Journal of Clinical Medicine, Volume 12, Issue 9

Background: Vascular calcification is an ever-more-common finding in protocoled pre-transplant imaging in living kidney donors. We intended to explore whether a connection could be found between the Agatston calcification score, prior to kidney donat...

Considering the prioritization of life-threatening injuries in trauma care, secondary dysfunctions such as ventilator-induced diaphragmatic dysfunction (VIDD) are often overlooked. VIDD is an entity induced by muscle inactivity during invasive mechan...

Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a progressive disease that worsens over time if untreated. However, the rate of progression can vary among individuals and may be influenced by various factors, such as the age of the patients, underlying cond...

The association of smoking with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) or cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been reported, but the study of its relationship with metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) is limited. We aimed to investigate the effect o...

Background: liver test abnormalities have been described in patients with Coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19), and hepatic involvement may correlate with disease severity. With the relaxing of COVID-19 restrictions, seasonal respiratory viruses now circulate...

Background/Aims: The incidence of pancreatic cancer (PC) is gradually increasing among elderly individuals, but there are insufficient clinical data on elderly individuals. To determine the efficacy and safety of chemotherapy, we compared the. the ou...

Background: The assumption of this work is the achievement of objective results of the movement structure, which forms the basis for in-depth analysis and, consequently, for determining the upper limb movements that are most affected by stroke compar...

Background/Aims: Myosteatosis implies impaired muscle quality. The aim of the study was to investigate the association of myosteatosis with other muscle abnormalities and its role in the prognosis of liver cirrhosis (LC). Method: Skeletal muscle inde...

The potential effects of asymptomatic flexible flatfoot (FF) on children’s health-related quality of life (QoL) and objective clinical foot characteristics have been poorly investigated in the literature. Therefore, this study aimed to analyse...

Background: Mild asthma is often characterized by normal spirometric values and a negative bronchodilation test (BDT), which makes accurate diagnosis challenging. The aim of our study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of fractional exhaled nitr...