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Massoud Mahmoudi

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. This meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety in cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA) and anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) for treating cervical d...

    Authors: Lin Xie, Ming Liu, Fan Ding, Peng Li and Dezhang Ma
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1188
    Content type: Review Published on:

  2. To describe a new surgical procedure and its results: the vulvo-vaginal rejuvenation by lipofilling and an injection of combined platelet-rich-plasma (PRP) and hyaluronic acid (HA). Sexual life for women is a...

    Authors: Paola Aguilar, Barbara Hersant, Mounia SidAhmed-Mezi, Romain Bosc, Luciano Vidal and Jean Paul Meningaud
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1184
    Content type: Technical note Published on:

  3. Local anesthetic infiltration has been used to manage postoperative pain in various surgeries. The present study was aimed to investigate the effect of skin infiltration with 0.5 % ropivacaine on postoperative...

    Authors: Hongyu Zhou, Mengchan Ou, Yaoxin Yang, Qian Ruan, Yan Pan and Yu Li
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1180
    Content type: Research Published on:

  6. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) can be associated with anemia, which can lead to more perioperative blood transfusions (PBT). Usage of PBT is associated with worse oncological outcomes. We evaluated the prevale...

    Authors: Gustaf Klinga and Amir Sherif
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1167
    Content type: Research Published on:

  7. Numbers of clinical and experimental investigations have provided increasing evidences to demonstrate that heat shock protein 27 (HSP27) is a qualified predictor for many cancers. However, no consensus has bee...

    Authors: Shuangjiang Li, Wenbiao Zhang, Jun Fan, Yutian Lai and Guowei Che
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1165
    Content type: Research Published on:

  9. We investigated a practical method to measure peak filling rate (PFR) as an indicator of diastolic function of the left ventricle. Ten adult volunteers underwent cine MR imaging using steady-state free precess...

    Authors: Shotaro Komi, Yusuke Inoue, Hirofumi Hata, Ai Nakajima and Hiroki Miyatake
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1163
    Content type: Technical note Published on:

  10. Rosacea is a common chronic skin condition that manifests as recurrent inflammatory lesions. Long-term treatment is required to control symptoms and disease progression, with topical treatments being the first...

    Authors: Kashif Siddiqui, Linda Stein Gold and Japinder Gill
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1151
    Content type: Research Published on:

  12. Calreticulin (CALR) and JAK2-V617F gene mutations, which are major genetic mutations in patients with primary myelofibrosis (PMF) and essential thrombocythemia (ET), exert different effects on the clinical featur...

    Authors: Toshinori Kondo, Taizo Tasaka, Nanako Tomioka, Fuminori Sano, Hirotoshi Tokunaga, Shin-ichiro Suemori, Takayuki Tsujioka, Yoshiko Matsuhashi, Hidekazu Nakanishi, Hideho Wada, Kaoru Tohyama and Takashi Sugihara
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1146
    Content type: Research Published on:

  15. Chronic constipation is a prevalent, burdensome gastrointestinal disorder whose aetiology and pathophysiology remains poorly understood and is most likely multifactorial. Differences in the composition of the ...

    Authors: Ying Zhao and Yan-Bo Yu
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1130
    Content type: Review Published on:

  17. As a widely used instrument for patients with extremity sarcoma, the Toronto Extremity Salvage Score (TESS) has never been cross-culturally adapted for Chinese population. The objective of our study was to inv...

    Authors: Leilei Xu, Minghui Sun, Weixiang Sun, Xiaodong Qin, Zezhang Zhu and Shoufeng Wang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1118
    Content type: Research Published on:

  18. Reperfusion therapy is the most crucial strategy for rescuing ischemic myocardium and reducing infarction size. Cyclosporine A (CsA) can protect against reperfusion-induced myocardial necrosis. However, the cl...

    Authors: Chen Yingzhong, Cai lin and Wang Chunbin
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1117
    Content type: Research Published on:

  19. An anaphylactoid purpura affects small capillaries in the skin and other organs. Although two cases of anaphylactoid purpura exacerbated by cellulitis have been reported in Japanese literatures, its prognosis ...

    Authors: Natsuko Saito-Sasaki, Yu Sawada, Shun Ohmori, Daisuke Omoto, Sanehito Haruyama, Manabu Yoshioka, Daisuke Nishio and Motonobu Nakamura
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1112
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  20. Pain management and safe use of analgesics is an important medical issue. Tramadol is an old analgesic with controversial properties. Evaluation of worldwide scientific output on tramadol has not been explored...

    Authors: Waleed M. Sweileh, Naser Y. Shraim, Sa’ed H. Zyoud and Samah W. Al-Jabi
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1108
    Content type: Research Published on:

  22. Spontaneous rupture is one of the most fatal complications of HCC. The incidence of HCC still remains a significant health problem in Eastern Asia. Many studies have shown that the in-hospital or 30-day mortal...

    Authors: Feng Zhong, Xin-Sheng Cheng, Kun He, Shi-Bo Sun, Jie Zhou and Hai-Ming Chen
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1101
    Content type: Research Published on:

  23. Bone Scan Index (BSI) expresses tumor burden in bone as a percentage of total skeletal mass, but its significance for metastatic breast cancer patients is unknown. We investigated whether baseline BSI is assoc...

    Authors: Ai Idota, Masataka Sawaki, Akiyo Yoshimura, Masaya Hattori, Yoshitaka Inaba, Isao Oze, Toyone Kikumori, Yasuhiro Kodera and Hiroji Iwata
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1095
    Content type: Research Published on:

  24. Ossifying fibroma is a rare benign bone tumor that occurs mostly in the jaw, but also affects paranasal sinuses and fronto-ethmoidal complex. Occipital bone is an extremely rare location for these tumors; only...

    Authors: Carlos Cotúa Quintero, Anwar Saab Mazzei, Juan Revuelta Barbero, Avelino Parajon Diaz and Luis Ley Urzaiz
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1089
    Content type: Case Study Published on:

  25. The Uigur ethnic minority is the largest ethnic group in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China, and valuable resource for the study of ethnogeny. The objective of this study was to estimate the genetic...

    Authors: Ting Mei, Chun-Mei Shen, Yao-Shun Liu, Hao-Tian Meng, Yu-Dang Zhang, Yu-Xin Guo, Qian Dong, Xin-Xin Wang, Jiang-Wei Yan, Bo-Feng Zhu and Li-Ping Zhang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1087
    Content type: Research Published on:

  26. Systemic sclerosis (SSc) caused fibrosis can be fatal and it still lack of effective treatment. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) appears to be an attractive therapeutic candidates. This study aimed to investigate the prote...

    Authors: Zhi Wang, Xiaoya Yin, Luyan Gao, Sheng Feng, Kai Song, Lingyun Li, Ying Lu and Huaying Shen
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1084
    Content type: Research Published on:

  28. Evaluation of maternal heart rate (MHR) variability provides useful information on the maternal-fetal clinical state. Electrocardiography (ECG) is the most accurate method to monitor MHR but it may not always ...

    Authors: Hernâni Gonçalves, Paula Pinto, Manuela Silva, Diogo Ayres-de-Campos and João Bernardes
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1079
    Content type: Research Published on:

  29. Behcet’s disease involves several systems in the body. Neurological involvement is identified by different symptoms. Headache is one of the common complaints of patients with Behcet’s disease. It might be a pa...

    Authors: Maryam Moghaddassi, Mansoureh Togha, Farhad Shahram, Hamed Hanif, Sahar Dadkhah, Soodeh Razeghi Jahromi and Mohammad Mozafari
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1077
    Content type: Research Published on:

  31. Recently, time-resolved 3D phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging (4D-flow) allows flow dynamics in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension to be measured. Abnormal flow dynamics, such as vortex blood...

    Authors: Keiichi Odagiri, Naoki Inui, Akio Hakamata, Yusuke Inoue, Takafumi Suda, Yasuo Takehara, Harumi Sakahara, Masataka Sugiyama, Marcus T. Alley, Tetsuya Wakayama and Hiroshi Watanabe
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1071
    Content type: Research Published on:

  34. Patients with glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis (GIOP) are at very high risk of fracture, and patients with severe GIOP often experience fractures during treatment with bisphosphonates. Teriparatide (TPTD) i...

    Authors: Takahiro Seno, Aihiro Yamamoto, Yuji Kukida, Aiko Hirano, Takashi Kida, Amane Nakabayashi, Kazuki Fujioka, Hidetake Nagahara, Wataru Fujii, Ken Murakami, Ryo Oda, Hiroyoshi Fujiwara, Masataka Kohno and Yutaka Kawahito
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1056
    Content type: Research Published on:

  36. We evaluated a non-invasive method for predicting the ovarian function of premenopausal breast cancer patients with amenorrhoea after chemotherapy. A total of 34 patients had ovarian function, whereas 56 had n...

    Authors: Xiao Shi Li, Qing Lv, Zheng Gui Du and Jie Chen
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1052
    Content type: Research Published on:

  37. Critical stroke causes high morbidity and mortality. We examined if variables in the early stage of critical stroke could predict in-hospital mortality.

    Authors: Wei-Min Ho, Jr-Rung Lin, Hui-Hsuan Wang, Chia-Wei Liou, Ku-Chou Chang, Jiann-Der Lee, Tsung-Yi Peng, Jen-Tsung Yang, Yeu-Jhy Chang, Chien-Hung Chang and Tsong-Hai Lee
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1051
    Content type: Research Published on:

  38. Pharmaceutical companies have been known to pose stress and mental harassment on medical sales representatives (MSRs) in-order to increase pharmaceutical sales. This cross sectional descriptive study, conducte...

    Authors: Muhammad Atif, Arslan Bashir, Quratulain Saleem, Rabia Hussain, Shane Scahill and Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1048
    Content type: Research Published on:

  39. As a regulator of coagulation, abnormal Protein Z (PZ) expression may lead to the formation of blood clots in humans. While previous studies have shown that PZ protein is altered in several types of cancer, ho...

    Authors: Hong Wang, Fang Huang, Xue-Yi Pan, Ze-Bin Guan, Wen-Bing Zeng, Ming-Jie Li and Rui-Hao Zhang
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1046
    Content type: Research Published on:

  43. New treatments with novel mechanisms of action and non-overlapping toxicities are needed for patients with metastatic breast cancer. Etirinotecan pegol (EP) is a long-acting topoisomerase-I inhibitor with a un...

    Authors: Javier Cortés, Hope S. Rugo, Chris Twelves, Ahmad Awada, Edith A. Perez, Seock-Ah Im, Carol Zhao, Ute Hoch, Denise Tomkinson, James Buchanan, Mary Tagliaferri, Alison Hannah and Joyce O’Shaughnessy
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1033
    Content type: Research Published on:

  45. Fibromyalgia is characterized by chronic pain and tenderness throughout the body. Patients with fibromyalgia are treated with pharmacotherapy and many other therapies. However, because the cause of fibromyalgi...

    Authors: Fukami Nakajima, Satoko Aratani, Hidetoshi Fujita, Kou Nakatani, Koshi Makita and Toshishiro Nakajima
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1027
    Content type: Case Study Published on:

  46. The purpose of the current study was to assess the feasibility of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) parameters for determining the prognosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We also analyzed the correlation among DTI...

    Authors: Toshiaki Taoka, Fumihiko Yasuno, Masayuki Morikawa, Makoto Inoue, Kuniaki Kiuchi, Soichiro Kitamura, Kiwamu Matsuoka, Toshifumi Kishimoto, Kimihiko Kichikawa and Shinji Naganawa
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1023
    Content type: Research Published on:

  47. In regard to the fixation using a pedicle screw (PS) and rod system, the mechanism from the onset of the clear zone up to the development of loosening of the pedicle screw is not completely clarified. The purp...

    Authors: Tetsutaro Mizuno, Yuichi Kasai, Toshihiko Sakakibara, Takamasa Yoshikawa and Tadashi Inaba
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1016
    Content type: Research Published on:

  48. This study aimed to compare the efficacy and safety of the newest bipolar vessel sealing system (BVSS; LigaSure™ Small Jaw) to that of conventional technique in axillary dissection.

    Authors: Tomoko Seki, Tetsu Hayashida, Maiko Takahashi, Hiromitsu Jinno and Yuko Kitagawa
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:1004
    Content type: Research Published on:

  49. Pregnancy after organ transplantation is becoming increasingly common. However, reports of the anesthesia for such patients are rare. Heart transplant recipients are always accompanied with pathophysiological...

    Authors: Xiaofei Qi, Xiaolei Wang, Xiaolei Huang, Chenhong Wang, Yin Gu and Yuantao Li
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:993
    Content type: Case study Published on:

  50. In addition to its role in maintaining organism homeostasis, the immune system also plays a crucial role in the modulation of ovarian function, as it regulates ovarian development, follicular maturation, ovula...

    Authors: Haifeng Ye, Xiaoyan Li, Tuochen Zheng, Xia Liang, Jia Li, Jian Huang, Zezheng Pan and Yuehui Zheng
    Citation: SpringerPlus 2016 5:990
    Content type: Review Published on: