BACKGROUND/AIMS A limited number of studies are available regarding the long-term natural history of post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS). We aimed to investigate the long-term clinical course of PI-IBS. METHODS A prospective cohort study was conducted from a 2001 shigellosis outbreak in a Korean hospital with about 2000 employees. A cohort of 124 hospital employees who were infe...

BACKGROUND Since 2001, we have observed patients with a clinical picture consistent with West Nile virus (WNV) infection, which was defined as nonprimary infection (NPI) owing to the presence of highly elevated serum immunoglobulin G antibody titers with a high avidity index (≥ 55%), absent or low titers of serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) immunoglobulin M, and occasionally positive results ...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Meta-analysis is used to combine the results of several related studies. Two different models are generally applied: the fixed-effect (FE) and random-effects (RE) models. Although the two approaches estimate different parameters (that is, the true effect versus the expected value of the distribution of true effects) in practice, the graphical presentation of results is ...

This study aimed to explore the mechanisms of bridging integrator-3 dysregulation, its prognostic value, and related signaling pathways in colorectal cancer . Bioinformatic analysis was performed based on the data from The Cancer Genome Atlas–colorectal cancer and Human Protein Atlas. Colorectal cancer cell lines, LoVo and HT29 cells, were used as in vitro cell model to assess the effect of dem...

BACKGROUND Use of a calcineurin inhibitor (CNI) immunosuppressant following kidney transplantation is associated with development of vasomotor nephrotoxicity. This study was undertaken to evaluate and compare the influences of CNI-based and CNI-free immunosuppressant regimens on two intrarenal vascular resistance parameters, the resistive index (RI) and the pulsatility index (PI), in renal tran...

We show that a quotient group of a CI-group with respect to (di)graphs is a CI-group with respect to (di)graphs. In [1,2], Babai and Frankl provided strong constraints on which finite groups could be CI-groups with respect to graphs. As a tool in this program, they proved [1, Lemma 3.5] that a quotient group G/N of a CI-group G with respect to graphs is a CI-group with respect to graphs provide...

RESULTS Of the 791 pt, 225 had acute (n 5 143) or previous MI, and 276 did not have MI or unstable angina. The PI allele was carried by 33.8% of MI pt versus 26.9% of no-MI control subjects, OR 5 1.39 (95% CI, 0.95 to 2.04, p 5 0.09). Angiographically, 549 pt had severe (.60% coronary stenosis) CAD, and 170 had normal coronary arteries (,10% stenosis). The PI allele was found in 31.0% of CAD pt...

OBJECTIVE To analyse pharmacist intervention (PI) resulting from the implementation of the Dáder Pharmacotherapeutic Follow-Up Program (PFU). DESIGN Descriptive study of the findings from the PFU program during the first year. SETTING Community pharmacists in area of the College of Pharmacists of the Province of Cordoba (Argentina). PARTICIPANTS A total of 202 patients were included in th...