First Trimester Diagnosis of Holoprosencephaly Secondary to a Ring Chromosome 7 by Lindsay B. Henderson, Virginia L. Corson, Daniel O. Saul, Cynthia Anderson, Sarah Millard, Denise A. S. Batista, Karin J. Blakemore, Cheryl DeScipio

“…Holoprosencephaly (HPE) is a developmental defect in humans in which the forebrain fails to completely separate into two hemispheres. We describe a 12 3/7-week-old fetus found on ultrasound evaluation to have features consistent with HPE, including a single anterior ventricle, fused thalami, and a flattened profile. …”
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Effectiveness of Spinal Stabilization Exercises on Movement Performance in Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain by Khalid Alkhathami, Yousef Alshehre, Kelli Brizzolara, Mark Weber, Sharon Wang-Price

“…All participants received their assigned intervention under supervision one to two times per week for the first four weeks and then were asked to continue their program at home for another four weeks. …”
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Insomnia: definition, pathophysiological models, diagnosis, and treatment by E. Sakalauskaitė-Juodeikienė, R. Masaitienė

“… Insomnia is defined as a disorder, characterized by recurrent difficulties initiating and maintaining sleep or waking up earlier than desired, associated with daytime symptoms which occur at least three times per week and are present for at least 3 months when the symptoms can not be explained by inadequate opportunities or poor circumstances for sleep or by an other sleep disorder. …”
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Lymphedema in Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome: Is It Possible to Normalize? by Jose Maria Pereira de Godoy, Angela Río, Paloma Domingo Garcia, Maria de Fatima Guerreiro Godoy

“…The volume of edema was reduced by about 44% within the first week with further reductions in the following weeks and healing of the ulcer. …”
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Effect of Coriander (Coriandrum sativum) Smoke on Physico-Chemical and Sensory Characteristics of Mudaffara Cheese by Salha A. Y. Jado, Ibtisam El Zubeir

“…Both cheeses were packed into labeled plastic containers and stored for five weeks in the refrigerator. The analysis was carried out in the first day, then every week. …”
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Intention and regular physical activity behavior and associated factors in individuals with coronary artery disease by Josi Oliveira, Marcelo Silva, Leonardo Alves, Marlos Domingues

“…At the time of hospitalization, 37.2% of the individuals perform any physical activity for at least 30 minutes a week in the six months preceding the cardiac event and 48.2% showed positive intent to practice. …”
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High leafy and root vegetables and high rice dietary patterns were associated with primary and secondary bile acid levels in the feces by Yosuke Saito, Toyoaki Sagae

“…We used the Bristol scale to determine 1-week defecation status. Moreover, the brief-type self-administered diet history questionnaire was used for habitual dietary intake status. …”
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Can your partner influence your physical activity? The role of social support provided by partners by Rodrigo Wiltgen Ferreira, Marlos Rodrigues Domingues

“…Persons belonging to the highest SSP quartile performed 66.1 (95%CI: 11.1 - 121.0) more minutes of PA and had 1.37 (95%CI: 1.01 – 1.85) higher probability to perform more than 300 min/week of PA than those from the lowest SSP quartile. …”
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An Atypical Presentation of Pyridoxine-Dependent Epilepsy Diagnosed with Whole Exome Sequencing and Treated with Lysine Restriction and Supplementation with Arginine and Pyridoxine by Jiyoung Kim, Angela Pipitone Dempsey, Sun Young Kim, Meral Gunay-Aygun, Hilary J. Vernon

“…Follow-up biochemical testing demonstrated elevated urine pipecolic acid. In the second week of life, the patient was initiated on triple therapy, including pyridoxine supplementation, low lysine diet, and arginine supplementation, which he tolerated well. …”
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Pattern Changes in the Heart Rate Variability of Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery by Ngo Van Thanh, Nguyen Sinh Hien, Pham Nguyen Son, Pham Truong Son

“…A prospective method was used to study 119 consecutive patients with stable CAD who were assessed using 24-hour Holter recordings 2 days before CABG and 1 week, 3 months, and 6 months after the surgery at Hanoi Heart Hospital from June 2016 to August 2018. …”
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Pulmonary Thromboembolism Complicating Amebic Liver Abscess: First Reported Case in the United States—Case Report and Literature Review by Devon McKenzie, Michael Gale, Sunny Patel, Grazyna Kaluta

“…We present the case of a 43-year-old male from West Africa who presented with the chief complaint of right upper quadrant abdominal pain for one week associated with persistent nonproductive cough. …”
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A Therapeutic Challenge: Liddle’s Syndrome Managed with Amiloride during Pregnancy by Amelia Caretto, Liviana Primerano, Francesca Novara, Orsetta Zuffardi, Stefano Genovese, Maurizio Rondinelli

“…Hypertension worsened after the 25th week of gestation and amiloride was safely administered, firstly in combination with hydrochlorothiazide (the only formulation commercially available in Italy) and, thereafter, as a single drug. …”
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Primary Gliosarcoma of the Cerebellum in a Young Pregnant Woman: Management Challenges and Immunohistochemical Features by Marco Meloni, Salvatore Serra, Giulia Bellisano, Nikolaos Syrmos, Sanjeeva Jeyaretna, Mario Ganau

“…Diagnosis was obtained on the 15th week of gestation when patient presented with signs and symptoms of life-threatening raised intracranial pressure. …”
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COVID-19 Outbreak among Healthcare Workers in a Specialty Unit in a Low-Middle Income Setting by Regina E. Oladokun, Babatunde O. Ogunbosi, Oreoluwa E. Morakinyo

“…Materials and Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted on 107 HCWs over 8 weeks during a COVID-19 outbreak among HCWs in a specialty unit in Ibadan, Nigeria. …”
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Limiting the development of anti-cancer drug resistance in a spatial model of micrometastases by Ami B. Shah, Katarzyna A. Rejniak, Jana L. Gevertz

“…Motivated by experimental work on ovarian cancer xenografts, we consider all possible combinations of a one week treatment protocol, repeated for three weeks, and constrained by the total weekly drug dose. …”
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Multimodal ultrasound assessment of the injection therapy in lateral epicondylitis: a retrospective observational study by Chengfeng Chu, Mingmin Xu, Jichao Hu

“…Ultrasound data of the extensor tendon, as well as VAS (Visual Analog Scale) and MEPS (Mayo Elbow Performance Score) for the affected elbow, were collected before and after a two-week treatment period. The study aimed to compare the alterations in gray-scale ultrasound features, hemodynamic parameters, and elastography scores pre- and post-treatment, and to analyze the correlation between the changes in ultrasound parameters and pain scores. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF PRACTICE REGIME ON TACTILE PERCEPTUAL DISCRIMINATIVE ABILITY IN VOLEYBALL, BASKETBALL, AND HANDBALL PLAYERS by Arián Ramón Aladro Gonzalvo, Gerardo Araya Vargas

“…The mean contribution to the explained variance percentage of DT corresponds to frequency (days) of practicing per week (<em>β</em> = -0.42, <em>t</em> = -2.60; <em>p</em> = .016) and the time (hours) of practicing per day (<em>β</em> = -0.59, <em>t</em> = -2.99, <em>p</em> = .006), the only ones significant DT predictors. …”
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A Case of Idiopathic Recurrent Spontaneous Bladder Rupture by Reid Bartholomew, Mentor Ahmeti

“…Four years later, she presented to the emergency department (ED) with one week of worsening abdominal pain that became severe acutely. …”
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Knowledge on the Use of Biosimilars in Hematological Malignancies Amongst Health Care Workers at a Tertiary Hospital in Northeast Nigeria by Rufai A. Dachi, Mustapha S. Umar, Maryam Mahdi, Nura H. Alkali, Falmata G. Mustapha, Fatima M. Muhammad, Alhaji Abdu

“…Materials and Methods: Healthcare workers underwent a week-long training on biosimilars. Knowledge of pre- and post-training was ascertained using interviewer-administered questionnaires. …”
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Development and Structural Variety of the Chondroitin Sulfate Proteoglycans-Contained Extracellular Matrix in the Mouse Brain by Noriko Horii-Hayashi, Takayo Sasagawa, Wataru Matsunaga, Mayumi Nishi

“…Here, we examined the starting period of PNN formation in male mice ranging in age from postnatal day 3 to week 11, mainly focusing on several cortical areas, limbic structures, hypothalamus, and brain stem, using lectin histochemistry with Wisteria floribunda agglutinin (WFA). …”
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