Acta Ortopédica Brasileira, 2021 Objective: Pectus excavatum is a deformity that affects aesthetics and causes emotional disorders. Surgical correction is well established, but conservative treatment is less common.
DAVI DE PODESTÁ HAJE +5 more
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Inequalities in non-small cell lung cancer treatment and mortality. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) comprises approximately 85% of all lung cancer cases, and surgery is the preferred treatment for patients.
De Stavola, Bianca +4 more
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Obesity, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective This review compared antiobesity strategies—obesity management medications (OMM), endoscopic bariatric procedures (EBP), and metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS)—with lifestyle intervention, placebo, or no therapy (LSI/Pbo/NT). Methods This network meta‐analysis included randomized clinical trials comparing OMM, EBP, and MBS versus LSI ...
Maurizio De Luca +12 more
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Strategies for cardiopulmonary exercise testing of pectus excavatum patients
Clinics, 2008 The purpose of this paper is to provide strategies for cardiopulmonary exercise testing of pectus excavatum patients. Currently, there are no standardized methods for assessing cardiovascular and pulmonary responses in this population; therefore, making ...
Moh H. Malek, Jared W. Coburn
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Tracheal suctioning improves gas exchange but not hemodynamics in asphyxiated lambs with meconium aspiration. [PDF]
, 2015 BackgroundCurrent neonatal resuscitation guidelines recommend tracheal suctioning of nonvigorous neonates born through meconium-stained amniotic fluid.MethodsWe evaluated the effect of tracheal suctioning at birth in 29 lambs with asphyxia induced by ...
Gugino, Sylvia F +7 more
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Antipyretic therapy in critically ill septic patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2017 OBJECTIVE: This meta-analysis aimed to examine the impact of antipyretic therapy on mortality in critically ill septic adults. DATA SOURCES: Literature searches were implemented in Ovid Medline, Embase, Scopus, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied ...
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Oikos, EarlyView.Seasonal environmental cycles affect plant–pollinator interactions by altering plant phenology. Periods of low resource availability can filter pollinators and reduce the complexity of interaction networks, but the extent to which the functional morphology of pollinators influences such filtering remains unclear.
Ugo M. Diniz +3 more
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Optimum nutrition of the pregnant ewe : a meta-analytic approach : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctorate of Philosophy in Animal Science at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2017 Formal systematic review guidelines and meta-analytic methods were used in the present study to achieve three main objectives. Firstly, literature on the effect of ewe nutrition during pregnancy on fetal and postnatal lamb growth was reviewed and effect ...
Roca Fraga, Fernando Javier
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Echocardiographic findings associated with mortality or transplant in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension: A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2016 Background Identification of patients at risk of deterioration is essential to guide clinical management in pulmonary arterial ...
Baggen, V.J.M. (Vivan) +7 more
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PECTUS CARINATUM DEVELOPMENT AFTER THE NUSS PROCEDURE: A CASE REPORT
Turkish Medical Student JournalDevelopment of pectus carinatum is a very rare complication of the Nuss procedure. This complication may lead to early bar removal, which hinders sternal protrusion but induces the recurrence of pectus excavatum.
Zafer Alparslan, Mustafa Yüksel
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