Vol 6, No 11 (June 2018) - Annals of Translational Medicine

Original Article

Blood pressure targets for hypertension in patients with type 2 diabetes

Wilbert S. Aronow, Tatyana A. Shamliyan

Trends of snowboarding-related fractures that presented to emergency departments in the United States, 2010 to 2016

Aleksey Seleznev, Neil V. Shah, Rohan Desai, Cuong Le, Patrick Cleary, Qais Naziri, Niladri N. Basu, Barbara J. Freeman, William P. Urban, Jared M. Newman

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The efficacy of first-line chemotherapy in recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a systematic review and metaanalysis

Shu-Xiang Ma, Ting Zhou, Yan Huang, Yun-Peng Yang, Jian-Hua Zhan, Ya-Xiong Zhang, Zhong-Han Zhang, Yuan-Yuan Zhao, Wen-Feng Fang, Yu-Xiang Ma, Li-Kun Chen, Hong-Yun Zhao, Li Zhang

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Cervical or thoracic anastomosis for patients with cervicothoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Ran Mo, Chen Chen, Liang Pan, Ao Yu, Tao Wang

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Compensatory hyperhidrosis after different surgeries at the same sympathetic levels: a meta-analysis

Xiaojun Du, Xu Zhu, Tao Wang, Xiao Hu, Peng Lin, Yin Teng, Chao Fan, Jianglun Li, Yang Xi, Jiarong Xiao, Wen Liu, Jian Zhang, Haiyu Zhou, Dan Tian, Shizhang Yuan

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Short-term outcomes for total knee arthroplasty patients with active extension lag

Tanner L. McGinn, Jennifer I. Etcheson, Chukwuweike U. Gwam, Nicole E. George, Nequesha S. Mohamed, Jaydev B. Mistry, Ugochi Ananaba, Anil Bhave

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Physical activity levels are low in patients with pulmonary hypertension

Laura González-Saiz, Alejandro Santos-Lozano, Carmen Fiuza-Luces, Paz Sanz-Ayán, Carlos A. Quezada-Loaiza, Ana Ruiz-Casado, Lidia B. Alejo, Angela Flox-Camacho, María Morán, Alejandro Lucia, Pilar Escribano-Subías

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Impact of polymyxin B hemoperfusion in the treatment of patients with sepsis and septic shock: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Akira Kuriyama, Morihiro Katsura, Seigo Urushidani, Tadaaki Takada

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Increasing clinical resistance rate of Shigella sonnei to cefotaxime in Jiangsu Province, China, between 2012 and 2015

Huimin Qian, Guoye Liu, Yin Chen, Ping Ma, Xiaoxiao Kong, Lu Zhou, Jie Hong, Changjun Bao, Bing Gu

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Study on factors affecting local peak strain results in automatic functional imaging of transthoracic echocardiography

Na Li, Linbin Meng, Yichen Wang, Kailing Xiong, Junxuan He, Yang Wang, Yifu Qiao, Attila Nemes, Raffaele Giordano, Lang Qiao, written on behalf of AME Echocardiography Collaborative Group

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miR-486 inhibits PM2.5-induced apoptosis and oxidative stress in human lung alveolar epithelial A549 cells

Jin Li, Qiulian Zhou, Yajun Liang, Wen Pan, Yihua Bei, Yuhui Zhang, Jinhua Wang, Zheng Jiao

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Review Article

Surgery for intrathoracic tracheoesophageal and bronchoesophageal fistula

Benoit Jacques Bibas, Paulo Francisco Guerreiro Cardoso, Helio Minamoto, Paulo Manoel Pêgo-Fernandes

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Case Report

Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y duodenojejunostomy for annular pancreas in adults: case report and literature review

He Cai, Xin Wang, Yun-Qiang Cai, Yong-Bin Li, Ling-Wei Meng, Bing Peng

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Pulmonary sequestration associated with a synchronous elevation of carbohydrate antigen 50 and 19-9: a case report

Shaozi Fu, Haitao Wang

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Laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy with major venous resection and reconstruction with repassed round ligament: a case report

Yunqiang Cai, Yongbin Li, Pan Gao, Xin Wang, Bing Peng

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Surgical Technique

Development and clinical applications of glasses-free three-dimensional (3D) display technology for thoracoscopic surgery

Jun Liu, Fei Cui, Jingpei Li, Wenlong Shao, Wei Wang, Jun Li, Muchun Liu, Jianxing He

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Technical Note

Laparoscopic suture training curricula and techniques

Xin Wang, Yongbin Li, Yunqiang Cai, Lingwei Meng, He Cai, Xubao Liu, Bing Peng

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Big-data Clinical Trial Column

Opening the black box of neural networks: methods for interpreting neural network models in clinical applications

Zhongheng Zhang, Marcus W. Beck, David A. Winkler, Bin Huang, Wilbert Sibanda, Hemant Goyal, written on behalf of AME Big-Data Clinical Trial Collaborative Group

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