Biomarkers of gastric atrophy at stomach cancer by A. V. Belkovets, S. A. Kurilovich., Yu. I. Ragino, L. V. Scherbakova, O. B. Cheremisina, N. V. Cherdyntseva, N. A. Andryushina, M. I. Voyevoda

“…Original investigation was designed as «case series», that included 85 patients with SC (48 m and 37 f, mean age 61.2±13,6 years) who were consistently referred to two medical institutions. …”
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Ion Chromatography Based Urine Amino Acid Profiling Applied for Diagnosis of Gastric Cancer by Jing Fan, Jing Hong, Jun-Duo Hu, Jin-Lian Chen

“…Forty three urine samples were collected from inpatients and healthy adults who were divided into 4 groups. Healthy adults were in group A (n=15), early gastric cancer inpatients in group B (n=7), and advanced gastric cancer inpatients in group C (n=16); in addition, two healthy adults and three advanced gastric cancer inpatients were in group D (n=5) to test models. …”
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Painless Silent Chronic Fibrosing Pancreatitis Caused Complete Biliary Obstruction in a Toddler: A Case Report by Magd Ahmed Kotb, Mohamed Elbarbary, Sherif Kaddah, Martina Magdy, Rania Hamdy, Reham Osama Mahmoud, Nevian Nabil, Noha Adel Yassin, Ahmed Nabil, Ahmed El Hatw, Sayed Khedr

“…We report a 21-month-old boy who presented by jaundice, clay colored stool, elevated liver enzymes, and hepatomegaly. …”
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A child with Chronic Nonbacterial Osteomyelitis and celiac disease: accidental association or two different aspects of the same condition? by Grazia Bossi, Maria Sole Prevedoni Gorone, Luca Lungarotti, Francesco Pelillo, Amelia Mascolo, Matteo Naso, Daniele Veraldi, Francesca Olivero, Costanza Chirico, Maria Vittoria Marino, Cristina Dutto, Gian Luigi Marseglia

“…Case presentation We report about a girl of 3 years and 8 months of age who presented with severe bone pain, slight increase of inflammatory markers, micro-hematuria and high calprotectin values. …”
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Non‐invasive telemedical care in heart failure patients and stroke: post hoc analysis of TIM‐HF and TIM‐HF2 trials by Serdar Tütüncü, Marcus Honold, Kerstin Koehler, Oliver Deckwart, Friedrich Koehler, Karl Georg Haeusler

“…A history of PAOD (OR 2.7, 95% CI 1.2–6.2; P = 0.02) and the highest tertile (OR 3.0, 95% CI 1.1–8.3) of N‐terminal pro‐brain natriuretic peptide (NT‐proBNP) on enrolment were associated with stroke/TIA during follow‐up. In patients who suffered acute stroke or TIA during follow‐up, echocardiography was part of the diagnostic workup in only 56% after hospital admission. …”
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Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy and Endoscopic Ultrasound for Pretreatment Pathological Diagnosis of Gastric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors by Hiroaki Ito, Haruhiro Inoue, Shomei Ryozawa, Haruo Ikeda, Noriko Odaka, Nikolas Eleftheriadis, Roberta Maselli, Norimasa Sando, Satoshi Kimura, Shin-ei Kudo

“…We retrospectively studied patients with gastric GIST who had undergone pretreatment endoscopic biopsy and surgery, and examined their clinicopathological data. …”
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Co-creation of a gender responsive TB intervention in Nigeria: a researcher-led collaborative study by Chukwuebuka Ugwu, Oluwatoyosi Adekeye, Beate Ringwald, Rachael Thomson, Obioma Chijioke-Akaniro, Chukwuma Anyaike, S Bertel Squire, John Bimba, Tom Wingfield

“…Abstract Background In Nigeria, men constitute over half of the people notified with tuberculosis (TB), experience longer delays before reaching care, and are estimated to account for two thirds of people who miss out on care. The higher TB risk and burden in men has implications for the whole population and reaching them earlier with TB services will reduce onward transmission in households, communities, and workplaces. …”
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A Retrospective Case Series of a Novel Spinal Cord Stimulator Trial Technique with Less Displacement and Migration of the Trial Leads by N. Shaparin, K. Gritsenko, P. Agrawal, S. Kim, S. Wahezi, A. Gitkind, J. Hascalovici, A. Vydyanathan, J. Bernstein, A. Dizdarevic, N. Mehta, A. Kaufman

“…Spinal cord stimulation is an established treatment option for certain chronic pain conditions which have been previously unresponsive to conservative therapies or potentially for a subset of patients who have not improved following spine surgery. Prior to permanent lead implantation, stimulator lead trials are performed to ensure adequate patient benefit. …”
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Non-governmental organizations’ perceptions of challenges and opportunities for participating in the provision of government-purchased community-based psychiatric rehabilitation se... by Hao Yao, Siyuan He, Fei Yan, Wei Wang, Hanyi Lin, Yanli Liu, Lili Xue, Jun Cai, Weibo Zhang

“…The local NGOs’ program directors who had been responsible for the provision of government-purchased CBPR services in Shanghai were interviewed regarding their perceptions of the challenges and opportunities. …”
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Impact of ChatGPT usage on nursing students education: A cross-sectional study by Alberto Gonzalez-Garcia, David Bermejo-Martinez, Ana Isabel Lopez-Alonso, Bibiana Trevisson-Redondo, Cristian Martín-Vázquez, Silvia Perez-Gonzalez

“…The data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics, version 29.1. Results: Students who used ChatGPT showed a significant improvement in their academic grades (p < 0.05). …”
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Discrimination of Radiologists' Experience Level Using Eye-Tracking Technology and Machine Learning: Case Study by Stanford Martinez, Carolina Ramirez-Tamayo, Syed Hasib Akhter Faruqui, Kal Clark, Adel Alaeddini, Nicholas Czarnek, Aarushi Aggarwal, Sahra Emamzadeh, Jeffrey R Mock, Edward J Golob

“…These results signify the potential impact of the proposed method for identifying radiologists’ level of expertise and those who would benefit from additional training. …”
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Chemical Composition Characteristics and Source Apportionment of PM2.5 in Ceramic Industrial Base during Winter by Xiang Tu, Xiaozhen Fang, Hansun Fang, Changlin Ye, Zugen Liu, Xuehui Jia, Dan He, Jinliang Wang, Hong Huang, Changwei Zou, Chenglong Yu

“…The results showed that the average PM2.5 concentration during sampling period was 134 ± 74.7 µg m−3, which exceeding World Health Organization (WHO) Air Quality Guidelines levels. The dominant components in the PM2.5 at this sampling site were found to be secondary ions (sulfate and nitrate) and carbon fractions. …”
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La escritura borrada de las mujeres. Itinerarios lectores inclusivos y (re)construcción del canon poético / The erased writing of women. Inclusive reading itineraries and (re)const... by Remedios Sánchez-García, Pablo Aparicio-Durán

“…The aim is to integrate into the baccalaureate curriculum significant female authors who, despite their quality and value, have been overshadowed even though they should legitimately be included in order to compose a valid textual corpus that responds to the truth of the historical-literary, seeking exclusively to improve the training of readers. …”
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THE ROLE OF PARASTERNAL MEDIASTINOTOMY IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF MEDIASTINAL TUMORS by O. V. Pikin, A. B. Ryabov, A. O. Alexandrov, D. A. Vursol, A. M. Amiraliev

“…The study included 77 patients who for the period from 2008 to 2018. 80 parasternal mediastinotomies were performed with a biopsy of a mediastinal tumor in the conditions of the Department of Thoracic Surgery of the P. …”
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Improved Analgesic Effect of Paravertebral Blocks before and after Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery: A Prospective, Double-Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial by Lihua Chu, Xiaolin Zhang, Yaping Lu, Guohao Xie, Shengwen Song, Xiangming Fang, Baoli Cheng

“…Despite being less invasive, patients who underwent video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) suffered considerable postoperative pain. …”
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Status survey of uncrossmatched type O suspended RBCs in patients with emergency transfusion by PENG Zhuoyue, XU Shilan, YANG Xinxin, CHEN Chunxia, TAN Bin

“…[Methods] A retrospective analysis of the information of patients who received uncrossmatched type O suspended RBCs in West China Hospital of Sichuan University from August 2019 to April 2024 was conducted. …”
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New onset of isolated adrenocorticotropin deficiency associated with encephalopathy following coronavirus disease 2019 in a healthy elderly man by Yusuke Yamasaki, Ichiro Horie, Riyoko Shigeno, Shinpei Nishikido, Toshiyuki Ikeoka, Takuro Hirayama, Yohei Tateishi, Akira Tsujino, Atsushi Kawakami

“…We report the case of a 65-year-old Japanese man who developed isolated adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) deficiency and encephalopathy following SARS-CoV-2 infection. …”
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Conections between platelets amino acids profile and known cardiometabolic risk factors in patients with coronary artery disease and atrial fibrillation by I.O. Melnychuk

“…The aim of our work was to identify the relationship between platelet amino acid profile and cardiometabolic risk factors in patients with coronary heart disease and atrial fibrillation. 300 patients were examined, who were divided into 3 groups: the first (I) – 149 patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and without arrhythmias, the second (II) – 123 patients with CAD and paroxysm of atrial fibrillation (AF) and the control group (CG) – 28 patients without CAD and arrhythmia. …”
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Is ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation a reliable treatment option for unifocal T1aN0M0 papillary thyroid carcinoma in the isthmus: a retrospective comparative study based on... by Gongli Zhou, Dong Xu, Beibei Zhang, Ruiqing Su, Ke Xu, Xuefeng Zhang, Feng Li, Wei Zhao, Tingting Cai

“…Objective To evaluate whether ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is reliable for unifocal T1aN0M0 papillary thyroid carcinoma in the isthmus (PTCI).Methods 431 patients who underwent ultrasound-guided RFA for unifocal T1aN0M0 papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) were divided by location of the lesion into the PTCI group (52 females, 7 males, mean age 43.79 ± 12.04 years, range 22-74 years) and the PTCL group ((291 females, 81 males, mean age 43.42 ± 10.87 years, range 18-75 years) for comparative analysis. …”
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Relationship Between Serum HMGB1 and RAGE Levels and Restenosis in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients Complicated With Lower Extremity Vascular Disease: A Retrospective Study by Jia T, Zhang X, Li L, Jiang X, Wang M

“…Ting Jia,&ast; Xuyan Zhang,&ast; Li Li, Xiaowan Jiang, Mengjie Wang Department of Endocrinology, The Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Xuyan Zhang, Department of endocrinology, The Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86 027 65696337, Email Zhangxuuyan21@163.comPurpose: To investigate the potential association between the serum concentrations of high mobility group protein B1 (HMGB1) and the receptor for advanced glycation end-products (RAGE) in relation to the occurrence of restenosis following interventional therapy for lower extremity vascular disease in patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).Patients and Methods: From March 2023 to January 2024, 96 T2DM patients with lower extremity vascular disease who underwent interventional therapy and 6-month follow-up in our hospital were studied. …”
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