Reframing the Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Investigating the Efficacy of a Modified Low Fodmap Diet Approach on Symptom Response by Tara Howley, Lorraine Cooney, Suzanne L Doyle

“…Subjects/ Methods: Routine clinical data collected on individuals with a Rome IV IBS diagnosis between August 2018 and October 2022 from a specialist-dietitian led IBS clinic in Blackrock Health, Dublin was retrospectively analysed. …”
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Peutz–Jeghers syndrome: review of the literature and clinical case presentation by V. O. Kaybysheva, V. T. Ivashkin, Ye. K. Baranskaya, O. S. Shifrin, K. V. Pyurveyeva, A. Ye. Leonovich, O. A. Sklyanskaya, A. A. Sheptulin

“…At the patient with PeutzJeghers syndrome, despite of well-timed diagnosis, annual screening and treatment, it was not possible to avoid development of serious complications. …”
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The Etiological Spectrum of Febrile Encephalopathy in Adult Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study from a Developing Country by Elham Peidaee, Fereshte Sheybani, HamidReza Naderi, Nasrin Khosravi, Mehdi Jabbari Nooghabi

“…A total of 293 patients with the mean age of 49.7 ± 23 were evaluated of whom 77.1% presented with encephalopathy syndrome. The most common diagnosis in patients with clinical syndromes suggestive of central nervous system (CNS) infection was sepsis associated encephalopathy (SAE) (22.9%), followed by bacterial meningitis (14%) and neurotuberculosis (9.9%). …”
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A Case of Colorectal Cancer during Pregnancy: A Brief Review of the Literature by Sepideh Khodaverdi, Ali Kord Valeshabad, Maryam Khodaverdi

“…Colorectal cancer in pregnancy is associated with diagnostic and therapeutic challenges which mostly lead to late diagnosis in advanced stages and poor prognosis. A targeted program to improve the general population knowledge and the establishment of a national consultant and screening program particularly for women with a planned pregnancy in the high risk group might be beneficial.…”
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Detection of cervical cell based on multi-scale spatial information by Gang Li, Xinyu Fan, Chuanyun Xu, Pengfei Lv, Ru Wang, Zihan Ruan, Zheng Zhou, Yang Zhang

“…Deep learning methods can assist pathologists in quickly screening images of suspected lesion cells, greatly improving the efficiency of cervical cancer screening and diagnosis. However, existing deep learning methods rely solely on single-scale features and local spatial information, failing to effectively capture the subtle morphological differences between abnormal and normal cervical cells. …”
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Digital games and virtual reality applications in child abuse: A scoping review and conceptual framework. by Afsoon Asadzadeh, Hassan Shahrokhi, Behzad Shalchi, Zhila Khamnian, Peyman Rezaei-Hachesu

“…The proposed conceptual framework shows that digital games and VR have been used for six main topics: (1) medical education, (2) prevention, (3) screening, (4) diagnosis, (5) treatment, and (6) forensic medicine in response to child abuse issues. …”
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A comprehensive review on early detection of drusen patterns in age-related macular degeneration using deep learning models by Kiruthika M, Malathi G

“…Detecting AMD early is crucial, but treatments are limited, and nutritional supplements like AREDS2 formula may slow disease progression. AMD diagnosis is primarily achieved through drusen identification, a process involving fundus photography by ophthalmologists, but the early stages of AMD make this task challenging due to ambiguous drusen regions. …”
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Congenital Anomalies and Termination of Pregnancy in Iran by Bahram Samadirad, Zhila Khamnian, Mohammad Bager Hosseini, Saeed Dastgiri

“…The remaining 402 subjects were unable to get the permission for abortion because of untimely diagnosis/application for termination (20th week of pregnancy and/or later). …”
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Akurasi Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy sebagai Prosedur Diagnostik Nodul Tiroid di Laboratorium Patologi Anatomi Rumah Sakit Umun Pusat DR M Djamil Padang by Suci Rahmadhani, Aswiyanti Asri, Tofrizal Tofrizal

“…Simpulan penelitian ini adalah FNAB dapat digunakan sebagai sarana diagnostik preoperatif nodul tiroid, tetapi bukan sebagai pengganti diagnosis histopatologi yang masih menjadi diagnosa pasti untuk nodul tiroid.…”
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Human Endogenous Retroviruses and Their Putative Role in Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease, Inflammation, and Senescence by Patrycja Kozubek, Julia Kuźniar, Magdalena Czaja, Hanna Sitka, Urszula Kochman, Jerzy Leszek

“…Moreover, it is estimated that HERVs may be potential targets for diagnosis and therapy of AD.…”
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General anesthesia of endhotracheal tube in cholesistektomy with cholelithiasis with cholecystitis: A case report by Prayoga Esa Dahan, Suandika Made, Jerau Emiliani Elsi, Indriani

“…Laboratory testing, ultrasonography, and a physical examination were used to confirm the diagnosis of cholelithiasis. Under general anesthesia and endotracheal intubation, the patient had a cholecystectomy. …”
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Selenium Supplementation does not Decrease Thyroid Peroxidase Antibody Concentration in Children and Adolescents with Autoimmune Thyroiditis by W. Bonfig, R. Gäertner, H. Schmidt

“…Forty-nine patients (33 females) with newly diagnosed AIT and hypothyroidism were randomized to daily oral therapy with levothyroxine alone (group A, n = 18), levothyroxine plus 100 µg sodium-selenite (group B, n = 13), or levothyroxine plus 200 µg sodium-selenite (group C, n = 18). Mean age at diagnosis was 12.2 ± 2.2 years. All 49 patients needed a mean levothyroxine dose of 1.6 ± 0.5 µg/kg body weight to lower TSH to the treatment goal of 1–2 µU/ml, with no significant difference between groups. …”
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A Case of Myomatous Erythrocytosis Syndrome Associated with a Large Uterine Leiomyoma by Yosuke Ono, Takao Hidaka, Kaori Fukuta, Keiko Kouchi, Kuniaki Yasoshima, Kiyoshi Takagawa, Takashi Arai

“…An abdominal simple hysterectomy was performed, and a pathological examination confirmed the diagnosis of leiomyoma of the uterus. In addition, immunostaining demonstrated that the cytoplasm of the leiomyoma cells was strongly positive for erythropoietin. …”
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Aggressive Multimodal Approach for Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer and Long-Term Survival by Nasir Hussain, Usman Mustafa, Su Hyeon Jung, Alan D. Gilman

“…At the time of surgery, the tumor mass had invaded the muscular layer of esophagus; radicle thyroidectomy parathyroidectomy along with removal of muscle layer of esophagus was performed, and diagnosis of ATC was made. The patient was treated with chemoradiation with a good treatment response and no recurrence of tumor for two and a half years until PET/CT followed by wedge biopsy of lung confirmed ATC recurrence. …”
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Ultrasonographic assessment of optic nerve: does it help in lupus-induced optic neuropathy? by Amira Elsonbaty, Abdallah El-Sayed Allam, Doaa M Mahmoud, Sara Alattar, Ahmed Hosny Shaaban

“…Significant enlargement was present among lupus patients OND and ONSD (p= 0.017, 0.004, respectively) in comparison to controls; ultrasonographic evaluation had a high specificity when compared to ophthalmological evaluation and VEP reaching 89.6% and 88.1%, respectively, but with very low sensitivity.Conclusion Ultrasonographic evaluation of the optic nerve may add significant value to the diagnosis of optic neuropathy in patients with SLE and should be considered a complementary tool to other conventional methods.…”
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Cutaneous Neuroendocrine Metastases of Visceral Origin Responsive to Surgical Resection and Targeted Radionuclide Therapy by Eleanor Tung-Hahn, Ghassan El-Haddad, Jonathan Strosberg

“…Because cutaneous metastasis from a visceral site represents distant tumor dissemination, prompt histologic diagnosis is critical in terms of selecting further treatment options and ultimately impacts subsequent prognosis. …”
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Examining the Effect of Alignment of the Rotor of the Emissions Exhaust Fan on Its Operating Parameters by Imrich Vojtko, Petr Baron, Martin Pollák, Jakub Kaščak

“…The size and the angular position of the balancing weight were determined from the vibration values measured. 15 months into operation after the impeller was balanced, the diagnosis of its current technical condition was performed. …”
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Breast Cancer Presenting as Paraneoplastic Erythroderma: An Extremely Rare Case by Ioannis Protopsaltis, Aspasia Drossou, Ioannis Katsantonis, Nikolaos Roussos, Kassiani Manoludaki, Miltiadis Arvanitis, Athanasia Papazafiropoulou, Stavros Antonopoulos

“…The skin may exhibit the first clinical evidence of a systemic disease and may provide the first clues to a diagnosis in malignancies. Erythroderma is defined as generalized redness and scaling and it is a clinical manifestation of a variety of underlying diseases including, rarely, solid tumors. …”
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Chronic pelvic pain treatment understanding what matters: a social media survey by Selina Johnson, Emma Evans, Dharani K Hapangama

“…Results suggest that many women are living with moderate-intensity CPP and experience symptoms for 6 years (average) before receiving a diagnosis. Initially, most women see general practitioners and gynaecologists (90%), with varied care beyond these providers. …”
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BLOOD SMEAR PROFILE OF PATIENTS WITH DENGUE HEMORRHAGIC FEVER IN BALI ROYAL HOSPITAL by I Made Dwi Mertha Adnyana, Ni Luh Gede Sudaryati, A.A Komang Suardana

“…Clinical hematological examinations and blood preparations are used to confirm the diagnosis. Purpose: To detect, assess and characterize dengue hemorrhagic fever blood smear at Bali Royal Hospital. …”
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