Intervention model.
Sat Jul 18, 2020 20:16
This study investigated the biomechanical characteristics of the lower extremity kinematic variables between the initial and terminal phase of 5 km treadmill running. The lower-limb kinematic data of 10 runners were collected using a three-dimensional motion capture system on a treadmill at the initial phase (0.5 km) and the terminal phase (5 km), respectively.
Fri Jul 17, 2020 22:00
New routes for the synthesis of nitrogen-containing heterocycles utilizing cercosporin as a metal-free photocatalyst were developed.
Fri Jul 17, 2020 20:59
Publication date: September 2020Source: Acta Histochemica, Volume 122, Issue 6Author(s): Junko Igarashi-Migitaka, Azusa Seki, Mika Ikegame, Masato Honda, Toshio Sekiguchi, Hiroyuki Mishima, Nobuaki Shimizu, Hajime Matsubara, Ajai K. Srivastav, Jun Hirayama, Yusuke Maruyama, Atsuko Kamijo-Ikemori, Kazuaki Hirata, Atsuhiko Hattori, Nobuo Suzuki
Sat Jul 18, 2020 19:12
Publication date: Available online 18 July 2020Source: Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer AnzeigerAuthor(s): Sophie Feddersen, Claudio Nardiello, Balachandar Selvakumar, István Vadász, Susanne Herold, Werner Seeger, Rory E. Morty
Sat Jul 18, 2020 18:57
Publication date: Available online 17 July 2020Source: Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer AnzeigerAuthor(s): Joe Iwanaga, Michitsuna Katafuchi, Yuki Matsushita, Tomotaka Kato, Keith Horner, R. Shane Tubbs
Sat Jul 18, 2020 18:57
Publication date: Available online 17 July 2020Source: Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer AnzeigerAuthor(s): Sanjib Kumar Ghosh
Sat Jul 18, 2020 18:57
Publication date: Available online 17 July 2020Source: Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer AnzeigerAuthor(s): Eduardo Anitua, María Troya, Mar Zalduendo, Javier Flores, Roberto Tierno, Mohammad Hamdan Alkhraisat
Sat Jul 18, 2020 18:57
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Sat Jul 18, 2020 13:20
Publication date: Available online 18 July 2020Source: Annales de Chirurgie Plastique EsthétiqueAuthor(s): M. Cohet, A. De Runz, T. Remen, M. Brix, E. Simon
Sat Jul 18, 2020 17:01
Publication date: Available online 18 July 2020Source: Clinical NeurophysiologyAuthor(s): Arturo Nuara, Laura Mirandola, Maddalena Fabbri-Destro, Giada Giovannini, Giovanni Vecchiato, Anna Elisabetta Vaudano, Carlo Alberto Tassinari, Pietro Avanzini, Stefano Meletti
Sat Jul 18, 2020 16:49
Publication date: Available online 18 July 2020Source: Clinical NeurophysiologyAuthor(s): Elena Pasini, Francesca Bisulli, Lilia Volpi, Irene Minardi, Maria Tappatà, Lorenzo Muccioli, Umberto Pensato, Patrizia Riguzzi, PaoloTinuper, Roberto Michelucci
Sat Jul 18, 2020 16:49
Publication date: Available online 17 July 2020Source: Clinical NeurophysiologyAuthor(s): Mustafa Aykut Kural, Hatice Tankisi, Lene Duez, Vibeke Sejer Hansen, Aparna Udupi, Richard Wennberg, Stefan Rampp, Pål G. Larsson, Reinhard Schulz, Sándor Beniczky
Fri Jul 17, 2020 14:53
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