Diagnosis and Treatment of Sepsis in a Fourteen-year-old Patient: A case study of pulmonary inflammatory discharge without typical features of respiratory tract infection by Bartłomiej Żaczek, Jakub Kozłowski, Alicja Kamińska, Wojciech Kupczak, Kinga Bujak, Aleksandra Kocjan, Ismael Alsoubie, Natalie Papachristoforou, Wojciech Kaźmierski, Mateusz Ziomek, Paulina Lis, Marta Czubaj-Kowal

“…This article presents the case of a 14-year-old patient who was admitted to the Paediatric Unit due to a high fever (up to 42 degrees Celsius) lasting from five days and severe pain in the area of the lower ribs on the left side, at the site of an injury that occurred two weeks earlier. Conclusion. In the case of unclear symptoms of high fever and indicators of inflammation, a broad diagnostic spectrum is necessary, including imaging and laboratory tests and specialist consultations. …”
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Evaluating Active Learning: The Role of Non-Presential Workload Monitoring in Academic Achievement and Student Satisfaction in Architecture Programs Within the European Higher Educ... by César Daniel Sirvent-Pérez, Carlos Pérez-Carramiñana, Pascual Saura-Gómez, Ángel Benigno González-Avilés, José Ángel Ruiz-Cáceres

“…The results reveal a direct proportional relationship among these variables, whereby an increase in weekly study hours corresponds with both higher final grades and improved student satisfaction with the course.…”
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Treatment of Chronic Bony Mallet Fingers by Dorsal Extension Block Pinning with Percutaneous Curettage by Fumiaki Takase, Kyoko Yamasaki, Takeshi Kokubu, Yutaka Mifune, Atsuyuki Inui, Ryosuke Kuroda

“…The average age was 17 (range, 12–23) years, and the average time from injury to surgery was 20 (range, 7–49) weeks. Bone union was achieved in all patients. None of the patients experienced pain after bone union. …”
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Atypical Aortoesophageal Fistula with Atypical and Delayed Presentation and Negative Imaging Studies by Seifeldin Hakim, Mihajlo Gjeorgjievski, Lohit Garg, Molly Orosey, Tusar Desai

“…A 59-year-old man with past medical history of thoracic aortic aneurysm treated with thoracic endovascular aortic repair presented with melena for 2 weeks. Initial EGD did not reveal the source of bleeding and showed normal esophagus; abdominal arteriogram did not reveal a fistulous communication and initial CTA showed normal position of the aortic graft stent without endoleak. …”
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Carotidynia: A Rare Diagnosis for Unilateral Neck Pain Revealed by Cross-Sectional Imaging by Corrado Santarosa, Salvatore Stefanelli, Roman Sztajzel, Pravin Mundada, Minerva Becker

“…The patient was treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and symptoms and imaging findings disappeared within a few weeks. Cross-sectional imaging allows not only ruling out IC mimickers but also making the correct diagnosis of this rare condition, in particular, as the clinical presentation of IC is often nonspecific.…”
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Successful Outcome of a Corticodependent Henoch-Schönlein Purpura Adult with Rituximab by Taylor Pindi Sala, Jean-Marie Michot, Renaud Snanoudj, Marion Dollat, Emmanuel Estève, Bernadette Marie, Yacine Taoufik, Jean-François Delfraissy, Thierry Lazure, Olivier Lambotte

“…Because of four relapses and corticosteroid dependence, the patient was treated with rituximab (two intravenous infusions of 1000 mg given two weeks apart). Successful outcome was observed along two years of follow-up. …”
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Preventive role of Pastinaca sativa in mitigating metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease via modulation of metabolic endotoxemia by Ji-Eun Park, Hye-Bin Lee, Yu Ra Lee, Guijae Yoo, Hee-Kyoung Son, Sang Yoon Choi, Miri Park, Ho-Young Park

“…Mice fed a high-fat diet with 50 or 100 mg/kg PRE for eight weeks showed reduced fat accumulation, improved serum metabolic profiles, and decreased liver injury markers. …”
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Cognitive and linguistic implications of learning Japanese as foreign language: A case study of a Brazilian aphasic learner by Cinthia Sayuri Misaka, Amanda Cristina de Freitas

“…The participant attended weekly sessions, one-hour per session, for seven months. …”
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High Glucose Aggravates the Detrimental Effects of Pancreatic Stellate Cells on Beta-Cell Function by Min Zha, Wei Xu, Qing Zhai, Fengfei Li, Bijun Chen, Zilin Sun

“…PSCs were transplanted into Wistar and Goto-Kakizaki (GK) rats. Sixteen weeks after transplantation, β-cell function, apoptosis, and islet fibrosis were assessed. …”
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Assessment of Fetal Autonomic Nervous System Activity by Fetal Magnetocardiography: Comparison of Normal Pregnancy and Intrauterine Growth Restriction by Akimune Fukushima, Kenji Nakai, Tomonobu Kanasugi, Miyuki Terata, Toru Sugiyama

“…Normal pregnancy (n=35) and IUGR (n=12) cases at 28–39 and 32–37 weeks of gestation, respectively, were included in this study. …”
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Research of temperature destruction effect on cables insulation operation life by V. N. Pugach, D. A. Polyakov, K. I. Nikitin, N. A. Tereshchenko, I. V. Komarov

“…Experimental studies of cable insulation temperature monitoring have been carried out. Seven weeks of the experiment show an insignificant temperature change. …”
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Spatially controlled multicellular differentiation of stem cells using triple factor-releasing metal–organic framework-coated nanoline arrays by Yeon-Woo Cho, Min-Ji Kang, Joon-Ha Park, Yun-Sik Eom, Tae-Hyung Kim

“…The UiO-67 metal–organic frameworks contain three osteogenic differentiation factors for sustained release over four weeks. The combination of differentiation factors and patterned array allows for generation of adipocytes, osteoblasts, and adipocyte–osteoblast mixtures on nanohole arrays, nanoline arrays, and at the nanohole–nanoline interface, respectively, with mature osteoblasts exhibiting higher marker expression and mineralisation. …”
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A Case of an Unusually Aggressive Cutaneous Anaplastic Large T-Cell Lymphoma in an HIV Patient Treated with CHOP by Jorge Hurtado-Cordovi, Louay Hanna, Vladimir Gotlieb, Alan S. Multz, Anastasia Pigal

“…Our patient is a twenty-year-old African American male with perinatally acquired HIV who presented with a 2×2 centimeter necrotic lesion in the right 1st toe; however, 2-3 weeks later multiple smaller lesions appeared on the anterior aspect of the right foot, ankle, and thigh. …”
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A new biocompatible delivery scaffold containing heparin and bone morphogenetic protein 2 by Thanyaphoo Suphannee, Kaewsrichan Jasadee

“…Histological observation and mineralization assay were performed after 4 weeks of implantation. Results from both in vitro and in vivo experiments suggest the potential of the developed scaffolds for bone tissue engineering applications in the future.…”
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Side-Alternating Vibration Training Improves Muscle Performance in a Patient with Late-Onset Pompe Disease by Aneal Khan, Barbara Ramage, Ion Robu, Laura Benard

“…Side-alternating vibration training (SAVT) was used for 15 weeks in a patient with Late-onset Pompe disease who had never used enzyme replacement or chaperone therapy. …”
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Sorafenib-Induced Liver Failure: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Anneleen Van Hootegem, Chris Verslype, Werner Van Steenbergen

“…In this paper, a patient with HCC with lung metastases developed high fever and a severe hepatitis that rapidly evolved into liver coma and death, two weeks after the initiation of Sorafenib. Biochemical parameters pointed to a hepatocellular type of injury. …”
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Tuboovarian Abscess due to Colonic Diverticulitis in a Virgin Patient with Morbid Obesity: A Case Report by Zafer Selçuk Tuncer, Gokhan Boyraz, Senem Özge Yücel, İlker Selçuk, Aslıhan Yazicioğlu

“…A 30-year-old virgin patient presented with pelvic pain, fever, and vaginal spotting for the previous three weeks. Her abdominopelvic computed tomography scan revealed bilateral multiseptated cystic masses with prominent air-fluid levels suggesting tuboovarian abscesses. …”
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Varicella Zoster Meningitis, Optic Neuritis Preceding the Development of Posterior Outer Retinal Necrosis, and Central Retinal Artery Occlusion in a HIV Patient by Manasa Gunturu, Shiva Kumar Gosi, Swetha Kanduri, Vishnu Garla

“…She responded well to acyclovir and steroids and discharged on the same. Four weeks after discharge, she presented with sudden onset blindness in the left eye. …”
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A Case of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer with Possible “Disease Flare” on Nivolumab Treatment by Shotaro Chubachi, Hiroyuki Yasuda, Hidehiro Irie, Koichi Fukunaga, Katsuhiko Naoki, Kenzo Soejima, Tomoko Betsuyaku

“…After 7 years from recurrence, 10th line chemotherapy, nivolumab, was initiated. Six weeks later, after 3 cycles of nivolumab treatment, rapid lung cancer progression was observed with an increase in the size of the primary lesion, multiple novel nodules on both lungs, and multiple novel brain metastases. …”
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Management of Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation for High-Risk AML following SARS-CoV-2 Associated Pancytopenia with Marked Bone Marrow Biopsy Alterations by Maria Kaparou, Zbigniew Rudzki, Hannah Giles, Vidhya Murthy, Swathy Srinath, Rebecca Lloyd, Maria Zahid Ahmed, Beena Salhan, Saleena Chauhan, Bhuvan Kishore, Richard Lovell, Claire Horgan, Shankara Paneesha, Evgenia Xenou, Anand Lokare, Joanne Ewing, Hansini Dassanayake, Emmanouil Nikolousis, Alexandros Kanellopoulos

“…In parallel, our study provides bone marrow biopsy data in a series of contemporary patients with serious haematological diseases who had a bone marrow biopsy performed within two weeks of PCR confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 infection. …”
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