Publications by authors named "Mingtan Chen"
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- Acromegaly is a rare condition that can lead to prostate enlargement and severe lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), exemplified by a case of a 55-year-old man whose condition went largely unmanaged despite various treatments.
- At age 53, the patient experienced significant LUTS and a noticeable increase in prostate size, which improved dramatically after treatment with 5α-reductase inhibitors, even while his acromegaly remained poorly controlled.
- This case highlights the importance of recognizing that in acromegalic patients, addressing the GH-IGF-1 axis alone is not sufficient; androgen levels may also influence prostate health, suggesting alternative therapeutic options like 5α-reductase inhibitors can be effective for symptom
The Chinese swamp buffalo (Bubalis bubalis) is vital to the lives of small farmers and has tremendous economic importance. However, a lack of genomic information has hampered research on augmenting marker assisted breeding programs in this species. Thus, a high-throughput transcriptomic sequencing of B.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBilateral ureteral leiomyoma with bilateral ureteropelvic junction obstruction.
Kaohsiung J Med Sci
March 2010
Leiomyomas are benign tumors characterized by overgrowth of visceral smooth muscle in the respiratory, gastrointestinal, and female reproductive tracts. They rarely develop in the urinary system and only 10 cases of unilateral ureteral leiomyoma (UL) have been reported since 1955. No cases of bilateral UL or ureteropelvic junction obstruction due to UL have ever been reported.
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