Purpose: To investigate the effect of systemic therapy on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with advanced esophagogastric cancer in daily clinical practice. This study assessed the HRQoL of patients with ...

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent adverse outcome following liver transplantation (LT) with a multifactorial etiology. It is critical to identify modifiable risk factors to mitigate the risk. One key area ...

A Woman with Hypotension and Electrocardiographic Changes A 59-year-old woman with a pituitary mass and acromegaly had hypotension and ECG changes after the administration of anesthetics before transsphenoidal hypophysectomy. ...

Infectious complications are common during extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and may negatively impact outcomes. However, there is considerable variation in the reported rates of incidence, which hampers the use ...

Introduction: Acute lower limb ischemia (ALI) is a limb- and potentially life-threatening condition which requires urgent evaluation and treatment. Contemporary data on optimal therapy and prognosis of ALI are lacking, ...

Cardiovascular disease represents a source of major health problems worldwide, and although medical and technical advances have been achieved, they are still associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. Personalized ...

Background There is increasing empirical evidence for the positive mental health effects of compassion-based interventions. Although numerous smartphone apps offering compassion-based interventions ('compassion apps') are ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: As a result of changes in physiology during pregnancy, the pharmacokinetics (PK) of drugs can be altered. It is unclear whether under- or overexposure occurs in pregnant cancer patients and thus ...

For patients suffering from brain tumor, prognosis estimation and treatment decisions are made by a multidisciplinary team based on a set of preoperative MR scans. Currently, the lack of standardized and automatic methods ...