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BACKGROUND: The place of central venous pressure (CVP) measurement in acute care has been questioned during the past decade. We reviewed its physiological importance, utility and clinical use among anaesthetists and intensivists. METHODS: A literature search using the PubMed, Cochrane, Scopus and Web of Science databa…

Biological research often requires information about species' traits. Manual literature collation can be time-consuming and miss parts of the literature. To address this gap, we developed, a publicly available software for the retrieval of characteristics of species from scientific literature catalogued in the Europe P…

Myocardial infarction (MI) is a global cause of morbidity and mortality. MI is the outcome of a chronic process termed atherosclerosis, a buildup of fatty and other substances called plaques inside the coronary vessels, causing hardening and thickening of the arterial wall. Erythropoietin (EPO) is a pleiotropic cytokin…

The technostress model has introduced different factors to consider when assessing how information and communication technologies impact individuals in different work settings. This systematic review gathers evidence regarding associations between occupational exposure to technostress and health or work outcomes. In ad…

INTRODUCTION: Auditory perception process is a transient phenomenon, which enables the person to make the relationship between events and auditory factor by working memory and obtain the sequence of auditory features and be able differentiate the auditory sources by using these component. In auditory processing, the ba…

BACKGROUND: Second-generation antipsychotic medications (SGAs) are often used by primary care physicians (PCPs) to treat multiple psychiatric diagnoses. SGAs have been connected to a number of adverse effects, including cardiovascular disease. Currently, there are no published evidence-based recommendations addressing…

This summarizing and descriptive review article is an update on previously published reviews. It covers English-written and PubMed-listed review articles and original studies published between May 2016 and November 2017 on the toxicokinetics of new psychoactive substances (NPS). Compounds covered include stimulants and…

INTRODUCTION: Speed is a psychostimulant of the Central Nervous System that can cause behavioral alterations, euphoria, psychosis and diverse organic medical pictures. CLINICAL CASE: The case of a 19 year old male patient, who consumes amphetamines, who had behavioral alterations and heteroaggressiveness, circumstance…

CONTEXT: Gliosarcoma is a rare tumor of the central nervous system characterized by a biphasic histologic pattern, consisting of a gliomatous and a sarcomatous component, respectively. In most instances the sarcomatous component is represented by a fibrosarcoma, but other stromal malignancies have also been described.…

DATA SOURCES: PubMed/Medline, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Clinical trials (CENTRAL), Web of Knowledge, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and LILACS databases. STUDY SELECTION: Clinical prospective and retrospective studies of orthodontic treatment with clear aligners on patients over the age of 15 that includ…

Case reports are a time-honored, important, integral, and accepted part of the medical literature. Both the Journal of Medical Case Reports and the Case Report section of BioMed Central Research Notes are committed to case report publication, and each have different criteria. Journal of Medical Case Reports was the wor…

To investigate the literature regarding the survival rate of dental implants in bisphosphonate users as compared to non-users. An online search of literatures through MEDLINE-PUBMED (1950-March 2012), Cochrane Database of Systematic reviews, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (1800-March 2012)…

IMPORTANCE: Most ovarian cancers originate in the fimbriated end of the fallopian tube. This has led to the hypothesis that surgical resection of the fallopian tubes at the time of gynecologic and nongynecologic surgical procedures-referred to as an opportunistic salpingectomy-may prevent the development of epithelial…

BACKGROUND: Different methods have been developed and employed with variable degrees of success in pre-operative templating for total hip arthroplasty. Preoperative templating, especially digital templating, has been claimed to have increased the effectiveness of total hip arthroplasty by improving the precision of pre…

BACKGROUND: This article is a review of the literature regarding the state of oncology education for medical students in developing countries, and possible solutions to the problems at hand. METHODS: Ovid MEDLINE, PubMed, ERIC, The Cochrane CENTRAL Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) and Google Scholar were search…

AIMS: Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) occurs in about half of people with diabetes, of whom a quarter may develop chronic pain. Pain may remain for years yet be difficult to treat because the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. There is consensus that processing excessive glucose leads to oxidative stress, inter…

BACKGROUND: Correct positioning of a central venous catheter (CVC) tip in pediatric patients is very important. Malpositioning may lead to direct complications, such as arrhythmia and increase the risk of thrombosis, infections, valve failures or pericardial tamponade. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this review was to ide…

BACKGROUND: This article examines the impact of skeletal muscle mass and sarcopenia on the treatment of head and neck tumors using an AI-based review process and critically evaluates the Synthory.ai platform for systematic literature analysis. Articles from PubMed and PubMed Central published between January 2018 and M…

AIM: To analyse current ranking (2013) of institutions, journals and researchers in the Republic of Macedonia. MATERIAL AND METHODS: the country rankings of R. Macedonia were analyzed with SCImago Country & Journal Rank (SJR) for subject area Medicine in the years 1996-2013, and ordered by H-index. SCImago Institution…