Clinical characteristics and management outcomes of pediatric patients with Coats disease complicated with retinoschisis (retinal cyst) by Tingyi Liang, Shaochi Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Xiaohan Wang, Xunda Ji, Peiquan Zhao

“…All eyes were initially treated with endolaser photocoagulation combined with external drainage of cystic fluid and intravitreal ranibizumab injection. …”
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Changes in Intraocular Pressure after Transepithelial Photorefractive Keratectomy and Femtosecond Laser In Situ Keratomileusis by Chien-Chih Chou, Po-Jen Shih, Hung-Chou Lin, Jun-Peng Chen, Jia-Yush Yen, I-Jong Wang

“…By contrast, depth of ablation showed a significant effect on only IOP changes.…”
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Healthcare Costs and Resource Use Associated With Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Cervical Conization: A Retrospective Study of German Statutory Health Insurance Claims Data by Anna-Janina Stephan, Miriam Reuschenbach, Kunal Saxena, Vimalanand S. Prabhu, Christian Jacob, Kim M. Schneider, Wolfgang Greiner, Regine Wölle, Monika Hampl

“…Management of CIN includes conservative surveillance or ablation and excision by conization. Internationally, CIN and its treatment generate a considerable economic burden, but no current data regarding costs and resource use from the perspective of the German statutory health insurance exist. …”
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Betacoronaviruses Differentially Activate the Integrated Stress Response to Optimize Viral Replication in Lung-Derived Cell Lines by David M. Renner, Nicholas A. Parenti, Nicole Bracci, Susan R. Weiss

“…The betacoronavirus genus contains five of the seven human coronaviruses, making it a particularly critical area of research to prepare for future viral emergence. …”
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Autonomic Nervous System Activity before Atrial Fibrillation Onset as Assessed by Heart Rate Variability by Jean-Marie Grégoire, Cédric Gilon, François Marelli, Pascal Godart, Hugues Bersini, Stéphane Carlier

“…Background: Neuromodulation has been shown to increase the efficacy of atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation procedures. However, despite its ability to influence the autonomic nervous system (ANS), the exact mechanism of action remains unclear. …”
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Contralateral Posterior Chamber Phakic Intraocular Lens Implantation as Rehabilitation of Refractive Lens Exchange with a Monofocal Intraocular Lens in a Young, Nonpresbyopic, Bila... by Kepa Balparda, Claudia Marcela Vanegas-Ramírez, Laura Segura-Muñoz, Manuela Gómez-Londoño

“…Nevertheless, in some specific cases, such as patients with high refractive error or those with some corneal abnormality, laser corneal ablations are considered unsafe from either a biomechanical or refractive standpoint. …”
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Histologic and Endoscopic Similarity between Nodular Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia and Gastric Hyperplastic Polyps Potentially Causing Treatment Delays by Pujitha Kudaravalli, Sheikh A. Saleem, Rachana Mandru, Sekou Rawlins

“…Endoscopy showed nodules in the gastric antrum which were presumptively treated as GAVE with argon plasma coagulation (APC). …”
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Effects of SMILE Surgery on Intraocular Pressure, Central Corneal Thickness, Axial Length, Peripapillary Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer, and Macular Ganglion Cell Complex Thickness by Zhanlin Zhao, Sylvain Michée, Jean-François Faure, Christophe Baudouin, Antoine Labbé

“…The mean decrease in measured IOP as a function of ablation depth was 0.065 ± 0.031 mmHg/μm. CCT decreased from 545.98 ± 26.61 μm to 478.40 ± 30.26 μm after SMILE surgery (P<0.01). …”
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Psychological aspects of patients with breast cancer depending on the presence of visible postoperative defect by A. D. Zikiryakhodzhaev, M. V. Ermoschenkova, N. A. Sirota, B. A. Fetisov

“…."), 35 patients with breast cancer (I, II stage) who underwent ablative and reconstructive plastic surgery, women were characterized in the postoperative period as "without an externally visible postoperative defect" ("without an e.v.p.d.").The results and conclusions. …”
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NIR-triggered programmable nanomotor with H2S and NO generation for cascading oncotherapy by three-pronged reinforcing ICD by Jinlong Zhang, Quan Jing, Longlong Yuan, Xianhui Zhou, Duolong Di, Jinyao Li, Dong Pei, Zhongxiong Fan, Jun Hai

“…Meanwhile, the unique protective mechanism of H2S is utilized to induce tumor thermal ablation by reducing the overexpression of heat shock protein 90 (HSP 90) and minimize the unnecessary damage toward normal tissues. …”
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Dyssynchronous heart failure models in canines: New insights into electrocardiographic, echocardiographic and histological features by Han Jin, Shengwen Yang, Hao Huang, Sijing Cheng, Pengkang He, Sixian Weng, Min Gu, Hongxia Niu, Wei Hua, Yiran Hu, Hui Li

“…Methods A total of eight dogs were included in the experiment, four were tachy‐paced in right ventricle apex (RVAP) and 4 were paced in right atrium after the ablation of left bundle branch to achieve left bundle branch block (RAP+LBBB). …”
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Implementasi permendagri no. 112/2014 terhadap pelaksanaan pemilihan kepala desa dalam perspektif siyasah tanfidziyah by Shazlin Fazhira, Irwansyah Irwansyah

“…Berdasarkan perspektif fiqh siyasah tanfidziyah, dapat diartikan dengan ahl alhall wa al ‘aqd, yaitu orang yang dapat memutuskan dan mengikat. …”
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Biomarkers for Predicting Left Atrial or Left Atrial Appendage Thrombus in Anticoagulated Patients with Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation by Xue Zhou, Zuolan Wang, Shuang Dou, Kangyin Chen, Enzhao Liu, Tong Liu, Guangping Li, Jingjin Che

“…NVAF patients who underwent transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to evaluate LA/LAA thrombus and spontaneous echo contrast (SEC) before AF ablation were included. Multivariate logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) analyses were performed to explore the independent risk factors of LA/LAA thrombus and indicate the best cutoff point. …”
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NeuTox 2.0: A hybrid deep learning architecture for screening potential neurotoxicity of chemicals based on multimodal feature fusion by Xudi Pang, Xuejun He, Ying Yang, Ling Wang, Yuzhen Sun, Huiming Cao, Yong Liang

“…Four datasets were used to profile neurotoxicity; these were related to blood–brain barrier permeability, neuronal cytotoxicity, microelectrode array–based neural activity, and mammalian neurotoxicity. …”
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Reabilitação oral utilizando coroas impressas em 3D para amelogênese imperfeita: relato de caso by Bruna Cordeiro Amarante, Camila Gallo Cabral, Catielma Nascimento Santos, Emerson Junio de Moraes, Ana Carolina Cheron Gentile, Marcelo Bönecker, Marcelo Munhóes Romano

“…O paciente foi diagnosticado com Amelogênese Imperfeita Hipomaturada-Hipoplásica Tipo IV (AIHHT - OMIM: 104510). O tratamento foi dividido em 3 fases: fase preventiva e de manejo da sensibilidade, reabilitação oral seguindo princípios minimamente invasivos - CAD-CAM e por fim tratamento ortodôntico. …”
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Optimization of the Operation of Groundwater Intakes Using Two-Column Wells by V. V. Ivashechkin, J. A. Medvedeva

“…On the one hand; this provokes the formation of colmating deposits in the filters due to their aeration; reduces the specific flow rate of the well and shortens the intervals between regenerations. …”
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Comparative Analysis of the Safety and Functional Outcomes of Anterior versus Retropupillary Iris-Claw IOL Fixation by Paolo Mora, Giacomo Calzetti, Stefania Favilla, Matteo Forlini, Salvatore Tedesco, Purva Date, Viola Tagliavini, Arturo Carta, Rino Frisina, Emilio Pedrotti, Stefano Gandolfi

“…Anterior chamber and posterior chamber iris-claw IOL fixations proved equally effective and safe for aphakic correction in eyes with inadequate capsular support.…”
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HSRoadNet: Hard-Swish Activation Function and Improved Squeeze&#x2013;Excitation Module Network for Road Extraction Using Satellite Remote Sensing Imagery by Xunqiang Gong, Yingjie Ma, Ailong Ma, Zhaoyang Hou, Meng Zhang, Yanfei Zhong

“…The mean intersection over union (MIoU) value of the proposed method was the suboptimum with a disparity of 0.2&#x0025; from the optimal. Ablation experiments show that the proposed method performs best in various indices, and the global accuracy, MIoU, class average accuracy, and recall rate are improved by 0.5&#x0025;, 0.1&#x0025;, 0.5&#x0025;, and 0.2&#x0025;, respectively, compared with the suboptimal method. …”
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Temporal bone pneumatization: A scoping review on the growth and size of mastoid air cell system with age. by Okikioluwa Stephen Aladeyelu, Kehinde Samuel Olaniyi, Samuel Oluwaseun Olojede, Wonder-Boy Eumane Mbatha, Andile Lindokuhle Sibiya, Carmen Olivia Rennie

“…The interest in the mastoid air cell system arose from the association between temporal bone aeration and otitis media. Its size and growth have been considered when planning chronic and middle ear surgeries. …”
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GluN2D-containing NMDA receptors in parvalbumin neurons in the nucleus accumbens regulate nocifensive responses in neuropathic pain by Sukanya G. Gakare, Gajanan P. Shelkar, Dinesh Y. Gawande, Ratnamala Pavuluri, Pauravi J. Gandhi, Shashank M. Dravid

“…Animals with conditional deletion of GluN2D receptors from parvalbumin interneurons (PVIs) or local ablation of GluN2D from nucleus accumbens (NAc) displayed reduced mechanical hypersensitivity in CINP, underscoring the pivotal role of accumbal GluN2D in PVIs in neuropathic pain. …”
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