Round Window Accessibility Prediction in Cochlear Implant Surgery by Salah-eddine Youbi, Omar Oulghoul, Youssef Lakhdar, Atmane Zaroual, Mohamed Chehbouni, Othmane Benhoummad, Youssef Rochdi, Abdelaziz Raji

“…Methods: We retrospectively reviewed preoperative HRCT scans of 142 patients who underwent CI surgery via the standard posterior tympanotomy approach at our ENT Head and Neck Surgery department. …”
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An Unusually Short Latent Period of Therapy-Related Myeloid Neoplasm Harboring a Rare MLL-EP300 Rearrangement: Case Report and Literature Review by Reina Takeda, Kazuaki Yokoyama, Seiichiro Kobayashi, Toyotaka Kawamata, Sousuke Nakamura, Tomofusa Fukuyama, Mika Ito, Nozomi Yusa, Eigo Shimizu, Nobuhiro Ohno, Rui Yamaguchi, Seiya Imoto, Satoru Miyano, Kaoru Uchimaru, Arinobu Tojo

“…Here, we report a 62-year-old female who developed t-MN only three months after the completion of conventional chemotherapy and anti-CCR4 antibody for ATL acute type. …”
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Metabolites and lipid species mediate the associations of adiposity in childhood and early adulthood with mammographic breast density in premenopausal women by Kayla R. Getz, Myung Sik Jeon, Lili Liu, Lei Liu, Haixiang Zhang, Chongliang Luo, Jingqin Luo, Adetunji T. Toriola

“…Methods This study consists of 705 premenopausal women who had their screening mammogram at Washington University in St. …”
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Course of COVID-19 in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Regional Experience by L. M. Kupkenova, E. N. Belousova, E. S. Bodryagina, D. D. Mukhametova, A. Kh. Odintsova, D. G. Iskhakova, D. I. Abdulganieva

“…The study included 101 patients diagnosed with IBD and COVID-19, who were observed in two infectious diseases hospitals in Kazan (Republican Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Tatarstan and City Clinical Hospital No. 7) and on an outpatient basis from April 2020 to March 2022. …”
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Improving Outcomes and Quality of Life for Patients With Hand and Foot Eczema: Randomized Study of a Patient-Centered Monitoring App by Aimee Bruch, Wanja Weigandt, Yannic Schardt, Raphael Herr, Johannes Benecke, Astrid Schmieder

“…Subgroup analysis revealed that patients who used the app with a usage frequency of less than 20% demonstrated a significant reduction in the HECSI from week 0 to week 60 (week 60: Coef=–1.275; P=.04) and a significant reduction in the Dermatology Life Quality Index (week 60: Coef=–1.246; P=.04) compared to the control group. …”
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COVID-19 among staff and their family members of a healthcare research institution in Bangladesh between March 2020 and April 2021: a test-negative case–control study by Subhasish Das, Mustafa Mahfuz, Shah Mohammad Fahim, Tahmeed Ahmed, Shams E Arifeen, Md Ashraful Alam, Mustafizur Rahman, John D Clemens, S M Tafsir Hasan, Ishita Mostafa, Monira Sarmin, Shahana Parveen

“…Multivariable regression analysis showed that age more than 60 years (adjusted OR (aOR)=2.1, 95% CI 1.3 to 3.3; p<0.05), blood group AB (aOR=1.5, 95% CI 1.1 to 2; p<0.05), fever (aOR=3.1, 95% CI 2.6 to 3.7; p<0.05), cough (aOR=1.3, 95% CI 1.1 to 1.6; p<0.05) and anosmia (aOR=2.7, 95% CI 1.3 to 5.7; p<0.05) were significantly associated with higher odds of being COVID-19 positive when compared with participants who were tested negative.Conclusions The study findings suggest that older age, fever, cough and anosmia were associated with COVID-19 among the study participants.…”
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Evaluation of the Back-in-Action test Battery In Uninjured High School American Football Players by Marcel Rohde, Alina Ruhlemann, Andre Busch, Ulrich Grunwald, Marcus Jaeger, Constantin Mayer

“…# Background Return to sport testing is an established routine, especially for athletes who have ruptured their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). …”
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Les Jeunes Tunisiens, une contre-expérience de la minoration ? Politisation des langues dans la presse francophone en Tunisie coloniale (1907-1912) by Sarra Zaïed

“…The status of the language was based on Tunisian actors who needed French to act as intermediaries and to occupy official positions within the colonial administration. …”
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Developing a core outcome set for assessing interventions and care for parents after neonatal death in high-income countries (iCHOOSE Neonatal study): protocol for a mixed-methods... by James Webbe, Mehali Patel, Danya Bakhbakhi, Christy Burden, Mary Lynch, Laura Timlin, Lisa Hinton, Abigail Fraser, Anna Davies, Maggie Redshaw, David Odd, Charlotte Williams, Dimitris Siasakos, Abi Merriel, Sadie Mullin, Lucy Moy, Leanne Watts

“…A parent involvement group and stakeholder steering committee have been established and have informed each planned phase: (1) systematic review of quantitative studies evaluating care and interventions provided after neonatal death, to describe interventions, outcomes and outcome measurement tools used to assess intervention effectiveness; (2) qualitative interviews with parents who have experienced neonatal death to identify outcomes important and relevant to them; (3) think-aloud interviews with stakeholders (bereaved parents, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders) to develop and refine an online survey; (4) real-time online international Delphi survey with bereaved parents, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders to shortlist outcomes for consideration in the COS; (5) adapted nominal group online consensus meetings with parents, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders to agree final COS and (6) identification of a preliminary set of measurement tools.Ethics and dissemination Ethical approval has been granted for all activities to be undertaken by the University of Bristol Health Sciences Faculty Research Ethics Committee (reference: 15121). …”
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Geriatric nutritional risk index as a predictor of 30-day and 365-day mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a retrospective cohort study using the MIMIC-IV databa... by Xiaolong Zheng, Xiaolong Zheng, Xin Zheng, Xin Zheng, Changgui Zhang, Minghua Liu

“…The study included 895 patients diagnosed with AMI and identified through ICD9 and ICD10 codes (410, I21, I23) who were hospitalized for the first time due to AMI. …”
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Hubungan Indeks Massa Tubuh dengan Derajat Kerusakan Sendi pada Pasien Osteoartritis Lutut di RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang by Endang Mutiwara, Najirman ., Afriwardi .

“…The result showed 88.9% patients who were obese have a higher degree of joint damage. …”
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The role of the Global Observatory in addressing Gender Based Violence in Sport+ by Hayley Truskewycz, Lombe Mwambwa

“…The Global Observatory contributes to gender equality efforts in PEPAS by facilitating coordination across movements and stakeholders (De Soysa & Zipp, 2019) who often work on similar aims but often in disparate sites. …”
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Expanded screening for Fabry disease in patients with chronic kidney disease not on dialysis: a multicenter Italian experience by Yuri Battaglia, Federica Baciga, Meilad Shakkour, Savio Russo, Giulia Carnicella, Michela Erlati, Gemma Sartori, Giulia Tronconi, Renzo Mignani, Federico Pieruzzi, Paolo Colomba, Laura Scichilone, Michele Andreucci, Concetto Sessa, Giovanni Duro

“…Although several screening programs have been conducted, the prevalence of FD in patients with chronic kidney patients who are not dependent on dialysis (NDD-CKD) is likely underestimated due to restrictive inclusion criteria and methodological shortcomings. …”
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The Predictive Value of Growth Differentiation Factor-15 in Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation after Catheter Ablation by Ying Wei, Shuwang Liu, Haiyi Yu, Yuan Zhang, Wei Gao, Ming Cui, Lei Li

“…We prospectively included 150 consecutive AF patients who underwent RFCA. Clinical information about the patients was collected. …”
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Questionnaire to Survey Cosmetic Outcomes in Laparoscopic Surgery for Colorectal Cancer by Masaaki Miyo, MD, PhD, Ichiro Takemasa, MD, PhD, Koichi Okuya, MD, PhD, Tatsuya Ito, MD, PhD, Emi Akizuki, MD, PhD, Tadashi Ogawa, MD, PhD, Ai Noda, MD, Masayuki Ishii, MD, PhD, Ryo Miura, MD, Momoko Ichihara, MD, Maho Toyota, MD, Akina Kimura, MD, Mitsugu Sekimoto, MD, PhD

“…The scores for cosmetic outcomes (6.2–7.1 points) were almost equal to those of the length of hospital stay (6.2–7.1 points), which was associated with medical costs and pain (10.0–11.1 points), one of the main reasons for fear of surgery. Participants who were female, younger, and in the nonmedical group placed great importance on cosmetic outcomes. …”
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Trends in palliative care utilization among older adult decedents with and without cancer in Taiwan: a population-based comparative studyResearch in context by Yu-Tai Lo, Tzu-Jung Chuang, Yu-Tung Huang, Yi-Lin Wu, Yi-Ching Yang, Chung-Yi Li

“…Methods: The study utilized data from the Health and Welfare Data Science Center in Taiwan, covering demographic and healthcare variables for 588,010 decedents aged 65+ years who died between 2010 and 2020. We used Poisson regression to investigate the temporal trends in palliative care utilization during the last six months of life. …”
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Maternal Uterine Artery Doppler and Serum Marker in the First Trimester as Predictive Markers for Small for Gestational Age Neonates and Preeclampsia: A Pilot Study by Je Yeon Lee, Kyung A Lee, So Yun Park, Soo Jung Kim, So-Yeon Shim, Young Ju Kim, Mi Hye Park

“…<b>Methods</b>: In this retrospective pilot study, we enrolled 628 singleton pregnant women who underwent ultrasound in both the first and second trimesters and blood test. …”
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Iron deposition is associated with motor and non-motor network breakdown in parkinsonism by Fangda Leng, Yue Gao, Fan Li, Luhua Wei, Yunchuang Sun, Fang Liu, Ying Zhu, Jianxing Qiu, Zhaoxia Wang, Yiwei Zhang

“…To further validate the findings, 13 healthy controls and 37 PD patients who had available T1 and rs-fMRI scans were selected from Parkinson’s progression markers initiative (PPMI) database, and network analysis was performed.ResultsIn local cohort, compared to PD, MSA patients showed greater iron deposition in putamen, while PSP patients had greater iron deposition in caudate nucleus and thalamus. …”
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Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS) Diagnosed by MRI-Guided Biopsy among BRCA1/BRCA2 Mutation Carriers by Renata Faermann, Eitan Friedman, Orit Kaidar-Person, Jonathan Weidenfeld, Malka Brodsky, Anat Shalmon, Osnat Halshtok Neiman, Michael Gotlieb, Yael Yagil, David Samoocha, Dana Madorsky Feldman, Miri Sklair-Levy

“…Results. 18/121 (15.2%) participating BRCA1 PSV carriers and 8/81 (10.1%) BRCA2 PSV-carriers who underwent MRI-guided biopsy were diagnosed with DCIS. …”
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The Burden and Trend of Blood-Borne Pathogens among Asymptomatic Adult Population in Akwatia: A Retrospective Study at the St. Dominic Hospital, Ghana by Sylvester Yao Lokpo, Mavis Popuelle Dakorah, Gameli Kwame Norgbe, James Osei-Yeboah, Godwin Adzakpah, Isaac Sarsah, John Gameli Deku, Innocent Afeke, Emmanuel Akomanin Asiamah, Nana Yaw Barimah Manaphraim, Isaac Asare, Bright Justice Ayidzoe, Emmanuel Alote Allotey, Emmanuel Agbeko Nani, Paul Amoah

“…The study was a retrospective analysis of secondary data of blood donors who visited the hospital from January 2013 to December 2016. …”
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