Evaluation of Healthcare Outcomes of Patients Treated with 3D-Printed-Titanium and PEEK Cages During Fusion Procedures in the Lumbar Spine by Corso KA, Teferra AA, Michielli A, Corrado K, Marcini A, Lotito M, Smith C, Costa M, Ruppenkamp J, Wallace A

“…Most PEEK cage patients were 18– 64 years (61.9%), and 3D-printed-titanium was evenly distributed across age categories. The mean index hospital cost was ~$40,000, LOS was ~3 days, and discharge status to home/home health was ~85% for both; surgery time was 267 minutes for PEEK and 280 minutes for 3D-printed-titanium. …”
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Improving the quality of primary healthcare in Kosovo: Impact of targeted training of Quality Coordinators by Ardita Baraku, Gordana Pavleković

“…Further research is needed to evaluate the impact of sex and age and the possible role redefinition of QCs. Resumen: Introducción y objetivos: Este estudio se centra en mejorar las habilidades profesionales de los Coordinadores de Calidad (QC) en la atención primaria de salud (APS) en Kosovo. …”
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Olutasidenib in combination with azacitidine induces durable complete remissions in patients with relapsed or refractory mIDH1 acute myeloid leukemia: a multicohort open-label phas... by Jorge E. Cortes, Gail J. Roboz, Maria R. Baer, Brian A. Jonas, Gary J. Schiller, Karen Yee, P. Brent Ferrell, Jay Yang, Eunice S. Wang, William G. Blum, Alice Mims, Hua Tian, Aaron Sheppard, Stéphane de Botton, Pau Montesinos, Antonio Curti, Justin M. Watts, the Olutasidenib Combination Therapy Study Group

“…Results Sixty-seven patients with R/R mIDH1 R132 AML received combination OLU + AZA. Median age was 66 years (range 28–82) and 54% were male. …”
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The Effects of Artificial vs. Natural Rearing on Growth Performance, Thyroid Hormone Levels, Locomotor Activity, Carcass Traits and Meat Quality Characteristics in Chios Lambs by Panagiotis Simitzis, Georgia Alexopoulou, Eftychis Karampekos, Konstantina Linardopoulou, Anargyros Rigakis, Niki Stamelou, Michael Goliomytis, Iosif Bizelis, Ioannis Bossis

“…The body weight of lambs was also recorded weekly. At the age of 45 days, lambs were fasted for 12 h, weighed and slaughtered. …”
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Effect of Rifaximin and a Multi-Strain Probiotic on the Intestinal Microbiome and Cardiovascular Risk Indicators in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease by E. A. Kashukh, E. A. Poluektova, A. V. Kudryavtseva, G. S. Krasnov, V. I. Kazey, P. D. Sobolev, P. V. Gremyakova, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Group 4 consisted of healthy individuals, comparable in age and sex with the examined CHD patients. In group 4, blood and stool tests were performed once to provide a comparison with group 1. …”
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How far back do we need to look to capture diagnoses in electronic health records? A retrospective observational study of hospital electronic health record data by Tom Marshall, Elizabeth Sapey, Miles D Witham, Steve Harris, Rachel Cooper, Chris Plummer, Felicity Evison, James Wason, Heather J Cordell, Suzy Gallier, Fiona E Matthews, Ewan Pearson, Avan A Sayer, Mervyn Singer, Joanne Field, Mohammed Osman, Sian Robinson, Victoria Bartle, Thomas Scharf, Jadene Lewis, Rominique Doal, Peta le Roux, Ray Holding, Paolo Missier

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Intracranial pressure monitoring in patients with spontaneous onset of orthostatic headache by Linda D’Antona, Sanjay Cheema, Dwij Mehta, Fion Bremner, Laurence Dale Watkins, Ahmed Kassem Toma, Manjit Singh Matharu

“…Results Thirty-eight patients (23 females, mean age 41 years ± 14SD) were identified. All patients had orthostatic headaches with a spontaneous onset. …”
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Reliability of non-invasive imaging methods in the evaluation of pancreatic parenchyma changes in tumors of the pancreaticoduodenal zone by M.M. Veligotskyy, S.E. Arutyunov, I.I. Yakovtsova, I.V. Ivakhno, O.M. Veligotskyi

“…The study included 82 patients who underwent pancreatoduodenectomy for neoplasms of the pancreatoduodenal zone. The age of the patients varied from 34 to 77 years, there were 42 (50.9 %) men and 40 (49.1 %) wo­men. …”
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Ibuprofen reduces inflammation, necroptosis and protects photoreceptors from light-induced retinal degeneration by Ping-Wu Zhang, Zi-He Wan, Weifeng Li, Abhishek Vats, Kunal Mehta, Laura Fan, Lingli Zhou, Sean Li, Gloria Li, Casey J. Keuthan, Cynthia Berlinicke, Cheng Qian, Noriko Esumi, Elia J Duh, Donald J. Zack

“…Abstract Background The retinal degenerative diseases retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and atrophic age- related macular degeneration (AMD) are characterized by vision loss from photoreceptor (PR) degeneration. …”
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A retrospective study of pembrolizumab combined with XELOX regimen in the treatment of advanced gastric cancer by FENG Huizhi, LIU Jingmei, BU Xiaoqian

“…Inclusion criteria: patients with HER2-negative, untreated advanced gastric cancer or adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction, confirmed by clinical histopathological examination and meeting relevant diagnostic criteria; TNM stage Ⅳ; age ≥20 years; expected survival ≥6 months; no severe organ damage before treatment; Karnofsky score >60; patients with complete clinical data. …”
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Análisis de modelos algorítmicos de aprendizaje automático para la predicción del estado vital a los seis meses tras fractura de cadera en pacientes mayores de 74 años by I. Calvo Lorenzo, I. Uriarte Llano, M.R. Mateo Citores, Y. Rojo Maza, U. Agirregoitia Enzunza

“…Material and methods: The study population is a cohort of patients over 74 years of age who suffered a hip fracture between May 2020 and December 2022. …”
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Comparison of Long-Term Antibody Titers in Calves Treated with Different Conjunctival and Subcutaneous <i>Brucella abortus</i> S19 Vaccines by Ali Uslu, Zafer Sayın, Aslı Balevi, Yasin Gulcu, Fırat Ergen, Islam Akıner, Oguzhan Denizli, Osman Erganis

“…In this study, a total of 115 calves aged 3 to 4.5 months were created in five groups, with 23 animals in each group: group 1 (vaccine brand A), group 2 (vaccine brand B), and group 3 (vaccine brand C) received the two-dose conjunctival vaccine, group 4 received the single-dose subcutaneous vaccine (vaccine brand C), and group 5 received the subcutaneous vaccine (vaccine brand C) plus the booster dose conjunctival vaccine (vaccine brand B). …”
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Feasibility and usefulness of Gini coefficients of primary care visits as a measure of service inequality: preliminary findings from a cross-sectional study using region-wide elect... by Xin Yang, Jing Chai, Jing Cheng, DeBin Wang, XingRong Shen, Rong Liu, ManMan Lu, Jia Xu, Ningjing Yang, Guocheng Li

“…While the observed GPVs for all causes witnessed: great inter-region variations, with the highest GPV being 4.38 times the lowest; a general decreasing trend over the 9-quarter period, being reduced by 18.48% on average; and atypical J-shaped trajectories along age groups for both sexes. The multivariate modelling revealed statistically significant associations between the all-cause-GPV and 10 out of 14 commonly available community-level variables studied.Conclusions GPVs can be accurately estimated using a limited number of months of EMRs and, guided by the relevant framework, analysis of GPVs can unveil useful clues in addressing unequal primary healthcare utilisation.…”
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Lesiones por animal ponzoñoso, raya de agua dulce: serie de casos by María Alejandra Ríos González, Natalia Sánchez Coronel, Dayra Constanza Rojas Duran, William Mauricio Acero Moreno, Lorena García Agudelo

“…Results: 32 study series, 87,50% male and 12,50% female, age range 7-74 years, mean was 40,59 years, 59,38% were from rural areas and 40,62% urban, 34,37% consulted in the first 24 hours after the event, from one day to seven days 6,25%, from seven to 15 days 15,62%, and more than 15 days 43,75%, lesion in foot 53,13%, in neck of foot 21,87%, in leg 25%, symptoms presented: pain 100%, 71,87% signs of local infection, 59,37% purulent discharge, 56,25% lesion with necrosis. …”
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Perfusion mode as a factor of appearance of cognitive dysfunction in patients after on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting by S.M. Sudakevych, О.А. Loskutov, І.P. Shlapak, V.V. Babenko, B.М. Todurov

“…In a retrospective observational one-center study, data from clinical and instrumental examination of 71 patients selected for surgical intervention for coronary heart disease – on-pump CABG (57 (80.2 %) males and 14 (19.8 % ) of women with an average age of 58.7 ± 7.7 years), were analyzed. All patients included in the study were divided into 2 groups depending on the mode of perfusion, namely, the values ​​of blood pressure maintained during the CPB. …”
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Eye Collateral Channel Characteristic Analysis and Identification Model Construction of Mild Cognitive Impairment by WU Tiecheng, CAO Lei, YIN Lianhua, HE Youze, LIU Zhizhen, YANG Minguang, XU Ying, WU Jinsong

“…Eligible subjects were matched on a 1∶1 propensity score according to sex, age, and years of education and were divided into MCI group and normal cognition group, with 158 cases in each group. …”
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Exploring the Relationship Between Sleep Apnea, Myocardial Infarct Size, and Coronary Collaterals in Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Multidisciplinary Study by Kundel V, Devarakonda K, Khan S, Suarez-Farinas M, Cohen O, Santos-Gallego C, Menegus MA, Kini A, Vengrenyuk Y, Okamoto N, Ueda H, Gidwani U, Kizer JR, Redline S, Kaplan R, Shah N

“…Group differences in Rentrop grade and infarct size were compared using the Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test and Fisher’s Exact test as appropriate, with a significance threshold set at p < 0.05.Results: Among 33 adults, mean age was 54.4± 11.5 and mean BMI was 28.4± 5.9. 8 patients (24%) had no SA, and 25 (76%) had SA (mild n=10, moderate n=8, severe n=7). 66% (n=22) underwent CMR, and all patients had Rentrop scores. …”
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Ultrasound investigation at examination of gastro-intestinal tract at combined trauma by A. S. Yermolov, O. A. Alekseyechkina, Ye. S. Vladimirova, G. P. Titova, V. M. Abuchina

“…Data of ultrasound investigations (US) in 48 patients with combined trauma (36 men, 12 women, aged 20–50 years) with disorders of gastro-intestinal function were analyzed. …”
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Dynamics of cortisol levels and the state of vitamin D supply during the full-scale war in Ukraine in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus by M.I. Bobryk, V.I. Pankiv, V.M. Yerokhovych, V.S. Yuzvenko, D.Yu. Malyi, Yu.I. Komisarenko, L.V. Mikulets

“…In 2021–2024, a prospective study was conducted, which inclu­ded patients with T2DM and a glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) level ≥ 7 %, individuals with insulin resistance without DM and people without DM aged 19–75 years. Exclusion criteria were as follows: T2DM with severe chronic complications, HbA1c level < 7 %, acute inflammatory processes, oncological diseases, body mass index ≥ 40 kg/m2, intake of antidepressants, vitamin D drugs less than 2 months before the study. …”
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Association of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) and High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein (Hs-CRP) with the Risk of New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Diabetes by Liu Y, Liu H, Sun D, Zheng Y, Tse G, Chen K, Qiu J, Wu S, Liu T

“…Subgroup analysis revealed that the combination of eGFR and hs-CRP had predictive value primarily in males under 60 years of age, individuals with FBG < 9 mmol/L, hypertension, and those not on hypoglycemic medications.Conclusion: In diabetic patients, decreased eGFR and elevated hs-CRP were independently linked to an increased risk of new-onset AF, emphasizing the importance of monitoring these factors for early detection and prevention of AF.Keywords: estimated glomerular filtration rate, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, atrial fibrillation, diabetes mellitus…”
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