Pretransplant HbA1c Is a Useful Predictor for the Development of New-Onset Diabetes in Renal Transplant Recipients Receiving No or Low-Dose Erythropoietin by Kazuaki Tokodai, Noritoshi Amada, Izumi Haga, Atsushi Nakamura, Toshiaki Kashiwadate, Naoki Kawagishi, Noriaki Ohuchi

“…To evaluate the predictive power of pretransplant HbA1c for new-onset diabetes after transplantation (NODAT) in kidney transplant candidates, who had several predispositions for fluctuated HbA1c levels. …”
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Prevention of Localized Osteitis in Mandibular Third-Molar Sites Using Platelet-Rich Fibrin by Donald R. Hoaglin, Gary K. Lines

“…A comparison group consisted of 100 consecutive patients who underwent bilateral removal of indicated mandibular wisdom teeth and did not receive PRF placement within the lower third molar surgical sites. …”
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Current attitudes to testicular prosthesis insertion during radical orchidectomy—An international perspective by Anthony Emmanuel, Abi Kanthabalan, Cameron Alexander, Nikita Bhatt, Vinson Chan, Odunayo Kalejaiye, Krishna Narahari, Veeru Kasivisvanathan, Majed Shabbir

“…Methods An international online survey of urologists who perform radical orchidectomy for testicular cancer was developed. …”
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REVOLUTIONIZING EDUCATION: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF MOBILE LEARNING APPS ON ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND ATTITUDES by Rommel AlAli

“…The results revealed statistically significant differences between the average academic achievement of gifted students in the experimental group, who learned using mobile learning, and the average achievement of gifted students in the control group, who learned in the usual way. …”
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The impact of drinking on smoking cessation outcomes among Hong Kong Chinese youth smokers by Ka Yan Ho, Katherine Ka Wai Lam, Qi Liu, Ting Mao, Funa Yang, Mulualem Getaneh Belay, Cynthia Sau Ting Wu, Mak Yim Wah

“…The study revealed that drinking could decrease quit rates among young smokers who received counselling, but not their smoking reduction or quit attempts. …”
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Epidemiological and Clinical Profile of Dermatoses Observed in Chronic Hemodialysis Patients at the National Teaching Hospital (NTH-HKM) of Cotonou, Benin by Hugues Adégbidi, Fabrice Akpadjan, Odile Houngbo, Jacques Vigan, Bérénice Dégboé, Nadège Agbessi, Christiane Koudoukpo, Félix Atadokpèdé

“…Chronic hemodialysis patients who did not wish to participate in the survey were excluded. …”
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Efficacy of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy DOX and XELOX Regimens for Patients with Resectable Gastric or Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma by Yuan Tian, Qun Zhao, Yong Li, Liqiao Fan, Zhidong Zhang, Xuefeng Zhao, Bibo Tan, Dong Wang, Peigang Yang

“…There were 56 (61.3%) patients in the DOX group who presented with surgical complications, 22 (23.9%) patients in the XELOX group, and 37 (38.9%) patients in the surgery group. …”
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Explainable machine learning model for predicting decline in platelet count after interventional closure in children with patent ductus arteriosus by Song-Yue Zhang, Yi-Dong Zhang, Hao Li, Qiao-Yu Wang, Qiao-Fang Ye, Xun-Min Wang, Tian-He Xia, Yue-E He, Xing Rong, Ting-Ting Wu, Rong-Zhou Wu

“…Moreover, SHapley Additive exPlanation (SHAP) to explain the importance of features and the ML models.ResultsThis study included 330 children who underwent successful transcatheter closure of PDA, of which 113 (34.2%) experienced DPC. …”
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Cytomegalovirus Infection in Patient with Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma by Ikhwan Rinaldi, Abdul Muthalib, Januar Widodo Sutandar, Hendro Adi Kuncoro, Bambang Irawan Harsono, Nelly Susanto, Tjondro Setiawan, Kevin Winston, Idham Rafly Dewantara, Ihya Fakhrurizal Amin, Yuli Maulidiya Shufiyani

“…Conclusion. Cancer patients who are undergoing treatment are at a higher risk for developing opportunistic infections, which can result in morbidity and mortality. …”
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Prevalence of Hepatitis B Viral Infection in Pregnant Women at the Suhum Municipality, Ghana by Joseph Boachie, Doreen Pidah, Henrietta Eshun, Emmanuel Jingbeja, Praise Fosu Adjei, Patrick Adu

“…The study was a cross-sectional design involving pregnant women who were sampled following their visit to the antenatal unit at the Suhum Government Hospital. …”
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Administrative Liability for Violating the Rules of Stopping, Parking, Vehicle Parking by O. Yu. Salmanova, A. T. Komziuk

“…It has been concluded that administrative liability for violating the rules of stopping, parking, vehicle parking has many features that are applied to all its components – the grounds for which are violations of specific rules defined by many regulations, and the subject can be recognized not only the person who directly committed these violations, but also other persons who are named responsible by law; content, i.e. administrative penalties that can be applied without taking into account the general rules of their imposition; procedure for implementation, especially in cases of violating the rules of stopping, parking, vehicle parking recorded in the mode of photography (video). …”
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Anti-human leukocyte antigen-DPB1 antibody-associated transfusion-related acute lung injury after hematopoietic stem cell infusion by Mehmet Can Balkan, Fatma Visal Okur, Fatma Burcu Belen Apak, Sevil Babayeva, Numan Firat Ekici, Baris Kuskonmaz, Duygu Uckan Cetinkaya

“…TRALI was shown with transfusion of all kinds of blood products, however, it is rarely seen after stem cell infusion. Despite an adult case who developed TRALI after stem cell infusion, there is no pediatric case of TRALI associated with hematopoietic stem cell infusion in the previous literature. …”
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A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE FOREIGN POLICY OF GEORGIA-2016: THERE IS STILL A CHANCE FOR RUSSIA by A. A. Tokarev, A. S. Dyogtev, A. R. Margoev

“…Although according to the results of the most surveys Russia takes the first place in the list of the threats to Georgia, exceeding even the figures for the banned "Islamic State", around one third of the population of Georgia consistently consider Russian threat exaggerated. Together with those who do not regard Russia as a threat at all, these citizens of Georgia almost equal the number of people who believe that "Russia poses a threat to Georgia". …”
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Muscle selection and dosing in patients undergoing treatment with abobotulinumtoxinA for lower limb spasticity in real-world practice by Richard D. Zorowitz, Jorge Jacinto, Stephen Ashford, Mathieu Beneteau, Pascal Maisonobe, Christian Hannes, Alberto Esquenazi

“…Across the study, total lower limb doses were higher in patients who received only lower limb injections (n = 131, median 771U) than those who also received ≥ 1 upper limb injection (n = 253, 567U). …”
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Comparing myocardial perfusion scan findings in patients with and without Covid-19 by Bahar Moasses-Ghafari, Sahar Choupani, Sajed Jahanbin, Reza Lotfi, Khaled Rahmani

“…Methods This was a cross-sectional (descriptive-analytical) study of 750 patients requiring myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) who were referred to the nuclear medicine center of Kowsar Hospital, a teaching hospital in Sanandaj, the center of Kurdistan Province in north-western Iran. …”
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Intensive critical care and management of asthmatic and smoker patients in COVID-19 infection by Lu Dongming, Yaqoob Obaid, Kumar Manish, Kushwah Ajay Singh, Sharma Rahul Kumar, Kumar Devinder, Mavai Yogendra, Khan Rukaiya

“…The intensity of COVID-19 symptoms is lessened in patients with asthma who have superior levels of T-cells. Several antibiotics, antivirals, antipyretics, and anti-inflammatory drugs have been suggested to suppress COVID-19 symptoms in asthmatic persons. …”
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A nomogram for postoperative pain relief in patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture treated with polymethylmethacrylate bone cement by Shirong Lu, Xudong Xia, Xu Shi, Xiaoli Qin, Chunguang Wang, Wei Wei

“…This retrospective study included 208 (training set) and 54 (validation set) OVCF patients who underwent bone cement treatment between January 2018 and October 2023. …”
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Optimizing Stroke Detection Using Evidential Networks and Uncertainty-Based Refinement by Faranak Akbarifar, Sean P. Dukelow, Albert Jin, Parvin Mousavi, Stephen H. Scott

“…Detecting TIA is critical, as individuals who experience a TIA have a substantially higher risk of recurrent stroke. …”
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How Cognitive Reserve should Influence Rehabilitation Choices using Virtual Reality in Parkinson’s Disease by Letizia Pezzi, Andrea Di Matteo, Roberta Insabella, Sara Mastrogiacomo, Carlo Baldari, Victor Machado Reiss, Teresa Paolucci

“…This systematic review was performed to define a cognitive profile for patients with PD who could best benefit from using VR to enhance functional motor aspects during rehabilitation. …”
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Understanding patient views and experiences of the IDENTIfication of PALLiative care needs (IDENTI-Pall): a qualitative interview study protocol by Sarah Mitchell, Isabel Leach, Nicola Turner, C R Mayland

“…Palliative care identification tools have been developed for use in primary care to seek out patients who could benefit from a palliative approach to their care. …”
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