Evaluation and Management of Women who Have Experienced Stillbirth in Their Previous Pregnancies by Erdem Fadiloglu, Atakan Tanacan, Canan Unal, Mehmet Sinan Beksac

“…The mean gestational week at birth was 36.4±0.51, while the mean birthweight was 2882±381.01 g. …”
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Effects of Dietary Strawberry Supplementation on Antioxidant Biomarkers in Obese Adults with Above Optimal Serum Lipids by Arpita Basu, Stacy Morris, Angel Nguyen, Nancy M. Betts, Dongxu Fu, Timothy J. Lyons

“…Plasma antioxidant capacity, trace elements (copper, iron, selenium, and zinc), whole blood glutathione (GSH), and enzyme activity (catalase, glutathione peroxidase, and glutathione reductase) were examined at screening (0 week) and after 12 weeks’ intervention. At 12 weeks, plasma antioxidant capacity and glutathione levels were higher in the strawberry versus control groups (low and high dose FDS: 45% and 42% for plasma antioxidant capacity and 28% and 36% for glutathione, resp.); glutathione was higher in the high versus low dose strawberry group (all p<0.05). …”
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Changes in Corneal Higher-Order Aberrations and Ocular Biometric Measurements after Phacoemulsification Combined with Goniosynechialysis in Primary Angle Closure/Glaucoma Patients by Jiali Xia, Siqi Guo, Fei Hu, Liqi Fan, Ling Yu, Jian Ye

“…The pre- and postsurgery measurements of intraocular pressure (IOP) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) were conducted at 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months. …”
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A CFA-Induced Model of Inflammatory Skin Disease in Miniature Swine by Nalú Navarro-Alvarez, Beatriz M. M. Gonçalves, Alec R. Andrews, David H. Sachs, Christene A. Huang

“…Animals injected into the dermis and/or epidermis demonstrated a severe inflammatory response on the skin surface with massive swelling, redness within 12hrs of CFA injection, and severe skin necrosis within a week, preventing accurate induration measurements. …”
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A Case of Influenza B and Mycoplasma pneumoniae Coinfection in an Adult by Taro Shinozaki, Kotaro Sasahara, Eri Iwami, Aoi Kuroda, Tatsu Matsuzaki, Takahiro Nakajima, Takeshi Terashima

“…A 19-year-old woman was referred to our hospital because of a persistent fever and cough that lasted for over a week. Influenza B virus infection was diagnosed using the rapid test kit. …”
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The Effect of an Acidic Food-Simulating Environment on the Shear Bond Strength of Self-Ligating Brackets with Different Base Designs by Ahmad Sheibaninia, Sepehr Sepasi, Mohammad Ali Saghiri, Setareh Sepasi

“…Equilibrium 2 and In-Ovation R brackets showed a significant decrease in SBS after a 12-week immersion in acetic acid 3%, although all groups showed clinically acceptable SBS. …”
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Effect of electroacupuncture on symptoms of female pelvic organ prolapse (stage II–III) (EAPOP study): protocol of a randomised controlled trial by Yan Yan, Zhishun Liu, Huan Chen, Xiaoxu Liu, Hangyu Shi

“…One hundred and sixty eligible women will be assigned with a 1:1 ratio to have received either EA or SEA for 24 times in 12 weeks and followed-up for 24 weeks. The primary outcome will be the change on the total score of the Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory-short form 20 at week 12 from baseline, and will be analysed by t-test or multiple regression model. …”
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An exploratory study to evaluate efficacy and safety of frequent Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation for Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy by Fumio Takano, Kaori Ueda, Takuji Kurimoto, Mina Arai, Takayuki Nagai, Yuko Yamada-Nakanishi, Makoto Nakamura

“…A 30-min ES was applied to either eye every other day for 12 weeks. The primary outcome was the difference in the logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (LogMAR) at baseline and 1 week after completion of ES treatment. …”
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Effect of ramadan fasting on body weight and percent of body fat among student from program nutrition study of UPN “Veteran” Jakarta, Indonesia by Ayu Nurjanah Wida, Wahyuningsih Utami, Quratul Marjan Avliyah, Fransiske Simanungkalit Sintha

“…Data collection was carried out 3 times, namely before fasting, the second week of fasting and after one month of fasting ended. …”
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Acute Hepatitis Induced by Intravesical BCG Therapy: A Rare but Serious Complication by Hakima Abid, Mouna Figuigui, Sidi Adil Ibrahimi, Mohamed El Abkari, Mohamed Mzyiene, Soufiane Ennaciri, Ouima Justin Ziba, Mohamed Jamal El Fassi, Layla Tahiri Elousrouti, Laila Chbani

“…We have reported the observation of a 47-year-old patient followed up for a bladder tumor operated for transurethral resection of the bladder, then having benefited from an instillation of BCG therapy complicated by occurrence a week later of an acute hepatitis. The diagnostic time was 2 days, and the outcome was favorable with corticosteroid therapy.…”
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The Usefulness of Adopting the Last Planner System in the Construction Process of Addis Ababa Road Projects by Zenawi Mehari Limenih, Belachew Asteray Demisse, Abenezer Tariku Haile

“…The finding shows that the construction management process adopted in all three sites is more or less similar, as they use a push planning system and critical path method to determine the duration following the master schedule but have no weekly work plan and lookahead schedule to forecast the coming week’s duty; also, they use a push planning system, for materials. …”
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The Utility of Neuromotor Retraining to Augment Manual Therapy and Vestibular Rehabilitation in a Patient with Post-Concussion Syndrome: A Case Report by Andrew Teare-Ketter, Alyssa LaForme Fiss, Jeffrey Ebert

“…The patient attended eight, sixty-minute sessions over a five-week period in an outpatient setting. Comprehensive physical therapy interventions included manual therapy, vestibular rehabilitation, and neuromotor retraining aimed at restoring proper sensory integration and midline postural orientation…”
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What are the perceived influences on asthma self-management at the workplace? A qualitative study by Adrian Loerbroks, Katherina Heinrichs, Patricia Vu-Eickmann, Stefan Hummel, Jalal Gholami

“…We, therefore, aimed to explore the perceived influences on effective asthma SMB at work.Design Our qualitative study built on semi-structured interviews and qualitative content analysis.Setting Participants were recruited in two pulmonary rehabilitation clinics in Northern Germany.Participants We conducted 27 interviews among employees with asthma (female: n=15) who worked at least 20 hours per week and were diagnosed with asthma at least 6 months prior to interviewing. …”
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The Appearance of Antiphage Antibodies in Sera of Patients Treated with Phages by Marzanna Łusiak-Szelachowska, Beata Weber-Dąbrowska, Maciej Żaczek, Ryszard Międzybrodzki, Andrzej Górski

“…<b>Results:</b> Our preliminary results suggest that high levels of antiphage antibodies appear late in the treatment period, at the earliest in the 3rd–8th week of PT. Patients with bone infections treated locally with the <i>S. aureus</i> phage Staph_1N and patients with upper respiratory tract infections administered locally and orally with the <i>S. aureus</i> phage Staph_A5L had elevated levels of antiphage antibodies in sera during PT. …”
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Frequency Modulation and Spatiotemporal Stability of the sCPG in Preterm Infants with RDS by Steven M. Barlow, Mimi Burch, Lalit Venkatesan, Meredith Harold, Emily Zimmerman

“…Digitized samples of NNS compression pressure waveforms recorded at a 1-week interval were collected 15 minutes prior to a scheduled feed. …”
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Improves Activities of Daily Living in Parkinson's Disease by Weidong Pan, Shin Kwak, Yun Liu, Yan Sun, Zhenglong Fang, Baofeng Qin, Yoshiharu Yamamoto

“…All participants wore a motion logger, and we analyzed the power-law temporal autocorrelation of the motion logger records taken on 3 occasions (before, one week, and 13 weeks after the drug administration). …”
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Neonatal Intensive Care and Child Psychiatry Inpatient Care: Do Different Working Conditions Influence Stress Levels? by Evalotte Mörelius, Per A. Gustafsson, Kerstin Ekberg, Nina Nelson

“…Salivary cortisol was measured three times a day on two consecutive days during two one-week periods, seven weeks apart (= 12 samples/person). …”
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Fungal Keratitis Caused by Drechslera spp. Treated with Voriconazole: A Case Report by Margarita I. Echavez, Archimedes Lee D. Agahan, Noel S. Carino

“…A 52-year-old diabetic male presented with a one-week history of foreign body sensation of the left eye, self-medicated with Neomycin, Polymyxin B, and Dexamethasone eye drops, and was diagnosed to have bacterial conjunctivitis, which was treated with Levofloxacin drops. …”
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Ultrastructural Characteristics of Rat Hepatic Oval Cells and Their Intercellular Contacts in the Model of Biliary Fibrosis: New Insights into Experimental Liver Fibrogenesis by Joanna Maria Lotowska, Maria Elzbieta Sobaniec-Lotowska, Dariusz Marek Lebensztejn, Urszula Daniluk, Piotr Sobaniec, Krzysztof Sendrowski, Jaroslaw Daniluk, Joanna Reszec, Wojciech Debek

“…Methods. The study used 6-week-old Wistar Crl: WI(Han) rats after BDL for 1, 6, and 8 weeks. …”
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EVALUATION OF POLYMORPHONUCLEAR IMMUNE CELLS IN BIOCOMPATIBILITY TEST DFLP SPONGE CARTILAGE SCAFFOLD, ADIPOSE-DERIVED MSC AND SECRETOME WITH CARTILAGE INJECTION MODEL by Brilliant Citra Wirashada, Dwikora Novemberi Utomo, Lukas Widhiyanto

“…The evaluations of basophil, eosinophil, neutrophil, and polymorphonuclear (PMN) cells were done in the first 24 hours, 3 days, and 1 week after the treatment. The collected data will be analyzed statistically. …”
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