Monthly Archives: March 2019
CME Exam 3: Direct-Acting Antiviral Therapy not Associated with Recurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Multicenter North American Cohort Study
CME Exam 2: Development and Validation of a Mucosal Impedance Contour Analysis System to Distinguish Esophageal Disorders
First artificial heart patient gets permanent replacement
Tim Lowell of Hernando, Mississippi, received the first total artificial heart in the state of Tennessee when the cardiac surgery team at Vanderbilt Health placed the device in his chest on Sept. 26, 2018. The mechanical heart kept him alive for nearly… Continue reading
Cancer prevention drug also disables H. pylori bacterium
A medicine currently being tested as a chemoprevention agent for multiple types of cancer has more than one trick in its bag when it comes to preventing stomach cancer, Vanderbilt researchers have discovered. Continue reading
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We appreciate the comments made by Fan Yang and Dan Ma on our description of the use of full-field optical coherence tomography (FFOCT) to predict the histologic nature of colorectal polyps and suggest its possible implementation in a predict, resect, … Continue reading
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We thank Roos et al and Zheng et al for their interest in our publication regarding the detection and analysis of circulating epithelial cells (CECs) in liquid biopsies from patients with liver disease.1 Continue reading