Vol 5, No 21 (November 02, 2017): Annals of Translational Medicine

Original Article

Factors that influence blood loss and need for transfusion following total knee arthroplasty
Achilleas Boutsiadis, Ryan Jacob Reynolds, Mo Saffarini, Jean-Claude Panisset
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Calcitonin gene-related peptide: neuroendocrine communication between the pancreas, gut, and brain in regulation of blood glucose
Sayali A. Pendharkar, Monika Walia, Marie Drury, Maxim S. Petrov
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Review Article

Establishing an evaluation mode with multiple primary outcomes based on combination of diseases and symptoms in TCM clinical trials
Jing Hu, Shuo Liu, Weihong Liu, Huina Zhang, Jing Chen, Hongcai Shang
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An innovative robotic platform for magnetically-driven painless colonoscopy
Federico Bianchi, Gastone Ciuti, Anastasios Koulaouzidis, Alberto Arezzo, Danail Stoyanov, Sebastian Schostek, Calogero Maria Oddo, Arianna Menciassi, Paolo Dario
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A global perspective on capsule endoscopy
Tanja Nowak
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Case Report

Surgical treatment of synchronous multiple neuroendocrine lung tumours (case series): is more always better?
Jury Brandolini, Luca Bertolaccini, Alessandro Pardolesi, Piergiorgio Solli
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Editorial

EGFR mutation positive non-small cell lung cancer: can we identify predictors of benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitors
Ying Wang, Peter Ellis
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Eravacycline for treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections: the fire is not ignited!
Patrick M. Honore, Herbert D. Spapen
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Radiotherapy treatment strategies for squamous cell carcinoma of the cervical oesophagus: moving toward better outcomes
Pierfrancesco Franco, Francesca Arcadipane, Paolo Strignano, Renato Romagnoli, Umberto Ricardi
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Treatment recommendations by clinicians in stage I non-small cell lung cancer: better work-up leads to less discussion
Jo Raskin, Annelies Janssens, Jan P. Van Meerbeeck
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Towards a comprehensive framework for cell-free DNA analysis: lessons from TRACERx
Bryan C. Ulrich, Nicolas Guibert
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Fasting and engineered diets as powerful tool in the medical practice: an old approach in the new era
Concetta Panebianco, Adele Potenza, Valerio Pazienza
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Remote home monitoring to identify and prevent diabetic foot ulceration
P. Andrew Crisologo, Lawrence A. Lavery
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The role of foot collateral vessels on angiosome-oriented revascularization
César Varela, Francisco Acín, Joaquin De Haro, Ignacio Michel
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Increased cancer-specific mortality in individuals developing mental disorders after cancer diagnosis: biomedical factors versus psychosocial support
Siran M. Koroukian, Martha Sajatovic
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Alectinib can replace crizotinib as standard first-line therapy for ALK-positive lung cancer
Takehiro Uemura, Toyoaki Hida
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Very early antiretroviral therapy permits CD8 T cells to keep HIV reservoirs at bay
Jean-Pierre Routy, Vikram Mehraj
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Viewpoint

The evidence system of traditional Chinese medicine based on the Grades of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation framework
Hao Chen, Yan Wang, Wen-Bo Jiang, Joey S. W. Kwong, Yi-Huang Gu
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Big-data Clinical Trial Column1

Development of scoring system for risk stratification in clinical medicine: a step-by-step tutorial
Zhongheng Zhang, Haoyang Zhang, Mahesh Kumar Khanal
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Meet the Professor2

Treating our patients with compassion & respect: interview with Dr. Zhaolin Lu of the Department of Endocrinology of Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Lili Liao, Han Zhang
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Letter to the Editor

Pareidolias in idiopathic RBD—an author response letter to the Editorial “What the ‘man in the moon’ can tell us about the future of our brains”
Taeko Sasai-Sakuma
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Challenges to interpreting patient reported outcomes in clinical trials: author rejoinder
Melanie L. Bell
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Morbidity, mortality, and obesity paradox
Michael Spartalis, Eleni Tzatzaki, Demetrios Moris, Antonios Athanasiou, Eleftherios Spartalis
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Comment on “Mobile phone radiofrequency exposure has no effect on DNA double strand breaks (DSB) in human lymphocytes”
S. M. Javad Mortazavi
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Disclosure:

1. The series “Big-data Clinical Trial Column” was commissioned by the editorial office, Annals of Translational Medicine without any sponsorship or funding.

2. The series “Meet the Professor” was commissioned by the editorial office, Annals of Translational Medicine without any sponsorship or funding.