BACKGROUND The consensus on most reliable supplemental test to predict the shunt responsiveness in patients with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) is lacking. The aim of this study is to discuss the utility of external lumbar drain (ELD) in evaluation of shunt responsiveness for iNPH patients. METHODS A retrospective review of 66 patients with iNPH was conducted. All patients un...

The objective of this retrospective study was to determine an optimal time point for vitrification of cleavage-stage human embryos. This study included patients who were undergoing day 2 or day 3 vitrified-warmed cleavage-stage embryo transfer at the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) Programme of the Shanghai First Maternity and Infant Hospital, China, affiliated to the Tongji University School of M...

We sought to examine the role of immune response (Ir) genes in helper T cells. To eliminate allogeneic effects, we used neonatally tolerized mice. The results bear not only on the mechanism of Ir genes, but also on the development of the T cell repertoire. B 10.BR (H-2(k)) or C57BL/10 (H-2(b)) mice, which were low responders to myoglobin (Mb), were neonatally tolerized to high responder H-2(d) ...

BACKGROUND Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist protocol has been proposed as a potentially proper option for the patients with limited ovarian reserve. Nevertheless, there is no significant difference in terms of clinical pregnancy between the GnRH antagonist and agonist cycles. The use of aromatase inhibitors such as letrozole was suggested by some studies. OBJECTIVE The object ...

OBJECTIVES There is a need to identify individual treatment success in patients with fibromyalgia (FM) who received non-pharmacological treatment. The present study described responder criteria for multicomponent non-pharmacological treatment in FM, and estimated and compared their sensitivity and specificity. METHODS Candidate responder sets were 1) identified in literature; and 2) formulate...

STUDY QUESTION Does a luteal estradiol (LE) stimulation protocol improve outcomes in poor responders to IVF? SUMMARY ANSWER LE priming is associated with decreased cycle cancellation and increased chance of clinical pregnancy in poor responders WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY Poor responders to IVF are one of the most challenging patient populations to treat. Many standard protocols currently exist f...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study is to investigate the responder rate of Electroconvulsive therapy, ECT, in clinical routine work and to define clinical characteristics predictive of response to ECT. The main hypothesis is that the responder rate of ECT might be lower in clinical routine than in controlled trials. METHODS This is a population-based study of all patients (N = 990) treat...

a proportion of healthy neonates and adults fail to develop a protective antibody response to recombinant hepatitis b (hb) vaccine. unresponsiveness to vaccination could be attributed to defect in a number of immunological regulatory mechanisms. in this study, il-12 was quantitated in culture supernatant following in vitro stimulation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells isolated from a group ...