Varicella Zoster Virus-induced Acute Retinal Necrosis Following Acute Meningoencephalitis in a Patient with Presumed COVID-19 by Kiana Hassanpour, Faezeh Khorasanizadeh, Mahmood Nabavi, Narsis Daftarian, Alireza Ramezani

“…Case Report: A 58-year-old female presented to our emergency department with sudden unilateral visual loss following a recent hospitalization for viral meningoencephalitis. …”
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In-vitro acaricidal activity of peganum harmala and glaucium flavum alkaloid against rhipicephalus sp. of dog by Rosa Kebbi, Omar Besseboua, Mohamed Nait-Mouloud, Abdelhanine Ayad

“…The acaricidal effects of alkaloids from Glaucium flavum and Peganum harmala were evaluated in vitro on adult female of Rhipicephalus sp. collected in naturally infected dogs.…”
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Breaking the cycle: a pilot study on autonomous Digital CBTe for recurrent binge eating by Rebecca Murphy, Charandeep Khera, Emma L. Osborne

“…Participants completed self-report outcome measures of eating disorder features and secondary impairment at baseline, post-intervention, and 6-month follow-up.ResultsMost participants identified as female, White, and were living in the United Kingdom. …”
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Comparison of the safety and efficacy of dual antiplatelet therapy versus tenecteplase in patients with minor nondisabling acute ischemic stroke by Xinzhao Jiang, Ruozhen Yuan, Jiawei Ye, Xu Wang, Zongjie Shi, Shunyuan Guo

“…Of the 62 patients included in the analysis, the median (IQR) age was 66 (58–76) years, and 21 patients (34%) were female. Compared with patients receiving DAPT, those treated with tenecteplase were had higher NIHSS score at treatment (median [IQR], 4 [2–5] vs. 1 [1–2]; P = 0.01). …”
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Comparison of CT-Guided Microwave Ablation of Liver Malignancies with and Without Intra-Arterial Catheter Placement for Contrast Administration by Anne Bettina Beeskow, Holger Gößmann, Hans-Jonas Meyer, Daniel Seehofer, Thomas Berg, Florian van Bömmel, Aaron Schindler, Manuel Florian Struck, Timm Denecke, Sebastian Ebel

“…Methods: 148 patients (45 female, 65.1 ± 14.9 years) with liver tumors who underwent CT-guided MWA were included. …”
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Development and validation of a prediction model for chronic post-surgical pain risk: a single-center prospective study of video-assisted thoracoscopic lung cancer surgery by Xiong-Fei Zhang, Chang-Guo Peng, Hua-Jing Guo, Zhi-Ming Zhang

“…Results Independent risk factors for CPSP included female gender, severe acute pain post-surgery, lymph node dissection, and cold pain sensation, while paravertebral nerve block was identified as a protective factor. …”
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Progress in Treatment of Temporomandibular Joint Disorder by Wei YANG, Minghua XIE, Yu CAI, Zhuoming CHEN

“…TMD ranks fourth in oral epidemiology, which is related to estrogen levels in patients, female prevalence is higher than male, high prevalence among young adults. …”
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Integrated omics profiling of individual variations in intestinal damage to the soybean allergen in piglets by Mengmeng Mi, Yaqing Zheng, Xin Fu, Nan Bao, Li Pan, Guixin Qin, Yuan Zhao

“…The indicators related to humoral and cellular immunity, transcriptomics, and metabolomics analysis were determined by randomly selecting 5 boars in the allergic group and non-allergic group and then performing a validation in vitro.ResultsThe sensitization rate of soybean antigen in the corn-soybean meal diet was 21.74% and there was a gender difference with the sensitization rate of female pigs (31.34%) being higher than that of male pigs (13.23%). …”
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Patients outcomes in lung adenocarcinoma transforming to small-cell lung cancer after tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy by Shuai Wang, Yongsen Wang, Xuan Wu, Li Yang, Xiaoju Zhang

“…The median progression-free survival (mPFS) on first-line platinum plus etoposide after the conversion to SCLC was 3.0 months. Female appeared to be related to worse outcomes after transformation of SCLC. …”
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Inflammatory Choroidal Neovascular Membranes: Clinical Profile, Treatment Effectiveness, and Visual Prognosis by Gonçalo Carrola, Mário Lima-Fontes, Fernando Falcão-Reis, Luís Figueira, Ângela Carneiro

“…Twenty eyes from 17 patients were analysed (11 female and 6 male patients, mean age 41.90 ± 16.457 years at CNV diagnosis). …”
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Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis in Adolescence: Two Distinct Presentations by Rafael Figueiredo, Inês Pires Duro, António Marinho, Conceição Mota, Margarida Guedes, Carla Zilhão

“…In a twelve-year-old female with inflammatory signs of the limbs, investigation showed myositis of the thigh and tenosynovitis of the wrist, normocytic normochromic anemia (Hg 9.4 g/dL), mild elevation of inflammatory markers, and high creatine kinase. …”
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Exercise interventions to improve bone mineral density in athletes participating in low-impact sports: a scoping review by Anders Gulbrandsen Florvåg, Øyvind Angelshaug Berg, Ola Drange Røksund, Gøril Tvedten Jorem, Bård Erik Bogen

“…Five populations were explored; one cohort of adolescent swimmers (both sexes), one cohort of female Olympic artistic swimmers, one cohort of elite road cyclists (both sexes), one cohort of male competitive amateur cyclists, and one cohort of trained to well-trained cyclists (both sexes). …”
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Progression of an Invasive ACTH Pituitary Macroadenoma with Cushing’s Disease to Pituitary Carcinoma by Clarissa Groberio Borba, Rafael Loch Batista, Nina Rosa de Castro Musolino, Vanielle Carvalho Machado, Ana Elisa Evangelista Alcantara, Gilberto Ochman da Silva, Valter Angelo Sperling Cescato, Malebranche Berardo Carneiro da Cunha Neto

“…We report the case of a female patient with Cushing’s disease who underwent three transsphenoidal surgeries, with pathological findings of common ACTH pituitary adenoma including Ki-67 expression <3%. …”
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Myelofibrosis-Associated Lymphoproliferative Disease: Retrospective Study of 16 Cases and Literature Review by A. Etienne, B. Gruson, D. Chatelain, R. Garidi, B. Royer, H. Sevestre, J. P. Marolleau, G. Damaj

“…Median age of patients was 62 years (range 16–74) with a sex ratio male/female of 3. Results. MF is associated with all types of lymphoma predominantly with B-cell phenotype and it seems to be more associated with low-grade NHL. …”
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Effectiveness of 4 weeks of electrical vestibular stimulation in the management of temporomandibular pain by Yashica Gowda R, Asha G, Doreswamy Kanakaiah, Karthik N, Sai Sailesh Kumar Goothy, Mukkadan JK

“…Materials and Methods: Sixty male and female participants who reported temporomandibular pain were recruited. …”
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Resveratrol Supplementation Prevents Hypertension in Hypertensive Pregnant Rats by Increasing Sodium Excretion and Serum Nitric Oxide Level by Xiaowen Jia, Rong Zhang, Jinzhu Guo, Hua Yue, Qiuxia Liu, Lipei Guo, Qunchang Zhang

“…This study was designed to study the blood pressure-lowering effect of resveratrol (RES) in a salt-induced hypertensive pregnant rat model. Methods. Forty female Sprague Dawley (SD) rats were randomized into 4 groups: Normal Preg (0.9% salt diet), Normal Preg + RES (0.9% salt diet plus daily oral RES for 4 weeks), Salt Preg (8% salt diet), and Salt Preg + RES (8% salt diet plus daily oral RES for 4 weeks). …”
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Diet Supplementation Influences Ghrelin System Expression in the Skin Appendages of the Sheep by Margherita Maranesi, Cecilia Dall’Aglio, Sara Moscatelli, Elisa Palmioli, Paola Coliolo, Daniele Marini, Gabriella Guelfi, Paola Scocco, Francesca Mercati

“…GhRL and its receptor were investigated in the skin of sheep under different feeding conditions to explore GhRL system presence and possible modifications due to diet. Three-year-old female sheep were free to graze from June to the pasture maximum flowering (MxF group) and from this period to maximum dryness addicted (Exp group) or not (MxD group) with 600 gr/die/head of barley and corn. …”
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Paediatric norms for photopic electroretinogram testing based on a large cohort of Chinese preschool children by Henry Ho-lung Chan, Sonia Seen-hang Chan, Kai Yip Choi

“…ERG waveform characteristics were extracted, and relationships between ERG, age, SER, AL and K were evaluated.Results A total of 479 children completed the measurements (mean age: 5.0±0.9 years, 45.5% female). Mean, 95% CIs, 5th–95th percentile range of the ERG parameters were reported. …”
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Association between triglyceride-glucose index and endometriosis: results from a cross-sectional study and Mendelian randomization study by Ting Xu, Yuan Zhuang, Huabin Cao, Jingqi Yang

“…BackgroundTriglyceride-glucose (TyG) index has been found to be associated with female reproductive disorders, but its relationship with the risk of endometriosis is unknown. …”
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Blood and body fluids exposure, post-exposure prophylaxis, and HIV self-testing among healthcare workers in northern Nigeria by Zubairu Iliyasu, Musa Babashani, Khadija Dantata, Shaheed A. Zakariyyah, Muktar A. Gadanya, Humayra A. Bashir, Auwalu U. Gajida, Muktar H. Aliyu

“…The occurrence of exposure incidents was predicted by the respondent’s sex (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 1.25; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.15-3.08, female vs. male), age (aOR = 0. 16; 95% CI: 0.03-0.92, >40 vs. <30 years), profession (aOR = 1.88; 95% CI: 1.18-4.66, nurse/midwife vs. physician), work unit (aOR = 0.06; 95% CI: 0.02-0.23, obstetrics/gynecology vs. surgery), and previous HIV testing and counseling (aOR = 0.01; 95% Cl: 0.004-0.03, no vs. yes). …”
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