Acute Kidney Injury in Lymphoma: A Single Centre Experience by Muhammad Abdul Mabood Khalil, Hira Latif, Abdur Rehman, Waqar Uddin Kashif, Safia Awan, Zarghona Khalil, Uziar Mushtaq, Maria Ahmad, Muhammad Ashhad Ullah Khalil, Manickam Ranga Sami, Jackson Tan

“…Retrospective review of medical records of hospitalized lymphoma patients aged ≥14 years between January 2008 and December 2011 was done. Results. Out of 365 patients, AKI was present in 31.8% (116/365). …”
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Impact of a Multimodal Antimicrobial Stewardship Program on Pseudomonas aeruginosa Susceptibility and Antimicrobial Use in the Intensive Care Unit Setting by Douglas Slain, Arif R. Sarwari, Karen O. Petros, Richard L. McKnight, Renee B. Sager, Charles J. Mullett, Alison Wilson, John G. Thomas, Kathryn Moffett, H. Carlton Palmer, Harakh V. Dedhia

“…An increase in the use of these agents and resistance to these agents was witnessed during 2008–2010. Despite variability in antibiotic usage from the stewardship efforts, we were overall unable to show statistical relationships with P. aeruginosa resistance rate. …”
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Heart transplantation: comparing the impact of modified heart preservation with conventional methods by Xiaoke Shang, Changdong Zhang, Yixuan Wang, Mei Liu, Yucheng Zhong, Nianguo Dong

“…A retrospective analysis was carried out on 763 cases of orthotopic heart transplantation performed at Wuhan Union Hospital and Nanjing First Hospital, from September 2008 to October 2022. Among these, 656 cases underwent modified heart preservation and were assigned to the study group, while 107 cases underwent conventional heart preservation and were designated as the control group. …”
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An Investigation of the Knowledge and Perceptions of Arthritis amongst the Student Population in Ireland. by Laura Dunleavy, Máire McCallion

“…The questions focused on knowledge and perceptions of arthritis and suggestions about how students felt they could be educated on the topic. Both Microsoft Excel 2008 and the IBM SPSS Statistics version 26 software were used for analysation of data. …”
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Prevalência de indivíduos com sintomas de dependência ao exercício no ambiente de academia de ginástica by Adriane Graciele Zanatta, Paulo Henrique Santos da Fonseca

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Neonatal Thrombocytopenia after Perinatal Asphyxia Treated with Hypothermia: A Retrospective Case Control Study by N. Boutaybi, F. Razenberg, V. E. H. J. Smits-Wintjens, E. W. van Zwet, M. Rijken, S. J. Steggerda, E. Lopriore

“…All neonates treated with therapeutic hypothermia were included in this study (hypothermia group) and compared with a historic control group of neonates with perinatal asphyxia treated before introduction of therapeutic hypothermia (2008). Primary outcome was thrombocytopenia during the first week after birth. …”
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Three Types of Broadly Reacting Antibodies against Influenza B Viruses Induced by Vaccination with Seasonal Influenza Viruses by Daisuke Hirano, Nobuko Ohshima, Ritsuko Kubota-Koketsu, Ayami Yamasaki, Gene Kurosawa, Yoshinobu Okuno, Shunji Yoshida, Yoshikazu Kurosawa

“…The library was screened with HA-enriched fraction of B/Massachusetts/2/2012 and B/Brisbane/60/2008 (Victoria lineage) virus, and a total of 26 Abs that potentially bound to hemagglutinin (HA) molecules were isolated. …”
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Critical evaluation of accident tolerant fuel selection criteria for APR-1400 nuclear reactors by Mohammad Alrwashdeh, Asma Alzarooni, Khurrum Saleem Chaudri, Maithah Alaleeli, K. Karuppasamy, Andreas Schiffer, Imran Afgan, Daniel Choi, Saeed A. Alameri

“…The United Arab Emirates (UAE) launched its nuclear energy program in 2008, achieving notable outcomes with the ‘UAE Policy on the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy’ program. …”
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تصميم اختبارات لتقييم الأداء الفني للهجوم الفردي لحارس المرمى المشارکین بدوري أقليم كوردستان العراق بكرة اليد... by فالح جعاز شلش القيسي, هیرش یوسف حمدامین

“…استخدم الباحثان المنهج الوصفي بالأسلوب المسحي التحليلي "یعد هذا المنهج وبهذا الأسلوب أحد المناهج التي تتقصى الحقائق وتستخلص النتائج اللازمة لحل المشكلات في مجتمع معين."(جاسم ،٢٠٠٨، ٥١) .  اشتمل مجتمع البحث على حراس المرمی لفرق دوري أقليم كوردستان العراق بكرة اليد للموسم الرياضي (٢٠٢١-٢٠٢٢)، والتي اشتملت على أندية (اربيل، کویة، السليمانية، بردرش، کرکوك، الا، سوران، رواندوز)، وتكون مجتمع البحث(٣٤) لاعباً، في حين بلغت عينة البحث (٣١)لاعباُ وتشكل نسبة (١٨,٩١%) من مجتمع البحث. …”
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Digital health technologies and self-efficacy in Parkinson’s: a scoping review by Victoria Allgar, Edward Meinert, Camille B Carroll, Andrew Michael Hall

“…Our key objective was to conduct a scoping review examining the impact of digital health technologies on self-efficacy in people with Parkinson’s.Design A scoping review using Arksey and O’Malley’s (2005) framework was undertaken.Data sources MEDLINE, Embase, PsychINFO, CINAHL, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore, and Google Scholar principally for grey literature were searched from 1 January 2008 to the 24th of July 2024.Eligibility criteria for selecting studies Primary studies which incorporated digital health technologies, measured self-efficacy and had a sample population of people with Parkinson’s were searched.Data extraction and synthesis Following identification of potentially eligible records, two independent reviewers undertook title and abstract screening, followed by full-text screening. …”
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Postoperative Complications After Operative Treatment of Open Versus Closed Distal Radius Fractures: A Propensity Score Matched Analysis by R. Cole Schmidt, MD, Conor N. O’Neill, MD, Zakkary J. Walterscheid, MD, James R. Satalich, MD, Jonathan Isaacs, MD

“…Methods: Patients in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database who underwent open reduction and internal fixation of a distal radius fracture between 2008 and 2018 were identified using Current Procedural Terminology codes and stratified into open (OF) and closed fractures (CF). …”
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Mortality and readmission following hip fracture surgery: a retrospective study comparing conventional and fast-track care by Kristin Haugan, Lars G Johnsen, Trude Basso, Olav A Foss

“…Objective To compare the efficacies of two pathways—conventional and fast-track care—in patients with hip fracture.Design Retrospective single-centre study.Setting University hospital in middle Norway.Participants 1820 patients aged ≥65 years with hip fracture (intracapsular, intertrochanteric or subtrochanteric).Interventions 788 patients were treated according to conventional care from April 2008 to September 2011, and 1032 patients were treated according to fast-track care from October 2011 to December 2013.Primary and secondary outcome Primary: mortality and readmission to hospital, within 365 days follow-up. …”
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Sequential Serous Choroidal Detachment in Subjects Undergoing Bilateral Trabeculectomy by Maryam Yadgari, Kiana Hassanpour, Fatemeh Vafaei, Nina Firoozian, Maryam Oraee Yazdani, Zahra Khorram, Sadid Hooshmandi

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The Effectiveness of Varying Combination Ratios of A. cordifolia and M. indica against Field and Laboratory Strains of P. falciparum In Vitro by Yakubu Jibira, Elizabeth Cudjoe, Frederick M. Tei-Maya, Benjamin Ayensu, Linda E. Amoah

“…Mangifera indica exhibited IC50 of 18.11, 20.08, and 10.23 μg/mL against the NF54, CamWT_C580Y, and FA08 parasite strains, respectively. …”
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Analysis of the Multilevel Impact of Social Network Quality on Personality Dimensions in Purchasing by Maryam Akhavan Kharazian, Sona Shafieirad

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Association of dietary inflammatory index with ocular diseases: a population-based cross-sectional study by Xue Wang, Can Zhang, Haitao Jiang

“…Methods We used the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data from 2005 to 2008 to conduct this study. The correlation between DII and risk of ocular diseases was examined using weighted multivariable logistic regression analysis, restricted cubic spline (RCS) plots, and subgroup analysis. …”
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Le port antique de Saintes/Mediolanum (Charente-Maritime) by Jean-Philippe Baigl, Adrien Camus, Olivier Dayrens, Vincent Lebaron, Jonathan Letuppe, Vivien Mathé

“…Lastly, downstream from the city of Saintes, the wrecks of two ancient boats discovered in 2008 at the bottom of the Charente and near Courbiac, in the communes of Saintes and Fontcouverte respectively, have been the subject of recent field operations, thus enabling their construction system, of the “Romano-Celtic” type, to be clarified. …”
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Monthly Intramuscular Neridronate for the Treatment of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis: Results of a 6-Year Prospective Italian Study by L. Guiducci, C. Vassalle, P. Parchi, S. Maffei

“…This single-center, prospective study enrolled postmenopausal osteoporotic outpatients with gastric intolerance to BPs (based on Tuscany Region’s law GRT n. 836 20/10/2008). They received 25 mg IM NE once a month (with vitamin D and calcium if necessary) for 6 years. …”
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THE DIETARY PATTERNS AND THE RISK OF BREAST CANCER by L. A. Radkevich, D. A. Radkevich

“…Data on incidence of breast cancer in 160 countries is selected from the database GLOBOCAN 2008. Levels of consumption of food and nutrients (53 species) for each country selected from the FAO database for 1990–2005 and 2003–2005 years. …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors for Opioid-Induced Constipation in an Older National Veteran Cohort by Fern FitzHenry, Svetlana K. Eden, Jason Denton, Hui Cao, Aize Cao, Ruth Reeves, Guanhua Chen, Glenn Gobbel, Nancy Wells, Michael E. Matheny

“…A cohort of 152,904 veterans with encounters between 1 January 2008 and 30 November 2010, an exposure to opioids of 30 days or more, and no exposure in the prior year was developed to establish existing conditions and medications at the start of the opioid exposure and determining outcomes through the end of exposure. …”
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