Use of 18F-NaF PET in the staging of skeletal metastases of newly diagnosed, high-risk prostate cancer patients: a nationwide cohort study by Christian Torp-Pedersen, Mette Nørgaard, Helle D Zacho, Lars J Petersen, Anna Winther Mogensen, Marie T Pank

“…Objective To determine whether preoperative staging of high-risk prostate cancer with 18F-sodium-fluoride (18F-NaF) positron emission tomography (PET) reduces the risk of skeletal metastases.Design Nationwide, population-based cohort study using real-world data.Setting The study used national health registries, including all sites in Denmark from 2011 to 2018.Participants Newly diagnosed high-risk prostate cancer patients who underwent radical prostatectomy from 2011 to 2018. …”
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Prediction of successful weaning from renal replacement therapy in critically ill patients based on machine learning by Qiqiang Liang, Xin Xu, Shuo Ding, Jin Wu, Man Huang

“…Background Predicting the successful weaning of acute kidney injury (AKI) patients from renal replacement therapy (RRT) has emerged as a research focus, and we successfully built predictive models for RRT withdrawal in patients with severe AKI by machine learning.Methods This retrospective single-center study utilized data from our general intensive care unit (ICU) Database, focusing on patients diagnosed with severe AKI who underwent RRT. We evaluated RRT weaning success based on patients being free of RRT in the subsequent week and their overall survival. …”
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IVUS-Guided Zero-Contrast PCI in CKD Patients: Safety and Short-Term Outcome in Patients with Complex Demographics and/or Lesion Characteristics by Prathap Kumar, Blessvin Jino, Ali Shafeeq, Stalin Roy, Manu Rajendran, Sandheep George Villoth

“…To assess the safety and short-term outcomes of IVUS-guided zero-contrast PCI in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients with complex demographics or lesion morphology. Methods. Patients who underwent IVUS-guided zero-contrast PCI at a tertiary center, from November 2019 to May 2020, were included in this prospective analysis. …”
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Medyalararası Gündem Belirleme Çalışmalarında R Stüdyo Kullanımı: Rozelle-Campbell Taban Hizası ile Çapraz Gecikmeli Korelasyonun Bilişimleştirilmesi by Özlem Alikılıç, İnanç Alikılıç

“…We anticipate that this tool “R” will be particularly useful for intermediate users, who need or want to conduct their studies when retrieving from the big data. …”
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Electrophysiological Characterization of Neuropathy Complicating Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus by Nimat Abuelwafaa, Hana Ahmed, Ilham Omer, Mohamed Abdullah, Ammar Ahmed, Afraa Musa

“…This cross-sectional study recruited 50 children with type 1 DM having mean disease duration of 4.92±3.84 years who attended the referred clinic in Sudan Childhood Diabetes Center. …”
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The German Days of Dora Pejačević by Domagoj Marić

“…On both occasions, Pejačević lived in both cities: on the first occasion, she attended composition classes with composers who are largely forgotten today, Percy Sherwood and Walter Courvoisier. …”
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Effects of Combined Intrathecal Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Schwann Cells Transplantation on Neuropathic Pain in Complete Spinal Cord Injury: A Phase II Randomized Active-Controlled... by Mohammadhosein Akhlaghpasand, Roozbeh Tavanaei, Maede Hosseinpoor, Reza Heidari, Ida Mohammadi, Mohsen Chamanara, Melika Hosseinpour, Alireza Zali, Reza Mosaed, Saeed Oraee-Yazdani

“…Study outcome measures were International SCI Pain Basic Data Set (ISCIPBDS) and World Health Organization (WHO) Quality of Life Assessment Instrument (WHOQOL-BREF). …”
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Effectiveness of a web-based virtual journal club to promote medical education (Web-Ed): protocol of a multicentre pragmatic randomised trial by Mohamed Abdelrahman, Neil Cowan, Meera Ramcharn, Bassel H Al Wattar, William Parry-Smith, Sarah McRobbie, Michael Rimmer, Nagla Elfaki, Cheryl Dunlop, Damien Coleburt, Olivia Raglan, Jhia Jiat Teh, Maria Fisher, Nilaani Murugesu, Yazid Jibrel, Matthew Wood

“…We will enrol qualified doctors or medical students who are >18 years old, proficient in English and able to use online videoconferencing software. …”
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CMR assessment of epicardial edipose tissue in relation to myocardial inflammation and fibrosis in patients with new-onset atrial arrhythmias after STEMI by Yanfei Ren, Xinjia Du, Maochen Li, Lei Chen, Jiahua Liu, Yixuan Wu, Yuan Lu

“…We consecutively selected patients who completed CMR during their hospitalisation for PCI after STEMI from May 2019-January 2023, and then underwent regular follow-up, grouped by the presence or absence of new atrial arrhythmias, and enrolled patients were divided into atrial arrhythmia and non-atrial arrhythmia groups. …”
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Beliefs and outlook toward medications in Indian patients with very early rheumatoid arthritis: Cross sectional survey by Sakir Ahmed, Arup Mahapatra, Basanta Kumar Behera, Prasanta Padhan

“…Methods: Two hundred and fifty patients fulfilling the American College of Rheumatology/European League against Rheumatism 2010 criteria for RA, who had developed arthritis within the past 3 months were surveyed using the Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire (BMQ). …”
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Growth Arrest Specific Gene 6 Protein Concentration in Cerebrospinal Fluid Correlates with Relapse Severity in Multiple Sclerosis by P. P. Sainaghi, L. Collimedaglia, F. Alciato, R. Molinari, D. Sola, E. Ranza, P. Naldi, F. Monaco, M. Leone, M. Pirisi, G. C. Avanzi

“…Methods. Sixty-five patients who underwent a spinal tap during relapse of relapsing/remitting multiple sclerosis (RR-MS)(McDonald-criteria) were studied. …”
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Striving for an Alternative World Order: The Journey of Cuban Anti-Imperialism from History to Modernity by A. Z. Arabadzhyan

“…Central to this ideological framework are the ideas of Cuban national hero José Martí, who articulated two core principles that later became structural components of Cuban anti-imperialism: resistance against oppression and the unification of regional countries in this struggle. …”
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The Effect of Age on Clinical and Laboratory Parameters in Reproductive Age Women with Endometrial Polyps by Aytekin Tokmak, Ebru Ersoy, Ali Özgür Ersoy, Esra Yaşar Çelik, Ali İrfan Güzel, Mustafa Uğur

“…STUDY DESIGN: We designed a retrospective study among reproductive age women who were managed at our clinic with the diagnosis of endometrial polyps. …”
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Polypharmacy and anticholinergic burden scales in older adults: a cross-sectional study among psychiatric outpatients in a tertiary care hospital by Manjunath Bidarolli, Biswadeep Das, Vikram Singh Rawat, Sachin Manocha, Hannah Theresa Sony, Akash Agnihotri, Mahima Gupta, Franklin Agera

“…Elderly patients (aged ≥ 60 years) who were on at least one psychotropic medication and had a primary working diagnosis of psychiatric illness were included. …”
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Evaluation of Peripartum Hysterectomy in a Tertiary Care Unit and Its Effect on Patients’ Long-Term Physical and Mental Wellbeing: Quest Is Not Over When You Save the Life by P. D. M. Pathiraja, Asanka Jayawardane

“…We collected data on all severe acute maternal morbidity and mortality events (SAMM) from June 01, 2014, to June 01, 2015, at De Soysa Hospital for Women (DSHW). We invited all women who underwent PPH to complete the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey questionnaire (SF-36) before hospital discharge and at six months after the hysterectomy date to assess their general and mental health before and after surgery. …”
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The clinical journey of belantamab mafodotin in relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma: lessons in drug development by Pralay Mukhopadhyay, Hesham A. Abdullah, Joanna B. Opalinska, Prani Paka, Eric Richards, Katja Weisel, Suzanne Trudel, Maria-Victoria Mateos, Meletios Athanasios Dimopoulos, Sagar Lonial

“…Belantamab mafodotin, an anti–B-cell maturation antigen antibody-drug conjugate, was granted accelerated/conditional approval for patients with RRMM who have received at least 4 prior lines of therapy, based on response rates observed in DREAMM-1/DREAMM-2. …”
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Incidence and Impact of Ventilator Associated Multidrug Resistant Pneumonia in Patients with SARS-COV2 by Seife Yohannes, Zaki Ahmed, Rachel Schelling, Swaminathan Perinkulam Sathyanarayanan, Alexandra Pratt, Mathew P. Schreiber

“…There was a 40% incidence of multidrug resistant pneumonia. Patients who developed VAP had almost twice as long hospital and ICU LOS.…”
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Progress towards 90-90-90 and 95-95-95 strategy implementations and HIV positivity trends in the City of Johannesburg by J C Y Nyasulu, I Maposa

“…There were significant steady increases in the number of people who knew their HIV status (slope = 0.044, p<0.001) and initiating on antiretroviral therapy (ART) (slope = 0.001, p<0.001), and significant decreases for overall HIV positivity rate (slope = –0.016, p<0.001), adolescent positivity rate (slope = –0.0087, p<0.001) and antenatal care HIV positivity rate (slope = –0.013, p<0.001). …”
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Post-coronavirus disease 2019 frequent use of disinfectants and sanitizers affect lung tissue: experimental study by Amr Khattab, Shaimaa ElShebiney

“…Background/aim Regular and excessive use of general household disinfectants and hand sanitizers has increased since coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hit as per World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations. However, existing knowledge about hypochlorite use as a disinfectant is inadequate for the applied experimental conditions are generally not translated to real life. …”
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Linking weather and climate information services (WCIS) to Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices by Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Tinashe Lindel Dirwai, Cuthbert Taguta, Aidan Senzanje, Wuletawu Abera, Ajit Govid, Elliott Ronald Dossou-Yovo, Ermias Aynekulu, Vimbayi Grace Petrova Chimonyo

“…Results: The results revealed that seasonal forecasts were the main WCIS available to farmers who utilised them to plan predominantly for irrigation and water harvesting activities. …”
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