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... of single- and two-layer anastomosis after intestinal ...Sensitivity analysis excluding the study by Goligher et ...posterior two-thirds of the circumferences and Lembert ... See full document

... on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of Wenxin keli used in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases were screened, and its indications were ...classified. Meta-analysis of these ... See full document

... Two meta-analyses regarding allopurinol (an inhibitor of oxygen-derived free-radicals) on the prevention of post-ERCP pancreatitis have been published ...4 trials and included relatively modest ... See full document

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... Riboh’s meta-analysis [22] showed that no significant clinical differences were found between the two tech- ...the two studies, there are several highlights in our ...spective, ... See full document

... a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) by searching the PubMed, Em- base, Cochrane library, OVID, and CBM databases, and the bibliographies of the retrieved ... See full document

... our meta-analysis is to compare the efficacy of RT plus PCV versus RT alone for the treatment of glioma patients after ...the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) investigating ... See full document

... and meta- analysis to compare the efficacy and safety of Mobi-C cervical artificial disc versus anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) in symptomatic degenerative disc ...for ... See full document

... Data were processed and analyzed with RevMan 5.3. RRs and 95% CIs were calculated with fixed-effect or random-effect models (depended on heterogeneity), which meta-analyses usually use to calculate consistency. We ... See full document

... years). Trials which compared vitamin D3 supplementation with a placebo, or compared calcium + vitamin D3 supplementation with calcium were ...uncontrolled trials, without a placebo group, or involved ... See full document

... between two techniques disappeared over time. Further- more, two decades follow-up results of a RCT [38] compar- ing open Nissen and Toupet demonstrated no difference in the prevalence of postoperative ... See full document

... comparing two or more arms); (ii) RFA as the intervention and PEI as the comparator; (iii) inclu- sion of data related to OS (percentage of patients who survived for a defined period of time after treatment), and ... See full document

... subgroup analysis was carried out to evaluate the impact of the surgical characteristics on the ...The analysis was conducted using the Stata software package (Version ... See full document

... these two approaches had significant advan- tages in knee society scores (KSS) [1, 16, 17], straight-leg raise [17–19], visual analogue score (VAS) [17] and range of motion (ROM) [16, 18, 20, ... See full document

... three randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing unilateral pedicle screw fixation with bilateral fixation for MIS-TLIF [15-17] were finally ... See full document

... We performed a comprehensive search of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science (ISI), Embase, OVID and Cochrane Central register of controlled clinical trials (CENTRAL), during September 2016, to identify relevant ... See full document

... Meta-analysis is an increasingly popular method of data analysis to solve debatable problems. However, there were some drawbacks in our research. First, differ- ent studies included in our research ... See full document

... and meta-analysis to evaluate the ef- ficacy and safety of combination treatment (denosumab and teriparatide) versus teriparatide treatment in patients with ...electronically. Randomized ... See full document

... macodynamics trials have pointed out the influ- ence of PPIs treatment on the antiplatelet action of dual therapy with clopidogrel and aspirin ...previous meta-analysis, We, therefore, performed this ... See full document

... a meta-analysis of Phase III randomized controlled trials was ...of Controlled Trials. After evaluation of quality, a meta-analysis of valid extracted data ... See full document