Oneal Mcfarland

The younger brother developed infantile onset retinal detachment at 7 months of age while the sister had high myopia without signs of retinal detachment until 7 years old. This report expands the phenotype and genotype spectrum of Knobloch syndrome with antenatal and postnatal findings.Vestibular schwannomas (VS) are benign tumors of the…[Read more]

Targeted cancer therapy facilitates localizing the action of chemotherapeutic drugs at the tumor site enhancing the therapeutic efficacy and reducing the side effects to the healthy cells. The homing property of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), towards the tumor tissues makes them a potential cell-based delivery system for targeted cancer therapy.…[Read more]

Ferric citrate hydrate (FC), an oral iron product is approved as iron preparation for iron deficiency anemia and phosphate binder for chronic kidney disease (CKD). We investigated whether gastric acid secretion inhibitors (GASI) influenced on iron absorption and phosphate-lowering effects of FC.

Two phase 3 studies of FC for treatment of…[Read more]

Disease progression could be altered or even reversed in decompensated patients with HBV-related cirrhosis once they initiate antiviral therapy. However, little is known about the stable re-compensation in these patients.

In this retrospective study, HBV-related liver cirrhosis patients were consecutively enrolled at the first…[Read more]