Clinical characteristics and predictive biomarkers of intensive care unit-acquired weakness in patients with cardiogenic shock requiring mechanical circulatory support by Tae Higuchi, Tomomi Ide, Takeo Fujino, Takeshi Tohyama, Yuta Nagatomi, Tomoyuki Nezu, Masataka Ikeda, Toru Hashimoto, Shouji Matsushima, Keisuke Shinohara, Masaaki Nishihara, Takeshi Iyonaga, Tomohiko Akahoshi, Tomoki Ushijima, Akira Shiose, Shintaro Kinugawa, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Kohtaro Abe

“…Twenty-eight cases were enrolled on admission and MRC score was evaluated in 23 cases after awakening. …”
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Evaluation of the Extent of Primary Buccal Mucosal Graft Contracture in Augmentation Urethroplasty for Stricture Urethra: A Prospective Observational Study at a Tertiary Healthcare... by A. BhalaguruIyyan, P. Puvai Murugan, Chandranaath C. Alakhananda, B. M. Zeeshan Hameed

“…All patients with urethral stricture disease undergoing BMG urethroplasty for the first time were enrolled in the study after obtaining informed consent. …”
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The Relationship of immunoglobulin-e and tumor necrosis factor in patients with allergic rhinitis in Babylon province by Bushra Jihad Sabbar, Zenaa Abbass Ali, Tariq Hussein Mgheer

“…Materials and Methods: Eighty subjects for this study were enrolled; 40 of those who have AR age ranged between 18 and 50 years. …”
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Association between lactate dehydrogenase levels and all-cause mortality in ICU patients with heart failure: a retrospective analysis of the MIMIC-IV database by Panxu Guo, Hongfu Ding, Xiaowan Li, Danying Xie, Ke Wang, Wanmin Su, XiaoJuan Yang, Fang Nie, Peixi Wang

“…Results A total of 3,065 subjects were enrolled in this study. RCS analysis revealed a nonlinear relationship between LDH levels and the risk of all-cause mortality in critically ill patients with HF, with a hazard ratio (HR) > 1 when LDH exceeded 315 U/L. …”
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Pilot Trial on Ischemic Conditioning of the Gastric Conduit in Esophageal Cancer: Feasibility and Impact on Anastomotic Leakage (TIGOAL-I) by María-Carmen Fernández-Moreno, MD, PhD, María Eugenia Barrios Carvajal, MD, Fernando López Mozos, MD, PhD, Roberto Martí Obiol, MD, PhD, Jorge Guijarro Rozalén, MD, PhD, Elisabetta Casula, MD, PhD, Joaquín Ortega, MD, PhD

“…Results:. The study enrolled 40 eligible patients. PAE-related morbidity was 10%, with no Clavien-Dindo grade III complications. …”
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Las agencias de empleo en el desarrollo local: Factibilidad de su implementación en Venezuela by Armando Rodríguez Zerpa

“…Al analizar el caso venezolano y la factibilidad de su implementación, se obser va que existe una amplia base legal que obliga a los gobiernos locales a incentivar el nivel de empleo a través de los planes de desarrollo, dentro de los cuales encaja perfectamente la implementación y puesta en marcha de las Agencias de Empleo como motor impulsador del nivel de empleo y el Desarrollo Local.…”
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Clinical Effect of Hufu Copper Scraping on Shoulder-Hand Syndrome after Stroke by Lianyi He, Xinyu Chen, Yuejuan Zhang

“…The intervention effect, occurrence of adverse reactions during the intervention, pain, swelling degree of affected hands, serum calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), substance P (SP), and Barthel index before and after 2 months of intervention were compared between the two groups. …”
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Considerações sobre a formação e transformação da identidade profissional do atleta de futebol no Brasil by Antonio da Costa Ciampa, Clodoaldo Gonçalves Leme, Renato Ferreira de Souza

“…Por ese motivo, las historias de vida y ejemplos del texto, sirven como indicadores de las relaciones sociales entre el "mundo de la pelota", el sueño de una carrera exitosa, la posibilidad real de frustración y la formación y transformación de la identidad psicosocial dentro de la caja de sorpresas que es el fútbol.…”
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The Impact of Vitamin D Deficiency on Coronary Artery Disease Severity Based on Myocardial Perfusion Imaging: A Cross-Sectional Study by Mahdi Haghighatafshar, Behnaz Shekasteband, Tahereh Firuzyar, Zahra Etemadi, Farinaz Farhoudi, Mesbah Shams

“…This study aimed to assess this impact.Methods: This pilot cross-sectional study enrolled two hundred patients referred to Namazi Hospital, Shiraz, Iran for myocardial perfusion imaging in 2019. …”
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Clinical trial participation, clinical care, and patient outcomes by practice setting: a real-world database analysis of patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia or Mantle Cell L... by Debora S. Bruno, Manoj Khanal, Xiaohong Li, Maricer P. Escalon, Katherine Winfree, Lisa M. Hess

“…Academic settings were associated with higher patient volume and were more likely to treat MCL with CAR-T, enroll patients with CLL or MCL to clinical trials, and care for patients who were younger, White, and for CLL with higher rates of del(17p) mutations (all p < 0.01). …”
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El cuerpo es el mensaje: los estereotipos culturales en torno a la feminidad invisible by Álvaro Reyes Toxqui, Cecilia Crystal Zapata Valdespino

“…Esta subjetividad, aunque incluye a las mujeres dentro del imaginario de la esfera pública, las despolitiza. …”
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Association of Subclinical Hypothyroidism in Type 2 Diabetic Individuals by Noor ul ain, Sheikh Abdul Saeed, Muhammad sajid Abbas jaffri, Shazia Shakoor, Shah jabeen, Sana Kashif

“…Methodology: After taking an informed consent from each study subject a total of 72 type 2 diabetic patients were enrolled in this study and all of them underwent thyroid tests, including TSH, free T3 and free T4. …”
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Ranibizumab for Visual Impairment due to Diabetic Macular Edema: Real-World Evidence in the Italian Population (PRIDE Study) by Ugo Menchini, Francesco Bandello, Vincenzo De Angelis, Federico Ricci, Luigi Bonavia, Francesco Viola, Elisa Muscianisi, Massimo Nicolò

“…Majority of patients were not treatment-naïve before enrollment. Patients received ranibizumab as per the EU label (2011). …”
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Caracterización agronómica de materiales extraterritoriales de quinua (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) en la provincia Bolívar by David Silva-García, Eduardo Rodríguez-Maldonado, Andrea Román-Ramos

“… La quinua originaria de Sudamérica ha tomado importancia en los últimos años dentro de los sistemas de producción debido a su importancia económica y valor nutricional. …”
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Adherence to CRC Screening and Surveillance Guidelines when Using Split-Dose Bowel Preparation by Stacy B. Menees, H. Myra Kim, Grace H. Elta, Sheryl Korsnes, Philip Schoenfeld

“…Results. 462 participants were prospectively enrolled. 13.6% (62) had guideline-inconsistent recommendations. 89% of the guideline-inconsistent recommendations were for an earlier interval. …”
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Prospective Clinical Trial for Septic Arthritis: Cartilage Degradation and Inflammation Are Associated with Upregulation of Cartilage Metabolites by Hagen Schmal, Anke Bernstein, Matthias J. Feucht, Benjamin Erdle, Jan M. Pestka, That Minh Pham, Eva Johanna Kubosch

“…Patients with acute joint infections were enrolled in a prospective clinical trial and the cytokine composition of effusions (n=76) was analyzed. …”
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Short-term and long-term revision rates after lumbar spine discectomy versus laminectomy: a population-based cohort study by Yao-Chun Hsu, Feng-Chen Kao, Chang-Bi Wang, Yuan-Kun Tu, Pao-Hsin Liu

“…This study aimed to compare these two surgical treatments in the postoperative revision rates.Design A population-based cohort study from analysis of a healthcare database.Setting Data were gathered from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD).Participants We enrolled 16 048 patients (4450 women and 11 598 men) with a mean age of 40.34 years who underwent lumbar discectomy or laminectomy for the first time between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 2007. …”
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Assessment of Vascular Change Using Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography: A New Theory Explains Central Visual Loss in Behcet’s Disease by Thanapong Somkijrungroj, Sritatath Vongkulsiri, Wijak Kongwattananon, Peranut Chotcomwongse, Sasivarin Luangpitakchumpol, Korrawan Jaisuekul

“…Twenty-one patients were enrolled (52.4% males). The average age at onset was 36.7 ± 12.93 years. …”
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The anti-PD-L1/CTLA-4 bispecific antibody KN046 plus lenvatinib in advanced unresectable or metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma: a phase II trial by Da Xu, Hongwei Wang, Quan Bao, Kemin Jin, Ming Liu, Wei Liu, Xiaoluan Yan, Lijun Wang, Yanqiao Zhang, Guangyu Wang, Yue Ma, Zhigang Ma, Chunhui Zhang, Jiebing Tang, Sha Wang, Jiaohui Pang, Ting Xu, Kun Wang, Baocai Xing

“…A total of fifty-five participants were enrolled. The results meet the pre-specified primary endpoints. …”
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miR-141-3p is Poorly Expressed in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Correlates with Glucose and Lipid Metabolism by Lingye Fan, Chunyan Wang, Ping Zhan, Yaofang Liu

“…A total of 100 PCOS patients and 100 healthy controls were enrolled in this study. Clinical parameters and glucose and lipid indexes were analyzed. …”
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