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Articular cartilage, similarly to bone tissue, has a high sensitivity to physical stimuli and it has been shown that these are able to significantly modify the cartilage metabolism. There are several methods for applying a physical stimulus to articular cartilage: direct current, pulsed

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is often complicated by peri-procedural myocardial injury, with widespread adoption of sensitive cardiac biomarkers assays allowing detection of smaller amounts of myocardial necrosis (1, 2). Peri-procedural cardiac troponin elevation has been associated with

With the development of cost effective and rapid technology of genome sequencing, precision medicine becomes a new way to think oncology. Current targets involve mainly tyrosine kinase, but DNA repair machinery could also be targetable. Some of DNA repair aberrations have been associated with

Despite significant improvements in diagnostic and preventative measures, the incidence of sepsis has continued to escalate rapidly in hospitalized patients, with mortality rates ranging between 10 - 54%, depending on the level of severity. The earliest possible identification and assessment of

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the most common endocrine disease, and its social significance is associated with early disability and high mortality. Indicators of diabetes mellitus decompensation are its chronic complications, the most common one is a diabetic polyneuropathy. In recent years a large

Coffee is the most consumed arousing substance in the world. Caffeine is used as a natural countermeasure to maintain the performance of sleep deprived subjects. However, the effectiveness of caffeine is characterized by a large individual variability, also observed on side effects. This variability

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is inflammation of the pancreas that can become a fatal disease or lead to severe complications . It is characterized clinically by abdominal pain and by increased pancreatic enzyme levels in the blood or urine. Gallstone migration and alcohol abuse are the two major risk

The use of concomitant cisplatin-based chemo-radiation for cervical cancer has improved survival of locally advanced cervical cancer patients and has become the standard of care. A meta-analysis revealed that the addition of concurrent chemotherapy to radiation increased the 5-year overall survival

Patients will be randomly selected from the outpatient family medicine clinics. Once included, patients will be randomly allocated (by a computer-generated randomization list) to a study or control group. Over a period of 2 years, patients of the study group will receive one PTX tablet (400 mg)

1. Sponsor Name (PI): Carole Bitar, MD 2. Sub-PI: Erin Boh, MD, PhD; Brittany Stumpf, MD; Collaborator: Nakhle Saba, MD 3. # of Participants Sites: 1, Tulane University 4: Participant Countries: United States II. PRODUCT INFORMATION 1. Study Title: A phase 2, open label single arm study for

Inflammation is extremely important in atherosclerosis and atherothrombosis pathophysiology. It is similarly important after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), with a special participation on healing response and, consequently, on left ventricular remodeling (LVR). Early successful reperfusion is

The study consists of four sub studies - Troponin monitoring implementation - Sub study A - Preoperative and postoperative hs-cTnT threshold - Sub study B - Economic analysis - Sub study C - Advanced cardiac imaging case-control study - Sub study D Study A:To implement and evaluate a Troponin T

The inflammatory processes observed in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are strongly linked to enhanced interleukin-6 (IL-6) activity. Increased IL-6 activity causes myocardial cell damage and endothelial dysfunction. The adverse effects of IL-6 on myocardial and endothelial cells are

Psoriasis vulgaris is a common inflammatory condition of the skin that results in scaly red itchy plaques. In addition to affecting the skin, psoriasis can also cause disease in the finger and toe nails. Nail psoriasis is a chronic disease and can present with the following clinical findings: