Akbulut, Mustafa Ak, Adnan Arslan, Ozgur Dönmez, Arzu Antal Taş, Serpil Cekmecelioglu, Davut Sismanoglu, Mesut Tuncer, Mehmet Altug
Abstract Introduction: The aim of this study is to compare postoperative outcomes and follow-up of two different modifications facilitating surgical technique of frozen elephant trunk (FET) procedure for complex thoracic aortic diseases - zone 0 (fixation with total arch debranching) and zone 3 (fixation with islet-shape arch repair). Methods: From...
He, Rong-Quan Huang, Zhi-Guang Zhai, Gao-Qiang Huang, Su-Ning Gu, Yong-Yao Chen, Gang Ma, Jie Cheng, Ji-Wen Yan, Hai-Biao Li, Sheng-Hua
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Medical Science Monitor : International Medical Journal of Experimental and Clinical Research
Background Bladder carcinoma (BLCA) is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. The aim of this work was to develop an accurate stratification in predicting the prognosis and directing the treatment of BLCA patients based on small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs). Material/Nethods Expression profiles of snoRNAs were downloaded from the SNORic da...
Cheng, Yanmei Mo, Shaoyan Wang, Keke Fan, Rui Liu, Yunqi Li, Si Zhang, Xi Yin, Shengli Xu, Yingqi Tang, Baiyun
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Abstract Objective: To evaluate the mid-term survival rate after tricuspid valve replacement (TVR). Methods: We retrospectively studied 110 consecutive patients who underwent TVR from January 2007 to November 2017. A survival analysis was performed with the Kaplan-Meier method and the log-rank test. Results: The median survival was 65.81 months. Me...
Martinelli, Anthony W Ingle, Tejas Newman, Joseph Nadeem, Iftikhar Jackson, Karl Lane, Nicholas D Melhorn, James Davies, Helen E Rostron, Anthony J Adeni, Aldrin
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Zhou, Ying Yang, Di Fu, Qiang Chen, Tao Chen, Yong Zheng, Chuandong
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Background Previous research has focused on poor outcomes from a lack of insurance, but the effects of different types of insurance for patients with sepsis in the intensive care unit (ICU) have not been well studied. We aimed to investigate whether private health insurance was better than government-run health insurance in the United States in ter...
Knight, SR Ho, A Pius, R Buchan, I Carson, G Drake, TM Dunning, J Fairfield, CJ Gamble, C Green, CA
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Objective To develop and validate a pragmatic risk score to predict mortality in patients admitted to hospital with coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19).Design Prospective observational cohort study.Setting International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC) World Health Organization (WHO) Clinical Characterisation Pro...
Ata, Emin Can Erkanli, Korhan Ulukan, Mustafa Özer Yıldız, Yahya Türkoglu, Halil Paslı, Sedat
Abstract Objective: To compare peripheral and central cannulation techniques in cardiac reoperation. Methods: This retrospective study included 258 patients undergoing cardiac reoperation between January 2013 and July 2018. Patients were divided into two groups according to the cannulation type. The first group included 145 (56.2%) patients operate...
Ata, Emin Can Erkanli, Korhan Ulukan, Mustafa Özer Yıldız, Yahya Türkoglu, Halil Paslı, Sedat
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Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery
To compare peripheral and central cannulation techniques in cardiac reoperation. This retrospective study included 258 patients undergoing cardiac reoperation between January 2013 and July 2018. Patients were divided into two groups according to the cannulation type. The first group included 145 (56.2%) patients operated with standard central cannu...
Bian, Fang Li, Chengzhuo Han, Didi Xu, Fengshuo Lyu, Jun
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Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research
BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to identify accurate prognostic factors for postoperative papillary thyroid adenocarcinoma (PTAC) using a competing-risks model based on data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data on patients with PTAC who had received surgery between 2010 and 2015 in the...
Al-Asadi, Jasim N. Al-Mayah, Sundus M.
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Oman Medical Journal
Objectives We sought to determine the overall observed three-year survival rate of women with breast cancer in Basrah, Iraq, and investigate the associated factors. Methods Data was collected retrospectively from the Oncology Center registry in Basrah, all newly diagnosed women with breast cancer between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2014 were inc...