Use of disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs and risk of multiple myeloma in US Veterans with rheumatoid arthritis by Kate Tokareva, Alexander C. Peterson, Aaron Baraff, Sarah P. Chung, Jennifer Barton, Joshua F. Baker, Bryant R. England, Ted R. Mikuls, Nicholas L. Smith, David G. Coffey, Noel S. Weiss, Namrata Singh

“…A Cox proportional hazards model with time-varying exposure was used to estimate the hazard ratio for developing MM among those who received b/tsDMARD medications relative to b/tsDMARD-naïve persons. …”
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Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: Part II—Cost of Care Among Patients in Advanced Phases or Later Lines of Therapy in Chronic Phase in the United States from a Commercial Perspective by Ehab L. Atallah, Rodrigo Maegawa, Dominick Latremouille-Viau, Carmine Rossi, Annie Guérin

“…From third-line to fourth or later lines, HRU was observed to increase, and the incidence of inpatient days was particularly high for those who progressed to AP/BC. **Conclusion:** In this study, patients with CML cycling through TKIs in later lines of therapy or progressing to AP/BC experienced substantial HRU and costs, suggesting unmet treatment needs.…”
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Towards faster plan adaptation for proton arc therapy using initial treatment plan information by Benjamin Roberfroid, Margerie Huet-Dastarac, Elena Borderías-Villarroel, Rodin Koffeing, John A. Lee, Ana M. Barragán-Montero, Edmond Sterpin

“…Materials and Methods: The proposed workflow transfers spots from initial computed tomography (CT) to the CT of the day, updates energy layers considering the initial pattern, and re-optimizes selected transferred spots based on their initial weights and impact on the objective function.A retrospective study was conducted on five head and neck patients who underwent plan adaptation on a repeated CT. …”
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A machine learning approach for predicting treatment response of hyponatremia by Tamaki Kinoshita, Shintaro Oyama, Daisuke Hagiwara, Yoshinori Azuma, Hiroshi Arima

“…Among the 341 and 47 patients admitted to two tertiary hospitals for hyponatremia treatment (s-Na <130 mEq/L), those who were admitted to the general unit with urine sodium <20 mEq/L or treated with desmopressin were excluded. …”
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Vitamin K Antagonist Use and Level of Anticoagulation Control Among Patients at a Tertiary Hospital in Northern Tanzania by Sarah K. Gharib MMed, Abid M. Sadiq MMed, Faryal M. Raza MMed, Sophia S. Muhali MMed, Annette A. Marandu MMed, Norman J. Kyala MMed, Eliasa K. Ndale MMed, Venance P. Maro MMed, William P. Howlett PhD, Elifuraha W. Mkwizu MMed, Nyasatu G. Chamba PhD, Furaha S. Lyamuya MMed, Elichilia R. Shao MMed, Kajiru G. Kilonzo MPhil

“…Absence of health insurance (aRR: 1.24, 95% CI: 1.06-1.44, P  = .007), alcohol consumption (aRR: 1.37, 95% CI: 1.15-1.62, P  < .001), and prolonged intervals between tests of 14 to 28 days (aRR: 1.34, 95% CI: 1.05-1.74, P  = .018) showed association with INR being out of range. Conclusion Patients who achieved target therapeutic anticoagulation control were less than the acceptable 65%. …”
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Sign Language Recognition System for Deaf Patients: Protocol for a Systematic Review by Milena Soriano Marcolino, Lucca Fagundes Ramos Oliveira, Lucas Rocha Valle, Luiza Marinho Motta Santa Rosa, Zilma Silveira Nogueira Reis, Thiago Barbabela de Castro Soares, Elidéa Lúcia Almeida Bernardino, Raniere Alislan Almeida Cordeiro, Raquel Oliveira Prates, Mario Fernando Montenegro Campos

“…ObjectiveThis study aims to systematically review the evidence on communication systems using human-computer interaction techniques developed for deaf people who communicate through sign language that are already in use or proposed for use in health care contexts and have been tested with human users or videos of human users. …”
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War-related eye trauma: a study of civilian and military cases from Ukraine's ongoing conflict by Kamil Jonak, Magdalena Matysiak, Tomasz Choragiewicz, Dominika Nowakowska, Andriy Zimenkovsky, Volodymyr Shybinskyi, Myroslawa Sekh, Robert Karpiński, Robert Karpiński, Robert Karpiński, Arkadiusz Podkowiński, Robert Rejdak

“…To assess the scale and types of eye injuries, we analyzed around 500 eye images from 470 patients who were selected because they had sustained eye injuries and were treated at a single hospital. …”
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Retrospective evaluation of multiplex PCR panel results from CSF samples in a university hospital by Funda Şahin, Nida Özcan, Erdal Özbek, Selahattin Atmaca, Hakan Temiz

“…The aim of our study was to retrospectively determine the causative agents in cerebrospinal fluid samples of patients who received a presumptive diagnosis of meningitis, using Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests. …”
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Effects of Diverting Stoma Creation in Minimally Invasive Surgery for Rectal Cancer by Hirotaka Momose, Makoto Takahashi, Masaya Kawai, Kiichi Sugimoto, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Shunsuke Motegi, Kumpei Honjo, Yu Okazawa, Rina Takahashi, Shun Ishiyama, Yuichi Tomiki, Kazuhiro Sakamoto

“…Methods: The subjects were 143 patients with rectal cancer who underwent laparoscopic or robot-assisted low anterior resection with DS creation from January 2010 to May 2021. …”
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Application of Overlap Gastroduodenostomy in Billroth I Anastomosis after Totally Laparoscopic Distal Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer by Guojun Chen, Wenhuan Li, Weihua Yu, Dong Cen, Xianfa Wang, Peng Luo, Jiafei Yan, Guofu Chen, Yiping Zhu, Linhua Zhu

“…In a retrospective cohort study, we examined 92 gastric cancer patients who underwent TLDG performed by the same surgeon between January 2014 and June 2018. …”
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Outcome of dual implantation in distal end femur fractures among patients attending a tertiary care hospital in Karnataka by Kumar SVA, Vishnuprasad SH, Vittal V, Diwakar P, Zai SAK

“…Methods: Study was done on 30 patients who underwent dual implantation surgery for distal femur fractures. …”
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Opportunities for Prevention of Complications in Intestinal Stoma Surgery by V. S. Groshilin, V. D. Kuznetsov, D. V. Kuznetsov, A. A. Pogosyan

“…To confirm the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, an analysis of 52 clinical observations in patients who underwent surgeries with the formation of an end colostomy was carried out, which made up two clinical groups. …”
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Initial Development of the Activity Card Sort-Advancing Inclusive Participation from a Homeless Population Perspective by Quinn P. Tyminski, Ronald R. Drummond, Claire F. Heisey, Shelby K. Evans, Audra Hendrix, Lisa A. Jaegers, Carolyn M. Baum

“…An initial construct validity study demonstrated differences between occupational participation of those who are homeless and nonhomeless in the areas of social engagement, nonsanctioned occupations, work and education, and home management. …”
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Serum Sclerostin as a Possible Biomarker in Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Case-Control Study by Fabio Massimo Perrotta, Fulvia Ceccarelli, Cristiana Barbati, Tania Colasanti, Antonia De Socio, Silvia Scriffignano, Cristiano Alessandri, Ennio Lubrano

“…Serum concentrations of sclerostin were assessed at baseline and after four months of therapy in patients who started an anti-TNF. Results. Twenty healthy subjects and 40 AS patients were enrolled in the study. …”
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Conventional magnetic resonance imaging combined with three-dimensional ultrasound for preoperative prediction of immediate ablation rate in high-intensity focused ultrasound treat... by Qiong Hao, Junwei Liu, Ruoying Hou, Wenxia Huang, Juan Liao, Zhenjiang Lin, Tijiang Zhang

“…Objective This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) combined with three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound for the preoperative prediction of nonperfused volume ratio (NPVR) in uterine fibroids after high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation.Materials and methods In total, 178 patients who had undergone HIFU ablation therapy for uterine fibroids between July 2021 and August 2023 were enrolled. …”
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Noninvasive Predictors of High-Risk Varices in Patients with Non-Cirrhotic Portal Hypertension by Morven E. Cunningham, Gilda Parastandeh-Chehr, Orlando Cerocchi, David K. Wong, Keyur Patel

“…Of 44 patients with NCPH who met inclusion criteria, 34% (15/44) had HRV. …”
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Hospitalisation from seasonal influenza among persons with type 1 diabetes: a cohort study from the Swedish National Diabetes Register by Katarina Eeg-Olofsson, Björn Eliasson, Hanne Krage Carlsen, Lena Svensson, Magnus Gisslén, Elin Allansson Kjölhede, Oliver Martyn

“…It is important for healthcare professionals to acknowledge this excess risk, particularly in older persons with T1D, who have cardiovascular risk factors and reduced kidney function.…”
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Cross‐sectional association of irregular dietary habits with glycemic control and body mass index among people with diabetes by Mika Shimizu, Junko Oya, Yuichiro Kondo, Aki Katamine, Yukiko Hasegawa, Tomoko Nakagami

“…Materials and Methods We included 4,421 people with diabetes aged 20–74 years (type 1 diabetes (T1D), 19.1%) who answered a questionnaire at mealtime. Adjusted least square means in HbA1c and BMI in patients with irregular dietary habits: “irregular mealtimes (irregular),” “skipping breakfast (SB),” and “late dinner (LD)” were compared to those with “regular dietary habits (regular).” …”
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Clinical Presentation and Management Strategies in Intraorbital Foreign Bodies by Samreen Khanam, Ayushi Agarwal, Ruchi Goel, Neha Rathie, Akash Raut, Shweta Raghav, Sumit Kumar, Mohit Chhabra, Sonam Singh, Sushil Kumar

“…The authors present a retrospective, observational case study of seven patients, who presented with retained Intra-Orbital Foreign Bodies (IOrbFBs) following penetrating orbital injury at a tertiary eye hospital over a period of one year. …”
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Deep learning based decision-making and outcome prediction for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients with posterior surgery by Kai Chen, Xiao Zhai, Ziqiang Chen, Haojue Wang, Mingyuan Yang, Changwei Yang, Yushu Bai, Ming Li

“…A total of 425 AIS patients who underwent posterior spinal fixation were collected. …”
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