Drug-Coated Balloon-Only Strategy for De Novo Coronary Artery Disease: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials by Wenyi Zhang, Mingduo Zhang, Jinfan Tian, Min Zhang, Yuan Zhou, Xiantao Song

“…The DCB-only strategy showed significantly better outcomes for most endpoints compared to plain-old balloon angioplasty or bare metal stents. Conclusions. …”
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Triple Negative Breast Cancer in Pregnancy and Postpartum: Two Case Reports in Hispanic Women by Ruchi Upadhyay, Qurat-Ul-Ain Butt, Abraham Hamaoui, Cassandra Henderson, Sydney McCalla, Hamid Gilak

“…Cases. Case one is a 37-year-old female para 2-0-0-2, who presented with a left breast mass, at 19 weeks of gestation, the biopsy of which reported an invasive ductal carcinoma, found to be triple receptor negative. …”
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Infestation patterns of a major wood boring pest, Psiloptera fastuosa (Buprestidae: Coleoptera) in Tasar, Terminalia arjuna (Myrtales: Combretaceae) plantation by Sumit Mandal, Avishek Dolai, Kartik Chandra Mandal, Amlan Das

“…It was observed that 4 to 8-year-old arjuna plants wilted more frequently than younger (< 4 years) and older (> 8 years) plants. …”
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Therapeutic Challenges for Elderly Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism by Kenneth Sluis, Hyon Kim, Yuling He, Beatrice Wong, Xiangbing Wang

“…Our case series supports that medical therapy is a feasible option for PHPT patients over 85 years old.…”
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GNE Myopathy in Turkish Sisters with a Novel Homozygous Mutation by Gulden Diniz, Yaprak Secil, Serdar Ceylaner, Figen Tokucoglu, Sabiha Türe, Mehmet Celebisoy, Tülay Kurt İncesu, Galip Akhan

“…Her younger sister was 36 years old and had similar symptoms. The first symptoms of the disorder were seen when the sisters were 30 and 34 years old, respectively. …”
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First line antiepileptics and their hidden risks - a unique case report on diffuse calvarial thickening and twisted tongue linked to the use of phenytoin and sodium valproate by Sankavi Kaarthic, Selvakumar CJ

“…Patient had gum hypertrophy and serum phenytoin level was elevated and CT brain showed diffuse calvarial thickening, the offending drug was stopped. CASE 2: 45 year old female a case of idiopathic generalised epilepsy was started on sodium valproate for seizure control and she developed lingual dystonia during follow up. …”
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Life threatening scorpion sting on adult complicated by: acute toxic myocarditis, cardiogenic shock, pulmonary edema, acute kidney injury and toxic hepatitis: a case report by Filmon Tesfay, Okbu Frezgi, Meron Asheber, Lidia Mussie

“…Case presentation A 31-year-old Eritrean female came to our emergency room with severe respiratory distress, persistent retching, drenching sweating, generalized pain and unrecordable blood pressure 12 hours after scorpion sting. …”
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Do Not Miss the Tumor: A Novel Presentation of Osteosarcoma by Michael DePalma, Sachin Gupta, Jie Nguyen, Divya Talwar, Alexandre Arkader, Lawrence Wells

“…This report describes the case of a five-year-old African-American female who presented with an antalgic gait secondary to osteosarcoma in the left distal femur and follows her through treatment. …”
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Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma: A Rare Type of Lung Metastases—Two Case Reports and Review of the Literature by Rokana Taftaf, Sandra Starnes, Jiang Wang, Ralph Shipley, Tariq Namad, Rana Khaled, Nagla Abdel Karim

“…Our second case was a fifty-six-year-old female who presented with multiple cavitary pulmonary nodules. …”
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A Walk-In Screening of Dementia in the General Population in Taiwan by Chun-Hung Chen, Ling-Chun Wang, Tzu-Chiao Ma, Yuan-Han Yang

“…From 2011 to 2013, in total, 2,171 participants, 368 in the northern, 549 in the central, 877 in the southern, and 377 in the eastern part, were recruited with the mean age being 66.9 ± 10.2 years old. The ratio of suspected dementia patients, AD8 score greater than or equal to 2, was 13.6% of all recruited participants with their mean AD8 score being 2.9±1.3, mean age being 69.4±10.8 years old, and female predominance being 73.0%. …”
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Waste oil management: Analyses of waste oils from vehicle crankcases and gearboxes by V. Pelitli, Ö. Doğan, H.J. Köroğlu

“…Conversely, in comparison to the findings from the analyzed series of old vehicles, the waste engine crankcase oils samples from new vehicles and all waste gearbox oils are eligible for recycling.…”
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Vision of multidisciplinary team on the role of physiotherapy in a public home care program by Bibiana Melher Pereira, Cristiane Fernanda Gessinger

“…The population served is predominantly old people and have chronic diseases, and are cared mostly by family caregivers, most of them old. …”
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Assessing Factors Contributing to Diarhoea Among Children Under Five Years in Kasese Municipal Council, Kasese District by Stephen, Bagonza

“…This study was conducted to assess the factors contributing to the spread of diarrhoea among children under 5 years old in Kasese Municipality, Kasese District. Methodology: A descriptive study design was used, employing both quantitative and qualitative approaches, with 375 people as the sample size of mothers of children under five years of age. …”
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The Rearing of Clown Loach (Chromobotia macracanthus) Larvae by Using Enriched Live Foods by . Chumaidi, . Nurhidayat, A. Priyadi

“…Twenty clown loach larvae of four days old, 5.58 ± 0.12   mm in average length,  were stocked in plastic jars and  were reared for 28 days. …”
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Can primary care research be conducted more efficiently using routinely reported practice-level data: a cluster randomised controlled trial conducted in England? by Jeremy Horwood, Alastair D Hay, Patricia Jane Lucas, Clare Clement, Peter S Blair, Jodi Taylor, Christie Cabral, Martin C Gulliford, Jenny Ingram, Padraig Dixon, Nick Francis, Athene Lane, Grace Young, Elizabeth Beech, Penny Seume, Scott Bevan, Sam T Creavin

“…By using aggregate level, routinely collected data for the coprimary outcomes, we removed the need to recruit individual participants.Setting Primary care.Participants Baseline data from general practitioner practices and interviews with individuals from Clinical Research Networks (CRNs) in England who helped recruit practices and Clinical Commission Groups (CCGs) who collected outcome data.Intervention The intervention included: (1) explicit elicitation of parental concerns, (2) a prognostic algorithm to identify children at low risk of hospitalisation and (3) provision of a printout for carers including safety-netting advice.Coprimary outcomes For 0–9 years old—(1) Dispensing data for amoxicillin and macrolide antibiotics and (2) hospital admission rate for RTI.Results We recruited 294 of the intended 310 practices (95%) representing 336 496 registered 0–9 years old (5% of all 0–9 years old children). …”
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Immunogenetics of longevity and its association with human endogenous retrovirus K by Lisa M. James, Lisa M. James, Lisa M. James, Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, Apostolos P. Georgopoulos, Apostolos P. Georgopoulos

“…Furthermore, we identified 13 HLA alleles (9 HLA-I and 4 HLA-II) that occurred at greater frequency in very old individuals (age ≥90 years) as compared to younger individuals. …”
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The Relationship Between Serum 25 hydroxy Vitamin D Deficiency and Dietary Pattern in Baxshin Hospital, Sulaimani City by Mohammed I M Gubari, Jeza Muhamad Abdul Aziz, Fadhil Ahmed Mohialdeen, Khalid Anwar Hama-Ghareeb, Bakhtyar Kamal Muhamed, Hemn Abdalla Omer

“…The age of the sample ranged from 18 to 65 years old with the mean of 34.34 years old with a standard deviation of 12.6. …”
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Smoking cessation is a protective factor for lung cancer onset and mortality: a population-based prospective cohort study by Wei Yin, Zhuochen Lin, Wei-Jie Gong, Wen-Xuan Wang, Ying-Ying Zhu, Yi-Lin Fu, Han Yang, Jin-Xin Zhang, Peng Lin, Ji-Bin Li

“…Conclusions Smoking cessation after 60 years old may still be helpful for a later AAO of LC. …”
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Investigation of 23 Bile Acids in Liver Bile in Benign and Malignant Biliary Stenosis: A Pilot Study by Stanislav Rejchrt, Milos Hroch, Rudolf Repak, Tomas Fejfar, Tomas Douda, Darina Kohoutova, Eva Peterova, Jan Bures

“…A total of 73 patients entered the study: 7 subjects with benign biliary stenosis (6 men, 1 woman; 68±13 years old), 21 with malignant biliary stenosis (15 men, 6 women; 72±14 years old), and 45 patients without biliary stenosis (22 men, 23 women; 70±13 years old); out of those, 25 subjects have and 20 do not have choledocholithiasis. …”
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An Unusual Case of Monolobar Caroli’s Disease by Anthony J Gomez, Robert J Bailey

“…A 27-year-old male with recurrent upper abdominal pain was found to have a suspicious mass in the right hepatic lobe. …”
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