Effects of Providing Enrichment to Broilers in an Animal Welfare Environment on Productivity, Litter Moisture, Gas Concentration (CO₂ and NH₃), Animal Welfare... by Chan-Ho Kim, Woo-Do Lee, Ji-Seon Son, Jung-Hwan Jeon, Se-Jin Lim, Su-Mi Kim

“…This study used two facilities that could accommodate 32,000 one-day-old broilers (Arbor acres) per building, and two groups (control and treatment groups) were designed after creating two identical areas within each building (total two treatments, two replicates, 16,000 birds per replicate). …”
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Abord laparoscopique d’un volumineux kyste hépatique simple : à propos d’un cas [A laparoscopic approach to a large simple hepatic cyst : a case report] by Meriem Bouzida, Mustapha Zeggane, Noura Zahi, Benyahia Boukhatem, Noureddine Ait Benamer

“…English Abstract : Laparoscopic fenestration has recently been considered a standard procedure for non parasitic symptomatic liver cysts.The objective of our observation was to show the laparoscopic approach of a large cyst of the hepatic dome. A 54-year-old wo­man with no pathological history who consulted for chronic pain in the right hypo­chondrium. …”
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Clear Cell Carcinoma Arising from Cesarean Section Scar Endometriosis: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Sakura Ijichi, Taisuke Mori, Izumi Suganuma, Takuro Yamamoto, Hiroshi Matsushima, Fumitake Ito, Makoto Akiyama, Izumi Kusuki, Jo Kitawaki

“…Case Presentation. A 60-year-old woman presented with a growing mass at the left side of a cesarean section scar. …”
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Prediction of the risk of 3-year chronic kidney disease among elderly people: a community-based cohort study by Tao Wang, Zhitong Zhou, Longbing Ren, Zhiping Shen, Jue Li, Lijuan Zhang

“…The area under the curve (AUC), the calibration curve and decision curve analysis (DCA) curve were used to evaluate the model.Result At baseline, participants in development cohort and validation cohort were with the mean age of 68.24 ± 5.87 and 67.68 ± 5.26 years old, respectively. During 3 years, 1516 (12.6%) and 544 (8.9%) new cases developed CKD in the development and validation cohorts, respectively. …”
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Effects of biophilic virtual reality on cognitive function of patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery: study protocol for a sham randomised controlled trial by Bin Gao, Yanling Zhou, Jianhua Wang, Binbin Zhu, Qiuyan Weng, Wenjun Luo, Xiuchao He, Lufei Jin, Qinwen Wang, Ahmad Khaled Ahmad Harb

“…In this study, 600 patients over 55 years old undergoing laparoscopic surgery will be recruited. …”
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Recurrent Hematomas following a Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty in Acquired Coagulation Factor XIII Deficiency by Yoshinori Takashima, Shingo Hashimoto, Tomoyuki Kamenaga, Masanori Tsubosaka, Yuichi Kuroda, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Koji Takayama, Shinya Hayashi, Ryosuke Kuroda, Tomoyuki Matsumoto

“…In this case report, we describe a patient with recurrent hematomas, following a revision total hip arthroplasty (THA). A 50-year-old female patient with no past history of bleeding and with a normal perioperative coagulation profile presented with recurrent hip joint hematomas. …”
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Central nervous system B-cell lymphoma in a patient diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids: A case report by Evangelos Koumasopoulos, Evangelia-Anna Spiteri, Aigli G Vakrakou, Panagiotis Toulas, Georgios Velonakis, George Stranjalis, Leonidas Stefanis, Maria-Eleptheria Evangelopoulos, Maria Anagnostouli

“…This is a case presentation of a primary central nervous system B-cell lymphoma in a 69-year-old woman with chronic lymphocytic inflammation with pontine perivascular enhancement responsive to steroids and chronic immunosuppressive treatment. …”
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Overt Hypothyroidism and Severe Growth Retardation in a Preschool Girl with Poorly Controlled Nephrotic Syndrome: Case Report and Literature Review by Joana Mikulevič, Karolina Tumelienė, Robertas Kemežys, Augustina Jankauskienė

“…A 5 years and 8 months old girl with steroid-dependent NS was referred from another center due to persistent edema and decreased diuresis, being treated with mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) 250 mg once a day and L-thyroxine 50 mcg daily since 4 months of NS onset because of hypothyroidism. …”
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Propagation phenological phase and fruiting habits of the Nitraria tangutorum in the lower reaches of Shiyang River by LIU Hujun, LIU Yun, LIU Shujuan, ZHAO Peng, QI Fujun, LIU Kailin

“…[Methods] Combined with the biological and ecology survey method, the phenological and biological analysis methods were used to statistically analyze the phenology and fruit habits by the basis of the field investigation in the survey area. [Results] 3- year-old N . tangutorum began to flower and bear fruit. …”
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A rare intersection: squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil and the anti-TIF1 syndrome masquerade by Manush Sondhi, Megan Lear, Saleha Dar, Madiha Tariq

“…Case presentation A 53-year-old Caucasian male with hyperlipidemia presented with chronic dry, scaly skin and pruritus, diagnosed with eczematous dermatitis. …”
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Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors Associated with Diagonal Earlobe Crease (Frank Sign) in Mexican Adults: Aging, Obesity, Arterial Hypertension, and Being Male Are the Most I... by Rogelio Molina-Gallardo, Nomely S. Aurelien-Cabezas, Daniel Tiburcio-Jimenez, Jorge E. Plata-Florenzano, Jose Guzman-Esquivel, Iram P. Rodriguez-Sanchez, Margarita L. Martinez-Fierro, Roque Molina-Osorio, Adrian A. De-la-Madrid-Cernas, Jorge Armando Barriguete-Melendez, Ivan Delgado-Enciso

“…The multivariate analysis showed that men (OR 1.6, 95% IC 1.1–2.4, P=0.007), being over 55 years old (OR 4.8, 95% IC 3.2–7.2, P<0.001), being obese (OR 2.1, 95% IC 1.4–3.1, P<0.001), having arterial hypertension (1.5, 95% IC 1.1–2.3, P=0.025), or suffering from acute coronary syndrome (OR 5.3, 95% IC 2.5–11.1, P<0.001), were independent factors associated with diagonal earlobe crease. …”
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Otolith annulus validation and population dynamics of dark sleeper Odontobutis potamophila: insights for sustainable fisheries management by Miao Xiang, Miao Xiang, Haoran Liu, Haoran Liu, Haoran Liu, Bo Li, Hongxi Guo, Chuankun Zhu, Man Wang, Man Wang, Jie Wang, Jie Wang, Songguang Xie, Songguang Xie, Lei Zhang, Lei Zhang

“…The results revealed that the age structure of O. potamophila consisted of four age groups (0-3 ages), with 0-1 year-old fish comprising about 85.11% of the harvest. …”
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Ejtm3 experiences after ChatGPT and other AI approaches: values, risks, countermeasures by Giorgio Fanò-Illic, Daniele Coraci, Maria Chiara Maccarone, Stefano Masiero, Marco Quadrelli, Aldo Morra, Barbara Ravara, Amber Pond, Riccardo Forni, Paolo Gargiulo

“…., blatantly plagiarizing the existing literature, a despicable old trick). How does an editor of a scientific journal recognize when she or he is faced with something like this? …”
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Long term survival of advanced hepatoid adenocarcinoma of lung secondary to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a case report by Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoli Wang, Nan Wei, Nan Wei, Huizhen Yang, Huizhen Yang, Xiaoyan Wang, Xiaoju Zhang, Xiaoju Zhang, Qianqian Zhang, Qianqian Zhang

“…We recently encountered a case of HAL combined with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), which has never been reported.Case presentationA 66-year-old man consulted our hospital with a chief complaint of cough. …”
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Challenges and barriers to physician decision-making for prescribing and deprescribing among patients with multimorbidity in eastern China’s primary care settings: a qualitative st... by Ming Yan, Zhijie Xu, Andrew Farmer, Yu Xia, Mi Yao, Lingyan Wu, Xinmei Zhou, Liyan Han

“…Themes were developed using a conventional content analysis approach.Setting 12 community health centers and 8 township health centers across four regions in eastern China were included.Participants 26 PCPs from 20 primary care institutions in eastern China were interviewed through purposive sampling, representing a mix of urban and rural healthcare settings.Results Of the 26 participants in this study, 14 (53.8%) were women, and the mean age was 36.3 years old. When prescribing and stopping medications for patients with multimorbidity, they often encounter complex challenges. …”
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A Case of Solitary Necrotic Nodule Treated with Laparoscopic Hepatectomy: Spontaneous Regression of Hepatocellular Carcinoma? by Hirokazu Tomishige, Zenichi Morise, Yoshikazu Mizoguchi, Norihiko Kawabe, Hidetoshi Nagata, Hisanori Ohshima, Jin Kawase, Satoshi Arakawa, Rie Yoshida, Masashi Isetani

“…We here describe a case of SNN, whose central reticulin fibers within the nodule suggest the origin as hepatocellular carcinoma or other hepatocyte-origin tumors, treated with laparoscopic anatomical segmentectomy of the liver. A 76-year-old Japanese female, with no prior medical history and no symptom, visited our hospital with the heterogeneous hypoechoic lesion in the liver segment VI incidentally pointed out in abdominal ultrasonography. …”
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Aroma Analysis of Table Grape Berries Based on Electronic Nose Detection by Shengyang Niu, Xuewei Liu, Meiling Lin, Xiucai Fan, Ying Zhang, Lei Sun, Chonghuai Liu, Jianfu Jiang

“…All of them were harvested in fruit trees over 10 years old from August to October 2023, which provided a reference for aroma evaluation and quality improvement of the table grapes. …”
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Unusual hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: case report of an early onset wild-type ATTR amyloidosis accompanied by a chromosomal duplication involving the MYH6 and MYH7 gene by Jassin Hamidi, Yvonne Hanel, Sven Dittmann, Wanda Maria Gerding, Huu Phuc Nguyen, Karin Klingel, Eric Schulze-Bahr

“…At the molecular level, various genetic and/or non-genetic etiologies can lead to HCM.Case summaryIn this case, we report on a 60-year-old male patient with severe, progressive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in an uncommon and ambivalent setting. …”
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Multicomponent rehabilitation to improve independence and functioning in elderly patients with common age-associated diseases: a scoping review by Omar Baritello, Hanna Stein, Heinz Völler, Annett Salzwedel, Theo Taxis, Machteld Luizink-Dogan

“…One RCT (cardiac rehabilitation, 80±0.3 years, MR/usual care n=24/23) fully met the inclusion criteria and reported improvements in physical function (2 months) and in HRQL (2, 8, 14 months post intervention) in MR patients.Conclusions Evidence on MR regarding functioning-related outcomes in ≥75-year-old patients is sparse beyond geriatrics. There is an essential need for studies investigating the capabilities of MR in this growing and under-represented patient population.Trial registration number OSF (https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/GFK5C).…”
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Desmoid-type fibromatosis of the breast: a case report and literature review by Zijun Zhao, Qingyao Shang, Chenxuan Yang, Jiaxiang Liu, Shanqing Liu, Xiaoqian Li, Xiyu Kang, Jiaxian Yue, Xin Wang, Xiang Wang

“…Here, we presented a case of BDF secondary to primary breast carcinoma in our center. A 47-year-old female complained of a large mass in her left breast for 2.5 months. …”
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