Lindahl Jespersen

Considering intracranial tumours, only few indications of protontherapy, such as chordoma, chondrosarcoma or uveal melanoma, are uniformly approved in the world. Other indications, excluding paediatric pathologies, are still debated. The aim of this article is to describe the rationale for the use of protonbeam irradiation for meningioma,…[Read more]

To evaluate the utility of ultrasonographic assessment of blood flow to the lower limb below the cannulation site in minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS).

Twenty-two patients who underwent ultrasonographic assessment in MICS were reviewed retrospectively. In all patients, the right femoral artery was used for arterial cannulation.…[Read more]

After adjustment for all covariates, the risk of all-cause mortality was 27% lower among those with at least one tourism experience than among non-travelers (adjusted hazard ratio 0.73, 95% CI 0.62-0.85). Subgroup analysis showed that the associations between tourism and the decreased risk of mortality were stable.

Tourism decreases the…[Read more]

DNA (cytosine-5)-methyltransferase1 (DNMT1) is the most abundant DNA methyltransferase in somatic cells, and it plays an important role in the initiation, occurrence, and rehabilitation of tumors. Herein, we developed a novel strategy for the detection of the level of DNMT1 in human plasma using the self-assembled nucleic acid probe signal…[Read more]

05). Gender, age, body mass index, and co-morbidities were compared with the severity of the disease; no statistically significant difference was found.

Viral load detected in saliva in the early period of COVID-19 infection may have a prognostic value in showing the disease’s course in patients over 45-year-old. Saliva is an easily…[Read more]