Yutaka Endo, Shun Kohsaka, Toshiyuki Nagai, Kimi Koide, Masashi Takahashi, Yuji Nagatomo, Kazuki Oshima, Hiroaki Miyata, Keiichi Fukuda & Tsutomu Yoshikawa·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2012
Aim: To determine whether assessment of a combination of steady-state discharge levels of biomarkers improves risk stratification after acute decompensate HF. Study Design: Retrospective cohort study. Place and Duration of Study: Keio University Hospital, between January 2006 and...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1384
We present a case of a non-healing, post-traumatic wound, which as an alternative to reconstructive surgical intervention, was successfully treated with a non-invasive, high-frequency ultrasound of 10 MHz.
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1458
Aims: Equine hospital Salmonella spp. were investigated retrospectively using antibiotic resistance typing and macro-restriction pulsed field gel electrophoresis techniques. Study Design: Retrospective study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Comparative Molecular Medici...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1238
Aims: Clinical and pre-clinical studies have demonstrated that alcohol abuse, aging, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis are associated with increased risk of fractures compounded with impaired fracture repair. We note that these and other pathologies are characterized by chronic i...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1547
Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the immunological and histological profiles of adult coeliac patients after commencing Nigella sativa (NS) oil with gluten free diet (GFD) for a period of 1 year ± 1month to prove its validity in treatment of refractory coeliac disease (CD...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1608
Aims: Insufficient exposure of students to neurosurgery and neuroradiology has often been a matter of concern in medical schools across USA, Canada, UK and Europe. When taking into account the high incidence and mortality from head injuries in the form of subarachnoid and intracr...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1578
Aims: Our aim was to study the modulatory effect of a Unani herbal formulation Jawarish amla sada against cyclophosphamide-induced toxicity in tumour bearing mice. Study Design: Non randomized control study. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted at the Department o...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1228
Metabolites play numerous roles in the healthy and diseased body, ranging from regulating physiological processes to providing building blocks for the body. Therefore, understanding the role of metabolites is important in elucidating the etiology and pathology of diseases and fin...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1577
Study Objective: To report the use of a sustained Valsalva maneuver during deliberate hypotension in order to reduce the incidence of distal particle embolization during the neuroangiographic embolization of intracranial arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). Design: Retrospective c...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1349
The present study intended to determine the drug resistance patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates among human new tuberculosis cases from northeastern Sudan using conventional and molecular techniques. Of 100 mycobacterial isolates tested by proportion method, 6% and 2%...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2012/1404