Factors associated with hospital length of stay in patients with thoracic hydatid cyst disease undergoing surgical intervention: a retrospective study by Reza Ershadi, Mohammadreza Salehi, Ghazal Roostaei, Niloofar Khoshnam Rad, Sara Soltanmohammadi, Hesam Amini

“…Methods This retrospective observational study included adult patients who underwent surgery for lung HC between 2017 and 2021. …”
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Causal Inference for Hypertension Prediction With Wearable E lectrocardiogram and P hotoplethysmogram Signa... by Ke Gon g, Yifan Chen, Xinyue Song, Zhizhong Fu, Xiaorong Ding

“…The dataset included diverse individuals who were balanced in terms of gender, age, and the condition of hypertension, with their ECG and PPG signals simultaneously acquired with wrist -worn wearable devices. …”
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Determinants of Pelvic Floor Disorders among Women Visiting the Gynecology Outpatient Department in Wolkite University Specialized Center, Wolkite, Ethiopia by Ayana Benti Terefe, Tolesa Gemeda Gudeta, Girma Teferi Mengistu, Seboka Abebe Sori

“…The purpose of the study was to assess the determinants of pelvic floor disorders among women who visited the gynecology outpatient service at the Wolkite University Specialized Hospital, Wolkite, Ethiopia, in 2021. …”
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Comparison of CT-Guided Microwave Ablation of Liver Malignancies with and Without Intra-Arterial Catheter Placement for Contrast Administration by Anne Bettina Beeskow, Holger Gößmann, Hans-Jonas Meyer, Daniel Seehofer, Thomas Berg, Florian van Bömmel, Aaron Schindler, Manuel Florian Struck, Timm Denecke, Sebastian Ebel

“…Methods: 148 patients (45 female, 65.1 ± 14.9 years) with liver tumors who underwent CT-guided MWA were included. Of these, 25 patients had an IA catheter placed in the hepatic artery. …”
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Development and validation of a prediction model for chronic post-surgical pain risk: a single-center prospective study of video-assisted thoracoscopic lung cancer surgery by Xiong-Fei Zhang, Chang-Guo Peng, Hua-Jing Guo, Zhi-Ming Zhang

“…Methods This prospective cohort study included clinical data from 400 patients with non-small cell lung cancer who underwent VATS from June 2022 to June 2023. …”
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Predictors of HBsAg seroclearance in HBeAg-negative chronic hepatitis B patients treated with nucleotide analogs plus polyethylene glycol interferon by Yan Peng, Mingzhe Ma, Ting Liu, Wenmin He, Shutao Lin, Wa Zhong, Xiaohui Min

“…IntroductionThe minority of the chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients received polyethylene glycol interferon (PEG-IFN) combined with nucleotide analogs (NAs) can obtain hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) clearance.MethodsIn order to find out the advantaged population, we retrospectively collected 122 CHB patients treated with NAs alone or NAs plus PEG-IFN for 48 weeks, who were admitted to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital from 2019 to 2024.ResultsWe found HBsAg clearance rate in NAs plus PEG-IFN group was 40.98%, which was significantly higher than that in the NAs group. …”
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Efficacy and safety of perioperative analgesia in PENG block for children undergoing hip surgery with developmental dysplasia: study protocol for a randomized, double-blinded, non-... by Mingzhe Xu, Yi He, Zhi Li, Bin Du

“…Methods This study is a single-center, prospective, randomized, double-blinded, non-inferiority experiment that enrolled children aged 6 months to 7 years who were scheduled for developmental dysplasia hip surgery. …”
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Ambient Air Pollution and Chronic kidney disease risk in Deltan communities: A Policy Brief, 2023 [version 3; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations, 1 not approved] by Luca Mora, Elaine Carnegie, Ogochukwu Okoye

“…Air pollutant concentrations measured in partnership with citizen scientists using portable air sensors, showed that all except one air pollutant (ozone) exceeded the WHO acceptable limits in all four communities. PM2.5 ranged from 22.8 to 28.0 μg/m3, PM10, 40.6 to 55.5 μg/m3, and CO2, 584-652 ppm. …”
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Effect of preoperative right ventricular dysfunction and dilatation on survival after left ventricular surgical restoration by Abdelhameed Elsayed, Murtadha H. Alawami, Ismail M. Elnaggar, Tamer N. Mohamed, Musab Kiddo, Mostafa A. Shalaby, Khaled A. Alotaibi, Amr A. Arafat

“…A retrospective analysis was conducted on 137 patients who underwent LVSR between 2009 and 2021. Results The results indicated that hospital mortality was significantly associated with older age [OR, 1.10; P = 0.01], higher EuroSCORE II [OR, 1.08, P = 0.03], recent myocardial infarction [OR, 4.24, P = 0.02], lower creatinine clearance [OR, 0.97, P = 0.02], and left ventricle longitudinal [OR, 0.95, P < 0.01] and transverse diameter [OR, 0.95; P < 0.01]. …”
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Combined Use of Excimer Laser and High-Speed Rotational Atherectomy to Overcome a Severely Calcified Lesion in Endovascular Therapy by Keisuke Nakabayashi, Shinya Hata, Nobuhito Kaneko, Akihiro Matsui, Kazuhiko Tanaka, Hiroshi Ando, Minoru Shimizu

“…In this report, we discuss the case of a 74-year-old male with coronary artery disease and end-stage renal disease who presented at our institution with bilateral intermittent claudication. …”
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The Role of Heart Rate, Body Temperature, and Respiratory Rate in Predicting Anastomotic Leakage following Surgery for Rectal Cancer by Jiajun Luo, Hongxue Wu, Yue Jiang, Yu Yang, Jingwen Yuan, Qiang Tong

“…Clinical data from patients with rectal cancer who underwent anterior rectal resection in the Department of Gastroenterology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, from January 2017 to December 2019 were collected and analyzed retrospectively. …”
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A Nation-Wide Survey of High School Baseball Coaches’ Perceptions Indicates their Arm Care Programs Play a Role in Injury Prevention by K A Matsel, E E Weiss, R J Butler, M C Hoch, P M Westgate, T R Malone, T L Uhl

“…Among the 12.7% (n=83/654) of coaches who do not use arm care programs, the two most commonly cited reasons for not implementing arm care were lack of observed benefit (41%) and insufficient staff (31%). …”
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Nonlinear association between proteinuria levels and the risk of cardiovascular disease events and all-cause mortality among chronic kidney disease patients by Haiying Song, Yuheng Liao, Haofei Hu, Qijun Wan

“…Background The association between proteinuria levels and cardiovascular disease (CVD) development and all-cause mortality in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients remains controversial.Methods In this investigation, we conducted a retrospective analysis involving 1138 patients who were registered in the CKD-Research of Outcomes in Treatment and Epidemiology (ROUTE) study. …”
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HbA1c-Based Score Model for Predicting Death Risk in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Lingling He, Shuan Zhang, Xiaoli Liu, Yuyong Jiang, Xianbo Wang, Zhiyun Yang

“…This was a retrospective study of 147 patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and type 2 diabetes mellitus who came to Beijing Ditan Hospital between October 2008 and June 2013. …”
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Delphi study to identify consensus on patient selection for hydrogel rectal spacer use during radiation therapy for prostate cancer in the UK by Amit Bahl, Suneil Jain, Albert Edwards, Rhodri Saunders, Clive Peedell, Heather Ann Payne, James Andrew Thomas, Prantik Das, Amanda Hansson Hedblom, Emily Woodward

“…Currently, not all patients who could potentially benefit can access hydrogel spacers, and access is unequal. …”
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Clinical factors of development of squamous intraepithelial cervical lesions of high grade in patients with papillomavirus infection by T. A. Dimitriadi, D. V. Burtsev, E. A. Dzhenkova

“…The chances of development of H‑SIL in patients with colposcopy results of minor lesions (I degree), do not differ from those who have a normal colposcopic picture (p&gt;0.05). …”
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A scoping review on the psychosocial interventions used in day care service for people living with dementia. by Dympna Tuohy, Liz Kingston, Eileen Carey, Margaret Graham, Liz Dore, Owen Doody

“…Databases were searched (Cochrane Reviews, CINAHL, Embase, Medline EBSCO, Medline Ovid, Medline PubMed, PsycINFO, Scopus, Open Grey, Lenus and WHO Global Index Medicus databases) using keywords/terms with Boolean operators from 2011 to 2023. …”
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The influence of sex on sleep characteristics in the adult and older adult population: findings from the EPISONO sleep study by Mayra dos Santos Silva, Priscila Farias Tempaku, Priscila Farias Tempaku, Monica Levy Andersen, Monica Levy Andersen, Sergio Tufik, Sergio Tufik, Dalva Poyares, Dalva Poyares

“…IntroductionSleep is a restorative behavior and is critical for overall health, but differences in sleep patterns between men and women can be seen over the years.AimTo prospectively analyze the polysomnographic findings of adults and older adults who participated in two editions of EPISONO, according to sex.MethodsThe population-based prospective longitudinal study included 688 individuals. …”
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Impact of kidney volume on incidence of in-hospital kidney-related adverse outcomes in patients with acute heart failure by Akira Saito, Taku Asano, Nobuyuki Komiyama, Sachiko Ohde

“…It included patients admitted for AHF treatment between 2011 and 2021 and who underwent computed tomography (CT) that included images of the kidneys on the date of admission. …”
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Comparison of Resting Energy Expenditure Using Indirect Calorimetry and Predictive Equations in Trauma Patients: A Pilot Study by Dae Sung Ma, Gil Jae Lee

“…Methods Patients admitted to the trauma intensive care unit who received mechanical ventilation between January and December 2015 were enrolled. …”
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