supported by the VIVA China Children’s Cancer Foundation,and the American Lebanese and Syrian Associated Charities(to C.-H.P.and C.C.).
To the Editor:Since December 2019,the coronavirus pandemic has been the deadliest disaster with over 6.5 million people confirmed to have died in less than 3 years.[1]The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)has created ...
supported by grants from the Hospital Level Project of Tianjin Chest Hospital in 2018(No.2018XKC08);funded by the Tianjin Key Medical Discipline(Specialty)Construction Project.
Background:More than 75 million procedures with intravascular iodine-based contrast media(ICM)are performed worldwide every year,and some patients undergoing these procedures do not have normal thyroid function.The lo...
Background:Keloids are benign fibrous growths that are caused by excessive tissue build-up.Severe keloids exert more significant effects on patients’quality of life than do mild keloids.We aimed to identify factors a...
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31571149,91232717,and 81171273);Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation(No.1608085MH169).
Background:Patients with Alzheimer disease(AD)and amnesic mild cognitive impairment(aMCI)have deficits in emotion recognition.However,it has not yet been determined whether patients with AD and aMCI also experience di...
To the Editor: Acute basilar artery occlusion (BAO) is a catastrophic variant of stroke, which accounts for about 1% of all strokes.[1] Though rare, BAOs are associated with high morbidity and mortality rates.[2] Alth...
Osteogenesis imperfecta (01), also known as brittle bone disease or Lobstein syndrome, is characterized by blue or gray sclerae, variable short stature, dentinogenesis imperfecta, hearing loss, and recurrent fractur...
To the Editor:The human four and a half LIM domain 1 (FHL1) gene,located on Xq26.3,encodes for a protein with only LIM domains.LIM domains,named after their initial discovery in the proteins Lin11,Isl-1,and Mec-3,a...
The grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81471631 and 81171317 to Jian Yang) and The 2011 New Century Excellent Talent Support Plan from Ministry of Education of China (DWYXSJ11000007 to Jian Yang), the Fund for the National Clinical Key Specialty from the Ministry of Health of China.
Background:Mild hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) injury is becoming the major type in neonatal brain diseases.The aim of this study was to assess brain maturation in mild HIE neonatal brains using total matura...
Background The role of alprostadil and statins in contrast-induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) is controversial. The purpose of this study was to explore the efficacy of combined therapy with alprostadil and statin...
This study was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81200466).
In the past 50 years, dramatic advances have been Lachieved in male infertility treatment. Intracytoplasmicsperm injection (ICSI) provides an effective manipulation for bypassing some severe etiologies of male ferti...