Objective To assess clinical and patient-reported outcomes of implant-prosthetic rehabilitations in patients with a history head–neck cancer (HNC), treated tumor resection without (TR) or adjuvant radiotherapy (TR/RT). A healthy cohort rehabilitated the same reconstructive protocols served as control group (C). Materials Methods total 28 women 29 men were considered present retrospective study....

•Obesity is associated with RV dilation in patients TR.•RV function similar across BMI groups.•Higher related to fewer events significant TR.•This confirms the obesity paradox TR. BackgroundObesity may cause right ventricular (RV) remodeling due volume overload. However, also better prognosis compared normal weight various cardiac diseases. The aim of this study was assess impact on and long-te...

BACKGROUND Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) have been used as flame retardants and are becoming a ubiquitous environmental contaminant. Adverse effects in the developing brain are of great health concern. OBJECTIVE We investigated the effect of PBDEs/hydroxylated PBDEs (OH-PBDEs) on thyroid hormone (TH) receptor (TR)-mediated transcription and on TH-induced dendrite arborization of cere...

This study tested whether ischemic exercise training (Tr(IS+EX)) would increase endurance of ischemic (Ex(IS)) and ramp exercise (Ex(RA)) knee-extension tests more than exercise training (Tr(EX)) alone. Ten healthy subjects performed pre- and posttraining tests with each leg. For Ex(RA), after subjects warmed up, a weight was added each minute until they were exhausted. Ex(IS) was similar, but ...

Contrast-enhanced MR studies were compared with noncontrast MR and contrast-enhanced CT scans in the evaluation of intraparenchymal brain metastases. Fifty consecutive inpatients were studied with short and long repetition time (TR) sequences before and after the administration of gadopentetate dimeglumine. In addition, a delayed short TR sequence was performed. The contrast CT, noncontrast MR,...