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BACKGROUND: Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PV) is a minimally invasive, image-guided therapy used to relieve pain from osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures. Venography before injection of bone cement has been advocated as a...
With the number of long-term care facilities in Korea increasing substantially, their quality and evaluation system has been an issue of concern. Policy makers need to consider critical aspects relating...
BACKGROUND: Nocturia is a common event among the elderly that is often understood to be a potential cause of sleep disorder. However, only a few such studies have been reported...
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to find out what factors affect revisits by elderly patients to the emergency department (ED) with the same symptoms within 72 hours and...
BACKGROUND: The results of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) r-tPA Stroke Trial generated considerable hope, but also concerns about whether their results could be replicated in...
Park SJ, Park JB, Choi DJ, Youn HJ, Park CG, Ahn YK, Shin JH, Kim DW, Rim SJ
KMID: 2339119
J Korean Geriatr Soc.
2010 Jun;14(2):70-76.
BACKGROUND: Clinic-based blood pressure measurements may lead to untoward results in the management of hypertension. Masked hypertension (MH) has been shown to be related to a poor prognosis due to...