IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF GASTRIC CANCER: A 3-YEAR ANALYSIS by Amanda Juliani ARNEIRO, Marina Alessandra PEREIRA, André Roncon DIAS, Ulysses RIBEIRO JUNIOR, Marcus Fernando Kodama Pertille RAMOS

“…We observed an increase in diagnostic surgeries (p=0.026), with an increase in the minimally invasive route (p<0.001). …”
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Assessing the Safety Level of Hospitalized Patients: Analyzing Patient Activities by Sayedeh Somayyeh Mousavipour, Mousa Jabbari, Mahnaz Saremi, Abbas Ebadi, Ehsan Shariat Bahadori, Davoud Khorasani Zavareh

“…The results showed that the risks in 6 stages for the patient include the patient entering the hospital, patient admission in the ward, patient entry into the room, hospitalization in the room, patient transfer for medical and diagnostic purposes and patient discharge from the hospital. …”
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Optimization of cultivation parameters for bovine respiratory syncytial virus strain Vologda/2019 by V. V. Kirpichenko, S. V. Kononova, I. N. Shumilova, A. A. Nesterov, M. V. Turkova, Ye. A. Bukhon, D. V. Romenskaya, A. V. Sprygin, B. L. Manin, O. P. Byadovskaya

“…In this regard, it is relevant to study the biological properties of the virus, optimize the methods of its cultivation and select the most technologically advanced methods of designing diagnostic and prevention tools for this disease. The aim of this work was to select sensitive cell systems and to optimize the cultivation parameters in selected cell cultures. …”
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Quantitative profiling of the vaginal microbiota improves resolution of the microbiota-immune axis by Eric Armstrong, Rachel Liu, James Pollock, Sanja Huibner, Suji Udayakumar, Erastus Irungu, Pauline Ngurukiri, Peter Muthoga, Wendy Adhiambo, Sergey Yegorov, Joshua Kimani, Tara Beattie, Bryan Coburn, Rupert Kaul

“…Conclusions Our results suggest that total vaginal bacterial load is at least as strong a predictor of the genital immune milieu as current BV clinical diagnostic tools, supporting exploration of the vaginal bacterial load as a predictor of adverse reproductive and sexual health outcomes. …”
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Investigating the needs and barriers for prevention, control, and treatment of HIV/AIDS in transgender population: a systematic review of literature by Heshmatollah Sofimajidpour, Ghobad Moradi, Hojat Dehghanbanadaki, Marzieh Mahboobi, Mobin Azami, Parisa Khodakhah, Mohammad Aziz Rasouli, Yousef Moradi

“…Results The results showed that from the perspective of health policy-makers, the needs related to control, prevention, and treatment of HIV/AIDS in transgender population were the need for optimal access to AIDS-related services, such as easy access to diagnostic tests, and the need to increase insufficient awareness of the ways of transmission of the disease and its symptoms. …”
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Naturally Acquired Antibody Responses to a Synthetic Malaria Antigen AS202.11 by Rebeka Nazareth, Pius Horumpende, Tolbert Sonda, Arnold Ndaro, Edson Mollel, Eliakim Paul, Emmanuel Athanase, Jaffu Chilongola

“…Detection of P. falciparum infection was done by microscopy, malaria rapid diagnostic test, and polymerase chain reaction. ELISA was used to detect IgG antibody. …”
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Parathyroid carcinoma: impact of preoperative diagnosis on the choice of surgical procedure by Yoshitaka Kawai, Yo Kishimoto, Hisanobu Tamaki, Takashi Fujiwara, Ryo Asato, Koji Ushiro, Shogo Shinohara, Shinpei Kada, Shinji Takebayashi, Tsuyoshi Kojima, Shuya Otsuki, Masakazu Miyazaki, Yohei Kumabe, Koichi Omori

“…The presence of excessive iPTH levels might contribute to improved preoperative diagnostic sensitivity for parathyroid carcinoma.…”
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Exploring nanocomposite materials in clinical dermatology: Innovations for treating skin diseases by Sandipan Dasgupta, Subhasundar Maji, Sanjay Dey, Moitreyee Chattopadhyay, Ananya Chanda, Satarupa Acharjee, Kousik Santra, Kazi Asraf Ali

“…Their ability to improve diagnostic imaging and facilitate tissue regeneration further expands their applications. …”
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Evaluation of Prognostic Factors Following Flow-Cytometric DNA Analysis after Cytokeratin Labelling: II. Cervical and Endometrial Cancer by Pauline Wimberger, Peter Hillemanns, Thomas Kapsner, Hermann Hepp, Rainer Kimmig

“…Especially DNA‐aneuploidy (DI>1.3) is one of the most important independent molecular biological prognostic factors. While diagnostic curettage we could identify risk patients even preoperatively by determination of the prognostic factors like histologic tumor type, grading, cervical involvement and DNA‐ploidy. …”
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Korelasi Temuan Limfosit Plasma Biru dengan Kadar C-Reaktif Protein sebagai Penunjang dalam Diagnosis Demam Berdarah Dengue by Ayu Safitri Sholihah, I Gusti Ayu Nyoman Danuyanti, Siti Zaetun, Pancawati Ariami, Ersandhi Resnhaleksmana

“…The sample used was a patient diagnosed with DHF with a positive Nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) or Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) IgG/IgM result. The data was collected and analyzed using Spearman's rank statistical test. …”
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In situ detection of piRNA‐651 in exosomes and cells for cancer diagnosis by a new gold nanoparticle nucleic acid probe by Qin‐Xin Gao, Qian‐Qian Wu, Zhi‐Ying Dong, Xiao‐Yuan Qin, Lin‐Yan Zhai, Bao‐Ping Xie, Wen‐Jun Duan

“…The receiver operating characteristic curve shows an area under the curve as 0.9931 and the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity at the best cutoff are 85.7% and 100%, respectively. …”
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An Analysis of the Rate and Reasons for Rejected Radiographs in Emergency and Non-Emergency Radiology Departments in Yasuj, Iran by Seyyed Amir Moradian, Hamed Zamani, Saman Dalvand

“… Purpose: Utilizing imaging to improve physicians' diagnostic accuracy is one of the primary priorities of radiology departments. …”
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Blood levels of cytokines highlight the role of inflammation in Alzheimer's disease by Lorenzo Campanelli, Pablo Galeano, Federico A. Prestia, Carolina Cuesta, Maria C. Dalmasso, María Flores-López, Cristian Gona, Nicolás Irureta, Claudia Kairiyama, Julieta Lisso, Antonio Jesús López-Gambero, Ines Mintz, Nancy Medel, Karen S. Campuzano, Carolina Muchnik, Gisela V. Novack, Natividad Olivar, Ivana Quiroga, Nerea Requena-Ocaña, Jose Antonio Reyes-Bueno, Pedro Serrano-Castro, Zulma Sevillano, Patricia Solis, Juan Suárez, Ivana Villella, Nancy Wukitsevits, Eduardo M. Castaño, Fernando Taragano, Silvia Kochen, Daniel G. Politis, Luis I. Brusco, Fernando Rodríguez de Fonseca, Laura Morelli

“…Kruskal–Wallis tests showed significant differences between diagnostic groups for nine cytokines (IL-16, IL-7, VEGF, IL-8, eotaxin, MCP-1, MCP-4, MDC and TARC). …”
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Age-related differences in borderline personality disorder traits and childhood maltreatment: a cross-sectional study by GuoRong Li, Yong Lin, Yun Xu, Yong Zhou, YanYan Wei, LiHua Xu, XiaoChen Tang, Zixuan Wang, Qiang Hu, JiJun Wang, HaiSu Wu, ZhengHui Yi, TianHong Zhang

“…BPD traits were assessed using the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire 4th Edition Plus (PDQ-4+), and CM experiences were evaluated using the Child Trauma Questionnaire Short Form (CTQ-SF). …”
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ESTIMATION OF ENTRANCE SURFACE DOSE (ESD) AS A DOSE PROFILE FOR PATIENTS UNDERGOING RADIOGRAPHY EXAMINATION BASED ON TUBE OUTPUT MEASUREMENT by Risalatul Latifah, Muhammad Rosyid, Firdy Yuana, Achmad Hidayat

“…These results were further used to determine the Local Diagnostic Reference Level (LDRL) value. Conclusion:  The results revealed that LDRL fell below the national DRL value and international reference…”
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Development of polymerase chain reaction kit for detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in biological samples collected from animals by A. M. Timina, A. S. Yakovleva, M. V. Timanov, M. V. Biryuchenkova, Ye. S. Orlova

“…The validation results demonstrated that the method met all the criteria of the high-quality measurement/test method sand it can be used for diagnostic tests. Thetest-kitwas based of the method in tended for SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection in animal biological samples and it was put into the veterinary practice. …”
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Surgical planning of small intestine neuroendocrine tumors: the concept of mesenteric tumor deposits by Romain L’Huillier, Gilles Poncet, Arnaud Pasquer, Thomas Walter, Catherine Lombard-Bohas, Valérie Hervieu, Bénédicte Cayot, Pierre-Jean Valette, Helen Cheung, Laurent Milot

“…Preoperative CTs were reviewed, blinded from surgical and pathological data, by two radiologists. Diagnostic accuracy and interobserver reliability analysis were performed. …”
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Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Nasofacial Groove by Tamajit Sau, Saumitra Kumar, Ankita Atin Mukherjee, Debalina Mazumdar

“…On clinical examination, oval, localized, non-tender, hard 2cm x 2cm swelling was found over right nasofacial groove. Diagnostic nasal endoscopy was within normal limit. …”
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Aurora kinase A expression in pleomorphic adenoma, adenoid cystic carcinoma, and mucoepidermoid carcinoma of salivary glands: an immunohistochemical study by Razieh Zare, Leila Izadi, Mario Alberto Alarcón-Sánchez, Masumeh Taghva, Mohammad Ali Ranjbar

“…Conclusion Although AurkA was observed to be expressed in all tumor tissues, further studies are needed to clearly understand the role of AurkA and the possibility of using it as a diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic factor.…”
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Research progress on the application of bedside lung ultrasound in ICU nursing (床旁肺部超声在ICU护理中应用的研究进展) by TAN Huiting (谭慧婷), WANG Fengying (王凤英), LI Fangfang (李芳芳), GUO Yanyun (郭艳云), XUE Chao (薛超)

“…With the development of critical care medicine, bedside lung ultrasound, as an effective auxiliary diagnostic tool, has been widely used in intensive care unit nursing. …”
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