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Assessing the cardiology community position on transradial intervention and the use of bivalirudin in patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing invasive management: results of an EAPCI survey.
(2016-10-20)
AIMS: Our aim was to report on a survey initiated by the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) collecting the opinion of the cardiology community on the invasive management of acute ...
Increased discriminability of authenticity from multimodal laughter is driven by auditory information.
(2017-10)
We present an investigation of the perception of authenticity in audiovisual laughter, in which we contrast spontaneous and volitional samples and examine the contributions of unimodal affective information to multimodal ...
Effects of vitamin D supplementation on upper and lower body muscle strength levels in healthy individuals. A systematic review with meta-analysis.
(2015-09)
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effects of vitamin D supplementation on muscle strength in healthy individuals. DESIGN: A systematic review with meta-analysis. METHODS: In October 2013 a computerised literature search of ...
Intravascular multimodality imaging: feasibility and role in the evaluation of coronary plaque pathology.
(Oxford University Press, 2017-02-17)
Coronary artery disease remains the leading cause of death in the developed world. Over recent years, research has been focused on the development of diagnostic intravascular imaging techniques that enable assessment of ...
How immunological profile drives clinical phenotype of primary Sjögren's syndrome at diagnosis: analysis of 10,500 patients (Sjögren Big Data Project).
(2018-08-14)
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the influence of the main immunological markers on the disease phenotype at diagnosis in a large international cohort of patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (SjS). METHODS: The Big Data Sjögren ...
Autophagy induces protein carbamylation in fibroblast-like synoviocytes from patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(Oxford University Press, 2018-11-01)
Objectives: Autophagy is a homeostatic and physiological process that promotes the turnover of proteins and organelles damaged in conditions of cellular stress. We previously demonstrated that autophagy represents a key ...
Epigenetic control of retrotransposons in adult tissues: implications for immune regulation.
(2017-08)
Retrotransposons tune immune reactivity in differentiated cells because when they are transcribed, their nucleic acids can be viewed as non-self leading to innate immune sensing. Most retrotransposons, however, are subject ...
Latent tuberculous screening of recent migrants attending language classes: a cohort study and cost analysis.
(2017-02-01)
SETTING: England's national tuberculosis (TB) strategy recommends testing for and treatment of latent tuberculous infection (LTBI) among new migrants. Programmatic testing occurs in primary care, which may be inaccessible ...
Clinical efficacy of intravitreal aflibercept versus panretinal photocoagulation for best corrected visual acuity in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy at 52 weeks (CLARITY): a multicentre, single-blinded, randomised, controlled, phase 2b, non-inferiority trial.
(2017-06-03)
BACKGROUND: Proliferative diabetic retinopathy is the most common cause of severe sight impairment in people with diabetes. Proliferative diabetic retinopathy has been managed by panretinal laser photocoagulation (PRP) for ...
Stem cell therapy for stress urinary incontinence: a systematic review in human subjects.
(2013-12)
PURPOSE: To systematically evaluate the current evidence on the safety and efficacy of stem cell therapy (SCT) in stress urinary incontinence (SUI) to allow objective comparison with existing surgical techniques. METHODS: ...