Sarcopenia Index Is Correlated with Osteoporosis in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease by Segi Kim, Simho Jeong, Kyeongmi Kim, Junhee Sung, Do Kyung Kim, Soonchul Lee

“…<b>Methods:</b> This study initially included patients who underwent dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and serum creatinine and cystatin C testing between 2005 and 2022. …”
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For a Higher Sprint Running Performance, in Which Part of the Warm-Up Protocol Should the Dynamic Stretching Phase be Applied? by Recep Özçelik, Cem Bediz, Caner Çetinkaya, Erkan Günay, Egemen Mancı

“…The study included forty-four soccer players, aged 16.59 ±1.06 years, who played for amateur teams. Participants were randomly divided into two groups on the first day of the study. …”
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Intravascular Imaging-Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease on Maintenance Dialysis by Chia-Pin Lin, MD, Fu-Chih Hsiao, MD, Ying-Chang Tung, MD, Tzyy-Jer Hsu, MD, Shing-Hsien Chou, MD, Yu-Sheng Lin, MD, Shao-Wei Chen, MD, PhD, Pao-Hsien Chu, MD

“…Methods: Patients with ESRD on maintenance dialysis, who underwent OCT- or IVUS-guided PCI from 2015 to 2021, were compared by propensity-score matching. …”
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Investigating the Agreement of Hypomagnesemia Diagnosis in Three Perimeter of Serum, Urine, and Red Blood Cell in Intensive Care Unit: Pilot Study by Nastaran Nazarzade, Mojtaba Mojtahedzadeh, Farshid Gholami, Amirmahdi Mojtahedzadeh, Maryam Shiehmorteza, Amirhossein Ghanbarzamani

“…We conducted a prospective study on 30 critically ill patients (14 male, and 16 female) who were admitted to the ICU to examine the prevalence of magnesium deficiency. …”
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Routine Surveillance of Upper Urinary Tract Imaging for Diagnosing Upper Urinary Tract Urothelial Cancer Recurrence in Patients with Nonmuscle Invasive Bladder Cancer by Nobutaka Nishimura, Makito Miyake, Tatsuki Miyamoto, Takuto Shimizu, Tomomi Fujii, Yosuke Morizawa, Shunta Hori, Daisuke Gotoh, Yasushi Nakai, Kazumasa Torimoto, Nobumichi Tanaka, Kiyohide Fujimoto

“…A retrospective chart review of 864 patients with primary nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer who underwent initial transurethral resection of bladder tumor between 1980 and 2020 was conducted. …”
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Two-year follow-up of posterior corneal elevation after small incision lenticule extraction for moderate myopia by Shaimaa M. Azzam, Reham R. Shabana, Hazem A. Elbedewy

“…Methods Total 35 patients (70 eyes) who underwent SMILE operation were included in this study. …”
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Endovascular Treatment of Mirror Aneurysms in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Patients: Single Stage or Multiple Stage? by Yunfei Song, Guoqiang Song, Guijing Liu, Limei Mao, Xiuhu An, Chao Peng, Jian Li, Yan Chen, Hongwen Li, Changkai Hou, Bangyue Wang, Yan Zhao, Xiangdong Wang, Gangfeng Yin, Xinyu Yang

“…Materials and Methods Our research team performed a prospective study, focusing on the radiographic and clinical data of patients diagnosed with subarachnoid hemorrhage, specifically those who presented with Mirror Aneurysms upon admission to our institutions. …”
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A novel approach to completely alleviate peripheral neuropathic pain in human patients: insights from preclinical data by Safa Shehab, Mohammad I. K. Hamad, Bright Starling Emerald

“…Here, we propose to translate these promising preclinical results into effective therapeutic interventions in humans by direct application of capsaicin or RTX to adjacent uninjured nerves in patients who suffer from neuropathic pain due to peripheral nerve injury, following surgical interventions, diabetic neuropathy, trauma, vertebral disc herniation, nerve entrapment, ischemia, postherpetic lesion, and spinal cord injury.…”
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Impact of Ramadan Intermittent Fasting on Salivary pH, Flow Rate, and Electrolyte Levels in Healthy Adult Men by Sinda Yacoub, Mehdi Khemiss, Amira Besbes, Helmi Ben Saad

“…Men aged 20 to 30 years who were fasting during Ramadan were recruited from the University of Monastir (Tunisia). …”
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Clinical Characteristics, Intraoperative Findings, and Surgical Outcomes of Canalicular Laceration Repair with Monocanalicular Stent in Asia by Chun-Hsien Lin, Chun-Yuan Wang, Ying-Cheng Shen, Li-Chen Wei

“…From 2009 to 2018, all 48 patients who underwent canalicular laceration repair with Mini-Monoka stent at a tertiary center in Taiwan were retrospectively analyzed. …”
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Detection of Body Packs in Abdominal CT scans Through Artificial Intelligence; Developing a Machine Learning-based Model by Sayed Masoud Hosseini, Seyed Ali Mohtarami, Shahin Shadnia, Mitra Rahimi, Peyman Erfan Talab Evini, Babak Mostafazadeh, Azadeh Memarian, Elmira Heidarli

“… Introduction: Identifying the people who try to hide illegal substances in the body for smuggling is of considerable importance in forensic medicine and poisoning. …”
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Comparison of Risk Scores for Predicting Adverse Outcomes in Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding by Chenyang Li, Enqiang Linghu, Chao Chen

“…We conducted a retrospective observational study of patients who were admitted to ALGIB and underwent colonoscopy or angiography at a single center between January 2018 and December 2022. …”
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Combined morphology and radiomics of intravoxel incoherent movement as a predictive model for the pathologic complete response before neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with brea... by Yunyan Zheng, Hui Zhang, Huijian Chen, Yang Song, Ping Lu, Mingping Ma, Mengbo Lin, Muzhen He

“…BackgroundTo develop a predictive model using baseline imaging of morphology and radiomics derived from intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion-weighted imaging (IVIM-DWI) to determine the pathologic complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) in breast cancer patients.MethodsA total of 265 patients who underwent 3.0 T MRI scans before NACT were examined. …”
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Integrated hip fracture care pathway (IHFCP): reducing complications and improving outcomes by Louise Heyzer, Rani Ramason, Joseph Antonio De Castro Molina, William Wai Lim Chan, Chen Yi Loong, Ernest Beng Kee Kwek

“…Methods: A study was conducted over a five-year period on patients with acute fragility hip fracture who were managed on IHFCP. The evaluation utilised a descriptive design, with outcomes analysed separately for each of the five years of the programme. …”
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Electrocardiogram Parameters That Affect the Success Rate of Radiofrequency Ablation in Patients with Outflow Tract Ventricular Premature Complexes by Zhen Ye, Zhe Xu, Kezeng Gong, Xuehai Chen, Weiwei Wang, Jianhua Chen, Lianglong Chen, Feilong Zhang

“…Based on the outcome of ablation, 154 consecutive patients with OT-VPCs who underwent RFCA from January 2017 to December 2019 were divided into two groups. …”
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Analysis of Five-Year Trend of Malaria at Bichena Primary Hospital, Amhara Region, Ethiopia by Awoke Minwuyelet, Yibeltal Aschale

“…Malaria is a life-threating infectious diseases caused by protozoan parasite of the genus Plasmodium. The WHO African region bears the largest burden of malaria morbidity and mortality every year. …”
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Safety and efficacy of intraoperative radiation therapy using a low-energy X-ray source for resectable pancreatic cancer: an interim evaluation of an ongoing prospective phase II s... by Xingyun Chen, Shuo Li, Chuntao Gao, Wei Wang, Haorui Li, Yuxiao Liu, Rui Liu, Jihui Hao

“…Methods: Patients with RPC who underwent radical pancreatectomy and IORT were enrolled. …”
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Monitoring for 5-aminosalicylate nephrotoxicity in adults with inflammatory bowel disease: prognostic model development and validation using data from the Clinical Practice Researc... by Abhishek Abhishek, Richard D Riley, Christian D Mallen, Guruprasad P Aithal, Georgina Nakafero, Matthew J Grainge, Maarten W Taal, Tim Card, Matthew D Stevenson

“…Model performance was assessed in terms of calibration and discrimination.Results 13 728 and 7318 participants who contributed 40 378 and 20 679 person-years follow-up formed the development and validation cohorts with 170 (1.2%) and 98 (1.3%) outcome events respectively. …”
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Carbon Monoxide and Particulate Matter Concentrations inside the Road Tunnels of Guanajuato City, Mexico by Adrián Zamorategui-Molina, Norma L. Gutiérrez-Ortega, Juan Carlos Baltazar-Vera, Julio Del Ángel-Soto, David Tirado-Torres

“…Although the average CO concentration fell below the World Health Organization (WHO)’s guideline of 50 ppm for a 30-minute exposure, the average PM10 concentration exceeded the guideline of 50 µg m–3 for a 24-hour exposure inside all three tunnels. …”
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Disseminated tuberculosis masquerading as a psychiatric illness—A case report by Shalini Bhaskar, Mimi N. M. Noh

“…Tuberculosis (TB) can affect any organ, and at times more than one organ in any sequence, in which case it is referred to as disseminated tuberculosis (DTB). We report a patient who presented primarily for psychiatric symptoms of three months’ duration, which later turned out to be a case of DTB involving the central nervous system as well as the spine and lungs. …”
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