The advent of total parenteral nutrition in the late 1960s meant that no situation remained in which a patient could not be fed. Unfortunately, total parenteral nutrition was complicated by serious ...

Calcific uremic arteriolopathy (CUA), also known as calciphylaxis, is an increasingly recognized disorder associated with high mortality rates. The pathomechanisms of CUA are only partially understood ...

Ozempic (semaglutide) helps people with type 2 diabetes lower their blood sugar if diet, exercise, and other diabetes medications haven’t worked. If you’ve just gotten a prescription for it, you might ...

Appendicitis occurs when the appendix becomes inflamed and filled with pus, often causing pain that starts near the belly button and shifts to the lower right abdomen. It requires prompt medical ...

Contemporary hemodynamic testing intersects with many aspects of cardiovascular disease management. There is a growing understanding that accurate diagnosis, phenotyping, and management of cardiogenic ...

1 School of Nursing, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China 2 Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, Sichuan, China Background: ...

Objectives To document what types of gastrointestinal sequelae were described after surgery for necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) and to analyse their frequency. Design Systematic review and ...

Many women deliver by caesarean section (CS) nowadays. The proportion of women who deliver by CS ranges from 15% to over 50%, in some countries. After a CS it is common for the bowel to stop working ...

State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, P. R. China Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of ...

Apathy is increasingly recognised as a common behavioural syndrome in psychiatric disorders, but it is conceptually ill defined. The aim of this study was to examine the concept of apathy as it is ...

Introduction: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates, main causes related with cardiovascular disease (CVD) and bone mineral disorder (CKD-BMD). Uremic ...

Appendicitis is the most frequent abdominal surgical emergency. The risk of developing an appendiceal disorder during life is 7%, which represents 11 cases per 10,000 inhabitants per year. It may ...