Splenic Artery Pseudoaneurysm Presenting as Massive Hematemesis: A Diagnostic Dilemma by Peeyush Varshney, Bhupen Songra, Shivank Mathur, Sudarshan Gothwal, Puneet Malik, Mahnedra Rathi, Rajveer Arya

“…Pseudoaneurysm can be at times a very difficult situation to manage; options available are either catheter embolisation if patient is vitally stable, or otherwise, exploration.…”
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Pyogenic Liver Abscess Caused by Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in a 21-Year-Old Male by Samuel Igbinedion, Meher S. Mavuram, Moheb Boktor, John Bienvenu

“…He received a total of four weeks of IV Nafcillin therapy along with drainage of his abscess via percutaneous catheter. Follow-up revealed clinical resolution. This case highlights the importance of obtaining an aspirate from the liver abscess to better guide treatment strategy. …”
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A Case of Idiopathic Acute Pancreatitis in the First Trimester of Pregnancy by Tomomi Hara, Haruhiko Kanasaki, Aki Oride, Tomoko Ishihara, Satoru Kyo

“…Medical interventions were initiated with nafamostat mesilate and ulinastatin, and parenteral nutrition was administered through a central venous catheter. On the eighth day of hospitalization, her condition gradually improved with a decreased level of pancreatic amylase and the pain subsided. …”
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Percutaneous cystolitholapaxy in reconstructed bladder through the bowel segment by Razan Khalid Almesned, Abdulrahman Binjawhar, Waleed Altaweel, Mohammed Alomar

“…Three patients had residual stone fragments < 7 mm in size. Suprapubic catheter was removed between days 0 and 3 postoperative. …”
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The Initial Vascular Access Type Contributes to Inflammation in Incident Hemodialysis Patients by Mala Sachdeva, Adriana Hung, Oleksandr Kovalchuk, Markus Bitzer, Michele H. Mokrzycki

“…Sixty-four incident HD patients were included (tunneled catheter (TC), 𝑛=40, arteriovenous fistula (AVF), 𝑛=14, and arteriovenous graft (AVG), 𝑛=10). …”
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Gallstone Ileus following Endoscopic Stone Extraction by Yoshiya Yamauchi, Noritaka Wakui, Yasutsugu Asai, Nobuhiro Dan, Yuki Takeda, Nobuo Ueki, Takahumi Otsuka, Nobuyuki Oba, Shuta Nisinakagawa, Tatsuya Kojima

“…During the procedure, the stone was successfully removed by a balloon catheter when cleaning the common bile duct. The next day, the patient developed abdominal pain, abdominal distension, and nausea and was diagnosed as having gallstone ileus based on abdominal computed tomography (CT) and abdominal ultrasonography findings of an incarcerated stone in the terminal ileum. …”
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Continuous Surgical Decompression for Solitary Bone Cyst of the Jaw in a Teenage Patient by Lluís Brunet-Llobet, Eduard Lahor-Soler, Elias Isaack Mashala, Jaume Miranda-Rius

“…We describe our technique for performing minimally invasive decompression of the lesion using a microperforated catheter. We describe the entire course of the follow-up, both clinical and radiological, until complete cure. …”
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In Peritoneal Dialysis, Is There Sufficient Evidence to Make “PD First” Therapy? by Pranav Dalal, Harbaksh Sangha, Kunal Chaudhary

“…Patient fatigue, membrane failure, and catheter problems are other reasons which discourage PD utilization. …”
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Cholecystoduodenal Stenting: An Option in Complicated Acute Calculous Cholecystitis in the Elderly Comorbid Patient by Brady Bonner, Nicholas I. Brown, Varghese Pynadath Joseph, Manju Dashini Chandrasegaram

“…The patient did not want a permanent catheter for drainage, nor the prospect of repeat drainage procedures in the future for recurrent cholecystitis. …”
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Nosocomial Isolates and Their Drug Resistant Pattern in ICU Patients at National Institute of Neurological and Allied Sciences, Nepal by Pashupati Bhandari, Ganesh Thapa, Bharat Mani Pokhrel, Dwij Raj Bhatta, Upendra Devkota

“…Two hundred and ninety-four different clinical samples such as tracheal aspirates, urine, pus, swabs, catheter tips, and blood were processed during the study. …”
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Endoscopic Management of Large Vesical Calculus by Osama Kalim Shaikh, Shakeel Haseeb Uddin Siddique, Muhammad Umar, Ahsan Rehman, Habibullah Muhammad Akbar

“…Complete stone clearance was achieved in all patients without requiring ancillary procedures. Catheters were removed within 24 hours post-procedure. …”
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A Fetus with Imperforate Anus Developing Pulmonary Hypoplasia Triggered by Transient Urethral Obstruction by Masatake Toshimitsu, Takayuki Iriyama, Seisuke Sayama, Kan Suzuki, Satsuki Kakiuchi, Mari Ichinose, Takahiro Seyama, Kenbun Sone, Keiichi Kumasawa, Takeshi Nagamatsu, Tomoyuki Fujii, Yutaka Osuga

“…The neonate showed respiratory failure requiring full respiratory support. Although a catheter did not pass through the urethra into the bladder at birth, cystourethrography revealed the patency of fistula and stenosed lower urinary tract. …”
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Colovesical Fistula due to Sigmoid Diverticulitis by Christos K. Stefanou, Spiridon Gkogkos, Stefanos Flindris, Apostolis K. Paxinos, Thomas Tsiantis, Polyxeni Oikonomou, Kostas Tepelenis, Stefanos K. Stefanou

“…The patient was discharged in excellent condition on day six, and the catheter was removed on day 10. Conclusion. In conclusion, as in our case, any patient with a urinary tract infection should be suspected of having this condition, especially if he has persistent symptoms that have not responded to standard medical care. …”
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Gamified Virtual Reality Training for Visuospatial Ability in Neuroradiology by Allgaier Mareen, Jered Härtel Tim, Zubel Seraphine, Thormann Maximilian, Behme Daniel, Preim Bernhard, Saalfeld Sylvia

“…During neuroradiological interventions such as treating intracranial aneurysms, neuroradiologists have to navigate a catheter in the 3D anatomy while watching a 2D projection of the vessels. …”
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Integrated Bioinformatic Analysis Identifies Networks and Promising Biomarkers for Hepatitis B Virus-Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Yun Ji, Yue Yin, Weizhen Zhang

“…Here, three microarray datasets, totally containing 170 tumoral samples and 181 adjacent normal tissues from the liver of patients suffering from HBV-related HCC assembled from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, were subjected to integrated analysis of differentially expressed genes (DEGs). …”
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Comparative Mitogenomics in the Genus <i>Chlorophorus</i> (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) and Its Phylogenetic Implications by Zhengju Fu, Lu Chen, Lichao Tian, Zongqing Wang, Zhu Li

“…Further, phylogenetic analyses were performed based on different datasets (13 PCGs + 2 rRNAs, 13 PCGs + 2 rRNAs + 22 tRNAs, PCG123, PCG12) using maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference (BI) methods. …”
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Elastic Optimization for Stragglers in Edge Federated Learning by Khadija Sultana, Khandakar Ahmed, Bruce Gu, Hua Wang

“…We have evaluated the proposed model on MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets. Simulated experiments demonstrate that our approach improves run time training performance by achieving average accuracy with less communication rounds. …”
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Identification and Validation of Pivotal Genes in Osteoarthritis Combined with WGCNA Analysis by Yang C, Chen X, Liu J, Wang W, Sun L, Xie Y, Chang Q

“…RT-qPCR and WB were further performed to verify the hub gene expression in OA rat.Results: In this study, 35 key genes were identified through differential expression analysis and weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) using the GSE169077 and GSE114007 datasets. Enrichment analysis revealed that these key genes were predominantly enriched in the HIF-1 signaling pathway, ECM-receptor interaction, and FoxO signaling pathway. …”
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Gated Spatial–Temporal Merged Transformer Inspired by Multimask and Dual Branch for Traffic Forecasting by Yongpeng Yang, Zhenzhen Yang, Zhen Yang

“…At last, some experiments, which are performed on several real-world traffic datasets, demonstrate the better results over classic traffic forecasting methods.…”
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Interaction of STIL with FOXM1 regulates SF3A3 transcription in the hepatocellular carcinoma development by Haijun Zhang, Lin Zhang, Ziqi Wu

“…Changes in malignant behavior of HCC cells after downregulation of SF3A3 were assessed by EdU, colony formation, flow cytometry, wound healing, and Transwell invasion assays. Multiple datasets were combined to identify the upstream modifiers of SF3A3. …”
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