Journal of Clinical Medicine, Volume 14, Issue 9

Background/Objectives: Randomized controlled trials demonstrate comparable survival among early-stage breast cancer patients undergoing breast-conserving therapy or patient preference mastectomy. Many factors affect the choice of treatment like the a...

Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is one of the most common forms of glomerulonephritis and one of the main causes of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), affecting up to 40% of patients after 20 years of the disease. Over the past few years, several st...

Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in everyday dental practice and diagnosis, especially in the area of analysing digital pantomographic images. Through the use of innovative and modern algorithms, clin...

Background/Objectives: Preventing head deformity in the early postnatal period could avert positional plagiocephaly (PP). Accordingly, we developed a novel prophylactic device to prevent head deformity and examined its impact on the incidence of PP a...

Background: Patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) are susceptible to fractures due to glucocorticoid (GC) use and disease-related functional impairment affecting activities of daily living (ADL). The Fracture Risk Assessment Tool (FRAX®) estimates...

Background: Intraoperative nerve monitoring (IONM) is increasingly recognized as an essential technique in thyroid surgery to preserve the integrity of the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) and prevent postoperative complications. Although widely adopt...

Background: Intestinal ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) is a harmful process that occurs during intestinal infarction and intestinal transplantation (ITx). It is characterized by severe inflammation which disrupts the mucosal barrier, causing bacter...

Background: The association between Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) and new-onset cardiomyopathy (NOC) is unclear. Objectives: We aim to assess the incidence of NOC in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and its impact on short- and long-term survival...

Background and Objectives: Along with the ageing of the population, cancer and cardiovascular (CV) diseases more frequently coexist, complicating patients’ management. Here, we focus on elderly oncologic patients, describing clinical features a...

The diagnostic evaluation of interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) remains challenging due to their heterogeneous etiologies and overlapping clinical and radiographic patterns. A confident diagnosis often necessitates histopathological sampling, particul...