Subtrochanteric hip fractures present a treatment challenge due to their varied etiologies, complexity, and associated complications. While intramedullary nailing is the standard treatment, ...
Emerging evidence indicates that GentleWave technology may offer superior antibacterial effectiveness in root canal treatment ...
Dose-response relationships indicated progressively larger biomarker elevations from mild to severe OSA, implicating nocturnal hypoxia severity in renal stress. Meta-analysis links obstructive sleep ...
Acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction is estimated to occur in more than 500,000 people in the US every year. With the introduction of reperfusion therapy by fibrinolysis or primary ...
Friedreich ataxia is an autosomal-recessive, neurodegenerative disease that primarily affects the nervous system and heart. It was named after Nicolaus Friedreich, a Professor of Medicine in ...
The Haplotype Genetic Map (HapMap) is an invaluable resource to the cardiovascular researcher, enabling a decrease in cost and an increase in the efficiency and speed of discoveries in the laboratory.
Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) 1 is a member of a family that is involved in growth, development, cell differentiation, and metabolism. IGF1, IGF2 and insulin act primarily through ...
Systemic sclerosis (SSc), also known as scleroderma, is a complex connective tissue disease that is associated with a high mortality and is challenging to treat because of its clinical heterogeneity ...
Angiogenesis within human atherosclerotic plaques has an important role in plaque progression as immature blood vessels leak red blood cells and inflammatory mediators into the plaque center.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is commonly regarded as an inflammatory disease, but it also has a neurodegenerative component, which represents an additional target for treatment. The use of MRI to evaluate ...
The past decade has seen the emergence of two new paradigms in inflammatory disease: first, cardiovascular complications of atherosclerosis are markedly increased in patients with rheumatoid arthritis ...
Over the past 15 years, we have witnessed a resurgence of surgery for prevention of ischemic stroke. Landmark trials including the North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial and the ...