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OBJECTIVES: The purposes of this review were to assess the efficacy of topiramate as monotherapy for epilepsy and migraine prevention, describe how it should be used, and give clinical advice on how to manage the practical aspects of dosing, titration, and possible adverse events in these 2 indications. METHODS: We se…

Central venous catheter (CVC)-based hemodialysis is a major contributor to bacteremia in immunocompromised hosts. Heparin-locking CVCs is a frequent therapeutic procedure. However, it has not been shown to reduce catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs). For this systematic review, we searched PubMed, PubM…

BACKGROUND: Carbohydrate (CHO) mouth rinsing improves performance by stimulating oral receptors linked to brain regions involved in motor control and motivation, without requiring digestive processing. Most research has focused on fasting states, but the effects of postprandial CHO mouth rinsing remain inconclusive. Th…

Proteomics enables understanding the composition, structure, function and interactions of the entire protein complement of a cell, a tissue, or an organism under exactly defined conditions. Some factors such as stress or drug effects will change the protein pattern and cause the present or absence of a protein or gradu…

OBJECTIVE: To define a threshold of acceptance of smile esthetics for children and adolescents. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A systematic search in the medical literature (PubMed, PubMed Central, National Library of Medicine's Medline, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Clinical Trials, Web of Knowledge, Scopus…

There has been a recent push to make public, aggregate, and increase coverage of bibliographic citation data. Here we describe uCite, a citation dataset containing 564 million PubMed citation pairs aggregated from the following nine sources: PubMed Central, iCite, OpenCitations, Dimensions, Microsoft Academic Graph, Am…

BACKGROUND: The frequency of fat embolism mortality after liposuction has increased. As the only dependable evidence for this problem is that available in the medical literature, a study of clinical case reports is warranted. METHODS: The authors reviewed the medical literature by searching for case reports of fat emb…

Cancer metastasis is responsible for the majority of cancer-related deaths. Accordingly, to reduce metastasis remains a vital challenge in clinical practice, and phytochemicals have taken an attention as anti-metastatic agents. Apigenin, a plant flavone, showed anti-cancer effects against in various animal models, more…

PURPOSE: To review data extraction strategies for the reporting of non-central corneal thickness with the Pentacam system. METHODS: Using predefined search terms, the electronic National Institutes of Health database (PubMed) was searched for studies assessing non-central corneal thickness using the Pentacam instrumen…

UNLABELLED: Central auditory disorders (CSD) - this is a violation of the processing of sound stimuli, including speech, above the cochlear nuclei of the brain stem, which is mainly manifested by difficulties in speech recognition, especially in noisy environments. Children with this pathology are more likely to have b…