Background/aim: The aim of this research is to investigate the clinical efficacy of hemoperfusion in the treatment of severe acute organophosphorus pesticide poisoning (AOPP). Materials and methods: Patients meeting the inclusion criteria were divided into Groups 1 and 2 according to whether hemoperfusion was applied or not. Group 2 was observed as the control group. Conventional therapy for AO...

Prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer mortality among men in the United States. While many prostate cancers are indolent, an important subset of patients experiences disease recurrence after conventional therapy and progresses to castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), which is currently incurable. Thus, there is a critical need to identify biomarkers that will distingu...

The recalcitrant oral ulceration (OU) and genital ulceration (GU) of Behçet disease (BD) can be very distressing and no standard therapy has been established yet. To determine the efficacy of Wet-cupping (W-C) as adjuvant treatment of oral and genital ulceration of BD, 24 patients were included in this prospective and comparative study. All patients included in the study had a recalcitrant oral...

Sleep apnoea is associated with increased mortality in sleep clinic and community population groups. It is unclear whether a clinical report of sleep apnoea results in additional mortality risk in patients with severe obesity. The Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study is a nonrandomised controlled trial of bariatric surgery versus conventional treatment for the treatment of severe obesity and its ...

BACKGROUND Arm hemiparesis secondary to stroke is common and disabling. We aimed to assess whether robotic training of an affected arm with ARMin--an exoskeleton robot that allows task-specific training in three dimensions-reduces motor impairment more effectively than does conventional therapy. METHODS In a prospective, multicentre, parallel-group randomised trial, we enrolled patients who h...

BACKGROUND The study investigated whether passive splinting or active motor training as either individualized best conventional therapy or as standardized impairment-oriented training (IOT) would be superior in promoting motor recovery in subacute stroke patients with mildly or severely paretic arms. METHODS A total of 148 anterior circulation ischemic stroke patients were randomly assigned t...

BACKGROUND The natural course of Crohn's disease (CD), with continuing relapses and remissions, leads to irreversible intestinal damage. Early adoption of immunomodulator therapy has been proposed in order to address this; however, it is still uncertain whether early immunomodulator therapy could affect the natural course of the disease in real practice. We evaluated the efficacy of such therap...

Amiodarone is an antiarrhythmic agent unrelated to other drugs in current use. It has been little used in Britain, and no formal clinical trials have been possible because the drug has not been licensed by the Committee on Safety of Medicines. Nevertheless it has unique properties which can be valuable in the treatment of a wide spectrum of arrhythmias, particularly supraventricular tachycardia...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of electroacupuncture at the Lieque, Chize, and Zusanli points in patients with lung injury caused by severe acute pancreatitis. Patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) induced by severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) were randomly divided into three groups based on the treatment: conventional therapy alone (group A), electroacupuncture of ...

OBJECTIVE Compare the treatment outcomes ofswitch therapy and conventional therapy inpediatricpatients aged one month to five years old, diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia who required hospitalization. MATERIAL AND METHOD The present study was performed and approved by the Siriraj Research Ethics Committee. With informed consent, 57 patients whofitted the inclusion criteria were rand...