Cardiac Output Assessed by Invasive and Minimally Invasive Techniques by Allison J. Lee, Jennifer Hochman Cohn, J. Sudharma Ranasinghe

“…Despite controversies, complications and inherent errors in measurement, pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) continuous and intermittent bolus techniques of CO measurement continue to be the gold standard. Newer techniques provide less invasive alternatives; however, currently available monitors are unable to provide central circulation pressures or true mixed venous saturations. …”
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Une figurine en terre cuite dorée d’époque romaine à Reims/Durocortorum by Loïc Androuin

“…Within this ensemble, a Venus under aedicula presents a partial gold leaf coating. The study of its iconography reveals it to be a novel decorative feature, representative of a new series within this preexisting iconographic theme. …”
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Ovarian Mature Cystic Teratoma: Challenges of Surgical Management by Abha Sinha, Ayman A. A. Ewies

“…The laparoscopic approach is generally considered to be the gold standard for the management. Oophorectomy should be the standard operation except in younger women with a single small cyst. …”
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Isolated Neurosarcoidosis Presenting as Chronic Progressive Pachymeningitis by Joshua Abata, Danielle Bazer, Nicholas Koroneos, Olga Syritsyna

“…The clinical presentation of isolated neurosarcoidosis can be highly variable, and diagnosis is particularly challenging, the gold standard being tissue biopsy. We describe a patient with a history of atypical parkinsonian syndrome and chronic right frontal lobe infarct who developed weakness, imbalance, and gait disequilibrium in 2008, with magnetic resonance imaging at that time showing leptomeningeal and nodular enhancements in the bilateral frontal and parietal lobes. …”
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Underdiagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Rationale for Spirometry as a Screening Tool by R Andrew McIvor, Donald P Tashkin

“…Despite the fact that spirometry is the gold standard for the diagnosis and assessment of COPD, mass screening using this tool remains controversial. …”
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Del pueblo elegido y el maná escondido. La minera en San Juan (Argentina) by Mirta Alejandra Antonelli

“…Este artículo aborda el desastre ambiental provocado en la mina Veladero, que explota la canadiense Barrick Gold, como implosión del núcleo duro del modelo de la megaminería metalífera en Argentina, que ha tenido como «religión y culto» a la cordillerana provincia de San Juan. …”
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Exocrine Pancreatic Function Tests: A Review by Yuyuan Li, Stephen G. Chiverton, Richard H. Hunt

“…Direct intubation PFTs, using secretin/cholecystokinin or secretin/caerulein as the stimulants, continue to the the 'gold standard', although they are invasive, expensive and time consuming. …”
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Management of Iron Overload in Resource Poor Nations: A Systematic Review of Phlebotomy and Natural Chelators by Orish Ebere Orisakwe, Cecilia Nwadiuto Amadi, Chiara Frazzoli

“…Although bloodletting or phlebotomy remains the gold standard in the management of iron overload, this systematic review is an updated account of the pitfalls of phlebotomy and classical synthetic chelators with scientific justification for the use of natural iron chelators of dietary origin in resource-poor nations.…”
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Poutníci a jejich peníze na cestě do Říma. Zamyšlení nad edicí Il Libro del pellegrino (Siena, 1382–1446) by Roman Zaoral

“…Money of pilgrims predominantly consisted of gold coins contained in more than 70 % of all registered deposits. …”
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Neurological Crisis Following Intravenous Ozone Therapy; a Case Report by Chloe Y Y Wong, Komal Saxena, John Meneer, Koshy George, Gerben Keijzers

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New Trends and Future Perspectives in the Diagnosis of Urothelial Carcinoma: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature by Mourmouris Panagiotis, Georgopoulos Ioannis, Klapsis Vasilleios, Pisiotis Nikolaos, Salmas Ioannis, Charamoglis Sotirios

“…Despite the high incidence of bladder cancer (it represents the 7th most common cancer in males), EAU guidelines do not recommend any technique for screening and prevention, whereas the main diagnostic tools remain computed tomography urography (CTU), cytology, and cystoscopy. Unfortunately, these gold-standard modalities are mainly characterized by low sensitivity and accuracy. …”
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Gel-Based Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation in a Patient with Noncontained Osteochondral Knee Defect at 9-Year Follow-Up by Ujjval Deliwala, Sumit Jain Sethia

“…Although several surgical concepts have been described to treat OCD (fragment fixation, microfracture, autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI), and mosaicplasty), no gold standard treatment has been accepted for managing OCD. …”
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Intralesional Spesolimab: A Novel and Effective Approach for Palmoplantar Pustulosis Treatment – A Case Report by Wang SN, Lu YZ, Zhao Y, Cao W, Zhang RL

“…As we all know, there is currently no gold standard for the treatment of this intractable disease. …”
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Malnutrition in Chronic Pancreatitis: Causes, Assessment Methods, and Therapeutic Management by Agnieszka Madro

“…One of the most important problems is lack of “gold standard” in screening of nutritional status in patients with CP, especially in outpatient clinics. …”
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Grading Evaluation of Goaf Stability Based on Entropy and Normal Cloud Model by Tianxing Ma, Yun Lin, Xiaobin Zhou, Mingzhi Zhang

“…Taking 25 mined-out areas in Xishan mine of Shandong Gold Mining and the Dabaoshan mine as examples, the model is used for stability evaluation, and the evaluation results are basically consistent with the actual situation, which proves the feasibility of the method and provides a new and effective method for stability evaluation of mined-out areas.…”
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Mathematical modeling of liver fibrosis by Avner Friedman, Wenrui Hao

“…In liver fibrosis, the gold standard for diagnosis and monitoring the progression of the disease is biopsy, which is invasive and cannot be repeated frequently. …”
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Simulation Study on the Dynamic Ventilation Control of Single Head Roadway in High-Altitude Mine Based on Thermal Comfort by Xingxin Nie, Shanshan Feng, Zhang Shudu, Gan Quan

“…Dynamic ventilation control based on the concept of thermal comfort is proposed and applied to single head roadway in high-altitude gold mine in Qinghai. Hourly thermal comfort values are determined for typical working conditions, and a thermal comfort curve is generated. …”
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Numerical Simulation of the Vibration Behavior of Curved Carbon Nanotubes by Sadegh Imani Yengejeh, João M. P. Q. Delgado, Antonio G. Barbosa de Lima, Andreas Öchsner

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An Unsupervised Deep Learning Framework for Retrospective Gating of Catheter-Based Cardiac Imaging by Zheng Sun, Yue Yao, Ru Wang

“…The network was trained on clinical data sets in an unsupervised manner, addressing the difficulty of obtaining the gold standard in deep learning-based motion suppression techniques. …”
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Update on Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) and New Implants by Lívia M. Brandão, Matthias C. Grieshaber

“…In this review, the clinical results of the latest techniques and devices are presented by their approach, ab interno (trabeculotomy, excimer laser trabeculotomy, trabecular microbypass, suprachoroidal shunt, and intracanalicular scaffold) and ab externo (canaloplasty, Stegmann Canal Expander, suprachoroidal Gold microshunt). The drawback of MIGS is that some of these procedures produce a limited IOP reduction compared to trabeculectomy. …”
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