Among neuromodulation procedures, electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves (PNS) is probably the most underappreciated modality. Although PNS is used for all kinds of medical conditions, ranging from chronic neuropathic pain and headache to epilepsy, depression, hypertension and heart failure, its importance is frequently overshadowed by spinal cord stimulation and deep brain stimulation.
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3 Cataract
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4 Optical Cohérence Tomography
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183 Podocytopathy
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184 Patient Safety in Dialysis Access
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73 Pediatric Airway Surgery
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178 Violence against Women and Mental Health
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The functionality of adult tissue stem cells from various organ systems declines during aging.
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In 1993, the Diabetes Control Complications Trial (DCCT) study established that chronic hyperglycemia initiates and progresses to microvascular complications such as retinopathy in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM).
The milestone message from DCCT has been that early near-normalization of blood glucose in recent-onset T1DM with glycated hemoglobin (HbA1C) <7.
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