This work was supported by grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 91442109, No. 31470883, and No. 81270149).
Background: It is often challenging to distinguish tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE) from malignant pleural effusion (MPE);thoracoscopy is among the techniques with the highest diagnostic ability in this regard....
Background:Decreased platelet (PLT) count is one of the independent risk factors for mortality in intensive care unit (ICU) patients.This study was to investigate the relationship between PLT indices and illness ...
To the editor:We read with great interest the article by Lin and co-authors.1 The authors assessed the clinical usefulness of plasma tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 1(TIMP-1)as a potential blood biomarker for gl...
To the editor:We read with great interest an article by Zhang et al.1The soluble ST2 level was shown to be increased in the early period and an independent predictor of prognosis.They additionally proposed that it mig...
Background Accurate detection of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) expression and gene amplification is crucial for the application of HER2-specific therapy and for evaluating the response of patients ...
This work was supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation of China (No. 81071431), and from the Municipal New Star of Science and Technology of Beijing (No. 2010B054).
Background Cytomegalovirus (CMV) remains a significant clinical problem among immunosuppressed renal transplant patients. Quantitative PCR assays have become the most common methods in the determination of CMV infec...
Background This paper presents a retrospective study to classify patients into subtypes of the treatment according to baseline and longitudinally observed values considering heterogenity in migraine prognosis. In the ...