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Massoud Mahmoudi

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Dr. Massoud Mahmoudi graduated from the A.T. Still University of Health Sciences/ Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1994. He works in Los Gatos, CA and specializes in Allergy & Immunology and Internal Medicine. Dr. Mahmoudi is affiliated with El Camino Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital.

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  1. The primary objective of the present study was to show the long lasting cardioprotective activity, at different time-points, up to 18 month-follow-up, of telmisartan in preserving the systolic function (assess...

    Authors: Mariele Dessì, Clelia Madeddu, Alessandra Piras, Christian Cadeddu, Giorgia Antoni, Giuseppe Mercuro and Giovanni Mantovani
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:198
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  2. Monoclonal antibodies bevacizumab and cetuximab both improve overall survival (OS), progression free survival (PFS) and overall response rate (ORR) when combined with irinotecan-containing regimens. The optima...

    Authors: Roberta Grande, Donatello Gemma, Isabella Sperduti, Alain Gelibter, Maria Anna Giampaolo, Giorgio Trombetta, Fabrizio Nelli and Teresa Gamucci
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:185
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  3. The purpose of the educational intervention was to measure changes in knowledge, perceived benefit of nutrition, and perceived self efficacy in handling side effects of chemotherapy before and after viewing a ...

    Authors: Julie Thompson, Kathryn Silliman and Dawn E Clifford
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:179
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  4. Authors investigated sedation quality in children for auditory brainstem response testing. Two-hundred and seventy-six sedation procedures were retrospectively analyzed using recorded data focusing on efficacy...

    Authors: Tímea Bocskai, Adrienne Németh, Lajos Bogár and József Pytel
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:178
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  5. Patients attended by palliative care teams: are they always comparable populations? To answer this question we have compared the basic epidemiological characteristics of patients attended by home palliative ca...

    Authors: Maria Nabal, Miquel Barcons, Roberto Moreno, Xavier Busquets, Javier J Trujillano and Antonio Requena
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:177
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  6. The study was conducted to assess the level of awareness on HIV/AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) and the Influence of different socio-demographic factors among the garment workers in Bangladesh. This...

    Authors: ATM Hasibul Hasan, Rashedul Hassan, Zillur Rahman Khan, Elham Nuzhat and Uditi Arefin
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:174
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  7. We report a case of a 50-year old female presenting with a giant tumor on the volar aspect of the third finger of the left hand, a thorough clinical and paraclinical evaluation followed by surgical resection r...

    Authors: Luis Ramirez-Montaño, Ricardo Pacheco Lopez and Nicolas Sastre Ortiz
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:164
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  9. Cilengitide (EMD121974), an inhibitor of the adhesive function of integrins, demonstrated preclinical efficacy against malignant glioma. It is speculated that cilengitide can inhibit tumor growth, invasion, an...

    Authors: Manabu Onishi, Kazuhiko Kurozumi, Tomotsugu Ichikawa, Hiroyuki Michiue, Kentaro Fujii, Joji Ishida, Yosuke Shimazu, E Antonio Chiocca, Balveen Kaur and Isao Date
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:160
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  11. Rocuronium and vecuronium, two non-depolarizing neuromuscular blockers, have been widely used in surgery procedures. However, their electrophysiological properties need to be more widely explored. We examined ...

    Authors: Jun Li, Yong-Qin Liu and Han-Ting Zhang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:155
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  12. Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP), a chronic upper respiratory condition characterized by diffuse multiple recurring papillomas, is thought to result from human papillomavirus (HPV) type 6 or 11 infec...

    Authors: Takeharu Kanazawa, Noriyoshi Fukushima, Shoichiro Imayoshi, Takafumi Nagatomo, Kazumi Kawada, Hiroshi Nishino, Kiyoshi Misawa and Keiichi Ichimura
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:153
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  13. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common human malignancies in the world, and its prognosis is generally poor. Epigenetic alteration such as DNA methylation has been shown to be important in th...

    Authors: Keiko Takagi, Kyoko Fujiwara, Tadatoshi Takayama, Takao Mamiya, Masayoshi Soma and Hiroki Nagase
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:150
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  14. Follow-up methods must be easy for young people to handle. We examine Interactive Voice Response (IVR) as a method for collecting self-reported data. Sixty inpatients were recruited from a child and adolescent...

    Authors: Björn Axel Johansson, Susanne Remvall, Rasmus Malgerud, Anna Lindgren and Claes Andersson
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:146
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  15. Plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) is a rare and aggressive variant of diffuse large B cell lymphoma. The prognosis of PBL patients is poor. The majority of patients succumb to a fulminant disease course, with most ...

    Authors: Christine Saraceni, Nicole Agostino, Dennis B Cornfield and Ranju Gupta
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:142
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  16. Avian leukosis (AL) is one of the most harmful diseases to the poultry industry in China. The detection of the avian leukosis virus (ALV) p27 antigen plays a decisive role in the elimination of avian leukosis....

    Authors: Xiuzhen Wang, Bo Wang, Peipei Zhang, Hegang Cheng and Shuhong Sun
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:138
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  19. Interferon alpha (IFNα) has immune stimulatory actions implicated in its pulmonary toxicities. We describe deterioration of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) associated with IFNα treatment for chronic hepati...

    Authors: Victoria Yee-May Ling, Marianne Mortimore and David J Serisier
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:101
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  20. Wards cohorting infected orthopaedic patients may be particularly prone to transmitting extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-E). We analyze their epidemic pattern by performing m...

    Authors: Americo Agostinho, Gesuele Renzi, Thomas Haustein, Ghislaine Jourdan, Chantal Bonfillon, Mathieu Rougemont, Pierre Hoffmeyer, Stephan Harbarth and Ilker Uçkay
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:91
    Content type: Research Published on:

  22. An 87-year-old man was found in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest. Despite cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for over 1 hour by emergency technicians and physicians, the patient died. Immediate postmortem co...

    Authors: Takahisa Okuda, Seiji Shiotani, Tomoya Kobayashi, Mototsugu Kohno, Hideyuki Hayakawa, Kazunori Kikuchi and Kunio Suwa
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:86
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  23. The international Headache Society (I H S) diagnostic criteria (International classification of headache disorders edition 2- ICHD 2) for headache in children and adults improved the accuracy of migraine diagn...

    Authors: Muttamthottil Varghese Francis
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:77
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  24. The non-Hodgkin lymphomas are 12th most prevalent cancers in Europe. No recent update in the epidemiology of these lymphomas has been performed in our country. We diagnosed 701 new lymphomas during the period beg...

    Authors: Silvana Novelli, Javier Briones and Jorge Sierra
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:70
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  25. The rate of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is increasing worldwide including Egypt. Non-B non-C HCC was reported in some countries. We aimed to investigate P53 antibodies and alpha-fetoprotein in patients with...

    Authors: Abdel Raouf Abou El Azm, Mohamed Yousef, Raafat Salah, Wael Mayah, Salwa Tawfeek, Hussien Ghorabah and Nagwa Mansour
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:69
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  26. Antibiograms created by aggregating hospital-wide susceptibility data from diverse patients can be misleading. To demonstrate the utility of age- and location-stratified antibiograms, we compared stratified an...

    Authors: Sanjeev K Swami and Ritu Banerjee
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:63
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  27. The relatively high frequency of primary brain tumors (PBT) observed in childhood and adolescence in Kuwait has necessitated this epidemiological study. It is based on the records of the Department of Patholog...

    Authors: Kenneth Chukwuka Katchy, Susan Alexander, Nabila Mohammed Al-Nashmi and Abbas Al-Ramadan
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:58
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  28. The unique characters of camel’s milk make it used extensively in the field of medicine as anti-microbial, anti-diabetic and hepatoprotective agent. The lack of studies demonstrating the protective effect of c...

    Authors: Thnaian Althnaian, Ibrahim Albokhadaim and Sabry M El-Bahr
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:57
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  29. The development of electronic medical records has allowed the creation of new quality indicators in healthcare. Among them, synthetic indicators facilitate global interpretation of results and comparisons betw...

    Authors: Ermengol Coma, Manel Ferran, Leonardo Méndez, Begoña Iglesias, Francesc Fina and Manuel Medina
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:51
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  31. Biliary atresia (BA) is characterized by progressive inflammation and fibrosis of bile ducts. A theory of pathogenesis entails autoimmune-mediated injury targeting bile duct epithelia. One of the strongest gen...

    Authors: Cara L Mack, Kirsten M Anderson, Michael T Aubrey, Philip Rosenthal, Ronald J Sokol and Brian M Freed
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:42
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  32. We report two patients who developed a prolonged featureless headache, they think after a drink was ‘spiked’. We speculate that each was exposed to scopolamine, resulting in enhanced trigeminal release of vaso...

    Authors: Richard Peatfield and Carlos M Villalón
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:39
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  33. Computed tomography (CT)-guided percutaneous drilling is an alternative for osteoid osteoma treatment. This study aims to evaluate the remodeling of the drill orifice. The success rate and complications were a...

    Authors: Edgard Eduard Engel, Nelson Fabrício Gava, Marcello Henrique Nogueira-Barbosa and Filipe Almeida Botter
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:34
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  34. The aim of this study was the rapid identification of bla KPC gene in 38 Klebsiella pneumoniae clinical isolates with reduced susceptibility to carbapenems. The modified Hodge Test (MHT) was carried out to phenot...

    Authors: Adriana Mosca, Luisa Miragliotta, Raffaele Del Prete, Gerasimos Tzakis, Lidia Dalfino, Francesco Bruno, Laura Pagani, Roberta Migliavacca, Aurora Piazza and Giuseppe Miragliotta
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:31
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  35. The objective of this study was to determine the changes and sensitivity of electro encephalogram during interictal period and to evaluate the finding in the clinically suspected seizure events in a tertiary c...

    Authors: Rajib Nayan Chowdhury, ATM Hasibul Hasan, Kazi Mohibur Rahman, Badrul Alam Mondol, Sudip Ranjan Deb and Quazi Deen Mohammad
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:27
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  36. Skin rash is one of the notorious adverse events of gefitinib as well as other epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors. The differences of response rate and frequency of adverse events betw...

    Authors: Yasoo Sugiura, Etsuo Nemoto, Osamu Kawai, Yasuyuki Ohkubo, Hisae Fusegawa and Shizuka Kaseda
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:22
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  37. Bile acids play an important role in post-prandial glucose metabolism by stimulating release of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) via the G-protein-coupled receptor TGR5, which is expressed in intestinal L cells...

    Authors: Masanori Murakami, Naoko Une, Maiko Nishizawa, Sayaka Suzuki, Hideki Ito and Toshiyuki Horiuchi
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:20
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  38. Obesity and its related illnesses are pan-endemic health problems which require intervention. Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding (LAGB) is seen as a safe surgical procedure with satisfactory results on we...

    Authors: Khalid Al Khalifa, Claudio Violato and Ahmed Al Ansari
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:19
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  39. Health disparities in cancer mortality for racial/ethnic minorities is a public health concern. Financial barriers are the major factors preventing cancer patients from accessing treatment in a timely manner. ...

    Authors: Diana Peacher, Helen Palomino, Eunjeong Ko and Susan I Woodruff
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:15
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  41. Cluster headache is a primary headache by definition not caused by any known underlying structural pathology. However, symptomatic cases have been described, e.g. tumours, particularly pituitary adenomas, malf...

    Authors: Bengt Edvardsson and Staffan Persson
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:4
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  42. Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is characterized by an apparent geographical distribution in incidence, being more common in North Africa than other parts of the world. Despite the rapid growth of immigrants ...

    Authors: Kelly A Hirko, Amr S Soliman, Mousumi Banerjee, Julie Ruterbusch, Joe B Harford, Robert M Chamberlain, John J Graff, Sofia D Merajver and Kendra Schwartz
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2013 2:3
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  44. The present study was conducted to determine the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of Pseudomonas aeruginosa from sputum samples of lower respiratory tract infection patients admitted to different hospitals of Ka...

    Authors: Anab Fatima, Syed Baqir Naqvi, Sheikh Abdul Khaliq, Shaheen Perveen and Sabahat Jabeen
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2012 1:70
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  45. Multiple epigenetic changes, including alterations in DNA methylation occur during tumorigenesis. Various inhibitors of DNA methylation have been developed to prevent proliferation of cancer cells. 5-fluoro-2′-de...

    Authors: Quanyi Zhao, Jiadong Fan, Wei Hong, Lianyun Li and Min Wu
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2012 1:65
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  46. The development of computer software and other technologies greatly facilitates the evaluation of pathological voice patients. This fact allows to reduce exploration time, improves the reproducibility of resul...

    Authors: Amaia Méndez Zorrilla, Begoña García Zapirain and Agustín Pérez Izquierdo
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2012 1:64
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  48. Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is an effective treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) that would occasionally lead to energy malnutrition through therapeutic hypoxic stress. We aimed to ...

    Authors: Masaya Saito, Yasushi Seo, Yoshihiko Yano, Akira Miki, Kenji Momose, Hirotaka Hirano, Masaru Yoshida and Takeshi Azuma
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2012 1:55
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  50. Background: A 2,4,6-trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (TNBS)-induced murine colitis model was developed to investigate the pathogenesis and to evaluate a method of treating human Crohn’s disease. This experimental...

    Authors: Eiichi Momotani, Hiroshi Ozaki, Masatoshi Hori, Shizuo Yamamoto, Takashi Kuribayashi, Shigetoshi Eda and Masahiro Ikegami
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2012 1:47
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