Of stroke patients aged 18-45 and 45-65 years, 16.8 and 13.2% respectively had no known risk for stroke.

Patients aged 45-65 were less commonly seeking preventive care and appeared to be seeking care to manage existing conditions more than patients aged 18-44 years. However, as greater than 10% of both age groups had no prior risk, fur…[Read more]

tion of inflammatory genes in the intestine of horses undergoing colic surgery.

Despite noted improvements in short-term survival outcomes following orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT), review of the relevant literature suggests little improvement in long-term outcomes for patients surviving beyond 1year.

All OHT cases performed…[Read more]

The Model for End-stage Liver Disease excluding the international normalised ratio that is derived from prothrombin time which is calculated as a ratio of the patient’s prothrombin time to a control prothrombin time standardized (MELD-XI) and modified MELD, which uses albumin in place of the international normalised ratio (MELD-Albumin) scores…[Read more]

Our report describes the development and maintenance of a high throughput system for the study of skin keratinocyte plasticity and epidermal regeneration.This study aimed to identify the pathological outcomes and survival benefits of neoadjuvant hormone therapy (NHT) combined with radical prostatectomy (RP) and radiotherapy (RT) administered to…[Read more]

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a relapsing chronic disorder of the gastrointestinal tract characterized by disruption of epithelial barrier function and excessive immune response to gut microbiota. The lack of biomarkers providing early diagnosis or defining the status of the pathology difficulties an accurate assessment of the disease. Given…[Read more]

Traditional registration of functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI) is typically achieved through registering their coregistered structural MRI. However, it cannot achieve accurate performance in that functional units which are not necessarily located relative to anatomical structures. In addition, registration methods based on functional…[Read more]

the need to educate families and intended parents about the potential benefits of knowing others who are donor conceived, and the risk of unexpected linking across families by donors, regardless of donor-conceived person or family interest.

The study was funded by the Lesbian Health Fund of GLMA Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ…[Read more]

Ion beams used for radiotherapy exhibit an increased relative biological effectiveness (RBE), which depends on several physical treatment parameters as well as on biological factors of the irradiated tissues. While the RBE is an experimentally well-defined quantity, translation to patients is complex and requires radiobiological studies, dedicated…[Read more]