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Section Editor: Massoud Mahmoudi

 

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 prognosis for recipients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) of salvage liver transplantation (SLT) versus those of primary liver transplantation (PLT) remains controversial. The objective of this study wa...

    Authors: Pusen Wang, Ying Pu, Hao Li, Baojie Shi, Shengnai Zheng and Lin Zhong
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1809
  2. Vasospasm still is a major cause of morbidity after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. The purpose of this report is to describe the successful management of severe refractory vasospasm with continuous intra-...

    Authors: Raimund Helbok, Alexandra Zangerle, Andreas Chemelli, Ronny Beer, Thomas Benke, Rainer Ehling, Marlene Fischer, Martin Sojer, Bettina Pfausler, Claudius Thome and Erich Schmutzhard
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1807
  3. The modalities to treat bleeding polyps include electrocautery snare polypectomy, adrenaline injection, clipping, argon plasma coagulation and surgery. We hereby describe an endoscopic banding ligation method ...

    Authors: Ping-I Hsu, Kwok-Hung Lai, Feng-Woei Tsay, Jin-Shiung Cheng, E-Ming Wang, Rong-Jer Lai and Tsair-Fwu Lee
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1806
  4. FOLFOX is a standard combination chemotherapy regimen for metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC). 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) is infused continuously through a pump for 46 h; therefore, replacement of infused 5-FU with ...

    Authors: Manabu Shimomura, Katsunori Shinozaki, Takao Hinoi, Masanori Yoshimitsu, Manabu Kurayoshi, Daisuke Sumitani, Yasuyo Ishizaki, Takafumi Oshiro, Shinya Kodama, Yosuke Shimizu, Michinori Arita, Masakazu Tokunaga, Makoto Yoshida, Junko Tanaka and Hideki Ohdan
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1800
  5. We analyzed risk factors for Leptospira seropositivity in humans, using data from a population-based cross-sectional zoonosis survey in South Germany (2008/9). Out of 1007 participants 42 (4.2 %) were sero-positi...

    Authors: Stefan O. Brockmann, Lena Ulrich, Isolde Piechotowski, Christiane Wagner-Wiening, Karsten Nöckler, Anne Mayer-Scholl and Martin Eichner
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1796
  6. Several studies have reported a significant association between sleep disturbance and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aim of the present study is to compare the clinical characteristics and the health-re...

    Authors: Risa Uemura, Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Narika Iwakura, Masatsugu Shiba, Kenji Watanabe, Noriko Kamata, Hirokazu Yamagami, Tetsuya Tanigawa, Toshio Watanabe, Kazunari Tominaga and Tetsuo Arakawa
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1792
  7. Urine protein detection could be underestimated using the conventional dipstick method because of variations in urine aliquots. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of the semi-quantitative urine protein-t...

    Authors: Chih-Chun Chang, Ming-Jang Su, Jung-Li Ho, Yu-Hui Tsai, Wei-Ting Tsai, Shu-Jene Lee, Tzung-Hai Yen and Fang-Yeh Chu
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1791
  8. We reported a new complication after dexamethasone implant injection. The patient was treated by dexamethasone implant injection for diabetic macular edema. After injection, we report an implant stucked in Ber...

    Authors: Pierre Dubrulle, Franck Fajnkuchen, Lise Qu and Audrey Giocanti-Aurégan
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1786
  9. Improving the performance of clinical departments is not only the significant content of the healthcare system reform in China, but also the essential approach to better satisfying the Chinese growing demand ...

    Authors: Yinghui Cui, Zhengyi Wu, Yao Lu, Wenzhong Jin, Xing Dai and Jinxi Bai
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1785
  10. Senior medical students, who are future doctors, should be prepared to use antimicrobials appropriately and will be important partners in antimicrobial stewardship. This survey was designed to investigate the ...

    Authors: Kun Yang, Dongfang Wu, Fei Tan, Shaojun Shi, Xianxi Guo, Qing Min, Xiaolian Zhang and Hong Cheng
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1779
  11. To measure awareness about adverse drug reaction (ADRs) reporting among doctors, pharmacists and nurses and to determine reasons of ADRs under-reporting in Pakistan.

    Authors: Sumbul Shamim, Syed Muhammad Sharib, Saima Mahmood Malhi, Sidrat-ul Muntaha, Hassan Raza, Saniya Ata, Ali Salman Farooq and Mehwish Hussain
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1778
  12. Policing is regarded as a high-risk profession for the development of mental health disturbances owing to various critical incidents and potential traumatic events they encounter. Exploration of mental health ...

    Authors: Nuwan D. Wickramasinghe, Pushpa R. Wijesinghe, Samath D. Dharmaratne and Suneth B. Agampodi
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1776
  13. High mobility group box-1 (HMGB1) is a proinflammatory, DAMP protein that participates in many pathological conditions. In this study, we evaluated the usability of CSF HMGB1 as a biomarker for the diagnosis o...

    Authors: Yan Chen, Jun Zhang, Xiaofei Wang, Yu Wu, Li Zhu, Longkun Lu, Qian Shen and Yanghua Qin
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1775
  14. Stress ulcers occur frequently in neurosurgical intensive care patients and can pose serious risks. We summarized the clinical experience of the combined application of nasointestinal tubes for early restorat...

    Authors: Tianshu Lu and Jingyu Guan
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1769
  15. We report a case of synchronous rectal and prostate cancer treated successfully with simultaneous da Vinci robotic-assisted low anterior resection of the rectum and robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prosta...

    Authors: Myungchan Park, Seong Cheol Kim, Jae-Seung Chung, Sang Hyun Park, Seok San Park, Sung Jin Oh, Donghoon Lee, Koon Ho Rha and Cheol Kyu Oh
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1768
  16. The present study was aimed to assess the relationship between pain expectation before labour, labour pain and pain perception after the labour. Pregnant women were asked to rate their pain level on a standar...

    Authors: Huseyin Aksoy, Burak Yücel, Ulku Aksoy, Gokhan Acmaz, Turgut Aydin and Mustafa Alparslan Babayigit
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1766
  17. Adverse drug events (ADEs), harmful unintended consequences of medication use, are a leading cause of hospital admissions, yet are rarely documented in a structured format between care providers. We describe p...

    Authors: Adam Chruscicki, Katherin Badke, David Peddie, Serena Small, Ellen Balka and Corinne M. Hohl
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1764
  18. Increasing evidence suggests that cancer stem cells (CSCs) are a key occurrence in the process of many human cancers. Lung cancer is the most common aggressive malignancy and cause of cancer death worldwide. T...

    Authors: Tao Fan, Wei Wang, Boyou Zhang, Yao Xu, Lei Chen, Shize Pan, Hao Hu and Qing Geng
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1762
  19. Prone position during general anesthesia for special surgical operations may be related with increased airway pressure, decreased pulmonary and thoracic compliance that may be explained by restriction of chest...

    Authors: Oznur Sen, Mefkur Bakan, Tarik Umutoglu, Nurdan Aydın, Mehmet Toptas and Ibrahim Akkoc
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1761
  20. Sturge–Weber syndrome (SWS) is a rare congenital disease that affects the brain, skin, and eyes, and is a sporadically occurring neurocutaneous syndrome that affects intracerebral veins, which is associated w...

    Authors: Masashi Chonan, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Shinya Haryu, Shoji Mashiyama and Teiji Tominaga
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1746
  21. Chryseobacterium indologenes is an uncommon organism that has been documented to cause a variety of invasive infections mostly in hospitalized patients with severe underlying diseases.

    Authors: Serkan Atıcı, Zeynep Alp Ünkar, Kübra Erdem, Eda Kepenekli Kadayifci, Ayşe Karaaslan, Aslı Çınar Memişoğlu, Ahmet Soysal, Nurver Ülger Toprak, Güner Söyletir, Eren Özek and Mustafa Bakır
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1741
  22. There is a scarcity of data available to determine the safety and effectiveness of bariatric surgery in the elderly population. Additionally, there are no studies showing the effect of the single anastomosis d...

    Authors: Hinali Zaveri, Amit Surve, Daniel Cottam, Christina Summerhays, Austin Cottam, Christina Richards, LeGrand Belnap and Walter Medlin
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1740
  23. Bipolar and monopolar transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) are both widely used for surgical treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. Systemic absorption of irrigation fluids during TURP operations lea...

    Authors: Meltem Savran Karadeniz, Erdem Bayazit, Omur Aksoy, Emine Aysu Salviz, Tzevat Tefik, Oner Sanli, Mukadder Orhan Sungur and Kamil Mehmet Tugrul
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1739
  24. Interstitial lung disease (ILD), which is the most common form of respiratory involvement of Sjȍgren syndrome (SS), is highly associated with postoperative pulmonary complications after surgery. We report the ...

    Authors: Jeong-Min Hong, Eunsoo Kim, Hae-Kyu Kim, Do-Won Lee, Ji-Seok Baik and Ji-Youn Lee
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1737
  25. The prevalence of epilepsy is high in Madagascar (23.5/1000), as is the treatment gap (estimated at 92 %). The health system of the country is underfunded; some AEDs are used, and the national drug policy doe...

    Authors: Jeremy Jost, Adeline Raharivelo, Voa Ratsimbazafy, Mandy Nizard, Emilie Auditeau, Charles R. Newton and Pierre-Marie Preux
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1726
  26. Clinical laboratory tests are important for clinicians to make diagnostic decisions, but discrepancies may directly lead to incorrect diagnosis. We would like to introduce some statistical methods to evaluate ...

    Authors: Kun Zhong, Wei Wang, Chuanbao Zhang, Falin He, Shuai Yuan and Zhiguo Wang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1724
  27. Metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1), a newly discovered long intergenic noncoding RNA (lincRNA), has been reported to be aberrantly expressed in various cancers, and may serve as a ...

    Authors: Ping Shuai, Yu Zhou, Bo Gong, Zhilin Jiang, Chong Yang, Hongji Yang, Dingding Zhang and Shikai Zhu
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1721
  28. Currently, whether endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is superior to conventional TBNA (cTBNA) in the diagnosis of mediastinal lymphadenopathy remains controversial. ...

    Authors: Jun-Hong Yan, Lei Pan, Xiao-Li Chen, Jian-Wei Chen, Li-Ming Yan, Bao Liu and Yong-Zhong Guo
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1716
  29. Idiopathic basal ganglia calcification (IBGC) is a rare, intractable disease with unknown etiology. IBGC3 is a familial genetic disease defined by genetic mutations in the major causative gene (SLC20A2). People w...

    Authors: Tomiko Takeuchi, Koko Muraoka, Megumi Yamada, Yuri Nishio and Isao Hozumi
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1713
  30. Irrigation-induced increase in intrarenal pressure is of concern because it may cause infection due to increased pyelovenous and pyelolymphatic absorption. This study is the first to compare prospectively the ...

    Authors: Vahit Guzelburc, Mehmet Balasar, Mukaddes Colakogullari, Selcuk Guven, Abdulkadir Kandemir, Ahmet Ozturk, Pelin Karaaslan, Bulent Erkurt and Selami Albayrak
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1707
  31. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence and distribution of urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis genotypes in symptomatic male patients who were referred to the clinics of the Istanbul Faculty of Medicin...

    Authors: Muammer Osman Köksal, Hayati Beka, Mehmet Demirci, Ates Kadioglu, Ali Agacfidan and Baki Akgül
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1706
  32. To evaluate whether there is an association between single nucleotide polymorphisms in magnesium-permeable TRPM6 ion channel and development of meningomyelocele (MMC). Therefore, we examined a total of 150 childr...

    Authors: Mehmet Saraç, Ebru Önalan, Ünal Bakal, Tugay Tartar, Mustafa Aydın, Ayşen Orman, Ahmet Tektemur, Erdal Taşkın, Fatih Serhat Erol and Ahmet Kazez
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1703
  33. While ovarian mature cystic teratomas are benign ovarian germ-cell tumors and the most common type of all ovarian tumors, the formation of fistulas into surrounding organs such as the bladder and the intestina...

    Authors: Yuichiro Kizaki, Tomonori Nagai, Ken Ohara, Yosuke Gomi, Taichi Akahori, Yoshihisa Ono, Shigetaka Matsunaga, Yasushi Takai, Masahiro Saito, Kazunori Baba and Hiroyuki Seki
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1700
  34. Though foreign body (FB) aspiration or ingestion is not uncommon in children, a straight pin as the culprit FB is rarely seen. The nature of such a FB makes it sometimes difficult to diagnose and deal with, es...

    Authors: Xicheng Deng, Jinghua Wang, Renwei Chen, Peng Huang, Pingbo Liu and Xinyou Luo
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1694
  35. Variants of microRNA (miRNA)-binding sites in RAD51 gene’s 3′ untranslated region (3′UTR) are significantly associated with cancer risk, but the roles of these genetic variants in post-transcriptional regulation ...

    Authors: Fengxia Chen, Haozhong Zhang and Feifei Pu
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1688
  36. There is no global consensus for the optimal management of HCC. Most of patients at the time of diagnosis are not candidate for potentially curative therapy. The study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of low dos...

    Authors: Amr Shaaban Hanafy
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1675