OBJECTIVE To report the design and preliminary results of a mirror-image study comparing total psychiatric hospitalisation rates pre- and post-switch to aripiprazole once-monthly, an extended release injectable solution. METHODS A multi-center, open-label mirror-image study of patients (18-65 years) with schizophrenia to compare total psychiatric hospitalisation rates between retrospective tr...

based on the {s+, i-} pathway, the concentration of surfactant and surface charge density of silanolate groups control the phase transition from lamellar, to hexagonal through cubic form. the high surface charge density of silanolate groups was observed for the lamellar phase. with decrease of molar concentration of surfactant on the gel, the yield of reaction decreases and the stability of mes...

Innovation/Impact: We consider our 4DCBCT reconstruction algorithm to be innovative, because of two reasons. One is that it works on conventional CBCT dataset and does not demand elongated scanning time or excessive patient dose. The other one is the improved image quality compared with traditional retrospective sorting technique, which reconstructs from sorted same phase projections and are us...

INTRODUCTION Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic and progressive disease in which the long-term management is important. This study sought to assess treatment persistence and dose escalation in the maintenance phase with adalimumab (ADA) or infliximab (IFX) in a Japanese real-world setting. METHODS A retrospective analysis was conducted using the Japan Medical Data Center database. CD patients ...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether emergency physicians (EPs) who have skills in the other applications of ultrasound can apply these in appendicitis diagnosis. METHODS EPs did not have focused training in bedside ultrasound for appendicitis. We identified patients receiving an ED bedside ultrasound evaluation for appendicitis from our ultrasound log. Criterion reference was radiology ultrasound...