Perioperative SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Patients Undergoing Elective Surgery in Gynecology Clinic: Tertiary Center Experience by Gulnihal Reyhan Toptas, Eylem Unlubilgin, Tugba Kinay, Ali Riza Dogan, Mehmet Akif Akgul, Sitare Aslanova, Emel Ebru Ercan, Vakkas Korkmaz, Sezin Erturk Aksakal, Yaprak Ustun

“…In addition, nine patients who were previously diagnosed with COVID-19 were operated on. …”
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Ketamine Boluses Are Associated with a Reduction in Intracranial Pressure and an Increase in Cerebral Perfusion Pressure: A Retrospective Observational Study of Patients with Sever... by Bradley A. Dengler, Oliver Karam, Colleen A. Barthol, Aaron Chance, Laura E. Snider, Clare M. Mundy, Michael T. Bounajem, William C. Johnson, Moustafa M. Maita, Paola M. Mendez-Gomez, Ali Seifi, Shaheryar Hafeez

“…We conducted a retrospective review of all patients admitted to the neurointensive care unit at a single tertiary referral center who had a severe traumatic brain injury with indwelling intracranial pressure monitors. …”
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Addressing certain issues of administrative and legal regulation of liability for violation of legal requirements for the safety of vehicle operation in Ukraine by O. M. Halkina, A. O. Ivanov

“…The urgency and importance of road safety issues is emphasised by both academics and the official authorities, who have a strategic vision of the key issues in this area and ways to address them. …”
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Clinical Significance of Perioperative Minimal Residual Disease Detected by Circulating Tumor DNA in Patients With Lung Cancer With a Long Follow-up Data: An Exploratory Study by Shuta Ohara, MD, PhD, Kenichi Suda, MD, PhD, Sumedha Sudhaman, PhD, Akira Hamada, MD, PhD, Masato Chiba, MD, PhD, Masaki Shimoji, MD, PhD, Toshiki Takemoto, MD, PhD, Ekaterina Kalashnikova, PhD, Samantha K. Cheung, PhD, Michael Krainock, MD, PhD, Jordan Feeney, BS, Himanshu Sethi, MPH, Minetta C. Liu, MD, Junichi Soh, MD, PhD, Yasuhiro Tsutani, MD, PhD, Tetsuya Mitsudomi, MD, PhD

“…Here, we report on a cohort of patients with NSCLC who underwent definitive surgery and ctDNA analysis in the pre-operative, adjuvant, and surveillance settings. …”
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Characteristics of Optic Neuritis in South Korean Children and Adolescents: A Retrospective Multicenter Study by Kyung-Ah Park, Hee Kyung Yang, Jinu Han, Seong-Joon Kim, Sung Eun Park, Haeng-Jin Lee, Sueng-Han Han, Sei Yeul Oh, Jeong-Min Hwang

“…This multicenter retrospective cohort study included 127 pediatric patients (median age: 10.3 (IQR: 7.3–14.2) years; female, 62.2%) who experienced ON for the first time between January 2004 and January 2018, with data obtained from five tertiary university-based hospitals in Korea. …”
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Predictors of Alcohol Use, Alcohol-Related Problems, and Substance Use Following Adolescent Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery by Gretchen E. White, PhD, Richard E. Boles, PhD, Anita P. Courcoulas, MD, MPH, Thomas H. Inge, MD, Susan Z. Yanovski, MD, Todd M. Jenkins, PhD, Meg H. Zeller, PhD

“…In this cohort, nearly half of those who underwent MBS as adolescents screened positive for alcohol use disorder, symptoms of alcohol-related harm, or alcohol-related problems within 8 years post-surgery. …”
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Benefits and Risks of Clopidogrel vs. Aspirin Monotherapy after Recent Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Maurizio Paciaroni, Birsen Ince, Bo Hu, Jiann-Shing Jeng, Kursad Kutluk, Liping Liu, Min Lou, Vladimir Parfenov, Ka Sing Lawrence Wong, Babak Zamani, Dara Paek, Jung Min Han, Michael del Aguila, Shalini Girotra

“…A total of 29,357 adult patients who had recent ischemic stroke received either clopidogrel (n=14,293) or aspirin (n=15,064) for secondary prevention. …”
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Effect of the Floor Level on the Probability of a Neurologically Favorable Discharge after Cardiac Arrest according to the Event Location by Han Joo Choi, Hyung Jun Moon, Won Jung Jeong, Gi Woon Kim, Jae Hyug Woo, Kyoung Mi Lee, Hyuk Joong Choi, Yong Jin Park, Choung Ah Lee

“…We included patients older than 18 years who suffered an OHCA due to medical causes. A high floor was defined as ≥3rd floor above ground. …”
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A Case of Carbamazepine-Induced Aggravation of Self-Limited Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes Epilepsy and Valproate-Induced Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy in a Child with Heteroz... by Imalke Kankananarachchi, Eresha Jasinge, Gemunu Hewawitharana

“…It is known that VPA-associated HA is common among patients who hold genetic mutations of the carbomoyl phosphatase synthase 1 gene (CPS1). …”
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Knowledge, Awareness, and Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Students of Biomedical Faculties: A Cross-Sectional Study by Bruno Špiljak, Luka Šimunović, Ana Marija Miličević, Marko Granić, Lana Bergman, Jasminka Peršec

“…Psychological impacts were evident, with 46.3% expressing fear about the future and 25% reporting anxiety if they were to be infected. Additionally, those who engaged with the scientific literature were more likely to accept vaccination and showed lower levels of COVID-19 stigma. …”
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Rare Presentation of Hypoglycemia in a Patient with Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma by Raed Aldahash

“…Thus, involvement of other organs is very rare as we found in a 54-year-old male patient, a known case of hypertension and end-stage renal disease who was on hemodialysis, who presented to the emergency department with a history of generalized weakness and weight loss of about 20 kg for two months. …”
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Dengue severity by serotype and immune status in 19 years of pediatric clinical studies in Nicaragua. by Federico Narvaez, Carlos Montenegro, Jose G Juarez, José Victor Zambrana, Karla Gonzalez, Elsa Videa, Sonia Arguello, Fanny Barrios, Sergio Ojeda, Miguel Plazaola, Nery Sanchez, Daniel Camprubí-Ferrer, Guillermina Kuan, Gabriela Paz Bailey, Eva Harris, Angel Balmaseda

“…According to the 1997 World Health Organization (WHO) severity classification, both DENV2 and DENV3 caused a higher proportion of severe disease compared to other serotypes, whereas DENV3 caused the greatest percentage of severity according to the WHO-2009 classification. …”
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Barriers to Low-Vision Rehabilitation Services for Visually Impaired Patients in a Multidisciplinary Ophthalmology Outpatient Practice by Karima S. Khimani, Carissa R. Battle, Lauren Malaya, Aaleena Zaidi, Mary Schmitz-Brown, Huey-Ming Tzeng, Praveena K. Gupta

“…Chart review identified 190 subjects who met criteria for low-vision analysis. Patients who received LVR referrals to attend at least one LVR service visit from the eligible subjects were contacted for participation in phone interviews regarding their LVR experience. …”
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Specific features of succession of a share in the right to joint tenancy by O. Ye. Kukhariev

“…This preferential right is characterized by limited application to those cases when, first of all, several lawful heirs who accepted the inheritance are involved into succession procedure and, secondly, there is no division of the inheritance in the last will and testament. …”
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Neurofilament Light Chain Assessment in Type 2 Diabetic Patients with Distal Symmetrical Polyneuropathy by Israa Abdelmalik Salem, Sura Ahmed Abdulsattar, Haider Fadhil Alrubaye

“…Moreover, Neurofilament Light Chain levels were substantially reduced in patients who were taking sulfonylurea alone or in combination with other anti-diabetic treatments. …”
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Monitoring of Circulating Tumor DNA and Indication of De-Escalation Adjuvant Targeted Therapy for EGFR-Mutated NSCLC After Complete Resection by Song Dong, PhD, Bingfa Yan, PhD, Si-Yang Liu, PhD, Xuan Gao, PhD, Hui-Zhao Hong, MD, Hong-Ji Li, MD, Wei Gao, PhD, Hong-Hong Yan, PhD, Si-Yang Maggie Liu, PhD, Hai-Yan Tu, PhD, Yi Pan, PhD, Qing Zhou, PhD, Xue-Ning Yang, PhD, Xue-Feng Xia, PhD, Xin Yi, PhD, Wen-Zhao Zhong, PhD, Yi-Long Wu, MD, Jia-Tao Zhang, PhD

“…Furthermore, 22 patients with stages IB to III disease who had previously suspended their TKI treatment based on undetectable MRD were included in the adaptive group, with an average duration of TKI 3.9 (range: 0–35.0) months. …”
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Superstition in Surgery: A Population-Based Cohort Study to Assess the Association Between Surgery on Friday the 13th and Postoperative Outcomes by Sanjana Ranganathan, MBE, Carlos Riveros, MD, Michael Geng, BS, Courtney Chang, MD, Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, MPH, PhD, Bheeshma Ravi, MD, PhD, Zachary Melchiode, MD, Siqi Hu, MD, PhD, Kathleen Kobashi, MD, MBA, Brian J. Miles, MD, Zachary Klaassen, MD, MSc, Avery Nathens, MD, MPH, PhD, Natalie Coburn, MD, MPH, Allan S. Detsky, MD, PhD, CM, Angela Jerath, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FANZCA, Christopher J. D. Wallis, MD, PhD, FRCSC, Raj Satkunasivam, MD, MS

“…We sought to examine whether the outcomes of patients who receive a surgical procedure on Friday the 13th differ from patients who receive surgery on flanking Fridays. …”
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Factors associated with readmission after long-term administration of tolvaptan in patients with congestive heart failure by Shoko Yamashita, Miki Takenaka, Masayuki Ohbayashi, Noriko Kohyama, Tatsuya Kurihara, Tomiko Sunaga, Hisaaki Ishiguro, Mari Kogo

“…Methods: This retrospective cohort study included 181 patients with congestive HF who received long-term administration of TLV. Long-term administration of TLV was defined as the administration of TLV for 60 days or longer. …”
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Venetoclax-based salvage therapy as a bridge to transplant is feasible and effective in patients with relapsed/refractory AML by Julia M. Unglaub, Richard F. Schlenk, Jan Moritz Middeke, Stefan W. Krause, Sabrina Kraus, Hermann Einsele, Michael Kramer, Sven Zukunft, Joseph Kauer, Simon Renders, Elena Katelari, Christoph Schliemann, Caroline Pabst, Thomas Luft, Peter Dreger, Christoph Röllig, Martin Bornhäuser, Carsten Müller-Tidow, Tim Sauer

“…Using propensity score matching (PSM), we compared 37 patients with R/R AML, who received VEN-based salvage therapy as bridge to allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HCT), with 90 patients from the German Study Alliance Leukemia AML registry, who were treated with non–VEN-containing salvage therapy according to their treating physician’s choice (TPC). …”
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Intra-mesenteric steroids for steroid-refractory graft-versus-host disease in pediatric patients: A safe option by Ana M. Aristizábal, Lina P. Montaña, Jaiber Gutiérrez, Diego Medina, Alexis A. Franco, Eliana Manzi, Ángela Devia Zapata, Walter Mosquera

“…This study describes our experience with pediatric patients diagnosed with steroid-refractory graft-versus-host disease who received intra-mesenteric steroid treatment. …”
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