Minimal clinically important difference for chest discomfort in patients undergoing pleural interventions by Fabien Maldonado, Greta Jean Dahlberg, Heidi Chen, Otis Rickman, Lance Roller, Charla Walston, James Katsis, Robert Lentz

“…The MCID for chest discomfort in patients undergoing pleural interventions has not been determined.Methods Prospectively collected data from two recent randomised trials of therapeutic thoracentesis were used for this investigation. …”
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Total Arthroscopic Resection of the Talocalcaneal Coalition in Adults: Key Points of Surgical Technique by Yiyuan Sun, Wufeng Cai, Xihao Huang, Jian Li, Qi Li

“…The site of the coalition, comorbidities, satisfaction with treatment, visual analog scale (VAS), and American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) Ankle–Hindfoot scale scores were evaluated pre‐ and postoperatively. …”
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Intraarticular injection of the stromal vascular fraction for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis a prospective randomized controlled clinical trial by Junyue Lu, Tianshan Wen, Haoyuan Huang, Chen Xie, Jiliang Kang, Jiahao Huang, Jiaxuan Hu, Tianyu Wu, Youliang Wen

“…Outcomes were assessed during a 12-month follow-up period, with outcome measures including the visual analog scale for pain; the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index for pain, stiffness, and function; range of motion (ROM); and the occurrence of complications. …”
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A Machine Learning Approach Using Topic Modeling to Identify and Assess Experiences of Patients With Colorectal Cancer: Explorative Study by Kelly Voigt, Yingtao Sun, Ayush Patandin, Johanna Hendriks, Richard Hendrik Goossens, Cornelis Verhoef, Olga Husson, Dirk Grünhagen, Jiwon Jung

“…A patient community journey map, derived from patients stories, was developed to visually illustrate our findings. CRC medical doctors and a quality-of-life expert evaluated the identified topics of patient experience and the map. …”
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Subtalar arthroereisis for simultaneous treatment of flexible pes planus during surgical correction of hallux valgus by Fan Yang, Chenglin Wu, Jiazheng Wang, Guohua Mei, Jian Zou, Jianfeng Xue, Yan Su, Xin Ma, Jieyuan Zhang, Zhongmin Shi

“…This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of simultaneous correction of hallux valgus and flexible pes planus. Methods A total of 85 feet with hallux valgus associated with adult flexible pes planus were retrospectively reviewed. …”
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Factors Associated With Delay in Seeking Abortion Care Until the Second Trimester at Jimma University Medical Centre: A Prospective Cross‐Sectional Study Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia... by Taju Abdi, Fanta Assefa, Dejene T. Debela

“…This study identified factors associated with delays in seeking an abortion until the second trimester at Jimma Medical Centre, Jimma, southwest Ethiopia. Methods From February to August 2023, we conducted a cross‐sectional study on pregnant women seeking safe abortion care. …”
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Effects Of 6-Week Telerehabilitation Exercise Programme On Chronic Non-Specific Neck Pain In Women: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 appro... by Mohammad Nayel Aqil Khan, Zaina Zahur Ahmed, Kalyana Chakravarthy Bairapareddy

“…Baseline measurements were collected using the Visual Analog Scale for Pain (VAS Pain), Neck Disability Index (NDI) questionnaire, CROM using the CROM instrument, and cervical muscle endurance through the Craniocervical Flexion Test (CCFT), and repeated after six weeks, in addition to adherence. …”
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Arthroscopic Anterior Cuciate Ligament Reconstruction Using Neither a Tourniquet nor Drainage: A Perioperative Case Series Report by Dimitrios A. Flevas, Michail Sarantis, Georgios Tsakotos, Grigorios G. Sasalos, Anastasios V. Tokis

“…No cases experienced visual impairment or required ischemia to enhance visibility. …”
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Preservation of the infrapatellar fat pad during total knee arthroplasty reduces subacute postoperative anterior knee pain: a randomized controlled trial by Pruk Chaiyakit, Bunpreedee Petcharat, Ittiwat Onklin

“…The objective of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to compare the incidence of AKP between IPFP preservation and partial excision of the IPFP. Methods This prospective RCT included patients with primary varus gonarthrosis < 20° who underwent unilateral computer-assisted TKA between March 2019 and November 2020. …”
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THE PREVALENCE AND CLINICAL FEATURES OF GOUT AND CALCIUM PYROPHOSPHATE DEPOSITION DISEASE IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE ARTHRITIS by M. S. Eliseev, S. A. Vladimirov

“…Objective: to study the rate of gout and calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease (CPDD) and to provide their clinical characteristics in patients with acute arthritis.Subjects and methods. The investigation enrolled 150 patients (97 men and 53 women) with acute mono- or oligoarthritis of no more than 2 weeks’ duration who had visited the Outpatient Department of V.A. …”
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Clinical manifestations of Rift Valley fever in humans: Systematic review and meta-analysis. by Zacchaeus Anywaine, Swaib Abubaker Lule, Christian Hansen, George Warimwe, Alison Elliott

“…Nine RVF clinical syndromes were reported including the general febrile, renal, gastrointestinal, hepatic, haemorrhagic, visual, neurological, cardio-pulmonary, and obstetric syndromes. …”
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Long-term clinical sequelae in severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome: A longitudinal cohort study. by Ning Cui, Xin Yang, Hong-Han Ge, Xiao-Hong Yin, Yi-Mei Yuan, Chao Zhou, Xi Wang, Hai-Feng Pan, Hao Li, Xiao-Ai Zhang, Li-Qun Fang, Li-Fen Hu, Peng-Tao Bao, Wei Liu

“…Despite extensive research on acute-phase manifestations, the long-term clinical sequelae in survivors remain poorly characterized.<h4>Methods</h4>In this prospective cohort study from 2010 to 2024, 1,197 SFTS survivors and 188 age/sex-matched febrile controls without SFTS were enrolled from the highest endemic region in China. …”
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Shallow Acupuncture for Chronic Neck Pain: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol with fMRI and DTI by Lin J, Gu Z, Zhou P, Huang W, Ou A, Zhao Q, Xu Z

“…The primary outcomes include total effective rate, visual analogue scale (VAS), Neck Disability Index (NDI), and brain imaging results (20 randomly selected patients per group). …”
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Monitoring gait in multiple sclerosis with novel wearable motion sensors. by Yaejin Moon, Ryan S McGinnis, Kirsten Seagers, Robert W Motl, Nirav Sheth, John A Wright, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Jacob J Sosnoff

“…Step number and temporal gait parameters were calculated from the data recorded by each sensor. Visual inspection and the MTx served as the reference standards for computing the step number and temporal parameters, respectively. …”
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Clinical research on the application of AI-assisted computing systems in the treatment of intermittent exotropia by Tao Li, Zihao Han, Silun Xiong, Chuanqiang Dai, Tianyang Hu, Juan Tang

“…Group A used the traditional prism calculation method, whereas Group B used the AI-assisted calculation system method. …”
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A prediction model for 30-day mortality in patients with ARDS admitted to the intensive care unit by Fengjuan Jia, Guodong Xia, Lirong Hu, Fanjie Zhang, Yuexi Huang, Chaobing Yang, Li Liu, Xianying Lei

“…This study aimed to develop and validate a nomogram to predict the 30-day mortality of patients with ARDS admitted in the intensive care unit (ICU). Methods Data of 4920 patients with ARDS were collected from the MIMIC-IV database, as well as data of 248 patients were collected from the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University. …”
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Prevalence and clinical significance of iron deficiency in patients with acute decompensated heart failure by E. A. Smirnova, E. V. Sedykh, S. S. Yakushin, S. V. Subbotin

“…To study the prevalence of iron deficiency (ID) and anemia, as well as their impact on the clinical performance and quality of life in patients with acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF).Material and methods. The work was performed as part of cross-sectional multicenter screening study of ID in patients with heart failure (HF), managed by the Russian Society of Heart Failure. …”
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The impact of operative level on patient-reported outcome measures following single-level posterior lumbar decompression for disc herniation by Jonathan Dalton, Robert J. Oris, Omar H. Tarawneh, Gregory R. Toci, Rajkishen Narayanan, Dominic Finan, Hannah Bash, Marco Goldberg, John J. Mangan, Barrett I. Woods, Mark F. Kurd, Ian David Kaye, Jose A. Canseco, Alan S. Hilibrand, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Gregory D. Schroeder, Christopher K. Kepler

“…Included PROMs were the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), visual analog scale (VAS) back and leg, and Short Form-12 physical (PCS) and mental (MCS) component scores. …”
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Radiotherapy-immunity lncRNA model predicts lung adenocarcinoma prognosis and treatment outcome and distinguishes between hot and cold tumors by Lingfan Xiong, Jing Guo, Jingjun Lv, Wenhao Guo, Tingting Qiu

“…However, studies on the prognosis of LUAD by radiotherapy immune-related long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are extremely rare. Methods We have compiled 1121 radiotherapy susceptibility differential genes and 6195 immune-related genes. …”
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VHR Multispectral Satellite Image Classification with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Urban Applications by M. Fawzy, M. Fawzy, Á. Barsi

“…KAN's performance is validated using ground-truth data collected from field surveys or random reference points visually picked from images. Additionally, KAN is benchmarked against other methods like traditional Shallow Neural Networks (SNNs). …”
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