Effect of Catheterization Time combined with Volume on Patients with Incomplete Bladder Emptying after Stroke by Huiying ZHANG, Xiuqin SHAO, Tianzi ZOU, Xiaoyue LI, Shuang QUAN, Tongzhou MI

“…Before and after intervention, the patients'micturition volume, times of micturition and interval time of micturition were observed; the bladder safety capacity and residual urine volume were assessed by Bladder capacity tester; the incidence of urinary tract infection was assessed by laboratory urine culture; the reimplantation of indwelling catheter was observed in the two groups.Results:Before intervention, there was no significant difference in micturition volume, micturition times, voiding time interval, bladder volume, residual urine volume, urinary tract infection and repeated indwelling catheter times between the two groups (<italic>P</italic>&gt;0.05). …”
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Paradoxical Embolization in an Adult Cystic Fibrosis Patient by Nabil M Al Lawati, Pearce Wilcox

“…She had been anticoagulated because she had thrombosis of the tip of the indwelling catheter, and her PFO was closed percutaneuosly followed by replacement of her IVAD. …”
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Conservative Management of a Delayed Neovesicocutaneous Fistula by Koichi Kodama, Yasukazu Takase, Isamu Motoi

“…After a combination of transurethral catheter drainage and broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy for 3 weeks, the fistulous tract completely closed. …”
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“Vanishing Penis” and Urinary Retention due to Locally Destructive Penile Cancer by Petros Sountoulides, Athanasios Bantis, Ioannis Zachos, Irene Asouhidou, Athanasios Pantazakos

“…A temporary suprapubic catheter was placed, followed by a perineal urethrostomy in order to reverse the established renal failure.…”
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Inability to Utilize Retrograde Cardioplegia due to a Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava by Rohesh J. Fernando, Sean D. Johnson

“…While this finding is not hemodynamically significant in all patients, failure to recognize the altered anatomy in any of these patients can be consequential during procedures such as central venous catheter placement, pacemaker/defibrillator wire placement, and use of retrograde cardioplegia during cardiac surgery. …”
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Delayed occluder displacement following patent ductus arteriosus closure successfully managed with thoracic endovascular aortic repair: a case report and literature review by Dihao Pan, Anfeng Yu, Chengcheng Li, Liangwei Chen, Chengyao Ni, Haige Zhao

“…Despite numerous unsuccessful catheter-based interventions, thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) was successfully executed. …”
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Is It Still Prohibited to Perform Spinal Anesthesia in Patients with Advanced Heart Disease? by Maryam Vosoughian, Shide Dabir, Faramarz Mosaffa

“…In longer surgeries, epidural catheters can be inserted through the epidural needle into the intraspinal space and intermittently administered low doses of local anesthetic plus low doses of fentanyl or sufentanil as needed. …”
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Comparison of facilities with and without additional medical fees for nutrition support team activity during the COVID-19 pandemic by Akihiko Futamura, Takenao Koseki, Junichi Iida, Akito Suzuki, Nobuyuki Muroi, Michiaki Myotoku, Hiroki Maki, Kazuhisa Mizutani, Hikaru Ogino, Yasuki Taniguchi, Keiichiro Higashi, Masanobu Usui

“…Before the pandemic, the NST group had a lower CLABSI rate per 1000 catheter uses than the non-NST group 2019: 0.70 [0.12–1.26] vs 2.10 [0.62–5.97]. …”
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The Efficacy of Short-Duration Polyethylene Glycol plus Electrolytes for Improving Bowel Preparation of Colonoscopy in Patients with Chronic Constipation by Naohisa Yoshida, Yoshikazu Inagaki, Kohei Fukumoto, Hiroyuki Yoriki, Yutaka Inada, Takaaki Murakami, Yuri Tomita, Hikaru Hashimoto, Satoshi Sugino, Ryohei Hirose, Osamu Dohi, Ken Inoue, Yoshito Itoh

“…Backgrounds and Aims. Sachets of polyethylene glycol plus electrolytes (PEG+E: Movicol: EA Pharma, Tokyo, Japan) are used for chronic constipation, and its efficacy is reported only for female and nonelderly people. …”
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Maternal knowledge, attitude and practice regarding commercial oral rehydration salt solution: experience from a diarrhoeal disease hospital in Bangladesh by Tahmeed Ahmed, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Md Fuad Al Fidah, Sharika Nuzhat, Md Ridwan Islam, Shoeb Bin Islam, Md Mushfiqur Rahman, Sneha Paul, Mahfuz-Un Nesa, Devjani Chowdhury, Shayontan Fardin Nabi, Awni Mokhtar Sallam Ali Awn, Liaquat Ali Khan, Chowdhury Ali Kawser

“…Emphasis should be given to reading instruction on the sachet and promoting access to information via mass media outlets.…”
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Outcomes of Congenital Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction Surgery Converted into Balloon Dilation and Silicone Intubation due to Probing Difficulty by Oren Yaakov Sagiv, Achia Nemet, Asaf Achiron, Doron Neumann, Raimo Tuuminen, Oriel Spierer

“…To report the outcomes of balloon catheter dilatation and silicone intubation as a sequential secondary surgery under the same anesthesia, a stepwise approach for congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (NLDO) when probing and irrigation as primary procedure fails. …”
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Case Report: Clinical awareness about the effect of laser interstitial thermal therapy on pediatric high-grade brain tumors after radiotherapy by Sandra Fernandes Dias, Markus F. Oertel, Ana Guerreiro Stücklin, Nicolas U. Gerber, Elisa Colombo, Tristan P. C. van Doormaal, Niklaus Krayenbühl

“…The breakage of the morphogenetic boundaries of the neuromeres, to which each tumor was initially confined, through the placement of the LITT catheters should be considered while trying to understand the disease spread mechanisms. …”
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Meta-Analysis of Atrial Fibrillation Ablation in Patients with Systolic Heart Failure by Mohammed Ruzieh, Andrew J. Foy, Nader M. Aboujamous, Morgan K. Moroi, Gerald V. Naccarelli, Mehrdad Ghahramani, Shaffi Kanjwal, Joseph E. Marine, Khalil Kanjwal

“…The current available therapeutic options for AF in patients with HF are diverse and guidelines do not provide a clear consensus regarding the best management approach. To determine if catheter ablation for AF is superior to medical therapy alone in patients with coexisting HF, we conducted this systematic review and meta-analysis. …”
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Ubezpieczenie D&O a funkcja prewencyjna odpowiedzialności członka zarządu za szkodę wyrządzoną spółce działaniem albo zaniechaniem sprzecznym z prawem lub umową (statutem) spółki... by Krzysztof Żok

“…Oba typy bodźców mogą prima facie pozytywnie wpłynąć na nadzór korporacyjny, ponieważ dostarczają zachęt do usprawnienia procesu decyzyjnego. Dokładniejsza analiza wskazuje jednak, że na nieregulowanym rynku jedynie udział własny wydaje się stanowić wystarczająco silną zachętę dla członka zarządu. …”
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Clinical value of motor function of digestive system investigation: past, present and future by A. S. Trukhmanov, O. A. Storonova, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Nowadays investigation of motor function of the esophagus can by carries out both by open catheter method (water perfused manometry), and by the newest hi-tech method – high resolution manometry (HRM) and volume 3D manometry. …”
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Tailoring industrial enzymes for thermostability and activity evolution by the machine learning-based iCASE strategy by Nan Zheng, Yongchao Cai, Zehua Zhang, Huimin Zhou, Yu Deng, Shuang Du, Mai Tu, Wei Fang, Xiaole Xia

“…Furthermore, this dynamic response predictive model using structure-based supervised machine learning is established to predict enzyme function and fitness, demonstrating robust performance across different datasets and reliable prediction for epistasis. The universality of the iCASE strategy is validated by four sorts of enzymes with different structures and catalytic types. …”
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Protocol for genetic analysis of population-scale ultra-low-depth sequencing data by Jingyu Zeng, Linxuan Li, Ying Lin, Xianmei Lan, Xinyi Zhang, Yingying Wang, Mingzhi Liao, Xin Jin, Huanhuan Zhu

“…Here, we present a protocol designed for massive ultra-low-depth sequencing datasets. We detail the steps for data processing, quality control, and genotype imputation, followed by genome-wide association study (GWAS) and post-GWAS analyses. …”
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Symmetry-Aware 6D Object Pose Estimation via Multitask Learning by Hongjia Zhang, Junwen Huang, Xin Xu, Qiang Fang, Yifei Shi

“…Moreover, we devise an optimization function to refine the predicted 6D object pose by considering the predicted symmetry. Experiments on two datasets demonstrate that the proposed symmetry-aware approach outperforms the existing methods in terms of predicting 6D pose estimation of symmetric objects.…”
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Globality-Locality Preserving Maximum Variance Extreme Learning Machine by Yonghe Chu, Hongfei Lin, Liang Yang, Yufeng Diao, Dongyu Zhang, Shaowu Zhang, Xiaochao Fan, Chen Shen, Deqin Yan

“…Experiments on several widely used image databases and UCI datasets validate the performance of GLELM. The experimental results show that the proposed model achieves promising results compared to several state-of-the-art ELM algorithms.…”
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Investigation of Splicing Quantitative Trait Loci in by Wonseok Yoo, Sungkyu Kyung, Seonggyun Han, Sangsoo Kim

“…Here, we report the results of genome-wide sQTLs across 141 strains of Arabidopsis thaliana with publicly available next generation sequencing datasets. As a result, we found 1,694 candidate sQTLs in Arabidopsis thaliana at a false discovery rate of 0.01. …”
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