Upper Gastrointestinal Crohn’s Disease: Literature Review and Case Presentation by Soorya N. Aggarwal, Yana Cavanagh, Lan Wang, Amer Akmal, Matthew A. Grossman

“…Upper gastrointestinal tract predominant Crohn’s Disease (CD) remains an elusive clinical entity, manifesting limited or vague symptomatology, eluding clinical suspicion, and delaying subsequent diagnostic evaluation. As a result, it has not been widely described and there is a lack of clear recommendations for diagnosis or management. …”
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Beneficial effects of the fructus Sophorae extract on experimentally induced osteoporosis in New Zealand white rabbits by CHAKULESKA LIDIJA, SHKONDROV ALEKSANDAR, POPOV GEORGI, ZLATEVA-PANAYOTOVA NADYA, PETROVA RENETA, ATANASOVA MARIYANA, KRASTEVA ILINA, DOYTCHINOVA IRINI, SIMEONOVA RUMYANA

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Exploring Current Evidence on the Past, the Present, and the Future of the Heart Team: A Narrative Review by Alexandru Burlacu, Adrian Covic, Mircea Cinteza, Paula Madalina Lupu, Radu Deac, Grigore Tinica

“…Including healthcare professionals dealing with cardiovascular diseases, Heart Team is a concept/structure designed for selecting diagnostic strategies, facilitating therapeutic decisions, and improving cardiovascular outcomes in patients with complex heart pathologies, requiring input from different subspecialties and the necessity of a multidisciplinary approach. …”
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Immunoglobulin G4-related disease, constitutional symptoms, human leukocyte antigen b27 positivity, and sacroiliitis by Shallu Verma, Lubna Khurshid, Prasad Rao Voleti, Anand Narayan Malaviya

“…IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is a relatively new clinical entity with protean manifestations that pose diagnostic difficulties especially so if the clinical features are atypical. …”
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Performance of the Colloidal Gold Immunochromatography of Cryptococcal Antigen on Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Cryptococcosis by Ning Zhu, Shanhong Lin, Xingbei Weng, Weijie Sun, Xueqin Chen

“…The sensitivity and accuracy of BALF CrAg-LFA were higher than that of serum CrAg-LFA and BALF etiological culture with statistically significant differences (p<0.05). Conclusion. The diagnostic value of BALF CrAg-LFA for PC is superior to that of serum CrAg-LFA and BALF etiological culture.…”
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Iatrogenic Tracheal Rupture after Endotracheal Intubation: A Case Report by Silvana Kraleva, Tatjana Trojikj, Darko Talevski, Dola Malefski, Gordana Bozinovska Beaka

“…The appearance of subcutaneous emphysema as a first sign plays a main role for early diagnosis and rapid appropriate treatment. Diagnostic confirmation is possible by chest X-ray, thoracic computed tomography and bronchoscopy which confirmed the size and site of the lesion. …”
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Clinical presentation of human leptospirosis in febrile patients: Urabá, Colombia. by Pablo Uribe-Restrepo, Janeth Perez-Garcia, Margarita Arboleda, Claudia Munoz-Zanzi, Piedad Agudelo-Florez

“…Leptospirosis presents diagnostic challenges due to limitations in both clinical and laboratory diagnosis thus it is important to improve understanding of disease presentation and identify signs and symptoms that might help differentiate it from other causes of febrile illness.…”
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Xenogenic Implantation of Equine Synovial Fluid-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Leads to Articular Cartilage Regeneration by Mohammed Zayed, Steven Newby, Nabil Misk, Robert Donnell, Madhu Dhar

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Evaluation of Plasma E-Selectin Concentration as a Risk Marker for Atherosclerotic Vascular Damage in Patients with Early CAD by Monika Rac, Michal Rac, Andrzej Krzystolik, Krzysztof Safranow, Dariusz Chlubek, Violetta Dziedziejko

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Comparison of Four Intrapartum Cardiotocography Classifications for Predicting Neonatal Acidemia at Birth by Nika Troha, Katja Razem, Ursa Luzovec, Miha Lucovnik

“…Objective. To compare diagnostic values of four intrapartum cardiotocography (CTG) classifications in predicting neonatal acidemia at birth. …”
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Is polymyositis a rare or over-diagnosed entity? A descriptive follow-up study of patients initially admitted in a tertiary center with the diagnosis of polymyositis by Pablo Arturo Olivo Pallo, Matheus Santos Rodrigues Silva, Fernando Henrique Carlos de Souza, Samuel Katsuyuki Shinjo

“…During a median follow-up period of 4.0 years and constant diagnostic reinvestigation, only 30 (27.7%) out of the 108 participants maintained the PM diagnosis, whereas the other patients were re-diagnosed with immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (20.4%), inclusion body myositis (18.5%), muscular dystrophy 13.0% as (13.0%), antisynthetase syndrome (8.3%), metabolic myopathies (5.6%), and other muscle diseases (7.3%). …”
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Prevalence and Risk Factors of Trypanosomosis in Dromedary Camels in the Pastoral Areas of the Guji Zone in Ethiopia by Gossa Alemu, Rahmeto Abebe

“…Further studies using more sensitive and specific diagnostic tests, such as miniature anion-exchange centrifugation technique, serology, or molecular tests, are needed to establish a true epidemiological dataset on the prevalence and seasonality of the disease and its vectors in the study area to recommend viable control measures.…”
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Drug Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms Syndrome in a Child with Cystic Fibrosis by Ahmed Abushahin, Haneen Toma, Sara G. Hamad, Mutasim Abu-Hasan

“…Therefore, early diagnosis is important but can be very challenging because of disease rarity, lack of a diagnostic test, and its overlap with other common pediatric allergic and infectious conditions. …”
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Why Does Pnemococcus Kill? by Yves Bergeron, Michel G Bergeron

“…Knowledge of the chronology of microbiological and inflammatory events that occur during pneumonia may help to design appropriate diagnostic tests that could be used to monitor the evolution of this deadly infection. …”
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Sociability of patrol police officers as a key professionally important competence: an empirical study by О. О. Yevdokimova, Y. S. Ponomarenko

“…The study involved M. Snyder's "Diagnostic Methodology for Assessing Self-Control in Communication", with the help of which we divided the subjects into two groups: with low and high levels of communicative control. …”
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COVID-19 and the Black Death: Nutrition, frailty, inequity, and mortality by Katherine D. VAN SCHAIK, Sharon N. DeWITTE

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Transradial versus Transfemoral Access and the Risk of Acute Kidney Injury following Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction:... by Gaspar Del Rio-Pertuz, Michel Juarez, Poemlarp Mekraksakit, Kanak Parmar, Mohammad M. Ansari

“…However, most of these studies have included a nonselected study population undergoing diagnostic cardiac catheterization or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). …”
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Thyroid Nodules Located in the Lower Pole Have a Higher Risk of Malignancy than Located in the Isthmus: A Single-Center Experience by Gulhan Duman, Baris Sariakcali

“…Therefore, studies that will include new diagnostic methods that can improve these unknowns can be welcomed gratefully. …”
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Rare Pathology Case Report: Low-Grade Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma Forming Sex Cord– and Endometrioid Gland–Like Differentiation in Metastatic Foci by Haneen Al-Maghrabi, Ghadeer Mokhtar, Jaudah Al-Maghrabi

“…These variations can pose a diagnostic challenge. The occurrence of this differentiation in a metastatic focus rather than in the primary tumor is seldom recorded in the literature. …”
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Internal jugular distensibility index as a predictor of fluid responsiveness in adult patients undergoing elective surgery – A prospective accuracy study by Dita Aditianingsih, Aldy Heriwardito, Laksmi Senja Agusta, El Nissi Leonard, Chrisella Annabelle

“…The data were then analysed to assess its diagnostic value using the receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curve, the appropriate cut-off point using the Youden index, and the correlation using Spearman’s correlation test. …”
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