Risk factors for Clostridioides difficile infection among patients diagnosed with inflammatory intestinal and rheumatological diseases in the biologic era by Helena Martínez-Lozano, Paula Saralegui-Gonzalez, Elena Reigadas, Pablo Ramón Fueyo-Peláez, Aurea García-García, José Miranda-Bautista, Luis Alcalá, Juan Carlos Nieto, María Elena Lobato-Matilla, Ignacio Marín-Jiménez, Patricia Muñoz, Luis Menchén

“…The relationship between biologic therapy and CDI is controversial. We aimed to assess whether biologic therapy increases CDI risk among IBD patients, to identify factors associated with increased CDI risk, and to characterize CDI episodes in our population. …”
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Clinical Effects of Smart Phone Speech Training Combined with Scalp Acupuncture in Patients with Non-fluent Aphasia after Stroke by Mingyue XIONG, Yanyan TANG, Lihua CAO, Dian HUANG, Xiaodan LI, Jie TAN

“…The clinical efficacy is better than scalp acupuncture therapy alone, and it is worthy of clinical promotion.…”
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Efficacy and Safety of Low-Dose Lenvatinib and Toripalimab in Patients With Recurrent Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer: Study Protocol of a Multicenter, Open-Label, Single-Arm, Ph... by Su H, Shang X, Liu H, Wang Y, Yu Y, Xu Y, Jiang K, Feng F

“…PROC patients with multiple recurrences are unable to continue highly toxic treatment after prior multiple lines of systemic therapy. Chemotherapy-free option lenvatinib plus anti-programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) combination therapy has shown promising results in several malignancies including ovarian cancer, but the toxicity of a high starting dose of lenvatinib is also notable and needs to be improved. …”
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Frequency and accuracy of intraoperative bone margin sampling for T4a cancers of the head and neck at the QEII Health Sciences Centre: a retrospective chart review by Anna-Claire Lamport, Colin A. MacKay, Martin J. Bullock, S. Mark Taylor, Jonathan R. Trites, Martin Corsten, Matthew H. Rigby

“…All patients with final positive bone margins received adjuvant radiation therapy. Of patients with negative final bone margins, 16.1% received no adjuvant therapy, 61.3% received adjuvant radiation therapy and 21.0% received adjuvant chemoradiation therapy. …”
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Predictors of late complications after coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with stable coronary heart disease by O.J. Zharinov, К.O. Mikhaliev, O.A. Yepanchintseva, B.M. Todurov

“…An independent association of late complications occurrence with renal function decrease, loop diuretics treatment and absence of long-term statin therapy should be taken into account for prescription, control and correction of treatment during late postsurgery period.…”
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Treatment of Shiga-Toxin Hus with Severe Neurologic Features with Eculizumab by Jacob H. Umscheid, Collin Nevil, Rhythm Vasudeva, Mohammed Farhan Ali, Nisha Agasthya

“…In this case report, we describe a 3-year-old boy with diarrhea-positive STEC-HUS who developed severe neurologic involvement in addition to acute renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy. He was initiated on eculizumab therapy, with clinical improvement and organ recovery. …”
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Management of connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease by Keerthi Talari

“…Corticosteroids (except in systemic sclerosis [SSc]-ILD) in combination with immunosuppressants form the mainstay of therapy in CTD-ILD. Cyclophosphamide and mycophenolate mofetil are backed by randomised trials-Scleroderma lung study I and II respectively for SSc-ILD, while calcineurin inhibitors with or without cyclophosphamide have emerged as a promising initial therapy in myositis associated ILD. …”
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Kyoto global consensus report on<i>Helicobacter pylori</i>gastritis: summary by A. A. Sheptulin

“…It is stressed, that the duly eradication therapy which is carried out before development of severe atrophy is capable to decrease the risk of stomach cancer. …”
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A Case Report on Kimura Disease by Biswajit Adhikari, Sarmila Sen, Somnath Saha

“…Treatment modalities include surgical resection, cytotoxic and radiation therapy, as well as regional or systemic steroid therapy. …”
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Viral Infection in Renal Transplant Recipients by Jovana Cukuranovic, Sladjana Ugrenovic, Ivan Jovanovic, Milan Visnjic, Vladisav Stefanovic

“…In some cases, preventive measures such as pretransplant screening, prophylactic antiviral therapy, or posttransplant viral monitoring may limit the impact of these infections. …”
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Advances and prospects of cell-penetrating peptides in tumor immunotherapy by Di Yang, Baorui Liu, Huizi Sha

“…This review delves into the crucial role that CPPs play in enhancing tumor immunotherapy, emphasizing their impact on various immunotherapy strategies, such as cytokine therapy, adoptive cell therapy, cancer vaccines, and immune checkpoint inhibitors. …”
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The latest therapeutic reports on short-term and long-term prophylaxis in the treatment of hereditary angioedema by Maciej Kozłowski, Karolina Żurawska, Iwona Poziomkowska-Gęsicka

“…Modern research and development of therapy help to improve the quality of life of patients with HAE, giving them better control of the disease.…”
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Treatment of periodontal infrabony defect using particulate dentin graft and recombinant human platelet-derived growth factor by Vishal Garg, Amit Bhardwaj, Kirti Chawla

“…Within the limitations of this case report, the utilization of PDG with rhPDGF for the treatment of infrabony periodontal defects has emerged as a promising regenerative therapy.…”
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Role of Inflammatory Cell Subtypes in Heart Failure by Derek Strassheim, Edward C. Dempsey, Evgenia Gerasimovskaya, Kurt Stenmark, Vijaya Karoor

“…Recent clinical trials have targeted inflammatory cascades as therapy for heart failure with limited success. A better understanding of the temporal course of the infiltration of the different immune cells and their contribution to the inflammatory process may improve the success for therapy. …”
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Current Trends in Implantable Left Ventricular Assist Devices by Jens Garbade, Hartmuth B. Bittner, Markus J. Barten, Friedrich-Wilhelm Mohr

“…Moreover, outcome with newer pumps have evolved to destination therapy for such patients. Currently, results using nonpulsatile continuous flow pumps document the evolution in outcomes following destination therapy achieved subsequent to the landmark Randomized Evaluation of Mechanical Assistance for the Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure Trial (REMATCH), as well as the outcome of pulsatile designed second-generation LVADs. …”
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Biophysical aspects of mechanotransduction in cells and their physiological/biological implications in vocal fold vibration: a narrative review by Junseo Cha, Susan L. Thibeault

“…Recent studies have identified mechanosensitive proteins in vocal fold epithelia, supporting this hypothesis. Voice therapy, which, involves the mobilization of vocal folds, aims to rehabilitate vocal function and restore homeostasis. …”
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Clinical Aspects of Trace Elements: Zinc in Human Nutrition – Zinc Deficiency and Toxicity by Michelle M Pluhator, Alan Br Thomson, Richard N Fedorak

“…Conditioned deficiencies have been reported to result from malabsorption syndromes, acrodermatitis enteropathica, alcoholism, gastrointestinal disease, thermal injury, chronic diseases (eg, diabetes, sickle cell anemia), and in total parenteral nutrition therapy. Awareness that patients with these problems are at risk has led health professionals to focus increasingly on the importance of zinc therapy in the prevention and treatment of deficiency. …”
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Biological treatment options for eosinophilic asthma, with consideration of markers of eosinophilic inflammation as predictors of treatment efficacy by Aleksandra Niemiec, Olga Branicka, Barbara Rymarczyk, Radosław Gawlik

“…However, the conventional therapy may provide insufficient control of severe asthma and may induce a number of adverse effects when used long-term. …”
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Clinical Outcome with Oral Linezolid and Rifampin Following Recurrent Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Despite Prolonged Vancomycin Treatment by Jon-David Schwalm, Philippe El-Helou, Christine H Lee

“…Physicians must be aware of the novel developments in antibiotic therapy to treat drug-resistant bacterial infections.…”
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THE ORGANIZATION OF STUDENTS’ CREATIVE ACTIVITY IN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS by Galina S. Rodionova, Olga E. Shapovalova

“…The paper is devoted to research which summarizes the five(year experience of the Department of remedial pedagogy, psychology and speech therapy aimed at improvement the quality of training of bachelors and master students of specialty “Defectology education (therapeutic pedagogy)” with a deep attention to the organization of students’ creative activity in educational process. …”
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