Management Strategies and Outcomes for Hyponatremia in Cirrhosis in the Hyponatremia Registry by Samuel H. Sigal, Alpesh Amin, Joseph A. Chiodo, Arun Sanyal

“…Patients with HN at admission had a lower [Na] and shorter length of stay (LOS) than those who developed HN (P < 0.001). Most common initial treatments were isotonic saline (NS, 36%), fluid restriction (FR, 33%), and no specific therapy (NST, 20%). …”
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The Growing Challenge of Chronic Kidney Disease: An Overview of Current Knowledge by Rikke Borg, Nicholas Carlson, Jens Søndergaard, Frederik Persson

“…The World Health Organization projects CKD to become the 5th most common chronic disease in 2040. Causes of CKD are multifactorial and diverse, but early-stage symptoms are often few and silent. …”
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The decline of walleye populations: an ecological tipping point? by Greg G. Sass

“…If compensatory management ensues, walleye persistence will likely be further threatened because many drivers of change are outside of managerial control, and those commonly used within managerial control have seemingly been ineffective for sustaining or rehabilitating naturally reproducing walleye populations.…”
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Non-dominant hemisphere stroke and spatial neglect: is stimulation of known hobbies and cravings a way to make rehabilitation more effective? by T. Juška, A. Vaitkus, M. E. Klinke, V. Matijošaitis

“…Spatial neglect (SN) is characterized as a condition in which patients display insufficient attention to the contralesional side of their surroundings and their own body. It is the most common neurocognitive disorder causing long-term disability, occurring in approximately half of patients with stroke in the non-dominant brain hemisphere. …”
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Application of Time-Frequency Analysis in Rotating Machinery Fault Diagnosis by Yihao Bai, Weidong Cheng, Weigang Wen, Yang Liu

“…In machinery fault diagnosis, collecting and mining the potential fault information of the vibration signal is the most commonly used method to reflect the operating status of the equipment. …”
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Telediagnosis of Transbronchial Fine Needle Aspirations – A Feasibility Study by K. Kayser, G. Kayser, H. D. Becker, F. Herth

“…The screening magnification was commonly set to ×2.5, that for definite diagnostic analysis ×40. …”
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Ocular Surface Microbial Flora and Photorefractive Keratectomy by Alireza Peyman, Mehdi Bazukar, Tahmineh Narimani, Majid Mirmohammadkhani, Mohsen Pourazizi

“…The culture-positive rate was 15/35 eyes (42.9%) preoperative and 17/35 (48.6%) postoperative samples (P=0.47). The most common microorganisms isolated from preoperative samples were coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) spp. in 14 (40%) samples, followed by Streptococcus spp. in 2 (5.7%), and Staphylococcus aureus in one (2.9%). …”
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A Case of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis in a Middle-Aged Adult by Nicole Mahdi, Peter A. Abdelmalik, Mark Curtis, Barak Bar

“…Encephalopathy and focal neurological deficits are usually manifest several weeks after a prodromal illness with rapidly progressive neurologic decline. ADEM is most commonly seen in children and young adults, in which prognosis is favorable, but very few cases have been reported of older adults with ADEM and thus their clinical course is unknown. …”
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Estimation of Critical Safety Thickness of the Base against Confined Water Inrush for a Rectangular Foundation Pit by Qin-xing Li, Hong-tao Wang, Yan-qing Men, Xiao Yu, Chi Liu, Hua-jun Zhang

“…Affected by confined aquifer, basal inrush accidents caused by excavation are common in foundation pits, and accurate estimation of the safety thickness of the base is a big concern of engineers. …”
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Design and Validation of an Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna with Additional Slots by Marek Dvorsky, Harihara S. Ganesh, S. Sadhish Prabhu

“…We have chosen a unique substrate material to develop our novel Antipodal Vivaldi Antenna because most research has been done on commonly used materials like FR4, RT Duroid, etc. Moreover, ISOLA has significantly good electrical and nonelectrical properties as compared with other substrate materials. …”
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Health information analysis of cryptorchidism-related short videos: Analyzing quality and reliability by Yuqiang Sun, Xingjian Liu, Xintao Zhang, Qiongqian Xu, Aiwu Li

“…Objective Cryptorchidism is a common congenital anomaly in children. Short video content has increased awareness and urged timely intervention, but there is a lack of understanding about the quality and reliability of these videos. …”
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Prevention of domestic violence against the elderly by O. O. Volodina, T. M. Malynovska

“…Domestic violence is one of the most common forms of human rights violations. Illegal actions against a family member are in most cases accompanied by acts of aggression, humiliation and abuse. …”
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Characterization of sustainable bacterial cellulose fabricated with Vietnamese ingredients for potential textile applications: Tensile and handle properties by Rajkishore Nayak, Donna Cleveland, Frances Joseph

“…Hence, they were treated with commonly available bases to bring the pH within the skin-friendly range for textile applications. …”
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Unilocular adipocyte and lipid tracer for immunofluorescent images by Elizabeth K. Johnston, Tal Dassau, Nickia A. Muraskin, Rosalyn D. Abbott

“…Therefore, ImageJ manual analysis is the commonly utilized tool to measure these images. With there being heterogeneity in different researcher’s analytical approach when conducted manually, the MATLAB script, PixCell, was developed to reduce the subjectivity and time involved in adipocyte size analysis. …”
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Application and Effect of the Gymnastic Exercise Mode during Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer Patients by Feifei Xie

“…Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in women, which seriously threatens the health of women. …”
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Molecular Study of Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates for Metallo-β-Lactamases and Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamases Genes in Intensive Care Unit, Mansoura University Hospital, Egypt by Nashwa M. Alkasaby, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki

“…From this study, we conclude that multidrug resistant (MDR) A. baumannii with MBLs activity was the most common isolate. Careful monitoring for the presence of MDR A. baumannii among hospitalized patients is recommended to avoid wide dissemination of antibiotic resistance.…”
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Neuroanatomy, episodic memory and inhibitory control of Persian-Kurdish simultaneous bilinguals by Samira Golshani, Olga Kepinska, Hamid Gholami, Narly Golestani

“…We provide a novel, mechanistic explanation accounting for observed behavioural advantage and brain structural differences: bilingualism may boost the prefrontal cortex-hippocampal neural circuitry commonly underlying both executive control and memory, via cascade and reverberant effects, leading to synergistic benefits in both cognitive domains. …”
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Impact of severe dysphagia on overall survival after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy by Kazumi Shimamoto, Ryota Matsui, Yorihiro Nishiyama, Kyohei Nishino, Hiromitsu Ban

“…Aspiration-related pneumonia was most common causes of death after PEG. Severe dysphagia was identified as an independent poor prognostic factor for survival in patients who underwent PEG.…”
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Assessment of Shoulder Function after Internal Fixation of Humeral Diaphyseal Fractures in Young Adults: A Prospective Comparative Study by Hossam Fathi Mahmoud, Ahmed Hatem Farhan, Fahmy Samir Fahmy

“…Humeral shaft fractures are commonly encountered in casualties. There are different methods of operative internal fixation with no consensus on the best technique. …”
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Comparing the rate of inpatient admissions of prison residents with COVID-19 to the general population in England in 2020/2021 using Hospital Episode Statistics data by Miranda Davies, Anjana Roy

“…Descriptive statistics summarise the most common primary admitting diagnosis and the proportion of outpatient appointments attended and not attended. …”
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