ICD Pocket-Site Infection Secondary to Gonococcal Bacteremia: The First Reported Case by Sardar Hassan Ijaz, Ali Haider Jafry, Areeba Shahnawaz, Mark Allee

“…He was started on a prolonged course of ceftriaxone for 4 weeks with reimplantation of ICD at a different site after completion of treatment. …”
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of Misoprostol and Sulprostone to End Pregnancy after Fetal Death by Kristin Van Mensel, Filip Claerhout, Patrick Debois, Marc J. N. C. Keirse, Myriam Hanssens

“…To compare effectiveness, side effects, and patients' perception of vaginal misoprostol versus intravenous sulprostone for ending pregnancy after fetal death between 14 and 42 weeks gestation. Method. Multicenter randomized controlled trial, using block randomization, central allocation, and prior power analysis. …”
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Restless legs syndrome without insomnia and antenatal depressive symptoms by Kazuhide Tezuka, Yuka Ito, Daisuke Nishi

“…The participants were 2,108 women who attended the RCT at 16–20 weeks of pregnancy. RLS, insomnia, and antenatal depressive symptoms were assessed using the Cambridge-Hopkins questionnaire short form, Insomnia Severity Index, and Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale, respectively. …”
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Effect of different speed and time of centrifugations on decontamination of Leptospira spp. cultures from rat’s kidney by Budi Prasetyo, Arif Mulyanto, Kusnanto Mukti Wibowo, Kurniawan, Farida Dwi Handayani

“…Cultures were observed at 20x magnification under a dark field microscope at 8 weeks old. Contaminated cultures were centrifuged at 3000, 6000, and 8000 rpm for 5 and 10 minutes, then recultured into new media. …”
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Rehabilitation of human hearing with a totally implantable cochlear implant: a feasibility study by Philippe Pierre Lefebvre, Joachim Müller, Gerhard Mark, Florian Schwarze, Ingeborg Hochmair

“…Adverse events (the primary outcome), speech perception, patient reported outcomes, and device usage statistics were collected over the subsequent 52 weeks. A within-subjects comparison was used in which each participant was evaluated both with the TICI and with an external SONNET audio processor. …”
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Functional outcome of the three-stitch technique of humerus nailing for comminuted shaft humerus fractures by Sachin Kale, Bhushan Patil, Garvit Khatod, Pramod Bhor, Gursimran Sandhu, Venkatsh Jyoti, Rohan Baruah, Sachiti Kale, Rahul Ghodke, Joydeep Dey

“…Two patients encountered delayed wound healing; one underwent vacuum-assisted closure therapy, ultimately achieving satisfactory healing after a series of dry dressings over 2–3 weeks. There were no instances of nonunion. Over 6 months, 22 out of 24 patients experienced significant restoration of function, evidenced by an improvement in Mayo Elbow Performance Index scores from 18 to 23 within the excellent outcome group. …”
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CLAPPING, VIBRATING, POSTURAL DRAINAGE, AND EFFECTIVE COUGH AS MEASURES TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEM OF INEFFECTIVE AIRWAY CLEARANCE IN PATIENTS WITH BRONCHITIS by Wahyu Pranoto, Difran Nobel Bistara, Umdatus Soleha, Priyo Mukti Pribadi Winoto

“…Results: The results of the case study found that the patient had a cough with phlegm for 2 weeks, chest pain when coughing, increased sputum production, had rhonchi, and the patient was an active smoker. …”
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Comparison of Different IOL Types in the Flanged IOL Fixation Technique by Yusaku Miura, Yosuke Harada, Yoshiaki Kiuchi

“…The mean follow-up period was 13.3 ± 11.7 weeks. The postoperative best corrected visual acuity, in logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR), was 0.10 ± 0.33 in group 1 and 0.26 ± 0.42 in group 2. …”
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Factors Affecting Presentation Delay to the Hospital Among Breast Cancer Patients: A Retrospective Analysis by Kajal Nehra, Jisa George T, Geeta Bhardwaj, Rajesh Pasricha

“…Materials and methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 138 primary breast cancer patients aged 18 to 60 years, with a time lag of more than 2 weeks between the initial recognition of symptoms and the first medical interaction. …”
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Microbial Contamination and Antimicrobial Resistance in Use of Ophthalmic Solutions at the Department of Ophthalmology, Jimma University Specialized Hospital, Southwest Ethiopia by Lemlem Tamrat, Yeshigeta Gelaw, Getenet Beyene, Addisu Gize

“…Samples from all ophthalmic solutions from outpatient department, operation theaters, and wards after an average duration of use of two weeks were taken. Samples were cultured and organisms were identified; antimicrobial susceptibility testing was performed using standard microbial identification techniques. …”
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An epigenetic memory at the CYP1A gene in cancer-resistant, pollution-adapted killifish by Samantha Carrothers, Rafael Trevisan, Nishad Jayasundara, Nicole Pelletier, Emma Weeks, Joel N. Meyer, Richard Di Giulio, Caren Weinhouse

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Conditional knockdown of hepatic PCSK9 ameliorates high-fat diet-induced liver inflammation in mice by Xue-Ying Zhang, Qing-Qing Lu, Yan-Jie Li, Shan-Rui Shi, Chao-Nan Ma, Miao Miao, Shou-Dong Guo

“…These mice were fed with a high-fat diet for 9 weeks to induce inflammation. The effects of conditional knockdown of hepatic PCSK9 on inflammation and the underlying mechanisms were investigated by molecular biological techniques. …”
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Comparative Characterization of Trends and Patterns of Physical and Chemical Attributes of Optimal and Traditional Processed Cowpea Leaves by Joshua Ombaka Owade, George Ooko Abong’, Michael Wandayi Okoth, Agnes Wakesho Mwang’ombe

“…With factor analysis determining optimal nutritional quality for cowpea leaves at 8 weeks after emergence, sun drying had the highest loss of beta-carotene and ascorbic acid, 66.7–80.1% and 53.7%–58.3%, respectively (p<0.001), whereas mineral leaching, reduction of antinutrients, and colour changes were more pronounced in dehydration techniques incorporating fermentation as pretreatment. …”
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The Influence of Mode-of-Injury on Psychological Readiness for Return-To-Sport Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Matched-Controlled Study by Jenifer Presley, Lane Bailey, Kevin Maloney, Brian Duncan, Mathew Reid, Christopher Juneau, Walter R Lowe

“…Psychological readiness was examined 16-weeks postoperatively using the ACL-Return to Sport after Injury (ACL-RSI) questionnaire with subgroup analyses for the ‘emotional’, ‘confidence’ and ‘injury-risk’ subscales. …”
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Protection of Alzheimer’s disease progression by a human-origin probiotics cocktail by Santosh Kumar Prajapati, Shaohua Wang, Sidharth P Mishra, Shalini Jain, Hariom Yadav

“…Remarkably, feeding mice with 1 × 1011 CFU per day in drinking water for 16 weeks significantly reduced cognitive decline (measured by the Morris Water Maze test) and AD pathology markers, such as Aβ aggregation, microglia activation, neuroinflammation, and preserved blood-brain barrier (BBB) tight junctions. …”
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A rare case of Ewing's sarcoma in a 4-year-old child treated by tumor endoprosthetics using 3D printing by Vladimir Stavrev, Luben Stokov, Petko Ganev, Georgi Georgiev

“…Results: The postoperative period was uneventful, with sutures removed on the 12th postoperative day. For 3 weeks, a tutor orthosis was placed. Active physiotherapy was started after removal of the orthosis 21 days after surgery. …”
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Terminalia catappa Extract Palliates Redox Imbalance and Inflammation in Diabetic Rats by Upregulating Nrf-2 Gene by Franklyn Nonso Iheagwam, Gaber El-Saber Batiha, Olubanke Olujoke Ogunlana, Shalom Nwodo Chinedu

“…Experimental rats were treated orally with 400 and 800 mg/kg bw TCA daily for four weeks. Antioxidant enzyme activities, plasma glucose concentration, protein concentration, oxidative stress, and inflammation biomarkers were assayed using standard methods. …”
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Models of provider care in long-term care: A rapid scoping review. by Candyce Hamel, Chantelle Garritty, Mona Hersi, Claire Butler, Leila Esmaeilisaraji, Danielle Rice, Sharon Straus, Becky Skidmore, Brian Hutton

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted this review over 10-weeks of English language, peer-reviewed studies published from 2010 onward. …”
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A multimodal couple-coping intervention for enhancing sexual adjustment among breast cancer women: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. by Ka Ming Chow, Carmen Wing Han Chan, Kai Chow Choi, Alexandra Leigh McCarthy

“…The intervention group will receive the multimodal couple-based sexual health intervention over eight weeks. The intervention comprises five face-to-face and virtual individual couple counselling sessions combined with online reading, a chat-based discussion forum, and telephone calls. …”
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Timing of vitrectomy for treatment of endophthalmitis after intravitreal anti-VEGF injection: a systematic literature review of case reports and series by Daniel J. Hu, Sophia Ghauri, Magdalena G. Krzystolik

“…Inclusion criteria were studies reporting cases of acute post-anti-VEGF endophthalmitis, defined as occurring within 6 weeks of injection treatment. Exclusion criteria were pediatric cases and cases explicitly reported to be caused by injections of contaminated drugs. …”
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