Intraocular Pressure, Axial Length, and Refractive Changes after Phacoemulsification and Trabeculectomy for Open-Angle Glaucoma by Alina Popa-Cherecheanu, Raluca Claudia Iancu, Leopold Schmetterer, Ruxandra Pirvulescu, Valeria Coviltir

“…Materials and Methods. We retrospectively analysed 48 eyes. The changes in refraction, intraocular pressure, and axial eye length were analysed after surgery. …”
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Stories of taking part in Everyday Life Rehabilitation - A narrative inquiry of residents with serious mental illness and their recovery pathway by Rosaline Bezerra Aguiar, Maria Lindström

“…Thus, the aim of this study is to explore the stories of participants partaking in Everyday Life Rehabilitation and how they make sense of their engagements in everyday life activities and their recovery processes.MethodsApplying a narrative analysis, this study explores the stories of seven individuals with an SMI residing in Swedish supported housing facilities, participating in the Everyday Life Rehabilitation (ELR) program during six months, and how they retrospectively make meaning of their engagement in everyday life activities and recovery processes.FindingsThe participants' stories about their rehabilitation and personal recovery pathways elucidate how the inherent power of the activity, as well as the support the participants received to get started and succeed, had a significant impact on their self-identity, confidence, motivation, mattering, life prospects, and vitality. …”
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Erythrocyte modified controlling nutritional status as a biomarker for predicting poor prognosis in post-surgery breast cancer patients by Jingjing Hu, Jiaming Dong, Xiang Yang, Zhiyi Ye, Guoming Hu

“…The clinical data of 536 female breast cancer patients with invasive ductal carcinoma who underwent surgery at Shaoxing People’s Hospital from January 2012 to December 2018 were retrospectively evaluated. The predictive effects of nutritional and inflammatory indicators on DFS were evaluated. …”
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The Effects of Preeclampsia Severity and Thrombocytopenia on the Prognosis of Hypertensive Pregnant Women by Emre Beşe, Fatma Devran Bıldırcın, Erdal Malatyalıoğlu

“…STUDY DESIGN: Three hundred and one pregnant patients, who had been admitted to the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of our clinic, with the diagnosis of preeclampsia between October 2006 and October 2008, were retrospectively evaluated. The patients were divided into two groups as patients with mild and severe preeclampsia. …”
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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

“…A total of 111 patients with clinically suspected PC who were finally diagnosed with nonhuman immunodeficiency virus infection and hospitalized in the Ningbo First Hospital from March 2017 to December 2021 were retrospectively analyzed. All the confirmed cases were divided into two groups as follows: the PC group (33 cases) and the non-PC group (78 cases). …”
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Intravenous thrombolysis prevents neurological deterioration in patients with acute pontine infarction by Zhenxiao Chai, Weili Chen, Yichan Ye, Mengwan Song, Lingling Lin, Dongdong Lin, Xuerong Huang, Lifen Chi, Ruyue Huang

“…We determined whether intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) with tissue plasminogen activator soon after pontine infarction prevents ND.MethodsWe retrospectively enrolled consecutive patients admitted to our hospital within 4.5 h after the onset of isolated pontine infarction identified using diffusion-weighted imaging. …”
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“An Ancient System of Caste”: How the British Law against Caste Depends on Orientalism by Prakash Shah

“…Equally troubling was the acceptance among proponents that an adequate conceptualization of a supposed problem, including defining caste, could be dealt with retrospectively, once legislation was in place. Further no case was made that a mechanism like the Equality Act is appropriate for caste discrimination. …”
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Age Differences in Long Term Outcomes of Coronary Patients Treated with Drug Eluting Stents at a Tertiary Medical Center by Nicolas W. Shammas, Gail A. Shammas, Peter Sharis, Michael Jerin

“…We evaluate differences in outcomes in younger (<65 years) and older (≥65 years) patients for target lesion failure (TLF) at 2-year follow-up in an unselected consecutive series of patients treated with the everolimus- (EES) and paclitaxel-eluting (PES) stents at a tertiary medical center. 348 consecutive patients (younger 150; older 198) stented with the EES and PES were retrospectively analyzed. The primary endpoint was TLF (composite endpoint of cardiac death, non fatal myocardial infarction due to index vessel and target lesion revascularization (TLR)). …”
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Effect of Admission Serum Calcium Levels and Length of Stay in Patients with Acute Pancreatitis: Data from the MIMIC-III Database by Dongyan Wang, Xiaoyan Guo, Wenwen Xia, Zhijuan Ru, Yihai Shi, Zhengyu Hu

“…Objective. We retrospectively investigated the effect of admission serum calcium levels on length of stay (LOS) in patients hospitalized with acute pancreatitis (AP). …”
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The feasibility and safety of robotic‐assisted salvage radical cystectomy by Gal Rinott Mizrahi, Nathan Lawrentschuk, Benjamin Thomas, Philip Dundee

“…Materials and Methods We retrospectively searched the prospectively collected surgical database of two highly experienced robotic urological surgeons for cases of RA‐SRC, defined as RARC performed post‐previous pelvic RT for palliative or oncologic treatment purposes. …”
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Burden of Comorbidities and Healthcare Resource Utilization Among Medicaid-Enrolled Extremely Premature Infants by Meredith E. Mowitz, Wei Gao, Heather Sipsma, Pete Zuckerman, Hallee Wong, Rajeev Ayyagari, Sujata P. Sarda

“…**Methods:** Using _International Classification of Diseases, Ninth/Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification_ codes, diagnosis and medical claims data from 6 state Medicaid databases (1997-2018) of infants born at less than 37 weeks of GA (wGA) were collected retrospectively. Data from the index date (birth) up to 2 years corrected age or death, stratified by GA (EP, ≤28 wGA; very premature \[VP\], >28 to <32 wGA; and moderate to late premature \[M-LP\], ≥32 to <37 wGA), were compared using unadjusted and adjusted generalized linear models. …”
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Study on clinically manifested reproductive health problems of dairy cows managed under intensive and semi-intensive production systems in Wondo Genet district, Southern Ethiopia by Amene Fekadu, Yifat Denbarga, Tesfaye Belay, Desie Sheferaw, Fufa Abunna, Kebede Amenu, Rahmeto Abebe, Mesele Abera, Berhanu Mekibib

“…Out of the total 205 cows examined, 90 cows (43.90%) had at least one of the reproductive problems identified by either questionnaire interview or regular follow up of individual cows. Out of 146 cows retrospectively and 59 cows prospectively assessed for the presence of any reproductive disorder, 62 (42.47%) and 28 (47.46%) cows had at least one reproductive disorders, respectively. …”
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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

“…This study was carried out retrospectively in a tertiary care center from September 2016 to January 2020. …”
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Anton Diabellis Variationenprojekt (1819 bis 1824). Geschichtlichkeit und ästhetische Normativität by Tobias Janz

“…The two parts of the Veränderungen that were published under the name of Anton Diabelli’s (fictitious) “Vaterländischer Künstlerverein” (Patriotic Artists’ Society) – Beethoven’s thirty-three variations op. 120 in the first part and the variations by fifty other composers in the second part – have not only been separated in reception history; they have also been evaluated very differently in retrospect. This essay questions the rigid opposition of the singular masterpiece and the mere publisher’s synthesis. …”
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A comparison of the predictive validity of the combination of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio and other risk scoring systems for intravenous imm... by Seiichiro Takeshita, Takashi Kanai, Yoichi Kawamura, Yusuke Yoshida, Shigeaki Nonoyama

“…<h4>Materials and methods</h4>The laboratory records of 437 patients with KD before IVIG therapy were retrospectively analyzed, and the IVIG-responsive (n = 344) and IVIG-resistant (n = 93) patients were compared. …”
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Neonatal Surgery Intensive Care Unit: Hacettepe University Experience by Umit Ayse Tandircioglu, Hasan Tolga Celik, Sule Yigit, Murat Yurdakok

“…STUDY DESIGN: The file records of newborns admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit were retrospectively analyzed from January 2014 to December 2019. …”
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Postoperative infection after cranioplasty in traumatic brain injury: a single center experience by Mahnjeong Ha, Jung Hwan Lee, Hyuk Jin Choi, Byung Chul Kim, Seunghan Yu

“…Methods Data of 289 adult patients who underwent cranioplasty after TBI at a single regional trauma center between year 2018 and 2021 were reviewed retrospectively. Patient characteristics and various procedural variables, such as interval between craniectomy and cranioplasty, estimated blood loss, laterality and materials of the bone flap, and duration and classification of perioperative antibiotics usage were analyzed. …”
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Morphometric Evaluation of Thoracic Vertebrae Using Multidetector Computed Tomography in Patients with Scoliosis by Nadire Ünver Doğan, Zeliha Fazlıoğulları, Ali Güleç, Mehmet Öztürk, Mehmet Cengiz Tatar, Ahmet Kağan Karabulut

“…Methods: Patients with scoliosis (eight male, eight female) who underwent thoracic vertebrae imaging by multidetector computed tomography at Selcuk University Faculty of Medicine between 2013 and 2017 and who were not operated and those without scoliosis (eight male and nine female) who underwent imaging for other reasons were retrospectively evaluated. The group aged &gt;15 years was created in a similar way. …”
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Use of metallic ureteric stents for chronic ureteric obstruction and its association with value-based care by Yu Xi Terence Law, Ang Zhou, David Terrence Consigliere, Benjamin Yen Seow Goh, Ho Yee Tiong

“…Methods: Clinical data from our institution, including outcomes for all ureteric stents inserted for long-term management of CUO from all causes from 2014 to 2017, were retrospectively reviewed and compared between the MS and PS episodes. …”
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Minimally Invasive Vitreoretinal Surgery (25G, 27G) with High-speed Vitrectomy Cutter – Case Series by Krzysztof Broniarek, Katarzyna Michalska-Małecka

“…The effects were retrospectively analyzed in terms of changes in best corrected visual acuity, intraocular pressure, occurrence of complications, and changes in optical coherence tomography images of macular edema. …”
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