Obesity increases DNA damage in the breast epithelium by Mohamed Gaber, Arnaud Quentel, Julia Holmes, Cassandra Lepetit, Hana Triki, Adam Wilson, Valerie Payne, Iliana Tenvooren, Cloé Dehours, Abigail Peoples, Mary L. Duet, Adam J. Katz, Thierry Pécot, Gwenola Bougras-Cartron, Pierre-François Cartron, Katherine L. Cook, Pierre-Alexandre Vidi

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Subcutaneous Fat Obesity in a High Body Mass Index Donor Is Not a Contraindication to Living Donor Hepatectomy by Hirak Pahari, Amey Sonavane, Amruth Raj, Anup Kumar Agrawal, Ambreen Sawant, Deepak Kumar Gupta, Amit Gharat, Vikram Raut

“…V/S ratio on CT scan (visceral fat area/subcutaneous fat area at L4-level) was <0.4 confirming subcutaneous fat obesity. Both surgeries were uneventful and both donor and recipient recovered well except recipient re-exploration on postoperative day (POD)-1 due to surgical bleeding. …”
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Nursing of a patient undergoing trans-apical transcatheter aortic valve replacement for severe aortic insufficiency (心尖途径经导管主动脉瓣置换术治疗重度主动脉瓣关闭不全1例护理体会)... by XU Yuanhua (徐远华), HE Hui (何慧), ZHAO Jianhua (赵建华), DENG Zibin (邓梓彬), ZOU Minghui (邹明辉), YANG Yang (杨扬), PAN Gang (潘港)

“…The purpose of this article is to share nursing experience of using the apical approach for transcatheter aortic valve replacement surgery to treat a patient with severe aortic insufficiency. …”
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Interpretable machine learning and radiomics in hip MRI diagnostics: comparing ONFH and OA predictions to experts by Tariq Alkhatatbeh, Ahmad Alkhatatbeh, Qin Guo, Jiechen Chen, Jidong Song, Xingru Qin, Wang Wei

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The Promising Effect of Tocilizumab on Chronic Antibody-Mediated Rejection (cAMR) of Kidney Transplant by Łukasz Świątek, Miłosz Miedziaszczyk, Dominik Lewandowski, Filip Robakowski, Piotr Tyburski, Marta Jakubowska, Marek Karczewski, Ilona Idasiak-Piechocka

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Reimbursement policies of Swiss health insurances for the surgical treatment of symptomatic breast hypertrophy: a retrospective cohort study by Astrid Navarra, Daniel Schmauss, Reto Wettstein, Yves Harder

“…The level of back pain could be reduced from 7.0 before surgery to 1.6 after surgery. CONCLUSION: Patients with symptomatic breast hypertrophy who needed more than one request for cost approval (43%) had to undergo further outpatient visits and/or radiological examinations, as well as physiotherapy, despite a clear indication for surgery, resulting in a prolonged symptomatology and increasing healthcare costs. …”
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Identification of CD8+ T Cell-Related Genes: Correlations with Immune Phenotypes and Outcomes of Liver Cancer by Qi Pan, Ying Cheng, Donghua Cheng

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Postoperative blood glucose increase can predict all-cause mortality within 3 months after successful interventional recanalization in patients with acute large vessel occlusion ce... by Wensheng Zhang, Yajie Liu, Hongxing Zhou, Jie Li, Weifang Xing, Kaifeng Li, Yudi Li, Xiongjun He, Li Ling, Jinzhao He

“…The all-cause mortality rate within 3 months after surgery in BGI patients was higher than that in non BGI patients (24.66% vs. 3.23%, P < 0.001). …”
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Safety and efficacy of total colectomy with D3 lymph node dissection at colorectal cancer, developed at inflammatory bowel diseases (case control study) by P. V. Tsarkov, I. A. Tulina, S. K. Efetov, Yu. E. Kitsenko, D. N. Fedorov

“…To compare results of radical surgery in IBD-associated colorectal cancer (IBD-CRC) and sporadic colorectal cancer (spCRC) patients. …”
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Apical periodontitis in inflammatory bowel disease: a meta-analysis at patient and tooth level by Giusy Rita Maria La Rosa, Alejandro Ismael Lorenzo-Pouso, Vito Carlo Alberto Caponio, Mariangela Valentina Puci, Mariangela Valentina Puci

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Hepatocellular carcinoma: signaling pathways and therapeutic advances by Jiaojiao Zheng, Siying Wang, Lei Xia, Zhen Sun, Kui Ming Chan, René Bernards, Wenxin Qin, Jinhong Chen, Qiang Xia, Haojie Jin

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Scrotal Swelling and Testicular Atrophy due to Schistosomiasis in a 9-Year-Old Boy: A Case Report by Peter F. Rambau, Alphonce Chandika, Philipo L. Chalya, Kahima Jackson

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Clinical Profile of Unilateral Proptosis in a Tertiary Care Centre by Susan Dsouza, Pooja Kandula, Gurudutt Kamath, Manjunath Kamath

“…Most of them were treated medically (13 cases, i.e., 52%) and the rest by surgery with a combination of radiotherapy/chemotherapy (12 cases, i.e., 48%).…”
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Spontaneous Bladder Perforation in an Infant Neurogenic Bladder: Laparoscopic Management by Daniel Cabezalí Barbancho, Felix Guerrero Ramos, Francisco López Vázquez, Adolfo Aransay Bramtot, Andrés Gómez Fraile

“…We are presenting a case of bladder rupture in an infant with neurogenic bladder without prior bladder surgery. Three days after lipomyelomeningocele excision the patient showed signs and symptoms of acute abdomen. …”
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Maxillofacial fractures in patients treated at the Princess Marina Hospital, Gaborone by Juan Carlos Quintana Díaz, Carlos Alberto Botella Suarez, Evis Johnson Montero, Raquel Rojas Bruzón

“…<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to describe the behavior of maxillofacial fractures in patients treated at the Maxillofacial Surgery service of Princess Marina Hospital, Gaborone, Botswana.…”
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Transcatheter Embolization for Giant Splenic Artery Aneurisms: Still an Open Question by Marianna Mastroroberto, Sonia Berardi, Matteo Renzulli, Caterina Maggioli, Paolo Pianta, Antonio Daniele Pinna, Rita Golfieri, Claudia Sama

“…The case was not considered suitable for surgery because of the presence of severe portal hypertension. …”
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Case report: Periorbital pilomatricoma: a rare benign skin tumor misdiagnosed as cellulitis by Rahul Kumar, Jane Z. Spadaro, Jane Z. Spadaro, Alon Kahana, Alon Kahana, Alon Kahana

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A Strangulated Congenital Diaphragmatic Bochdalek Hernia Diagnosed in an Adult by Warsinggih Warsinggih, Julianus Aboyaman Uwuratuw, Arham Arsyad, Muhammad Faruk

“…In conclusion, diagnosing a diaphragmatic hernia before surgery can be difficult due to its rarity and wide range of symptoms. …”
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LINC00626 drives tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer cells by interaction with UPF1 by Hui Yuan, Lianbang Zhou, Wei Hu, Min Yang

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Pneumatosis Intestinalis as the Initial Presentation of Systemic Sclerosis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Farshid Ejtehadi, Nikolaos A. Chatzizacharias, Hugh Kennedy

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