Safety and Efficacy of 188-Rhenium-Labeled Antibody to Melanin in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma by M. Klein, M. Lotem, T. Peretz, S. T. Zwas, S. Mizrachi, Y. Liberman, R. Chisin, J. Schachter, I. G. Ron, G. Iosilevsky, J. A. Kennedy, E. Revskaya, A. W. de Kater, E. Banaga, V. Klutzaritz, N. Friedmann, E. Galun, G. L. DeNardo, S. J. DeNardo, A. Casadevall, E. Dadachova, G. B. Thornton

“…Stage IIIC/IV metastatic melanoma (MM) patients who failed standard therapies were enrolled in both studies. In Phase Ia, 10 mCi 188Re-6D2 were given while unlabeled antibody preload was escalated. …”
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A Pilot Study of Laparoscopic Doppler Ultrasound Probe to Map Arterial Vascular Flow within the Neurovascular Bundle during Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy by Ketan K. Badani, Edan Y. Shapiro, William T. Berg, Sarah Kaufman, Ari Bergman, Chris Wambi, Arindam RoyChoudhury, Trushar Patel

“…Nine patients with normal preoperative potency and scheduled for a bilateral nerve-sparing procedure were prospectively enrolled. LDU was used to measure arterial flow at 6 anatomic locations alongside the prostate, and signal intensity was evaluated by 4 independent reviewers. …”
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Abnormal Blood Glucose as a Prognostic Factor for Adverse Clinical Outcome in Children Admitted to the Paediatric Emergency Unit at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana by Emmanuel Ameyaw, Kwame Amponsah-Achiano, Peter Yamoah, Jean-Pierre Chanoine

“…Eight hundred subjects aged between 3 and 144 months were screened out of whom 430 (215 with euglycaemia and 215 with dysglycaemia) were enrolled. The median age was 24 months (range: 3–144 months). …”
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Dieta by Alfredo Darío Espinosa Brito, Frank Carlos Álvarez Li

“…<p>Este art&iacute;culo presenta la dieta adecuada que debe ingerirse seg&uacute;n los componentes diarios de los nutrientes, tanto por las personas sanas como por aquellas que presentan alguna enfermedad dentro de las cr&oacute;nicas no transmisibles. Se exponen elementos para el consumo m&iacute;nimo y m&aacute;ximo de grasas, carbohidratos y prote&iacute;nas seg&uacute;n los requerimientos energ&eacute;ticos de las personas. …”
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Programas para la prevención de la violencia escolar en España: la respuesta de las comunidades autónomas by Rosario del Rey, Rosario Ortega

“…En este articulo se analiza la naturaleza de las intervenciones propuestas dentro de losPlanes de convivencia de las Consejerías de Educación de las Comunidades Autónomas y otrasinstituciones públicas del Estado Español.…”
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Dinamicidad de los clásicos. Ecos de El Paraíso perdido de John Milton en Sombra del Paraíso de Vicente Aleixandre: tras la estela del ángel caído by Sergio Arlandis López

“…El presente artículo, además, trata de mostrar una de las fuentes literarias menos estudiadas, pero no por ello menos relevantes: El Paraíso perdido (1674) de John Milton, como referente incuestionable y tangible de la construcción simbólica del descenso del ángel caído, tema central del poemario aleixandrino. …”
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Serum levels of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin, kidney injury molecule-1, and cystatin-C in renal artery stenosis: A pilot study by Raghunandan Prasad, Reeta Choudhary, Anuradha Singh, Surabhi Agarwal, P Kaushik, Kritika Singh, Rajanikant R Yadav, Amar Singh Yadav, Dharmendra Singh Bhadauria, Hira Lal

“…Materials and Methods: A total of 13 patients of magnetic resonance angiography confirmed RAS and 14 normotensive healthy controls were enrolled in the study after obtaining ethics approval and informed consent. …”
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Incidence and Clinical Predictors of Ocular Candidiasis in Patients with Candida Fungemia by Ayesha Khalid, Lisa A. Clough, R. C. Andrew Symons, Jonathan D. Mahnken, Lei Dong, Albert J. Eid

“…A total of 283 patients with candidemia were enrolled. The mean age (± standard deviation) was 55 ± 18 years; 66% were male. …”
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Dietary and lifestyle indices for hyperinsulinemia and odds of MAFLD in overweight and obese children and adolescents by Ali Nikparast, Maryam Razavi, Parmis Mirzaei, Pooneh Dehghan, Mahdi Amani Farani, Golaleh Asghari

“…A total of 334 (49.1% boys) with mean ± SD age and BMI-for-age-Z-score of 9.3 ± 1.8 and 2.55 ± 0.69, respectively, were enrolled. After adjusting for all potential confounders, participants in the highest quartile of ELIH score had greater odds of developing MAFLD (OR:3.50;95%CI:1.49–8.22) compared with those in the lowest quartile. …”
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Association of nutrients intake during pregnancy with the risk of allergic disease in offspring: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies by Hua Feng, Yan Chen, Xiujuan Xiong, Qunying Xu, Zhongwei Zhang, Qinghua Xi, Yongning Wu, Yuanan Lu

“…Twenty-three prospective cohort studies enrolling 210817 individuals were included. The risk of wheeze in offspring were lowered when high vitamin D, vitamin E, zinc, and milk intakes during pregnancy, whereas high meat intake during pregnancy could induce additional risk of wheeze in offspring. …”
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TRASMISIÓN DE BIENES Y REGISTRO DE LA PROPIEDAD EN ESPAÑA (SEGUNDA PARTE) by Joaquín Sánchez Cebrián

“…En este trabajo se analizará el régimen de trasmisión de los bienes por negocio inter vivos en el Derecho español, dentro del marco europeo, y con particular referencia a la trasmisión inmobiliaria. …”
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Preservice Teachers’ Shifting Perspectives of Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Service-Learning Experiences by Stephanie Devine, Cynthia Massey, Kathryn Haughney, Akintomide Adebile

“…The service-learning experience included both planned and unplanned activities that were also a part of the curriculum for students enrolled in the IPSE program. Researchers identified six primary domains: (1) content knowledge, (2) getting to know students, (3) helping students, (4) preservice teachers needing support, (5) social and emotional connections, and (6) misconceptions. …”
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Prevalence and Correlates of Microalbuminuria in Children with Sickle Cell Anaemia: Experience in a Tertiary Health Facility in Enugu, Nigeria by Christopher Bismarck Eke, Henrietta Uche Okafor, Bede Chidozie Ibe

“…Two hundred children with sickle cell anaemia (4–17 years) in steady state and 200 age/gender-matched controls were enrolled. Prevalence of microalbuminuria was ,respectively, 18.5% and 2.5% for subjects and controls . …”
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Influences of age and sex on the diagnostic accuracy of human epididymis secretory protein 4 for malignant pleural effusion by Qian Yang, Yan Niu, Qianghua Zhou, Dan-Ni Yang, Hong-Zhe Zhu, Cheng Yan, Su-Na Cha, Ting-Wang Jiang, Li Yan, Wen-Qi Zheng, Jian-Xun Wen, Zhi-De Hu

“…Participants with undiagnosed pleural effusion were prospectively enrolled in two cohorts (Hohhot cohort and Changshu cohort), and the presence of HE4 in their pleural fluid upon admission was determined by an electrochemiluminescence immunoassay. …”
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Logs for acid-base chemistry: illustrating the potential of multidisciplinary learning support interventions from the third space by Joshua Wang, Elise Kenny

“…A particular barrier to widening participation is that curricula across numerous disciplines rely on assumed knowledge for enrolling students.  The gaps between this assumed and actual pre-existing knowledge are dispersed throughout institutions, making them difficult to bridge. …”
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Comparison of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Parasternal Block for Postoperative Pain Management after Cardiac Surgery by Nilgun Kavrut Ozturk, Elif Dogan Baki, Ali Sait Kavakli, Ayca Sultan Sahin, Raif Umut Ayoglu, Arzu Karaveli, Mustafa Emmiler, Kerem Inanoglu, Bilge Karsli

“…One hundred twenty patients undergoing cardiac surgery were enrolled in the present randomized, controlled prospective study. …”
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Changes in Bone Mineral Density and Metabolic Parameters after Pulsatile Gonadorelin Treatment in Young Men with Hypogonadotropic Hypogonadism by Chen-Xi Li, Song-Tao Tang, Qiu Zhang

“…To assess the prevalence of osteoporosis in young men with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH) and to investigate the changes of BMD and metabolic parameters, a total of 22 young male patients with HH and 20 healthy controls were enrolled in the study. BMD, biochemical, and hormonal parameters were measured in two groups. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of the Triple Therapy Containing Ilaprazole, Levofloxacin, and Amoxicillin as First-Line Treatment in Helicobacter pylori Infections by Hyo Jun Ahn, Dong Pil Kim, Myeong Su Chu, Hyeon Jeong Yun, Seok-Hwan Kim, Seung Woo Lee, Dong Soo Lee

“…Patients with gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, or gastritis, as detected by esophagogastroduodenoscopy with confirmed H. pylori infection between September 2014 and November 2015, were enrolled in the study. All participants received ilaprazole (10 mg bid), levofloxacin (500 mg bid), and amoxicillin (1000 mg bid) for 10 days. …”
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Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Associated Metabolic Risks of Hypertension in Type 2 Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Community-Based Study by Xiaoying Ding, Ying Xu, Yufan Wang, Xiaohua Li, Chunhua Lu, Jing Su, Yuhang Ma, Yuting Chen, Yanhua Yin, Lijun Zhang, Yong Wu, Yaqiong Jin, Lijun Zheng, Songmei Xu, Xiuli Zhu, Jilin Ma, Lihua Yu, Junyi Jiang, Naisi Zhao, Qingwu Yan, Andrew S. Greenberg, Qianfang Huang, Qian Ren, Haiyan Sun, Mingyu Gu, Li Zhao, Yunhong Huang, Yijie Wu, Chunxian Qian, Yongde Peng

“…A total of 9473 subjects aged over 45 years, including 1648 patients with T2DM, were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. Clinical and biochemical parameters of all participants were determined. …”
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Leiomiosarcoma de mesenterio. Reporte de un caso by Miguel Ángel Serra Valdés, Antonio Vargas González, Ramón Portales Pérez

“…Los tumores sólidos primitivos son generalmente de origen mesenquimático, y dentro de estos predominan los derivados del músculo liso, constituyendo un capítulo de gran interés por su carácter excepcional y por su dificultad diagnóstica. …”
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