Publications by authors named "D Ben Salem"
Potential Role of the Tie2/ Angiopoietin System in Hepatitis C Virus- Induced Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev
December 2024
Background: The Tie2/Ang pathway was found to be involved in forming tumor blood vessels in various tumors. The goal of this study was to evaluate the value of Tie2/Ang pathway as a novel biomarkers for the early detection of chronic hepatitis C virus (CHC)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). And the possibility of their future application in HCC treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Post dural puncture headache (PDPH) is a major challenging complication and may be a cause of morbidity after spinal anesthesia. Currently there is no definitive management for PDPH, so the search for effective treatment continues.
Objectives: Our aim was to investigate the analgesic effectiveness of oral prednisolone vs oral pregabalin for managing PDPH subsequent to spinal anesthesia for lower limb surgeries.
Electroencephalography source imaging (ESI) is an ill-posed inverse problem: an additional constraint is needed to find a unique solution. The choice of this constraint, or prior, remains a challenge for most ESI methods. This work explores the application of supervised learning methods for spatio-temporal ESI, where the relationship between measurements and sources is learned directly from the data.
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- * The systematic review included 44 studies and found that females experience higher rates of anxiety and depression, have worse quality of life scores, and are less likely to have certain complications compared to males, who have a higher mortality risk and require more surgeries.
- * Overall, males and females show some differences in mental health and disease management, but no significant variations were noted in hospitalization rates or the overall behavior of the disease.
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- The study focused on establishing minimal important change (MIC) estimates for quality of life (QoL) in head and neck cancer patients using the EORTC QLQ-HN43 questionnaire.
- A total of 503 patients from 15 countries completed the questionnaire at three different time points during treatment, and results indicated varying MICs for different QoL domains such as swallowing, speech, and dry mouth.
- Findings revealed that MIC values for deterioration were generally higher than those for improvement, implying that a universal MIC or minimal detectable change (MDC) cannot be uniformly applied across all scales of the EORTC QLQ-HN43.