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Long-term clinical results after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) with an autologous iliac crest are rare. The purpose of this study was to assess this, with special focus on pain, functional outcome, and repeat surgery for adjacent segment disease (ASD). ⋯ ACDF yields significant decrease in pain, a significant increase in function, and a high degree of patient satisfaction. Overall prevalence for ASD was 12.0% after 25 years. Patients with reoperation had similar clinical outcome regarding pain, compared with patients without reoperation.
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Management of patients afflicted with brain metastasis requires tailoring of therapeutic strategies based on survival expectations. Therefore, the development of prognostic indices is of critical importance in this patient population. ⋯ AUC, area under the receiver-operating characteristic curveBM, brain metastasisCITV, cumulative intracranial tumor volumeds-GPA, disease-specific Graded Prognostic AssessmentGPA, Graded Prognostic AssessmentIDI, integrated discrimination improvementKHMGH, Katsuta Hospital Mito Gamma HouseKPS, Karnofsky Performance StatusNRI, net reclassification improvementROC, receiver-operating characteristic curveSRS, stereotactic radiosurgeryUCSD/SDGKC, University of California, San Diego/San Diego Gamma Knife Center.
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a common disease for adults, particularly for young people. Most TBI patients have intracerebral hemorrhage, which often to brain edema and toxicity to the neural tissue. Deferoxamine (also known as Deferrioxamine B, Deferoxamine B, DFO-B, DFOA, DFB or desferal, DFX) is a bacterial siderophore produced by the Actinobacteria Streptomyces pilosus. It has medical applications as a chelating agent used to remove excess iron from the body. Animal models indicate that Deferoxamine accelerates intracranial hemorrhage absorption, although its effects on human patients remain unclear. In the present study, we investigated whether DFX can accelerate intracranial hemorrhage absorption, reduce acute hemorrhage-induced edema, and improve patient outcome. ⋯ Based on our preliminary study, DFX offers faster hemorrhage absorption, less significant focal edema, and better outcome for patient with traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage. There is a reason to believe that DFX is effective and safe for traumatic Intracerebral hemorrhage treatment, yet further investigation with more patients is required.