Complications of frontal defects [PDF]
, 1987 A case where the severe course of an orbital phlegmon led to a functionally and cosmetically poor condition is presented. Thirty-five years later, it was possible to achieve a satisfactory result through several operations performed with ...
Berghaus, Alexander, Schmidt, B.
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A cohort study of membranous nephropathy, primary or secondary
BMC Nephrology, 2021 Background Although IgG4 deposit against phospholipase A2 receptor (anti-PLA2R) is predominantly presented in the renal biopsy of patients with primary membranous nephropathy (MN), its diagnostic value of this immune complex has not been fully ...
Maryam Arghiani +7 more
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Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 Attenuates Diabetes-Induced Renal Fibrosis by Negatively Regulating TGF-β-p53-Smad2/3-Mediated Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition via Activation of AKT [PDF]
Diabetes & Metabolism Journal, 2020 BackgroundEpithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is required for renal fibrosis, which is a characteristic of diabetic nephropathy (DN). Our previous study demonstrated that fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) prevented DN associated with the ...
Sundong Lin +6 more
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Supergravity Computations without Gravity Complications [PDF]
, 2011 The conformal compensator formalism is a convenient and versatile representation of supergravity (SUGRA) obtained by gauge fixing conformal SUGRA. Unfortunately, practical calculations often require cumbersome manipulations of component field terms ...
Clifford Cheung +5 more
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A systematic review of criteria used to report complications in soft tissue and oncologic surgical clinical research studies in dogs and cats. [PDF]
, 2020 ObjectiveTo evaluate reporting of surgical complications and other adverse events in clinical research articles describing soft tissue and oncologic surgery in dogs and cats.Study designSystematic literature review.SampleEnglish-language articles ...
Balsa, Ingrid M +7 more
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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 BackgroundRoux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery (RYGB) improves biochemical and histological parameters of diabetic kidney disease (DKD). Targeted adjunct medical therapy may enhance renoprotection following RYGB.MethodsThe effects of RYGB and RYGB plus ...
William P. Martin +12 more
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Endogenous FGF1 Deficiency Aggravates Doxorubicin-Induced Hepatotoxicity
Toxics, 2023 Doxorubicin (DOX) is a broad-spectrum antineoplastic agent that widely used in clinic. However, its application is largely limited by its toxicity in multiple organs. Fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF1) showed protective potential in various liver diseases,
Chunjie Gu +9 more
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Extrahepatic complications of liver transplantation. [PDF]
, 1985 The massive surgical assault associated with hepatic transplantation makes a high frequency of complications almost inevitable. In this review of 225 patient records, selected at random from cases of liver transplantation in Pittsburgh over a 2 1/2 year ...
Shaw, BW, Starzl, TE, Wood, RP
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Vertical sleeve gastrectomy reverses diet-induced gene-regulatory changes impacting lipid metabolism
Scientific Reports, 2017 Vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG) produces sustainable weight loss, remission of type 2 diabetes (T2D), and improvement of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
Juan Du +7 more
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Effects of the increase in co-payments from 20 to 30 percent on the compliance rate of patients with hypertension or diabetes mellitus in the Employed Health Insurance System [PDF]
, 2005 Objectives: How to contain medical expenditures is a universal problem. The Japanese government has increased patient co-payments to control it. The purpose of this study is to clarify whether the increase in co-payments to 30 percent prevented patients ...
Babazono, Akira +7 more
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