Background:Bacterial vaginosis(BV),a lower genital tract syndrome,has been linked to adverse pregnancy outcomes and is regarded as the prevalent type of vaginal infection in females of childbearing age.Objectives:To d...
Internet of Vehicles(IoV)is an intelligent vehicular technology that allows vehicles to communicate with each other via internet.Communications and the Internet of Things(IoT)enable cutting-edge technologies including...
BACKGROUND Acute pancreatitis(AP)is a common surgical condition,with severe AP(SAP)potentially lethal.Many prognostic indices,including;acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II score(APACHE II),bedside index ...
AIM To investigate the reliability of the established and new scoring methods for Hoffa's fat pad synovitis using magnetic resonance imaging(MRI).METHODS A total of 139 knees of 115 patients who underwent MRI of the k...
AIM To determine the usefulness of assigning narrow-band imaging(NBI) scores for predicting tumor grade and invasion depth in colorectal tumors.METHODS A total of 161 colorectal lesions were analyzed from138 patients ...
Background: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia. The symptoms of hyperglycemia include polyuria, polydypsia, polyphagia, blurred vision and weight loss. Various diagnostic tes...
Supported by A Grant-in-Aid to the Research Committee on Intractable Pancreatic Diseases provided from the Ministry of Health;Labour and Welfare of Japan
Recent diagnostic and therapeutic progress for severe acute pancreatitis(SAP)remarkably decreased the casemortality rate.To further decrease the mortality rate of SAP,it is important to precisely evaluate the severity...
The increasing amount of sequences stored in genomic databases has become unfeasible to the sequential analysis. Then, the parallel computing brought its power to the Bioinformatics through parallel algorithms to alig...
supported by the Key Project of the National 12th Five-Year Research Program of China (No. 2012ZX09303016-002);the PhD Initiative Research Grant (No. 20091100) of Liaoning Province, China
Objective:There is no simple or feasible post-procedural intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) score to predict major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in patients undergoing drug-eluting stents (DES) implantation. The aim of t...
Objective: To develop and validate a prognostic scoring scheme for the prediction of microalbuminuria in type 2 diabetic patients of Thai descent. Methods: The clinical information from type 2 diabetic patients who we...