Innovative stabilization of the lumbar spine. Fast track from surgery to removal of all restrictions in professional athletes by Dmitry N. Dzukaev, Andrey V. Zholinsky, Anton V. Borzenkov, Anton I. Toporskiy

“…The most frequently used methods of surgical intervention do not allow a full-fledged return to the pre-injury level of physical activity.Materials and methods: In the described clinical case, an 18-year-old professional cyclist (height 180 cm, weight 68 kg) sustained a spinal injury during a fall from a bicycle at an international cycling competition. …”
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AI-Driven Integrated System for Burn Depth Prediction With Electronic Medical Records: Algorithm Development and Validation by Md Masudur Rahman, Mohamed El Masry, Surya C Gnyawali, Yexiang Xue, Gayle Gordillo, Juan P Wachs

“…Traditional diagnostic methods primarily rely on visual inspection by experienced burn surgeons. …”
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Heterogeneity symptoms of urgency in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia by V. L. Medvedev, M. I. Kogan, T. I. Derevianko, P. V. Shornikov, M. E. Efremov, D. S. Isaeva

“…Blaivas in 2006–2007.Objective Тo identify the most significant signs of urgency in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia and overactive bladder with and without detrusor hyperactivity (DH).Material and Methods To assess the OAB, patients completed the OABSS, visual analogue scale (VAS), and also kept urination diaries. …”
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Neurological adverse events associated with antidepressants: a comprehensive 22-year analysis of the FDA adverse event reporting system by Qian Yu, Jingyang Yao, Enping Li, Mingkai Xia, Ziang Hu, Yun Xiao, Jianliang Huang, Jianliang Huang, Mingsheng Lei, Mingsheng Lei

“…IntroductionAntidepressants are among the most commonly prescribed medications worldwide; however, comprehensive analyses of neuropsychiatric adverse events (AEs) across different drug classes and patient subgroups remain scarce.MethodsThe primary objective of this study was to utilize the U.S. …”
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Likelihood of Leveraging Augmented Reality Technology to Promote HIV Prevention and Treatment Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Cameroon: Cross-Sectional Survey by Zhao Ni, Intan Maharani Sulistyawati Batubara, Jackson Jr Nforbewing Ndenkeh, Georges Bediang, Habakkuk Yumo, Xuehong Zhang, Sunyong Oh, Yuchen Zhao, LaRon E Nelson

“…Future research should focus on exploring the preferred features of AR-based digital health interventions and consider methods of implementing them in the context of Cameroon or SSA.…”
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Transcriptome analysis reveals the sex-switching mechanism of juvenile hermaphroditism in silver pomfret (Pampus argenteus) by Yaya Li, Jiabao Hu, Chongyang Wang, Man Zhang, Youyi Zhang, Yuanbo Li, Mengke Tang, Chunlai Qin, Zukang Feng, Shanliang Xu, Xiaojun Yan, Xubo Wang, Haimin Chen, Yajun Wang

“…Heatmaps were generated to visualize gene expression patterns across developmental stages and samples. …”
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Impact of Mental Health Literacy on Improving Quality of Life Among Adolescents in Barcelona by Isaac Daniel Amado-Rodríguez, Rocio Casañas, Jaume Juan-Parra, Juan Francisco Roldan-Merino, Lluís Lalucat-Jo, Mª Isabel Fernandez-San-Martín

“…Measures: (1) Mental well-being: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ); (2) QOL: EuroQol 5D-5L with its two parts: the EuroQol 5D-5L Index (0–1) and EuroQol 5D-5L visual analog scale (EQ-VAS) (0–100). Analyses were conducted on an intention-to-treat basis, using data imputation methods for missing data. …”
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Enhancing learning in medical same-day emergency care (MSDEC): implementing a bite-sized teaching programme by Sadaf Sadaf, Nnamdi Emekekwue, Rachel Lai, Prajakta Pradhan

“…Teaching materials were designed to be accessible and visual, such as infographic summaries and quick-reference guides. …”
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Clinical Efficacy of Extracorporeal Shock Wave in the Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis： A Meta-analysis by GU Jinyu, LI Kaiming, ZHANG Qing, LI Linghui, BAI Zixing, WANG Shangquan

“…Relative risk (RR) was used to analyze the binary variables; and the continuous variables with the same unit and measurement method were described by mean difference (MD), while the continuous variables with different measurement methods or units were described by standardized mean difference (SMD). …”
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Certification of a pharmacopoeial reference standard for potency testing of recombinant interferon α-2b by L. A. Gaiderova, Yu. N. Lebedeva, T. N. Lobanova, E. K. Lipatova, R. A. Volkova, O. V. Fadeikina

“…The results were recorded using instrumental and visual methods. The calculations used mathematical statistics. …”
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An ultrasensitive and specific CRISPR-Cas13a-mediated point-of-care assay for monkeypox detection and PCR-based clade detection by Qin Zhang, Yan Yu, Bin Yin, Liang Xu, Hui Chen, Runjie Qiao, Ang Chen, Na Zhu, Xuping Wu

“…Abstract Background The rapid increase in the number of monkeypox cases poses a considerable threat to the international community, necessitating sensitive, fast, and available diagnostic methods. Therefore, the objective of this study was to develop a rapid, sensitive and simple method with high clinical applicability. …”
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Deep Learning-Enhanced T1-Weighted Imaging for Breast MRI at 1.5T by Susann-Cathrin Olthof, Marcel Dominik Nickel, Elisabeth Weiland, Daniel Leyhr, Saif Afat, Konstantin Nikolaou, Heike Preibsch

“…Lesion diameter was evaluated on the SUB for T1w VIBE_Std/_DL. All lesions were visually evaluated in T1w VIBE_Std/_DL pre- and post-contrast and their subtractions. …”
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Er:YAG Laser Applications for Debonding Different Ceramic Restorations: An In Vitro Study by Ruxandra Elena Luca, Anișoara Giumancă-Borozan, Iosif Hulka, Ioana-Roxana Munteanu, Carmen Darinca Todea, Mariana Ioana Miron

“…<i>Background and Objectives</i>: Conventional methods for removing cemented fixed prosthetic restorations (FPRs) are unreliable and lead to unsatisfactory outcomes. …”
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Greater baseline cortical atrophy in the dorsal attention network predicts faster clinical decline in Posterior Cortical Atrophy by Yuta Katsumi, Ryan Eckbo, Marianne Chapleau, Bonnie Wong, Scott M. McGinnis, Alexandra Touroutoglou, Bradford C. Dickerson, Deepti Putcha

“…Methods PCA patients were recruited through the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit PCA Program. …”
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Assessment of Clinical Efficacy of Dexamethasone in Patients with Moderate COVID-19 by M. V. Tolochko, I. N. Leyderman, O. A. Khokhunov, V. A. Mazurok, R. E. Rzheutskya

“…Currently, numerous therapies aimed at suppressing the hyperinflammatory response and the "cytokine storm" are being investigated. One of these methods is the use of corticosteroids, particularly dexamethasone.The aim was to assess the clinical efficacy of dexamethasone in patients with moderate bilateral multifocal pneumonia caused by SARS CoV-2 virus.Material and methods. …”
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Reduced Concentrations of NSE, S100β, Aβ, and Proinflammatory Cytokines in Elderly Patients Receiving Ultrasound-Guided Combined Lumbar Plexus-Sciatic Nerve Block during Hip Replac... by Yi Zhang, Liya Jiang, Yang Han

“…A significantly higher level of NSE, S100β, Aβ, IL-6, IL-1β, TNF-α, and hs-CRP was revealed in the two groups receiving different anesthesia methods at 10 days after surgery compared with that before surgery (P<0.05). …”
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Evaluating Reaction Videos of Young People Watching Edutainment Media (MTV Shuga): Qualitative Observational Study by Venetia Baker, Sarah Mulwa, David Khanyile, Georgia Arnold, Simon Cousens, Cherie Cawood, Isolde Birdthistle

“…We trialed reaction videos as a novel research method to investigate how young people in South Africa experience the show, including sexual health themes and messages, in their viewing environments. …”
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A fully automated, expert-perceptive image quality assessment system for whole-body [18F]FDG PET/CT by Cong Zhang, Xin Gao, Xuebin Zheng, Jun Xie, Gang Feng, Yunchao Bao, Pengchen Gu, Chuan He, Ruimin Wang, Jiahe Tian

“…However, current image quality assessment (IQA) methods predominantly rely on handcrafted features and region-specific analyses, thereby limiting automation in whole-body and multicenter evaluations. …”
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Analysis of long-term trends and 15-year predictions of smoking-related bladder cancer burden in china across different age and sex groups from 1990 to 2021 by Jieming Zuo, Junhao Chen, Zhiyong Tan, Xingcheng Zhu, Haifeng Wang, Shi Fu, Jiansong Wang

“…We employed joinpoint and age-period-cohort (APC) analysis methods to elucidate the epidemiological characteristics of bladder cancer. …”
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Application of a Dual-Stream Network Collaboratively Based on Wavelet and Spatial-Channel Convolution in the Inpainting of Blank Strips in Marine Electrical Imaging Logging Images:... by Guilan Lin, Sinan Fang, Manxin Li, Hongtao Wu, Chenxi Xue, Zeyu Zhang

“…Furthermore, a multi-objective loss function is introduced to constrain the semantic coherence and visual authenticity of image reconstruction. Experiments show that, in the inpainting indexes for Block X in the South China Sea, the mean absolute error (MAE), structural similarity index (SSIM), and peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of this method are 6.893, 0.779, and 19.087, respectively, which are significantly better than the improved filtersim, U-Net, and AOT-GAN methods. …”
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