Publications by authors named "Chen-Kai Ma"
Peripheral nerve blocks for postoperative pain after major knee surgery.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
January 2015
Background: Major knee surgery is a common operative procedure to help people with end-stage knee disease or trauma to regain mobility and have improved quality of life. Poorly controlled pain immediately after surgery is still a key issue for this procedure. Peripheral nerve blocks are localized and site-specific analgesic options for major knee surgery.
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- Osteopontin (OPN) is a protein that helps scientists understand tumor growth in certain types of brain cancer in kids.
- A study tested tissue samples from children with different types of brain tumors to see how well OPN could help distinguish between them.
- They found that higher OPN levels were linked to worse outcomes for patients, making it a useful tool for diagnosis and prognosis of these tumors.
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of intravesical instillation with gemcitabine after first-line intravesical chemotherapy failure, including mitomycin (MMC), epirubicin (EPB) and camptothecin (CPT), in the treatment of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).
Methods: From June 2007 to October 2008, 72 patients with NMIBC, who had tumor recurrence within one year of first-line intravesical chemotherapy, were assigned to 3 groups (24 cases each). Group A received intravesical gemcitabine in a dose of 1000 mg, Group B received 2000 mg gemcitabine, and Group C received original intravesical chemotherapy.