supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFC2701400);in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32000393 and 32288101).
During spermiogenesis,haploid spermatids undergo dramatic morphological changes to form slender sperm flagella and cap-like acrosomes,which are required for successful fertilization.Severe deformities in flagella caus...
Ratchadapiseksompotch Fund,Faculty of Medicine,Chulalongkorn University,RA-MF-18/66.
Several diseases originate from bile duct pathology.Despite studies on these diseases,certain etiologies of some of them still cannot be concluded.The most common disease of the bile duct in newborns is biliary atresi...
BACKGROUND Isolated left ventricular apical hypoplasia(ILVAH),also known as truncated left ventricle(LV),is a very unusual cardiomyopathy.It is characterised by a truncated,spherical,and non-apex forming LV.The true a...
Left ventricular isolated hypoplasia is a seldom-described cardiac abnormality.Right ventricular hypoplasia is usually associated with congenital anomalies of the pulmonary or the tricuspid valve,whereas biventricular...
Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu,No. SBK2021021787;Nanjing Key Project Foundation,No. ZKX20048
BACKGROUND Adult patients presenting with Angle Class II division 1 malocclusions that have a strong skeletal etiology can be challenging for clinicians,particularly if accompanied by retrognathia of the mandible and ...
Measuring the sagittal canal diameter(SCD)is crucial for cervical spine assessment.A small SCD predisposes patients to myelopathy.[1]Stenosis is less common at the C1 level than at the levels below C2.[2,3]The existin...
BACKGROUND Posterior atlantoaxial dislocation(PAD)is a rare type of upper cervical spine disease.We sought to describe a unreported case of old PAD with os odontoideum(OO)and atlas hypoplasia(AH)and our unique treatme...
Supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81770875);the Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province(No.2018SZ0142);the Sichuan University(No.2018SCUH0093);the National Clinical Research Center for Geriatrics of West China Hospital(No.Z2018B05);the 1.3.5 Project for Disciplines of Excellence,West China Hospital,Sichuan University(No.2020HXFH008,No.ZYJC18003).
To the Editor:A 15-year-old girl from Chengdu(Sichuan province,China)came to our hospital in December 2019.Hermother stated that the girl’s bodywas thin since she was 3 years old,but no other abnormalities were noted...
the Jin Lei Pediatric Endocrinology Growth Research Fund for Young Physicians(No.PEGRF201607001).
X-linked congenital adrenal hypoplasia is characterised by the acute onset of primary adrenal insufficiency in infancy or early childhood and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism(HH)at puberty,arising from mutations of the n...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81670167);the Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81621001);sponsored by the Fund for Fostering Young Scholars of Peking University Health Science Center(BMU2017PY010)
This study evaluated the influence of the degree of donor bone marrow(BM)hyperplasia on patient clinical outcomes after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation(allo-HSCT).Twelve patients received allo-HSCT ...