Practitioners’ perspective: a mixed-methods study on dealing with suicidality from the perspective of oncological healthcare professionals by Tamara Schwinn, Judith Hirschmiller, Jörg Wiltink, Rüdiger Zwerenz, Elmar Brähler, Manfred E. Beutel, Mareike Ernst

“…Nineteen HCPs did not routinely explore suicidality, of whom five reported not inquiring about it at all. Those who explored suicidality were more confident, less emotionally overwhelmed and reported higher subjective knowledge. …”
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Celiac Artery Compression After a Spine Fracture, and Pericardium Rupture After Blunt Trauma: A Case Report from a Single Injury by Joongsuck Kim, Hyun Min Cho, Sung Hwan Kim, Seong Hoon Jung, Jeong Eun Sohn, Kwangmin Lee

“…We report a single patient who experienced both rare conditions from a single blunt injury. …”
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Rate Pressure Products Affect the Relationship between the Fractional Flow Reserve and Instantaneous Wave-Free Ratio by Suguru Ebihara, Hisao Otsuki, Hiroyuki Arashi, Junichi Yamaguchi, Nobuhisa Hagiwara

“…We retrospectively enrolled 195 patients (259 lesions) who had undergone invasive coronary angiography and both the iFR and FFR examinations between 2012 and 2017. …”
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Tocilizumab, an Exploratory Treatment for Severe COVID-19 Patients by Yong Wang, Yongfeng Chen, Xiangdong Zhou

“…A persistent and dramatic increase of IL-6 was observed in 2 patients who were finally dead. The CRP levels of 76.92% (10/13) of the patients were above the normal range before the start of TCZ therapy and gradually declined after the TCZ treatment. …”
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Outcome of therapy in biopsy proven lupus nephritis with cyclophosphamide or mycophenolate: Registry data from a South Indian tertiary care center by Keerthi Talari, Rajendra Varaprasad Irlapati, Megha Uppin, Liza Rajasekhar

“…Complete response rate was higher in the individuals who received cyclophosphamide (HD CyC + ELNT CyC) as compared to MMF (17/34 vs. 2/13, P = 0.05). …”
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Forecasting the Applied Deep Learning Tools in Enhancing Food Quality for Heart Related Diseases Effectively: A Study Using Structural Equation Model Analysis by Sunil L. Bangare, Deepali Virmani, Girija Rani Karetla, Pankaj Chaudhary, Harveen Kaur, Syed Nisar Hussain Bukhari, Shahajan Miah

“…In the current scenario, cardiovascular diseases are causing more deaths when compared with other ailments, it has been estimated that there are nearly 18 million deaths annually as per the recent report released by World Health Organization (WHO). It has been stated that unhealthy habits and other related aspects adopted by individuals are considered as the primary reasons for an increase in the risk of heart diseases. …”
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Clinical features and direct medical cost of splenic injury in China: a cross-sectional study by Yan Liu, Yubo Ma, Qiu Zhang, Yong Chen, Ji-Hong Zhou, Yong Qi

“…We performed a generalised linear method (GLM) using gamma distribution to assess the drivers of DMCs.Results We included 8083 patients with splenic injury who met the study criteria. Over the 14-year study period, 2782 (34.4%) patients were treated with non-operative management (NOM), 5301 (65.6%) with OM. …”
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Surgical management of a lateral sphenoid sinus encephalocele: 2-Dimensional operative video by Ryan W. Sindewald, Michael G. Brandel, Arvin R. Wali, Carol H. Yan, David R. Santiago-Dieppa

“…Intraoperative video demonstrating an extended sphenoidotomy approach to correcting a lateral recess sphenoidal encephalocele has not previously been published.Here we present a case of a 41-year-old female who presented with meningitis, a cerebrospinal fluid leak, and an incidental sphenoid mass. …”
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Improving the Utility, Safety, and Ethical Use of a Passive Mood-Tracking App for People With Bipolar Disorder Using Coproduction: Qualitative Focus Group Study by Laurence Astill Wright, Matthew Moore, Stuart Reeves, Elvira Perez Vallejos, Richard Morriss

“…ConclusionsPeople with BD who are interested in using passive technology to monitor their mood wish to do so for a wide variety of purposes, identifying several preferences and potential risks. …”
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TFCP2 Genetic Polymorphism Is Associated with Predisposition to and Transplant Prognosis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Zhikun Liu, Feng Gao, Zhou Shao, Haiyang Xie, Lin Zhou, Xiao Xu, Shusen Zheng

“…Furthermore, the patients who carried rs7959378 AC/CC had a higher overall survival and lower relapse-free survival than those with the rs7959378 AA genotype. …”
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Influence of Overnight Orthokeratology on Corneal Surface Shape and Optical Quality by Yuan Sun, Lin Wang, Jing Gao, Mei Yang, Qi Zhao

“…Methods. 49 eyes of 26 patients (10.63 ± 2.02 years old) who underwent overnight orthokeratology for myopia were prospectively examined. …”
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Autoantibodies to Zinc Transporter 8 and SLC30A8 Genotype in Type 1 Diabetes Childhood: A Pioneering Study in North Africa by Raouia Fakhfakh, Sana Kmiha, Safa Tahri, Sawsan Feki, Ferjeni Zouidi, Olfa Abida, Mongia Hachicha, Thouraya Kammoun, Hatem Masmoudi

“…ZnT8-Ab were measured in the serum of T1D newly affected children (n=156) who were admitted to the pediatric department of the Hedi Chaker University Hospital of Sfax. …”
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Pancreatoduodenectomy for Periampullary Tumors Presenting with Acute Pancreatitis by Xuefeng Cao, Xixiu Wang, Xiaoliang Xu, Yanmin Lu, Baolei Zhao, Xingyuan Zhang, Qiangpu Chen

“…The perioperative data for these patients was compared with data for patients with PT but without AP or ARP who underwent PD during the same period (control group). …”
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Pulmonary Function Tests in Emergency Department Pediatric Patients with Acute Wheezing/Asthma Exacerbation by Kathryn Giordano, Elena Rodriguez, Nicole Green, Milena Armani, Joan Richards, Thomas H. Shaffer, Magdy W. Attia

“…Pulmonary function tests (PFT) have been developed to analyze tidal breathing in patients who are minimally cooperative due to age and respiratory status. …”
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Vascular Neurology Nurse Practitioner Provision of Telemedicine Consultations by Bart M. Demaerschalk, Terri-Ellen J. Kiernan, STARR Investigators

“…This study illustrated that a stroke center VN-NP, in partnership with a vascular neurologist, could deliver timely telemedicine consultations, accurate diagnoses, and correct treatments in acute stroke patients who presented to remotely located rural emergency departments within a hub and spoke network. …”
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Untargeted metabolomic and proteomic analysis implicates SIRT2 as a novel therapeutic target for diabetic nephropathy by Ruijing Zhang, Runze Chang, Heng Wang, Jinshan Chen, Chuanlong Lu, Keyi Fan, Yuhang Zhang, Lizheng Li, Sheng Yan, Honglin Dong

“…The serum of 10 patients who were diagnosed with DN and 10 healthy individuals via untargeted metabolomics and Olink proteomics. …”
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The Feasibility of Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy in Immunosuppressed ICU Patients with or without Thrombocytopenia by Marianne Angelberger, Michaela Barnikel, Alessia Fraccaroli, Johanna Tischer, Sofía Antón, Alexandra Pawlikowski, Mark op den Winkel, Hans Joachim Stemmler, Stephanie-Susanne Stecher

“…We retrospectively analyzed the charts of patients who underwent PDT or OST between May 2017 and November 2020. …”
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The Epidemiology of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis in China by Shang-Chen Yang, Sindy Hu, Sheng-Zheng Zhang, Jin-wen Huang, Jing Zhang, Chao Ji, Bo Cheng

“…To analyze the clinical characteristics, causality, and outcome of treatment for SJS/TEN in China, we reviewed case reports of patients with SJS/TEN from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Wanfang database from 2006 to 2016 and patients with SJS/TEN who were admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University during the same period. …”
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Alternative disease management strategies for organic apple production in the United Kingdom by Lucas Alexander Shuttleworth

“…The loss of active ingredients can be problematic for growers, who have relied on the generally more predictable and efficacious management that results from using conventional chemicals. …”
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Change in exacerbation rate of COPD patients before and after COVID-19 infection by Joon Young Choi, Kyung Joo Kim, Chin Kook Rhee

“…In 3,445 COPD patients who were infected by COVID-19, COVID-19 infection resulted in increased annual moderate-to-severe and severe exacerbations compared to pre-COVID-19 infection (IRR = 1.062 [95%CI 1.027–1.099]; IRR = 1.315 [95%CI 1.182–1.481], respectively). …”
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