OBJECTIVE This study examined the effects of pain and stress associated with a dental procedure, root canal treatment (RCT), on natural killer cell cytotoxicity (NKCC) and the subsequent development of symptoms of upper respiratory illness during the following month. METHODS Patients (N = 33) were recruited from those scheduled for RCT appointments. Subjects for a non-RCT comparison group (N ...

INTRODUCTION: Rotator cuff tears (RCT) are the most common tendon injury seen in orthopedic patients. Although small tears are amenable to arthroscopic repair, massive RCT repairs can result in re-tears and poor clinical outcomes. Muscle atrophy and fatty infiltration in rotator cuff muscles are major complications of chronic massive RCT and are thought to be among the factors responsible for t...

INTRODUCTION Root canal treatment (RCT) success criteria inform us of the path to bony healing and of prognostic factors, but tell little about how the patient perceives, feels, or values RCT. Patients choose, undergo, and pay for RCT, they live with the result, and inform their community. The purpose of this narrative review was to appraise patient-centered outcomes of initial non-surgical RCT...

OBJECTIVE The conduct of underpowered randomized controlled trials (RCT) has recently been criticized in medical journals. We investigated the current prevalence of underpowered RCT in rheumatology. METHODS We searched to identify randomized, prospective RCT assessing clinical efficacy of treatments for adult rheumatic diseases published in English in 2001 and 2002. RCT were assessed as posit...

abstract backgrounds: subacromial impingement is a common cause of shoulder pain and many patients with this condition recover with conservative management. the most commonly used modalities of nonoperative treatment include activity modification, anti-inflammatory medication and subacromial injection of steroid and ultrasound and physical therapy programs. this study assessed the value of phys...

Few methodological issues are more stubborn than the status of rational choice theory (henceforth, RCT): the debates surrounding it are approximately five decades old with no end in sight. Fifty years are a long time not only in the life of any human being but also in the progress of a discipline so it is remarkable that the discussion is not closer to a conclusion now than what it was at its i...

BACKGROUND The current 3rd edition of the Italian Society of Nephrology guidelines has been drawn up to summarize evidence of key intervention issues on the basis of systematic reviews (SR) of randomized trials (RCT) or RCT data only. In the present guideline, evidence of the use of immunosuppressive and non-immunosuppressive treatments in IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is presented. METHODS SR of RC...

Macrophage ATP-binding cassette transporter A1 (ABCA1), scavenger receptor class B type I (SR-BI), and ABCG1 have been shown to promote cholesterol efflux to extracellular acceptors in vitro and influence atherosclerosis in mice, but their roles in mediating reverse cholesterol transport (RCT) from macrophages in vivo are unknown. Using an assay of macrophage RCT in mice, we found that primary ...

Main results 14 RCTs (1379 participants, 42% in 1 RCT) met the selection criteria. The quality of study methods was low (mean quality score 2.3 out of 5). Behaviour symptoms: methylphenidate was superior to placebo in 4 of 6 RCTs and to thioridazine in 1 RCT and was equivalent to imipramine in 1 RCT. Medication management was equivalent to combined medication and behavioural intervention; both ...