JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1107: Emerging and Novel Treatments for Pituitary Tumors Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081107 Authors: Ilie Lasolle Raverot A subset of pituitary neuroendocrine tumors (PitNETs) have an aggressive behavior, showing resistance to treatment and/or multiple recurrences in spite of the optimal use of standard therapies (surgery, conventional medical treatments, and radiotherapy). To date, for aggressive PitNETs, temozolomide (TMZ) has been the...
Thu Jul 25, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1105: Decreased Level of Blood MicroRNA-133b in Men with Opioid Use Disorder on Methadone Maintenance Therapy Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081105 Authors: Hsu Huang Tsai Although previous animal studies have indicated that certain micro ribonucleic acids (microRNAs) play a part in the pathway of opioid addiction, whether such findings extend to human models is yet unknown. This study aims to investigate the important microRNA expressions in...
Thu Jul 25, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1104: Total Intravenous Anesthesia Maintained the Degree of Pre-Existing Mitral Regurgitation Better than Isoflurane Anesthesia in Cardiac Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081104 Authors: Ahn Ahn Yi Accurate assessment of mitral regurgitation (MR) is critical during mitral valve repair surgery. However, anesthesia may influence the degree of mitral regurgitation by changing pre- and after-load or cardiac...
Thu Jul 25, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1103: A Finite Element Analysis to Compare Stress Distribution on Extra-Short Implants with Two Different Internal Connections Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081103 Authors: García-Braz Prados-Privado Zanatta Calvo-Guirado Prados-Frutos Gehrke Background: The goal of this study was to analyze the stress distribution on two types of extra-short dental implants with 5 mm of length: An internal hexagon (IH) and morse taper connection...
Thu Jul 25, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1106: Association between Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone Level after Total Thyroidectomy and Hypercholesterolemia in Female Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: A Retrospective Study Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081106 Authors: Young Ki Lee Hokyou Lee Seunghee Han Hyein Jung Dong Yeob Shin Kee-Hyun Nam Woong Youn Chung Eun Jig Lee Less-intense TSH suppression strategies can be used for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) patients...
Thu Jul 25, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1102: The Mediating Effects of Affect on Associations between Impulsivity or Resilience and Internet Gaming Disorder Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081102 Authors: Daun Shin A Ruem Choi Jiyoon Lee Sun Ju Chung Bomi Kim Minkyung Park Myung Hun Jung Dai Jin Kim Jung-Seok Choi Internet gaming disorder (IGD) is a new disease proposed by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition (DSM-5), and has been studied...
Thu Jul 25, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1101: Inter-Individual Differences in Cognitive Response to a Single Bout of Physical Exercise—A Randomized Controlled Cross-Over Study Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081101 Authors: Svenja Schwarck Marlen Schmicker Milos Dordevic Kathrin Rehfeld Notger Müller Patrick Müller Recent reviews have shown that acute exercise can improve cognitive functions, especially executive functions. However, a closer look at the included studies revealed...
Thu Jul 25, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1100: The Effect of Health-Related Behaviors on Disease Progression and Mortality in Early Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease: A Korean Nationwide Population-Based Study Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081100 Authors: Yookyung Lee SuYeon Kwon Jong Joo Moon Kyungdo Han Nam-Jong Paik Won-Seok Kim A healthy life style is associated with decreased risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and mortality in the general population. However, there is...
Thu Jul 25, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1099: The Outcome of a Single-Incision Sling versus Trans-Obturator Sling in Overweight and Obese Women with Stress Urinary Incontinence at 3-Year Follow-Up Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081099 Authors: Hui-Hsuan Lau Sugarmaa Enkhtaivan Tsung-Hsien Su Wen-Chu Huang Background: Being overweight or obese is a risk factor for incontinence and has negative impacts on the surgical outcomes. Compared with trans-obturator sling (TOS), single incision...
Thu Jul 25, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1098: Nutrition in Gastrointestinal Disease: Liver, Pancreatic, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081098 Authors: Lena J. Storck Reinhard Imoberdorf Peter E. Ballmer Liver, pancreatic, and inflammatory bowel diseases are often associated with nutritional difficulties and necessitate an adequate nutritional therapy in order to support the medical treatment. As most patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease are overweight...
Thu Jul 25, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1096: Erythrocyte Encapsulated Thymidine Phosphorylase for the Treatment of Patients with Mitochondrial Neurogastrointestinal Encephalomyopathy: Study Protocol for a Multi-Centre, Multiple Dose, Open Label Trial Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081096 Authors: Bridget E. Bax Michelle Levene Murray D. Bain Lynette D. Fairbanks Massimiliano Filosto Sema Kalkan Uçar Thomas Klopstock Cornelia Kornblum Hanna Mandel Shamima Rahman Agathe...
Wed Jul 24, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1092: Markers of Cancer Cell Invasion: Are They Good Enough? Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081092 Authors: Tatiana S. Gerashchenko Nikita M. Novikov Nadezhda V. Krakhmal Sofia Y. Zolotaryova Marina V. Zavyalova Nadezhda V. Cherdyntseva Evgeny V. Denisov Vladimir M. Perelmuter Invasion, or directed migration of tumor cells into adjacent tissues, is one of the hallmarks of cancer and the first step towards metastasis. Penetrating...
Wed Jul 24, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1095: The Impact of Metabolic Syndrome on the Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation: A Nationwide Longitudinal Cohort Study in South Korea Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081095 Authors: Kwon Kim Kim Kim Kim Kim Han Ryu Dong Sung Aims: To evaluate the impact of metabolic syndrome (MetS) status on the incidence of atrial fibrillation (AF) in Koreans. Methods and results: Data obtained from the Korean National Health Insurance...
Wed Jul 24, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1093: Association between Physiological and Subjective Aspects of Pain and Disability in Post-Stroke Patients with Shoulder Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081093 Authors: Martín-Martín Membrilla-Mesa Lozano-Lozano Galiano-Castillo Fernández-Lao Arroyo-Morales Background: Patients often experience pain as a result of a stroke. However, the mechanism of this pain remains uncertain. Our aim was to investigate...
Wed Jul 24, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1094: Relationships between Multimorbidity and Suicidal Thoughts and Plans among Korean Adults Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081094 Authors: Youn Huh Ga Eun Nam Yang-Hyun Kim Jun Hyung Lee Multimorbidity and suicide rates are rising simultaneously among Korean adults. To address this issue, we assessed the association between multimorbidity and suicidal behavior among adults aged ≥19 years in Korea. We analyzed the data from the 2017...
Wed Jul 24, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1097: Effects of Initial Age and Severity on Cranial Remolding Orthotic Treatment for Infants with Deformational Plagiocephaly Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081097 Authors: Tiffany Graham Beverley Adams-Huet Nicole Gilbert Kirsten Witthoff Terran Gregory Mary Walsh The aim of this study is to review the effects of an infant’s presenting age and severity of deformation on cranial remolding orthotic (CRO) treatment outcomes for...
Wed Jul 24, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1091: Clusters of Glycemic Response to Oral Glucose Tolerance Tests Explain Multivariate Metabolic and Anthropometric Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery in Obese Patients Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081091 Authors: Lukasz Szczerbinski Mark A. Taylor Anna Citko Maria Gorska Steen Larsen Hady Razak Hady Adam Kretowski Glycemic responses to bariatric surgery are highly heterogeneous among patients and defining response types remains challenging....
Wed Jul 24, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1089: Gut Microbiota and Risk of Persistent Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Diseases Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081089 Authors: Han-Na Kim Eun-Jeong Joo Hae Suk Cheong Yejin Kim Hyung-Lae Kim Hocheol Shin Yoosoo Chang Seungho Ryu Gut dysbiosis is regarded as a pathogenetic factor of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), but its role in NAFLD persistence is unknown. We investigated the influence of the gut microbiota on persistent...
Wed Jul 24, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1088: The Roles of Hypoxia Imaging Using 18F-Fluoromisonidazole Positron Emission Tomography in Glioma Treatment Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081088 Authors: Kenji Hirata Shigeru Yamaguchi Tohru Shiga Yuji Kuge Nagara Tamaki Glioma is the most common malignant brain tumor. Hypoxia is closely related to the malignancy of gliomas, and positron emission tomography (PET) can noninvasively visualize the degree and the expansion of hypoxia. Currently,...
Wed Jul 24, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1090: Blood Pressure Abnormalities Associated with Gut Microbiota-Derived Short Chain Fatty Acids in Children with Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081090 Authors: Chien-Ning Hsu Pei-Chen Lu Chih-Yao Hou You-Lin Tain Both kidney disease and hypertension can originate from early life. Congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) are the leading cause of chronic kidney disease...
Wed Jul 24, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1086: Addiction as Learned Behavior Patterns Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081086 Authors: Andreas Heinz Anne Beck Melissa Gül Halil Maximilian Pilhatsch Michael N. Smolka Shuyan Liu Individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) have to cope with drug-related cues and contexts which can affect instrumental drug seeking, as shown with Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) tasks among humans and animals. Our review addresses two potential...
Wed Jul 24, 2019 03:00
JCM, Vol. 8, Pages 1087: Non-CYP2D6 Variants Selected by a GWAS Improve the Prediction of Impaired Tamoxifen Metabolism in Patients with Breast Cancer Journal of Clinical Medicine doi: 10.3390/jcm8081087 Authors: Ewa E. Hennig Magdalena Piątkowska Krzysztof Goryca Ewelina Pośpiech Agnieszka Paziewska Jakub Karczmarski Anna Kluska Elżbieta Brewczyńska Jerzy Ostrowski A certain minimum plasma concentration of (Z)-endoxifen is presumably required for breast cancer...
Wed Jul 24, 2019 03:00
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