Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Francisco X. Azpiazu-Flores, Damian J. Lee, Carlos A. Jurado, Hamid Nurrohman
Summary: Dental implants are a reliable treatment option for edentulism, and 3D-printed overlay templates can help visualize the relationship between artificial teeth, vertical dimension, and occlusal plane in patients with weakened dentition.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hatim Alqurashi, Zohaib Khurshid, Azeem Ul Yaqin Syed, Syed Rashid Habib, Dinesh Rokaya, Muhammad Sohail Zafar
Summary: PEKK is a new evolving polymeric material with good shock absorbance and fracture resistance, showing promising potential in restorative and implant dentistry applications, especially with reduced stress shielding effect in dental implants. Further research and developments are needed to broaden its applications in the field of dentistry.
JOURNAL OF ADVANCED RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Susanne Palmcrantz, Anneli Wall, Katarina Skough Vreede, Pavel Lindberg, Anna Danielsson, Katharina S. Sunnerhagen, Charlotte K. Hager, Jorgen Borg
Summary: This study examined the impact of training with an electromechanically assisted gait training (EAGT) system, specifically the Hybrid Assistive Limb(R) (HAL), integrated with conventional rehabilitation on long-term improvements in individuals post-stroke. The findings suggest that intensive conventional gait training induced significant improvements while the integration of treadmill-based EAGT did not provide additional value in this study sample.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Biochemical Research Methods
Naomi C. Paxton, Renee C. Nightingale, Maria A. Woodruff
Summary: This article discusses the importance of prostheses in healthcare provision for implantable medical devices in musculoskeletal surgery, and how to accurately capture patient anatomy for manufacturing personalized prostheses. It also provides an overview of current trends in scanning technology, with a focus on incorporating personalization into patient-specific products.
CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
Yuwei Yan, Xiao Lin, Xinxin Yue, Wei Geng
Summary: This study compared the accuracy of IOS and SPG for complete arch implant scans and evaluated the passive fit of frameworks fabricated with SPG. The results showed that SPG was significantly more accurate than IOS and was not affected by implant position or number. The frameworks fabricated based on SPG and laboratory scanning were comparable in their passive fit. This suggests that SPG may be an alternative to laboratory scanning for complete arch implant scans.
JOURNAL OF PROSTHETIC DENTISTRY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Rong-jia Pan, Si-jie Gui, Yu-Lian He, Fang Nian, Xiao-Yan Ni, Yan-hui Zhou, Man-yi Wang, Jing-jing Wu, Gu-qing Zeng, Jing-hong Liang, Dan Peng
Summary: Exercise intervention is a promising and cost-effective approach for patients with hip fracture. Resistance exercise and balance exercise might be the optimal interventions for improving prognosis.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Miguel de Araujo Nobre, Carlos Moura Guedes, Ricardo Almeida, Antonio Silva, Nuno Sereno
Summary: This study demonstrates that PEEK-acrylic resin implant-supported full-arch prostheses have high prosthetic and implant survival rates, low marginal bone loss, and low rates of biological and prosthetic complications.
Review
Surgery
Allison A. Slijepcevic, Azadeh Afshari, Ann E. Vitale, Steven M. Couch, Latoya M. Jeanpierre, John J. Chi
Summary: Maxillofacial prostheses provide effective rehabilitation for complex facial defects, but their routine clinical use is hindered by various barriers. A multidisciplinary team is required for the clinical use of facial prostheses, and developing technology and enhanced materials may improve their availability and durability. Long-term outcomes data are needed to support the continued use of facial prostheses.
PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY
(2023)
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Koorosh Semsar-kazerooni, Diana Dima, Julie Valiquette, Joelle Berube-Dufour, Michael Goldfarb
Summary: This study reviewed the implementation of an early mobilization program in a tertiary-care cardiovascular intensive care unit (CICU) and found that early mobilization is safe, feasible, and effective in increasing discharge home rates. The intervention group had a higher rate of discharge home and lower in-hospital death rate compared to the preintervention group. Admission Level of Function (LOF) was identified as a predictor of discharge to a health care facility after adjusting for age, sex, and comorbid illness.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Masatsugu Okamura, Masaaki Konishi, Akiko Sagara, Yasuo Shimizu, Takeshi Nakamura
Summary: Early mobilization was found to be associated with favorable discharge disposition and functional status in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage in this retrospective study, suggesting the potential benefits of early rehabilitation in this patient population.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Jong Taek Lee, Eunhee Park, Tae-Du Jung
Summary: This study developed a framework for classifying dependence in ambulation using a 3D convolutional neural network on video data recorded by smartphones during inpatient rehabilitation therapy for stroke patients. The proposed framework can alert clinicians or caregivers when stroke patients with dependent ambulation move alone without assistance, facilitating the design of individualized rehabilitation strategies.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
Konstantinovic S. Vitomir, Ivanjac Filip, Lazic Vojkan, Dordevic Igor, Palka Lukasz
Summary: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term survival rate of two different designs of implants (disk and screw-type) used for extraoral epithesis anchorage. The results showed that the survival rate was higher in the nasal site compared to the orbital site. Patients who had undergone radiation treatment had lower survival rates. Among the different designs of implants, double disk implants in the orbital region and single disk implants in the nasal region were the most reliable.
JOURNAL OF PROSTHETIC DENTISTRY
(2022)
Review
Surgery
Antonie Willner, Christian Teske, Thilo Hackert, Thilo Welsch
Summary: Early postoperative mobilization can accelerate gastrointestinal recovery, but its impact on the morbidity rate and hospital stay is not significant in randomized trials. The included studies are heterogeneous and further randomized trials on this topic are urgently required.
Article
Dentistry, Oral Surgery & Medicine
Edmara T. P. Bergamo, Tiago M. C. Bastos, Adolfo C. O. Lopes, Everardo N. S. de Araujo Junior, Paulo G. Coelho, Ernesto B. Benalcazar Jalkh, Abbas Zahoui, Estevam A. Bonfante
Summary: The study characterized the physicochemical and mechanical properties of a milled fiber-reinforced composite for implant-supported fixed dental prostheses. Results showed that FDPs fabricated with milled epoxy resin matrix reinforced with glass fibers demonstrated high probability of survival at 300N load, indicating good fatigue performance.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Alison M. Barnard, David W. Hammers, William T. Triplett, Sarah Kim, Sean C. Forbes, Rebecca J. Willcocks, Michael J. Daniels, Claudia R. Senesac, Donovan J. Lott, Ishu Arpan, William D. Rooney, Richard T. Wang, Stanley F. Nelson, Lee Sweeney, Krista Vandenborne, Glenn A. Walter
Summary: This study evaluated the effects of dystrophin variations and genetic modifiers of DMD on muscle replacement by fat. The results showed that specific mutations could lead to alterations in trajectories of lower extremity muscle replacement by fat.
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Christian Muschitz, Roland Kocijan, Judith Haschka, Afrodite Zendeli, Thomas Pirker, Corinna Geiger, Andrea Mueller, Bettina Tschinder, Annemarie Kocijan, Christina Marterer, Arastoo Nia, Gabriela Katharina Muschitz, Heinrich Resch, Peter Pietschmann
JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH
(2016)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Christian Muschitz, Roland Kocijan, Christina Marterer, Arastoo Rahbar Nia, Gabriela Katharina Muschitz, Heinrich Resch, Peter Pietschmann
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM
(2015)
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Thomas Wild, Arastoo Rahbarnia, Martina Kellner, Lubos Sobotka, Thomas Eberlein
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Arastoo Nia, Domenik Popp, Cornelia Diendorfer, Sebastian Apprich, Alexandru Munteanu, Stefan Hajdu, Harald K. Widhalm
Summary: During the COVID-19 lockdown, there were significant reductions in workplace and traffic accidents, sports injuries, and hospital admissions due to attempted suicide, while the number of major traumas and hip fractures remained similar. Trauma departments should continue to provide adequate service during lockdown, especially as severe injuries showed no significant change.
WIENER KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Arastoo Nia, Domenik Popp, Georg Thalmann, Fabian Greiner, Natasa Jeremic, Robert Rus, Stefan Hajdu, Harald K. Widhalm
Summary: This study evaluated the use of risk prediction models in estimating short- and mid-term mortality following proximal hip fracture in an elderly Austrian population. The ACS-NSQIP score was found to be best-suited clinically and showed the highest discriminative performance among the four scores.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Sebastian R. Apprich, Arastoo Nia, Markus M. Schreiner, Maximilian Jesch, Christoph Bohler, Reinhard Windhager
Summary: Periprosthetic fractures of the femur in patients with previous multiple revisions remain challenging, with modular megaprostheses being a last chance for limb salvage. A study evaluated 33 patients treated with modular mMPs, finding a 39% mortality and revision rate at a mean follow-up of 60 months. Infection and dislocation were the most common complications, requiring further prospective clinical studies to define outcomes.
WIENER KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Sebastian Apprich, Arastoo Nia, Markus M. Schreiner, Klaus Friedrich, Reinhard Windhager, Siegfried Trattnig
Summary: The VIMAT score is the first MRI score for the semiquantitative morphological evaluation of Achilles tendon injuries, showing excellent intraobserver and interobserver agreements, and has the potential to differentiate between patients and volunteers with moderate correlation to clinical scoring.
WIENER KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT
(2021)
Article
Microbiology
A. Nia, A. Ungersboeck, M. Uffmann, D. Leaper, O. Assadian
Summary: A 42-year-old man presented with pain over his right greater trochanter and signs of systemic infection, and CT revealed an enhanced mass in his gluteus maximus. Tissue biopsy showed infection with Fusobacterium nucleatum and Actinomyces turicensis, and the patient was successfully treated with antibiotics for 6 weeks.
Article
Orthopedics
Arastoo Nia, Natasa Jeremic, Domenik Popp, Lukas Schmoelz, Janina Patsch, Kevin Doering, Michael Weber, Alexander Synek, Dieter H. Pahr, Silke Aldrian
Summary: Recently, a study evaluated the feasibility of radiography-based bone mineral density (BMD) measurement using a graded aluminum phantom. Strong correlations were found between aluminum phantom radiography-based mean gray value (mGV) and DXA-derived BMD for the ultradistal radius, and a moderate correlation was found for the femoral neck. Aluminum phantom radiography could be a cost-efficient and low-radiation dose method for screening and diagnosing osteoporosis, especially in areas with limited DXA availability. Further investigation and assessment of specificity and sensitivity is needed.
JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH
(2023)