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Cataract surgery in patients with diabetes mellitus : clinical studies
(1999-05-14)
higher rate of progression of DR after surgery than those without indication for laser treatment. Also, less posterior capsule opacification was found 2 years after surgery in diabetic eyes as compared to controls.
We conclude that diabetic eyes...
Aspects on extracorporeal life support for severe acute respiratory failure with special reference to the influenza A/H1N1 2009 pandemic
(2016-11-03)
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation provides pulmonary and circulatory support. First abandoned from the majority of the intensive care community because of disappointing results in several trials (with questionable methods), ...
Assisted reproduction technology in men with ejaculatory dysfunction with special reference to spinal cord injury
(1998-05-16)
Background: Men afflicted by spinal cord injury (SCI), myelomeningocele (MMC) and testicular cancer (TC) with retroperitoneal lymph-node dissection (RPLND) share the problem of infertility due mainly, but not exclusively, ...
Plasma cell malignancies in Sweden : subgroup descriptions and regional outcomes for multiple myeloma
(2022-04-13)
Plasma cell disorders appear in various forms such as aggressive plasma cell leukemia (PCL), typical symptomatic multiple myeloma (MM), non-symptomatic smouldering multiple myeloma (SMM) and solitary plasmacytoma (SP). The ...
Psychiatric comorbidity in multiple sclerosis : biological and epidemiological aspects
(2017-01-23)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, neuroinflammatory disease and one of the leading reasons for neurological disability among young people in the Western World. MS patients commonly experience neuropsychiatric symptoms ...
Early indicators for adverse development of cardiovascular, renal and metabolic function in children born with low birth weight
(2018-08-17)
Prematurity affects more than 10% of infants worldwide and is the main reason for neonatal mortality. Improvements in neonatal care have led to higher survival rates into adulthood. Adverse events during organogenesis and ...
Hemodynamics, echocardiography, and biomarkers in different heart failure phenotypes
(2020-02-12)
in cardiac output (+9.8 ± 21.6%; P = 0.026) and decrease in N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (-28.1 ± 16.3%, P < 0.001), estimated total peripheral resistance (-16.9 ± 18.3%, P = 0.004), and mean arterial pressure (-5.9 ± 8.2%, P = 0...
Regulation of Plasmodium falciparum virulence genes and immune response to surface antigens in placental malaria
(2011-11-15)
. falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 (PfEMP1) VAR2CSA is the main adhesin involved in placental malaria. We investigated the differential recognition of various VAR2CSA DBL-domains by immune sera from pregnant women and found DBL5ε to be widely...
Novel approaches for cancer immunotherapy
(2008-05-22)
Cancer immunotherapy, i.e. activation of the patient s own immune system to combat cancer, represents a treatment strategy which is being clinically tested to complement surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy the current ...
Prognosis and progression in chronic kidney disease
(2010-09-17)
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a life threatening condition with high
risk of pre-term death and need for dialysis. The population prevalence
of CKD has been estimated to 10-13% for both Europe and the USA. We
investigated ...