HIV RNA Suppression and Immune Restoration: Can We Do Better? by Marilia Rita Pinzone, Michelino Di Rosa, Bruno Cacopardo, Giuseppe Nunnari

“…HAART has significantly changed the natural history of HIV infection: patients receiving antiretrovirals are usually able to control viremia, even though not all virological responders adequately recover their CD4+ count. …”
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Successful pregnancy of an SMA type 3 sitter on Nusinersen therapy - a case report by Miriam Hiebeler, Simone Thiele, Maggie C. Walter

“…Discussion So far, only few cases of successful pregnancies of SMA patients on DMT have been reported. In natural history, the majority of patients experienced an increased deterioration of motor function while fetal outcome was not impaired. …”
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Aquatic insects (Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, Trichoptera and Diptera: Tipuloidea) from the upper Neretva in Bosnia-Herzegovina by Wolfram Graf, Ernst Bauernfeind, Marija Ivković, Levente-Péter Kolcsár

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Spontaneous Hybridization between Pinus mugo and Pinus sylvestris at the Lithuanian Seaside: A Morphological Survey by Darius Danusevičius, Vitas Marozas, Gediminas Brazaitis, Raimundas Petrokas, Knud Ib Christensen

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Transplant Outcomes in Patients with Idiopathic Membranous Nephropathy by Claire Kennedy, Carol Traynor, Patrick O'Kelly, Anthony Dorman, Peter J. Conlon

“…Background. The natural history of idiopathic membranous nephropathy and recurrent disease in transplants is variable. …”
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European Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.): Quasi-Virgin Forest Stand of the Gorgany Mts.: Structure, Vascular Plants Diversity, Health Conditions by Yuriy Shparyk, Ivan Danylyk, Oleksandr Kuzyarin, Ivan Senchak, Nazar Kruk

“…The vascular plants were identified using the collections of the Carpathian Ecology Institute and the State Natural History Museum of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. …”
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Diffuse Ectopic Deciduosis Imitating Peritoneal Carcinomatosis with Acute Abdomen Presentation: A Case Report and Literature Review by Pavel Sorokin, Andrei Nikiforchin, Aleksandr Panin, Aleksandr Zhukov, Vadim Gushchin, Mark Kurtser

“…While the management of the patient presented is regrettable, the case highlights the natural history of deciduosis, and therefore, important lessons could be learned from it.…”
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A novel approach to volcano surveillance using gas geochemistry by Moussallam, Yves, Oppenheimer, Clive, Scaillet, Bruno

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The role of host plants, land cover and bioclimate in predicting the invasiveness of Aromia bungii on a global scale by Enrico Ruzzier, Seunghyun Lee, Pietro Tirozzi, Valerio Orioli, Andrea Di Giulio, Olivia Dondina, Luciano Bani

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Sustained remission in large-Vessel vasculitis: Do they ever burn out? by Sakir Ahmed, Padmanabha Shenoy, Debashish Danda, Ramnath Misra

“…LVV seems to be steroid dependent, and the efficacy of various steroid-sparing agents cannot be established unless the natural history of the disease is known. Both TA and GCA can have grumbling courses with relapse rates increasing over time.…”
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Revision of the thylacocephalan biota from the Upper Triassic Polzberg Konservat-Lagerstätte, Austria by Thomas Laville, Petra Lukeneder, Alexander Lukeneder

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The Natural Science Underlying Big History by Eric J. Chaisson

“…These are global history greatly extended, big history with a scientific basis, and natural history broadly portrayed across ∼14 billion years of time. …”
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Picking interstitial lung disease out of the myositis haystack by Jennifer Hannah, Harsha Gunawardena

“…Although patients may be diagnosed as having polymyositis (PM) or dermatomyositis (DM) under the IIM spectrum, it is quite clear that risk, pattern of ILD and disease course between subgroups of patients is different. The natural history may be asymptomatic and slowly progressive or stable, chronically progressive or fulminant rapidly progressive depending on ILD subtype. …”
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Phylogenomics of North American cybaeid spiders (Araneae, Cybaeidae), including the description of new taxa from the Klamath Mountains Geomorphic Province by Marshal Hedin, Martín J. Ramírez, Rodrigo Monjaraz-Ruedas

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Resilience of breadfruit agro-ecosystems in Hawaiʻi during the COVID-19 pandemic by E. H. Berning, C. V. H. Andersen, O. Mertz, N. Dickinson, M. Opgenorth, N. K. Lincoln, J. H. Rashford, N. Rønsted

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Phylogeographic and genetic insights into Sinonychia martensi: an endemic cave-dwelling harvestman in Beijing by Ruoyi Xiao, Jingjing Zhao, Likun Zhao, Shahan Derkarabetian, Feng Zhang, Chao Zhang

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Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, a Sequel of Untreated Childhood Onset Growth Hormone Deficiency Developing in a 17-Year-Old Patient by Rohan K. Henry, Ram K. Menon

“…This illustrates the natural history of untreated CO-GHD and shows that though hepatic IR can be ameliorated by GH, full reversal of T2DM may be prevented with irreversible hepatic changes (fibrosis). …”
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The Impact of Interferon Lambda 3 Gene Polymorphism on Natural Course and Treatment of Hepatitis C by F. Bellanti, G. Vendemiale, E. Altomare, G. Serviddio

“…Moreover, the potential usefulness of IFNλ in the treatment and natural history of this disease is also discussed.…”
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Recurrence of cervical artery dissection: protocol for a systematic review by Dean A Fergusson, Dar Dowlatshahi, Brian Dewar, Michel Shamy, Alexandra Davis, Elizabeth Lounsbury

“…This information may be applied to further understand the natural history of this disease, and potentially to help direct evidence-based discussions on safe return to activity after dissection.Methods and analysis A broad search of multiple electronic databases (Medline, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and Web of Science) will be conducted to identify studies published as of 13 November 2019, examining all-comers with cervical artery dissection observed over time. …”
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Lower Cretaceous Fossil Site near Leše: First Heteromorphic Ammonoid Site in Slovenia and Karawanken/Karavanke UNESCO Global Geopark by Matija Križnar, Darja Komar, Mojca Bedjanič, Gerald Hartmann, Aljoša Šafran, Ivan Ocepek

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