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Dec 2nd, 2021 - The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical value of triple antibiotic therapy consisting of doxycycline, compound sulfamethoxazole and rifampicin in the treatment of brucellosis spondylitis. A retrospective analysis was performed on 1...

Dec 1st, 2021 - To compare the clinical efficacy of vancomycin calcium sulfate implantation and fenestration decompression in the treatment of sclerosing osteomyelitis. A retrospective analysis for 46 cases of sclerosing osteomyelitis were admitted to our departm...

Nov 26th, 2021 - We evaluated the reliability of intraoperative assessment of leukocyte esterase (LE) in synovial fluid samples from patients undergoing reimplantation following implant removal and spacer insertion for periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). Our hyp...

Nov 25th, 2021 - The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficiency of quantitative parameters of bone scintigraphy in detecting clinically active joint and high disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. We retrospectively enrolled 65 patien...

Nov 18th, 2021 - Pneumonia is the principal cause of death among children worldwide. Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a reliable tool for the diagnosis and assessment of community-acquired pneumonia in children. Furthermore, objective parameters, including the pneumonia L...

Jul 29th, 2019 - The evaluation of patients with chronic watery diarrhea represents a diagnostic challenge for clinicians because organic causes, including inflammatory bowel disease, microscopic colitis, and chronic infection, must be differentiated from function...

Dec 2nd, 2010 - No preferred test for diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection exists, and the algorithm for the workup of patients suspected of infection remains unclear. The work group evaluated the available literature to determine the role of each diagnost...

Sep 14th, 2021 - The research has been approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University. According to the "Consensus on Diagnosis and Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease" formulated by the Beijing Confere...

Sep 1st, 2021 - PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine if treatment with a combination of metformin and doxycycline can increase the percentage of cells that express Caveolin-1 in the cancer associated fibroblasts of patients with breast, or uterine, and cervical ca...

Aug 23rd, 2021 - In this protocol, a repeated measure design is used to examine microbial and molecular results in subjects with a diagnosis of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infection. Patients often experience difficulties in the spontaneous expectoratio...

Aug 3rd, 2021 - PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine the safety of berberine (berberine chloride) administered to participants with ulcerative colitis (UC) in clinical remission while receiving maintenance therapy with mesalamine. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. Determin...

Aug 2nd, 2021 - The current clinical study is prospectively randomized and double-blinded, and practice in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Linkou, TaoYuan and Taipei branches. All 90 participants suffered from taxanes-induced myalgia and Arthralgia, and will be r...

Oct 8th, 2021 - A patient with worsening chronic cough, shortness of breath, and hemoptysis tested negative for tuberculosis; but a chest computed tomography scan showed an upper left lobe cavitary lesion. A 71-year-old, currently homeless male veteran with a 29.

Oct 7th, 2021 - About half of patients with rheumatoid arthritis who taper or stop disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) retain stable remission after 12 months, and a majority of those who do relapse regain remission when back on their original treatmen.

Jul 9th, 2021 - Healthy first-degree relatives of individuals with HLA-B27–positive axial spondyloarthritis who also were HLA-B27 positive were at increased risk for developing the disease themselves within 1 year, based on data from an ongoing prospective cohort...

Jun 24th, 2021 - Key clinical point: ORAL Shift demonstrates safety and efficacy of tofacitinib modified-release 11 mg once daily (OD) plus methotrexate in a global population of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Major finding: All efficacy outcomes improve.

Jun 18th, 2021 - A 21-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) with a 2-month history of joint pain, swelling, and difficulty walking that began with swelling of his right knee (FIGURE 1A). The patient said that over the course of several weeks, the.