Role of New Biomarkers: Functional and Structural Damage by Evdoxia Tsigou, Vasiliki Psallida, Christos Demponeras, Eleni Boutzouka, George Baltopoulos

“…Traditional diagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI) depends on detection of oliguria and rise of serum creatinine level, which is an unreliable and delayed marker of kidney damage. …”
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Prenatal Invasive Testing: A 4-Years Single Institution Experience in Turkey by Emre Ekmekçi, Kutlu Kurt, Servet Gençdal, Emine Demirel, Sefa Kelekçi

“…CONCLUSION: Although non-invasive prenatal diagnosis is more accessible today and has become more preferable, prenatal invasive diagnosing still remains its importance in prenatal diagnosis. …”
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Computed Tomography Features of Incidentally Detected Diffuse Thyroid Disease by Myung Ho Rho, Dong Wook Kim

“…ROC curve analysis revealed that CT diagnosis of DTD based on the CT classification of “3 or more” abnormal CT features was superior. …”
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Concurrent COVID-19 and Acute HIV: A Case Report and Diagnostic Review by Kelly A. Johnson, Sally Graglia, Elizabeth D. Lynch, Joanna De Mesa, Erin Antunez, Sandra Torres, Susa Coffey, Stephanie E. Cohen

“…Workup not only confirmed a diagnosis of COVID-19 but also revealed discordant HIV test results, with a reactive fourth-generation antigen/antibody test but a negative HIV-1/2 differentiation immunoassay. …”
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Antithyroid Antibodies and Thyroid Function in Pediatric Patients with Celiac Disease by Derya Kalyoncu, Nafiye Urganci

“…Methods. 67 patients with CD aged from 1 year to 16 years were screened for thyroid antithyroperoxidase, antithyroglobulin and anti-TSH receptor antibodies, serum free triiodothyronine, free thyroxine, and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) at diagnosis and during follow-up. Results. None of the patients had antithyroid antibodies at diagnosis. …”
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Orthostatic Hypotension in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease and Atypical Parkinsonism by Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Johan Lökk

“…We aimed to review current evidences on epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of OH in patients with IPD and AP. …”
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Posterior Medial Meniscus Root Tears: Clinical Implications, Surgical Management, and Post-operative Rehabilitation Considerations. by Jill K. Monson, Robert F. LaPrade

“…Recognition of these tear types and the appropriate diagnosis through clinical exam and diagnostic imaging have improved significantly in recent years, as have surgical techniques to address them. …”
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Challenging Case of Ectopic ACTH Secretion from Prostate Adenocarcinoma by Wanling Zeng, Joan Khoo

“…He eventually succumbed to the disease after 3 months of his diagnosis. It is imperative to recognize prostate carcinoma as a source of ectopic ACTH secretion as it is associated with poor clinical outcomes, and the diagnosis can be missed due to atypical clinical presentations.…”
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Interstitial Mycosis Fungoides: An Unusual Mimic of Interstitial Granuloma Annulare Not to Miss by Neha Singh, Kiley K. Fagan, Douglas J. Grider

“…Awareness of histopathologic features is critical to make an accurate diagnosis and thus patient management.…”
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Solitary Contralateral Adrenal Metastases after Nephrectomy for Renal Cell Carcinoma by Nikolaos Antoniou, Demetrios Karanastasis

“…Approximately 50% of all patients with renal cell carcinoma either present with metastases at diagnosis or will have metastatic disease after nephrectomy11. …”
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Limitations on the Detection Rate of High-Risk HPV by Hybrid Capture 2 Methodology in High Grade Intraepithelial (HSIL) or Atypical Squamous Cells-Cannot Exclude HSIL (ASC-H) Cytol... by Jean-Christophe Noël, Philippe Simon

“…The clinical sensitivity of HCII in women with a cytological diagnosis of ASC-H/HSIL and a diagnosis of CIN2+ is high but not absolute and estimated at 96% (95,6% and 100% of women with a diagnosis of CIN2/3 or invasive squamous cell carcinoma, resp.). …”
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Histomorphological and Immunohistochemical Reappraisal of Cutaneous Adnexal Tumours: A Hospital Based Study by Prakriti Shukla, Uroos Fatima, Anil K. Malaviya

“…In five cases, histological diagnosis was troublesome where immunohistochemistry helped in making final diagnosis. …”
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Case report: Guillain-Barré syndrome and possible association with Lyme disease by I. Muliuolis, E. Tilindytė, R. Samaitienė

“…The patient was diagnosed with GBS and Lyme disease; and symptoms of the patient gradually disappeared following the treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin and ceftriaxone. Although the diagnosis of GBS was definite, the diagnosis of Lyme disease was complicated by a variety of circumstances which we analyse in this article. …”
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Imbalanced Fault Classification of Bearing via Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks with Gradient Penalty by Baokun Han, Sixiang Jia, Guifang Liu, Jinrui Wang

“…Recently, generative adversarial networks (GANs) are widely applied to increase the amounts of imbalanced input samples in fault diagnosis. However, the existing GAN-based methods have convergence difficulties and training instability, which affect the fault diagnosis efficiency. …”
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Multidimensional Attention-Based CNN Model for Identifying Apple Leaf Disease by Kahkashan Perveen, Sanjay Kumar, Sahil Kansal, Mukesh Soni, Najla A. Alshaikh, Shanzeh Batool, Mehrun Nisha Khanam, Bernard Osei

“…To prevent the spread of illnesses and guarantee the steady and healthy growth of the apple sector, the proper diagnosis of apple leaf diseases is of utmost importance. …”
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A Rare but Fascinating Disorder: Case Collection of Patients with Schnitzler Syndrome by Maaman Bashir, Brittany Bettendorf, Richard Hariman

“…To increase awareness regarding clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of this rare disorder. Cases. …”
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An aggressive central giant cell granuloma in a pediatric patient: case report and review of literature by Yiqiao Wang, Andre Le, Dina El Demellawy, Mary Shago, Michael Odell, Stephanie Johnson-Obaseki

“…Prompt diagnosis and management can greatly improve long-term outcomes.…”
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Intraosseous Cavernous Hemangioma of Inferior Turbinate: A Rare Case Report by M. N. Akiner, M. T. Akturk, M. Demirtas, E. O. Atmis

“…To investigate hemangiomas in the differential diagnosis of the nasal cavity neoplasms, even though it is an extremely rare mesenchymal tumor of the nasal cavity, and the world literature was reviewed. …”
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Retrocaval ureter. Two cases report by Bryan Antonio Iza Jiménez, Karla Lizeth Gavilanes Encalada, Israel Darío Carrillo Quisnia

“…This work describes two clinical cases on retrocaval ureter, for exposing the experience in its diagnosis and surgical treatment. Different imaging tests were used to detect the anomaly, and it was found that urological computed tomography is essential to confirm the diagnosis. …”
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Right Testicular Artery Occlusion and Acute Appendicitis by Angiostrongylus costaricensis by Luis Enrique Sánchez-Sierra, Roberto Antonio Martínez-Quiroz, Héctor S. Antúnez, Humberto Cabrera-Interiano, Fernando Josué Barrientos-Melara

“…The diagnosis is complex, because the clinical manifestations are similar to an orchitis or acute abdomen, therefore, the definitive diagnosis is made during the surgical intervention and histopathological study.…”
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