Malignant ascites (MA) is a sign of advanced cancer and poor prognosis. MA can result in impairment in quality of life (QOL) and significant symptoms. As a supportive treatment, ascites can be drained by paracentesis (PC), percutaneously implanted catheters (tunneled, untunneled, central venous catheters), or peritoneal ports, or peritoneovenous shunts. The aim of this study was to evaluate the...

Black children are more likely to see a primary doctor or go the emergency room (ER) and less dermatologist for their atopic dermatitis (AD) than White children. We aimed understand barriers routine outpatient care reasons specific healthcare use patterns AD among performed semi-structured interviews of 13 adult caregivers with who did not have ready access went ER frequently. Interviews were i...

1290 VOLUME 17 | NUMBER 10 | OCTOBER 2011 nAture medicine Long-lived self-renewing memory lymphocytes are a hallmark feature of the adaptive immune system in response to pathogens and tumors1–3. In organ systems, nonreplicating, terminally differentiated cells are continually replenished by the progeny of less-differentiated stem cells. Similarly, it has been suggested that memory cells might c...

Structural ConcreteVolume 23, Issue 3 p. 1297-1299 ISSUE INFORMATIONFree Access Information: Concrete 3/2022 First published: 29 June 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/suco.202270311AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use check box below share version article.I ha...