Vertical transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2: A scoping review. by Lemi Belay Tolu, Alex Ezeh, Garumma Tolu Feyissa

“…Among neonates with throat swab SARS-CoV-2 positive only five (33.3%) had concomitant placenta, amniotic fluid, and cord blood samples tested, of which only one amniotic fluid sample is positive for RT PCR. …”
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Early initiation of ceftaroline-based combination therapy for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia by Addison S. Hicks, Mackenzie A. Dolan, Megan D. Shah, Sarah E. Elwood, James A. Platts-Mills, Gregory R. Madden, Zachary S. Elliott, Joshua C. Eby

“…The mean time from MRSA-positive molecular diagnostic blood culture result to combination therapy was 12.1 h. …”
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Associations among immunophenotype, plasma metabolites, and benign prostatic hyperplasia: a mediation Mendelian randomization study by FAN Jiuming, ZHAO Yiqiao, JIA Haichang, WANG Tiankun, HAN Yutong, QIN Zihao, CHEN Ping, ZENG Xiantao

“…In the MR analysis of blood metabolites and BPH, IVW results identified 17 blood metabolite markers with significant causal associations with BPH. …”
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Renal Function in Patients with Hypertension Associated Congestive Cardiac Failure Seen in a Tertiary Hospital by C. U. Osuji, C. U. Nwaneli, B. J. Onwubere, E. I. Onwubuya, G. I. Ahaneku

“…There were 86 males and 64 females with mean age 62.7±12.5 years. The mean blood pressures were systolic 152.8±28.5 mmHg and diastolic 94.3±18 mmHg. 84.7% had blood pressure ≥140/90 mmHg on presentation. …”
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Effect of Total Saponins of Panax Notoginseng on Lipids Deposition of Apolipoprotein E-Knockout Mice by Changgeng FU, Ruina BAI, Yue LIU, Linzi LONG, Keji CHEN

“…CD₆₈⁺macrophage number and the macrophage aggregation were significantly reduced (all <italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Conclusion:PNS can regulate blood lipids, inhibit the immune inflammatory response, inhibit the lipid deposition of aortainhibiting and macrophage aggregation, which might be one of the anti-atherosclerosis mechanisms.…”
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Safety and efficacy of the initial application of vacuum-induced intrauterine tamponade for the management of postpartum hemorrhage by Ryuichi Shimaoka, Yuichiro Takahashi, Hitomi Ono, Saki Inuzuka, Masako Matsui, Kazuhiko Asai, Shigenori Iwagaki

“…PPH was defined as an estimated blood loss of 1000 ml or more at delivery and sustained bleeding of ≥100 ml/h after delivery. …”
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Serum Albumin Is Independently Associated with Persistent Organ Failure in Acute Pancreatitis by Wandong Hong, Suhan Lin, Maddalena Zippi, Wujun Geng, Simon Stock, Zarrin Basharat, Bicheng Cheng, Jingye Pan, Mengtao Zhou

“…Blood urea nitrogen and the serum albumin level were also independently associated with mortality. …”
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Relation Between Glycated Hemoglobin Level and Hearing Loss in Type 2 Diabetic Patients by Mayada ElSherif, Aya Fathey El Sayed Mahfouz, Noha Mohamed Gaber Amin, Hesham Saad Kozou

“…All participants also underwent diabetes laboratory assessments, including fasting blood glucose serum level and serum HbA1c level. …”
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A Novel Minimal Invasive Mouse Model of Extracorporeal Circulation by Shuhua Luo, Menglin Tang, Lei Du, Lina Gong, Jin Xu, Youwen Chen, Yabo Wang, Ke Lin, Qi An

“…The right carotid artery and external jugular vein of anesthetized adult male C57BL/6 mice were cannulated to allow blood flow through a 1/32-inch external tube. All animals (n=20) survived 30 min ECC and subsequent 60 min observation. …”
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Association between Novel Marker (Platelet-Lymphocyte Ratio, Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio, and Delta Neutrophil Index) and Outcomes in Sudden Cardiac Arrest Patients by Sang Il Han, Kyoung-Chul Cha, Young Il Roh, Sung Oh Hwang, Woo Jin Jung, Tae Youn Kim

“…It is important that clinicians accurately predict the outcome of patients with sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). The complete blood count (CBC) is an easy and inexpensive test that provides information on blood content. …”
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Greater residential greenness is associated with reduced epigenetic aging in adults by Andrey I. Egorov, Shannon M. Griffin, Jo Klein, Wei Guo, Jennifer N. Styles, Jason Kobylanski, Mark S. Murphy, Elizabeth Sams, Edward E. Hudgens, Timothy J. Wade

“…DNA methylation tests of white blood cells were conducted using Illumina MethylationEPIC v1.0 assays. …”
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Significance of Biomarkers as a Predictive Factor for Post-Traumatic Sepsis by Kyung-Wuk Lee, Sung-Hyuk Choi, Young-Hoon Yoon, Jung-Youn Kim, Young-Duck Cho, Han-Jin Cho, Sung-Jun Park

“…We measured the white blood cells, c-reactive protein (CRP), lactic acid, PCT, and MIF with serum taken from the patient’s blood within 1 hour of the occurrence of the trauma. …”
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Effects of bioactive peptides combined with probiotics on serum uric acid in patients with hyperuricemia by HAN Dan，ZHAO Ya，HUANG Enshan，YE Shuhua，WANG Wanjin，WU Fangmin，WANG Dingliang，ZHANG Ronghua

“…Demographic information, body mass index (BMI), blood pressure and blood lipid were collected through questionnaire surveys, physical examination and laboratory tests. …”
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Definitions matter: Multicenter investigation of incidence and outcome of poor graft function after hematopoietic cell transplantation by Konradin F. Müskens, Winny N. R. Collot‐d'Escury, Rana Dandis, Saskia Haitjema, Jürgen Kuball, Moniek A. deWitte, Marc Bierings, Caroline A. Lindemans, Stefan Nierkens, Mirjam E. Belderbos

“…To assess the impact of definition heterogeneity, we conducted a multicenter study, analyzing over 35.000 longitudinal blood counts from 427 pediatric and 405 adult HCT recipients. …”
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Clinical efficacy and safety study of vNOTES for benign ovarian tumors in obese patients by Fei Wang, Yuqin Liu, Yue Xing, Dongdong Wang, Xue Bai, Linlin Li, Chunhua Ma, Yongjuan Sun, Yufang Bai, Liehong Wang

“…Key parameters such as operative time, intraoperative blood loss, intraoperative and postoperative complications, hospitalization duration, postoperative anal exhaust time, postoperative visual analog scale (VAS) score, and SF-36 score were analyzed. …”
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Downregulation of the Yes-Associated Protein Is Associated with Extracellular Matrix Disorders in Ascending Aortic Aneurysms by Haiyang Li, Wenjian Jiang, Weihong Ren, Dong Guo, Jialong Guo, Xiaolong Wang, Yuyong Liu, Feng Lan, Jie Du, Hongjia Zhang

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Pimavanserin Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis in Clinical Practice by Khashayar Dashtipour, Fiona Gupta, Robert A. Hauser, Cherian A. Karunapuzha, John C. Morgan

“…., clozapine and quetiapine) although these are not approved for this indication and clozapine requires frequent white blood cell count monitoring due to the risk of agranulocytosis. …”
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Does Proteinuria Measured by Dipstick Method Reflect Reality in Patients with Preeclampsia? by Cenk Soysal, Mehmet Murat Işıkalan

“…Statistically significant differences were detected among the groups in terms of systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, the amount of protein in the 24-hour urine, and spot urine Pr/Cr (p=0.001, p&lt;0.001, p&lt;0.001, p&lt;0.001, respectively). …”
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Resolution dependence of vessel size index across various brain regions by DongKyu Lee, Yelim Gong, Abel Worku Tessema, SoHyun Han, Hyung Joon Cho

“…Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) excels at detecting quantitative changes in microvascular parameters such as cerebral blood volume, cerebral blood flow, and vessel size index (VSI), which are essential for diagnosing and monitoring cerebrovascular diseases. …”
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Clinical Characteristics and Prognosis of Adult Orbital Cellulitis in a Tertiary General Hospital by Bangtao Yao, Yuhua Ding, Xiaogui Zhao, Bei Wang, Gang Liu, Fei Wang

“…There were no significant differences regarding age, gender, preoperative leukocyte count, exophthalmia, blood culture, treatment, or visual changes within the three groups (P<0.05). …”
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