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PURPOSE: This study aimed to identify parental factors associated with smartphone overuse in preschoolers. METHODS: A systematic review was conducted according to PRISMA guidelines. Relevant studies published in peer-reviewed journals from 2009 to June 2019 were identified through systematic search in 10 electronic da…

BACKGROUND: Foam Rolling (FR) is currently used by athletes at all levels. It is not known whether FR is more effective being used as a warm up to aid performance or more effectively used as a cool-down for recovery. Therefore, the purpose of this systematic review was to determine the effects of FR on performance and…

AIM: Brain metastases traditionally carried a poor prognosis with treatment being a combination of surgery, whole-brain radiation therapy, and glucocorticoids; however, this treatment paradigm carried a significant amount of morbidity. In recent years, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), which involves the delivery of a h…

BACKGROUND: In recent years, surgical education has increased its focus on the non-technical skills such as communication and interpersonal relationships while continuing to strive for technical excellence of procedures and patient care. An awareness of the ethical aspects of surgical practice that involve non-technica…

Esophageal cancer stenting offers symptomatic relief for patients suffering from dysphagia. There are limited data to support their use to relieve dysphagia and improve nutrition during neoadjuvant therapy with some concern that they may negatively impact oncological outcomes. The aim of this systematic review was to q…

Cochlear implantation results in restoration of hearing, potential cortical reorganisation and the reallocation of attentional resources to the auditory system. Hence, the distorted cortical activity of patients with profound sensorineural hearing loss may be partially reversed. The measurement of auditory event-relate…

BACKGROUND: Immunotherapy for cancer includes Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR)-T cells, CAR-natural Killer (NK) cells, PD1, and the PD-L1 inhibitor. However, the proportion of patients who respond to cancer immunotherapy is not satisfactory. Concurrently, nanotechnology has experienced a revolution in cancer diagnosis a…

OBJECTIVE: To synthesize evidence on the effects of hold-relax and contract-relax stretching (HR and CR) on hamstrings flexibility compared with no intervention and other stretching techniques. DESIGN: Electronic databases (PubMed, PEDro, Cochrane CENTRAL, Scopus, LILACS) were searched from inception until March 31, 2…

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: the aim of this study was to synthesize PFC fNIRS outcomes on the effects of cognitive tasks compared to resting/baseline tasks in healthy adults from studies utilizing a pre/post design. MATERIAL AND METHODS: original research studies were searched from seven databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL,…

OBJECTIVE:  To review the existing recommendations on the prenatal care of women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), based on currently available scientific evidence. METHODS:  An integrative review was performed by two independent researchers, based on the literature available in the MEDLINE (via P…

PURPOSE: In recent decades, the interest for exercise-induced fatigue in youth has substantially increased, and the effects of growth on the peripheral (muscular) and central (neural) mechanisms underpinning differences in neuromuscular fatigue between healthy children and adults have been described more extensively. T…

Chiari malformation (CM) and basilar invagination (BI) are mesodermal malformations with disproportion between the content and volume of posterior fossa capacity and overcrowding of neural structures at the level of foramen magnum. Several alternatives for posterior approaches are available, including extradural (ED),…

INTRODUCTION: Physical activity has many benefits for older adult physical and mental health. EnhanceFitness (EF) is an evidence-based group exercise program delivered by community-based organizations. The purpose of this study was to review recent evidence on the dissemination and implementation of EF. METHODS: A sco…

BACKGROUND: The probioticCNCM I-745 (also known asHANSEN CBS 5926; in the following) has proven its effectiveness in preventive and therapeutic treatment of many gastrointestinal diseases, especially diseases associated with acute diarrhea. In particular, antibiotic-associated diarrhea,-associated diarrhea, traveller's…

BACKGROUND: Biomedical event extraction is one of the key tasks in biomedical text mining, supporting various applications such as database curation and hypothesis generation. Several systems, some of which have been applied at a large scale, have been introduced to solve this task. Past studies have shown that the ide…

To date, no good marker for endometrial cancer (EC) that may be routinely used in clinical practice for diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring is available; besides the use of tumour markers is not recommended by international guidelines. However, during the last years, an increasing interest in literature has been growin…

The first aim of our study was to analyze the adverse events statistically significantly associated with zonisamide, through a systematic review and meta-analysis of available randomized placebo-controlled trials (RCTs). The second aim was to compare these results with those obtained from an analysis of non-RCTs and ob…

BACKGROUND: Nasal septal abscess (NSA) is an uncommon condition. It is a collection of pus in the space between the nasal septum and its overlying mucoperichondrium and/or mucoperiosteum. If left untreated, there are risks of intracranial complications, facial deformity, and delayed facial growth. There is no universal…

OBJECTIVE: Muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) is a clinical and diagnostic term describing a spectrum of disturbed vocal fold behavior caused by increased tension of the (para)laryngeal musculature. Recent knowledge introduced MTD as a bridge between functional and organic disorders. This review addresses the causal and co…

This article reviews research sourced through sport science and medical journal databases (SportDiscus and PubMed) that has attempted to quantify the effects of fatigue on tennis performance. Specific physiological perturbations and their effects on common performance measures, such as stroke velocity and accuracy, are…