Neurologic Complications Associated with Sjögren’s Disease: Case Reports and Modern Pathogenic Dilemma by Michele Colaci, Giulia Cassone, Andreina Manfredi, Marco Sebastiani, Dilia Giuggioli, Clodoveo Ferri

“…We reported 2 cases: the first one was a 40-year-old woman who developed neuritis of the left optic nerve as presenting symptom few years before the diagnosis of SS; the second was a 54-year-old woman who presented a paralysis of the right phrenic nerve 7 years after the SS onset. …”
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Impact of the family doctor system on medication adherence among type 2 diabetes patients in China: a difference-in-differences analysis by Xichen Tong, Haiyan Zou, Luying Zhang, Wen Chen

“…Adult patients with T2DM who continuously registered with family doctors from 2015 to 2019 (n = 18,841) were assigned to the intervention group, while those who never registered during this period (n = 1,429) were classified as the control group. …”
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Analysis of artery injury types and clinical characteristics of patients with transcatheter angioembolization after percutaneous nephrolithotomy by Xianghu Meng, Rong Cong, Yibo Hua, Zengjun Wang, Ninghong Song, Wei Yang, Rijin Song

“…BackgroundThere is no systematic classification of renal vascular injuries conducted for severe post-percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) bleeding.AimThe aim of the present study was to explore the various types of artery injury and clinical characteristics of patients who underwent transcatheter angioembolization (TAE) after PCNL.MethodsA retrospective analysis was performed on 52 patients who underwent renal arteriography (RA) because of severe bleeding after PCNL between April 2009 and December 2023. …”
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Acromegaly: Is earlier diagnosis possible? Exploration of a screening algorithm to select high-risk patients by Tessa N.A. Slagboom, David de Jong, Peter H. Bisschop, Madeleine L. Drent

“…Purpose: Given the ongoing need to reduce the delay in diagnosis of acromegaly, the aim of the current study was to develop a screening algorithm that: finds as many patients as possible who have already been diagnosed with acromegaly (=sensitivity), while identifying a limited number of additional patients who are at risk for acromegaly as a proxy for specificity. …”
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Older Adults Accessing HIV Care and Treatment and Adherence in the IeDEA Central Africa Cohort by Jamie Newman, Jeniffer Iriondo-Perez, Jennifer Hemingway-Foday, Anna Freeman, Wilfred Akam, Ashu Balimba, Lucien Kalenga, Marcel Mbaya, Brigitte Mfangam Molu, Henri Mukumbi, Théodore Niyongabo, Joseph Atibu, Innocent Azinyue, Modeste Kiumbu

“…Those aged 50+ were more likely to be adherent to their medications than those aged 18–49 (P<0.001). Adults who were not heavy drinkers reported better adherence as compared to those who reported drinking three or more alcoholic beverages per day (P<0.001). …”
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COVID-19 and Obesity: An Epidemiologic Analysis of the Brazilian Data by Diego Assis Gonçalves, Victória Ribeiro, Ana Gualberto, Fernanda Peres, Michaela Luconi, Jacy Gameiro

“…Women with obesity who died of COVID-19 were older than men (55 years (IQR = 25) vs. 50 (IQR = 22), P<0.001, and η2 = 0.0263). …”
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Online learning: Attitudes of Russian students by D. V. Rudenkin

“…It was possible to find out that Russian researchers are used to considering modern students as a special generation of people, who have grown up in the conditions of the widespread spread of Internet technologies, who are accustomed to using such technologies very actively and are in need of their application within the framework of the learning process. …”
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The so-called Mongolian spots and suspected child abuse - difficulties in differential diagnosis by Szymon Rzepczyk, Paweł Świderski, Damian Rusek, Jakub Czerwik, Ryszard Żaba, Czesław Żaba

“…This case describes a two-week-old girl of Roma origin, who was transferred from a temporary to a foster family. …”
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Incidence, Causes, and Perinatal Outcomes of “Near-Miss” Obstetric Emergencies during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experience from a Tertiary Referral Center of Western Rajasthan, India... by Garima Yadav, Charu Sharma, Pratibha Singh, Vrushti Solanki, Swati Chhabra, Priyanka Kathuria, Meenakshi Gothwal, Manisha Jhirwal, Shashank Shekhar

“…A modified version of the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Maternal Near-Miss Screening Tool was used to identify maternal near-miss cases and other obstetric emergencies requiring CCU admission. …”
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Association of Frailty Index at 66 Years of Age with Health Care Costs and Utilization Over 10 Years in Korea: Retrospective Cohort Study by Jieun Jang, Anna Kim, Mingee Choi, Ellen P McCarthy, Brianne Olivieri-Mui, Chan Mi Park, Jae-Hyun Kim, Jaeyong Shin, Dae Hyun Kim

“…MethodsThis retrospective cohort study included 215,887 Koreans who participated in the National Screening Program for Transitional Ages at 66 years of age between 2007‐2009. …”
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Serum Galectin-3 Predicts Mortality in Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Patients by Jianlong Zhu, Dehui Guo, Liying Liu, Jing Zhong

“…We prospectively studied patients (survivors and nonsurvivors) who received VA-ECMO for cardiogenic shock from 2019 to 2021. …”
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Mature Cystic Teratoma of the Ovary; Clinicopathological Evaluation of 143 Cases in our Series, 5 Years Experience by Ferah Kazanci, Betul Ogut, Dilek Yapar, Ozlem Erdem, M. Anil Onan

“…In this retrospective study, it is aimed to evaluate clinicopathological findings of the patients who were operated on due to the preliminary diagnosis of dermoid cyst. …”
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Comparison between Two Different Two-Stage Transperineal Approaches to Treat Urethral Strictures or Bladder Neck Contracture Associated with Severe Urinary Incontinence that Occurr... by A. Simonato, M. Ennas, A. Benelli, A. Gregori, F. Oneto, E. Daglio, P. Traverso, G. Carmignani

“…We retrospectively analyzed our data on 17 patients, operated between September 2001 and January 2010, who presented severe urinary incontinence and urethral/bladder neck stricture after prostatic surgery and failure of at least four conservative endoscopic treatments. …”
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Translation of Ancient Works During the First Two Years of the Full-scale Russian Invasion of Ukraine by Svyatoslav Zubchenko

“…The goal of the work determined the solution of a number of specific tasks, the essence and sequence of which are determined by the logic of the research: 1) to find out the state of the publishing market in the first and second year of the full-scale invasion; 2) to analyze the reading tendencies of Ukrainian citizens (number of books read per year, place of purchase of new books, language of reading, most popular genres; 3) to form an idea about the Ukrainian translator of this period (problems of relocation, income, the most popular languages for translation); 4) to systematize the translations from Latin and ancient Greek published in 2022-2024, the publishers who took care of them and the cohort of translators who worked with classical material. …”
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Clinical efficacy of cytoreductive radical prostatectomy in the treatment of oligometastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer by Feng Qi, Yihang Xu, Zicheng Xu, Qing Zou

“…Results A total of 181 patients were enrolled in the study, including 48 patients who received cytoreductive surgery and 133 patients who did not receive local therapy. …”
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No Correlation Exists between Disease Activity and the Expression of Killer-Cell Immunoglobulin-Like Receptors in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis by Toshiaki Kogure, Takeshi Tatsumi, Atsushi Niizawa, Hiroshi Fujinaga, Tomoyuki Ito, Yutaka Shimada, Katsutoshi Terasawa

“…In the longitudinal study, patients who were followed-up for 3 months were assessed. …”
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of a peptide-cytokine agent in the complex therapy of recurrent candidal vulvovaginitis by Elena A. Rosyuk

“…Group 3 (n=30) included females who received standard antimycotic therapy without other drugs. …”
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Epidemiological trends of head and neck Cancer survivors in Alberta: towards improved understanding of the burden of disease by Jin Soo Song, Patrick Vallance, Vincent Biron, Caroline C. Jeffery

“…Conclusions There is a significant population of head and neck survivors who are younger, male, and more than 10 years post-treatment. …”
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Comparison of 9.0 and 9.2 mm Flap Diameter Options of Femtosecond Laser In-Situ Keratomileusis for Hypermetropia and Hypermetropic Astigmatism by Kemal Ozulken, Cagri Ilhan

“…Two eyes of the patients who used two different flap diameters were enrolled into two different groups. …”
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Axial Length Shortening after Combined Repeated Low-Level Red-Light Therapy in Poor Responders of Orthokeratology in Myopic Children by Mengting Yu, Xianghua Tang, Jinyun Jiang, Fengqi Zhou, Lili Wang, Chuqi Xiang, Yin Hu, Xiao Yang

“…Study participants were 100 myopic children who completed two years of ortho-k treatment in a retrospective study. …”
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