Diagnosis and clinical significance of prostate calcification using computed tomography by Seong Cheol Kim, Tae Young Lee, Woocheol Kang, Hoyoung Bae, Ji Hyung Yoon, Sungchan Park, Kyung Hyun Moon, Sang Hyeon Cheon, Taekmin Kwon

“…After applying exclusion criteria (prostate cancer, post-prostatectomy, indwelling urethral catheter, severe artifacts, and software errors), 4,805 patients were included in the final analysis. …”
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Polyurethanes as Biomaterials in Medicine: Advanced Applications, Infection Challenges, and Innovative Surface Modification Methods by Drożdż Kamil, Gołda-Cępa Monika, Brzychczy-Włoch Monika

“…PUs are employed in a diverse array of medical devices, including non-implantable applications such as wound dressings, catheters, and infusion sets; short-term implants like bone stabilizers and tracheostomy tubes; and long-term implants such as tissue regeneration scaffolds, artificial blood vessels, and heart valves. …”
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Effects of different doses marbofloxacin on biochemical and hematological parameters in sheep by Feray Altan, Orhan Çorum, Duygu Durna Çorum, Kamil Üney

“…Blood samples were collected using a catheter placed in the left jugular vein at 0 (pre-treatment), and 10. and 22 hours post-dosing. …”
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Pitfalls, Complications, and Necessity of Education about REBOA: A Single Regional Trauma Center Study by Sol Kim, Jae Sik Chung, Sung Woo Jang, Pil Young Jung

“…There are no significant differences between the educated and non-educated groups in sex, age, ISS, shock, injury-to-REBOA time, injury mechanism, injury sites, arrest, access site, type of catheter, type of REBOA, target Zone, mortality, and the result of REBOA. …”
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Modifiable Risk Factors for Early Mortality on Hemodialysis by Rory McQuillan, Lilyanna Trpeski, Stanley Fenton, Charmaine E. Lok

“…Also, central venous catheter use was associated with a 2.40 fold increase risk of death (CI: 1.4–3.90). …”
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Improvement in Quality Metrics Outcomes and Patient and Family Satisfaction in a Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit after Creation of a Dedicated Neurocritical Care Team by Yaw Sarpong, Premkumar Nattanmai, Ginger Schelp, Robert Bell, Keerthivaas Premkumar, Erin Stapleton, Ashley McCormick, Christopher R. Newey

“…There was a decrease in neurosciences mortality (35.8%), catheter-associated urinary tract infection (50%), central line associated bloodstream infection (100%), and ventilator-associated pneumonia (50%). …”
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Barriers to Implementing Intermittent Catheterisation in Spinal Cord Injury Patients in Northwest Regional Spinal Injuries Centre, Southport, U.K. by Subramanian Vaidyanathan, Bakul M. Soni, Gurpreet Singh, Tun Oo, Peter L. Hughes

“…Barriers to intermittent catheterisation are (1) caregivers or nurses are not available to carry out five or six catheterisations a day; (2) lack of time to perform intermittent catheterisations; (3) unavailability of suitable toilet facilities in public places, including restaurants and offices; (4) redundant prepuce in a male patient, which prevents ready access to urethral meatus; (5) urethral false passage; (6) urethral sphincter spasm requiring the use of flexible-tip catheters and α-drenoceptor–blocking drugs; (7) reluctance to perform intermittent catheterisation in patients >60 years by some health professionals; and (8) difficulty in accessing the urethral meatus for catheterisation while the patient is sitting up, especially in female patients. …”
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De la subsistance à la consommation sélective : quand la pauvreté interroge la sobriété : le cas du glanage alimentaire by Olivia Mercier

“…En prenant pour objet d’étude le glanage alimentaire, activité de récupération des déchets alimentaires, cet article s’attache à montrer que certaines personnes à faibles revenus déploient au quotidien des initiatives économiques et domestiques leur permettant de reprendre en main leur consommation (alimentaire) et de se défaire d’une représentation négative de la pauvreté. …”
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Transjugular Retrograde Obliteration prior to Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Associated with Hyperammonemia due to Spontaneous Portosystemic Shunt by Fumio Chikamori, Nobutoshi Kuniyoshi

“…Via the right internal jugular vein, a 6 F occlusive balloon catheter was inserted superselectively into the mesocaval shunt. …”
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Dorsal venous complex ligation‐free and parietal endopelvic fascia preserving in laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: A prospective study of single centre by Zhong‐Hua Yang, Yong‐Zhi Wang, Tao Liu, Hang Zheng, Xing‐Huan Wang

“…Mean post‐operative hospital stay was 3.9 days (2–5), and the catheter could be removed on post‐operative day 7 to 9. …”
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Genome-wide analyses of genomic diversity, population structure and selection signatures in Italian turkey populations by Medhat S. Saleh, Vincenzo Landi, Martijn F.L. Derks, Gerardo Centoducati, Martien A.M. Groenen, Pasquale De Palo, Elena Ciani, Maria G. Strillacci, Alessandro Bagnato, Nicola Pugliese, Elena Circella, Antonio Camarda

“…Whole genome sequencing (WGS) and genotyping datasets were used to assess genetic variability within and across populations, to perform a genome-wide comparative analysis among populations and to identify selection signatures in Italian turkey populations. …”
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Decoding methane concentration in Alberta oil sands: A machine learning exploration by Liubov Sysoeva, Ilhem Bouderbala, Miles H. Kent, Esha Saha, B.A. Zambrano-Luna, Russell Milne, Hao Wang

“…We introduce a multi-step framework for finding the primary factors associated with higher methane concentrations, powered by machine learning models (such as random forest) trained on high dimensional datasets sourced from multiple weather monitoring stations located in the Lower Athabasca region. …”
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Lipid metabolism indicators provide tools for the diagnosis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: results of a nationwide survey by Yongxin Wang, Chang Fu, Hengwei Jin, Yibo Yang, Xiaocong Li, Xiaocong Li, Kai Liu

“…The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of these lipid-related parameters in diagnosing NAFLD and to compare their predictive abilities.MethodsThis population-based study extracted datasets from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2017–2020. …”
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Delineating urban flooding when incorporating community stormwater knowledge by Madeline Scolio, Peleg Kremer, Virginia Smith, Achira Amur, Bridget Wadzuk, Kate Homet, Eric Devlin, Md Abdullah Al Mehedi, Laura Moore

“…These surveys highlighted different impacts of flooding, depending on the most persistent flood type, pluvial or fluvial, in each area, not present in large datasets. Given the complexity of flooding, there is no single method to fully encompass the impacts on both human well-being and the environment. …”
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Inhibition of METTL14 overcomes CDK4/6 inhibitor resistance driven by METTL14-m6A-E2F1-axis in ERα-positive breast cancer by Chenlin Liu, Dong Fan, Jiahui Sun, Guodong Li, Ruoxin Du, Xiaoshuang Zuo, Kuo Zhang, Wangqian Zhang, Shuning Wang, Xiaojv Li, Mingrui Du, Donghui Wang, Qiang Hao, Yingqi Zhang, Meng Li, Cun Zhang, Yuan Gao

“…Clinical samples and datasets were analyzed and in vitro and in vivo experiments were performed to confirm the critical function of METTL14 in CDK4/6i resistance. …”
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Global meta‐analysis reveals the drivers of gut microbiome variation across vertebrates by Yong Xie, Songsong Xu, Yufei Xi, Zixin Li, Erwei Zuo, Kai Xing, Lijing Bai, Kui Li

“…Additionally, we comprehensively deciphered the common antibiotic resistomes and their potential mobility between terrestrial vertebrate gut microbiome (n = 487) and their sympatric soil biological environment samples (n = 203) by integrating metagenomic sequencing datasets. Particularly, potential horizontal antibiotic resistance genes (e.g., bacA) transfers were detected between vertebrates gut microbiome and their sympatric soil biological environment. …”
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ReliefF guided variable spiral tuna swarm optimization algorithm with somersault foraging for feature selection by Yu-Cai Wang, Jie-Sheng Wang, Min Zhang, Hao-Ming Song, Jia-Ning Hou, Yu-Liang Qi, Yu-Wei Song

“…The proposed algorithm was tested on 18 UCI datasets. The first set of experiments demonstrates the effectiveness of the somersault foraging strategy, ReliefF guiding strategy and variable spiral strategy. …”
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Chemokine family significance and prognostic value in colorectal cancer by Yi Ding, Yi Ding, Yi Ding, Yinnan Chen, Yinnan Chen, Yinnan Chen, Siyun Xie, Quanpeng Qiu, Quanpeng Qiu, Xiaolong Guo, Yun Feng, Yun Feng, Hongxia Li, Hongxia Li, Fang Zhu, Yaping Liu, Yaping Liu, Yaping Liu

“…This study was rigorously augmented using comprehensive datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), ensuring a robust analysis of gene expression patterns associated with clinical outcomes.ResultsThrough data analysis, we identified key genes from the chemokine family thought pertinent to CRC outcomes. …”
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Deregulated methylation and expression of PCDHGB7 in patients with non-small cell lung cancer: a novel prognostic and immunological biomarker by Yue Yuan, Yue Yuan, Xin Nie, Jiayi Gao, Jiayi Gao, Yumeng Tian, Yumeng Tian, Liuer He, Liuer He, Xue Wang, Ping Zhang, Junling Ma, Lin Li, Lin Li

“…Its function in lung cancer has not been elucidated.MethodsWe comprehensively investigated PCDHGB7 expression, prognosis, biological function, methylation patterns, and it’s relationship with immune infiltration and immunotherapy response through public datasets (HPA, TCGA, GEO, OncoDB and MEXPRESS). Two lung cancer immunotherapy cohorts from our clinical center were enrolled to detect the relationship between methylation and protein levels of PCDHGB7 in plasma and immunotherapy outcomes.ResultsPCDHGB7 expression was downregulated in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) and associated with tumor prognosis. …”
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Exploring the impact of insufficient thermal ablation on hepatocellular carcinoma: NDST2 overexpression mechanism and its role in facilitating growth and invasion of residual cance... by Weijun Wan, Danxia Guo, Tong Kang, Jinshu Pang, Yunjing Pan, Jiamin Chen, Wei Liao, Yuji Chen, Peng Lin, Lipeng Li, Hong Yang, Yun He

“…The clinical significance of NDST2 in HCC was evaluated by integrating datasets. Gene ontology and pathway analysis were conducted to explore the potential signaling pathways regulated by NDST2. …”
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