Volume 78   Number 3   March 2015

EDITORIAL

• Visual impairment and mortality: Are they related?
  An-Guor Wang
  J Chin Med Assoc 2015; 78: 137-138.     Full Text [PDF]

REVIEW ARTICLES

• Preventive and therapeutic role of traditional Chinese herbal medicine in hepatocellular carcinoma
  Chin-Tsung Ting, Wan-Chun Li, Chang-Yi Chen, Tung-Hu Tsai
  J Chin Med Assoc 2015; 78: 139-144.     Full Text [PDF]
• A systematic review of genetic studies of thyroid disorders in Taiwan
  Chun-Jui Huang, Tjin-Shing Jap
  J Chin Med Assoc 2015; 78: 145-153.     Full Text [PDF]
• Can probiotics be used to treat allergic diseases?
  Ren-Bin Tang, Jia-Kan Chang, Hui-Lan Chen
  J Chin Med Assoc 2015; 78: 154-157.     Full Text [PDF]

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

• Intraoperative three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography for assessing the defect geometries of mitral prosthetic paravalvular leak during transcatheter closure
  Jeng Wei, Wei-Hsian Yin, Yung-Tsai Lee, Ming C. Hsiung, Shen-Kou Tsai, Yi Cheng Chuang, Ching-Huei Ou, Yi-Pen Chou
  J Chin Med Assoc 2015; 78: 158-163.     Full Text [PDF]
• Selective retromastoid vestibular neurectomy for intractable Meniere's disease: A technical note
  Cho-Shun Li, Ping-Hung Shen
  J Chin Med Assoc 2015; 78: 164-168.     Full Text [PDF]
• Using induced pluripotent stem cell-derived conditional medium to attenuate the light-induced photodamaged retina of rats
  Hua-Ming Chang, Kuo-Hsuan Hung, Chih-Chien Hsu, Tai-Chi Lin, Szu-Yu Chen
  J Chin Med Assoc 2015; 78: 169-176.     Full Text [PDF]
• The association of visual impairment and 3-year mortality among the elderly in Taiwan: The Shihpai Eye Study
  Tung-Mei Kuang, Su-Ying Tsai, Catherine Jiu-Ling Liu, Shui-Mei Lee, Wen-Ming Hsu, Pesus Chou
  J Chin Med Assoc 2015; 78: 177-181.     Full Text [PDF]
• Effect of pillow size preference on extensor digitorum communis muscle strength and electromyographic activity during maximal contraction in healthy individuals: A pilot study
  Jia-Chi Wang, Rai-Chi Chan, Han-Lin Wu, Chih-Jou Lai
  J Chin Med Assoc 2015; 78: 182-187.     Full Text [PDF]

CASE REPORT

• Hemichorea in a diabetes mellitus patient following acute ischemic stroke with changes in regional cerebral blood flow
  Yutaka Suzuki, Minoru Oishi, Akira Kanno, Katsuhiko Ogawa, Mariko Fujisawa, Satoshi Kamei
  J Chin Med Assoc 2015; 78: 188-191.     Full Text [PDF]