Validation of mortality risk scores after esophagectomy by Sabine Schiefer, Nerma Crnovrsanin, Ingmar F. Rompen, Nicolas Jorek, Mohammed Al-Saeedi, Thomas Schmidt, Henrik Nienhüser, Leila Sisic

“…Each patient’s risk was calculated using three models: the International Esodata Study Group (IESG) 90-day mortality risk prediction, the Steyerberg 30-day mortality score, and the Fuchs et al. preoperative in-hospital mortality score (Fuchs score). …”
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50 Years of the Journal of the Brazilian College of Surgeons: History, Evolution and Future Prospects by GERSON ALVES PEREIRA JUNIOR, ANDREIA CRISTINA FEITOSA DO CARMO, JULIA CASTRO NEVES, RAMIRO COLLEONI NETO

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Lecture de Sébastien Farré, La Suisse et l’Espagne de Franco. De la guerre civile à la mort du dictateur (1936-1975) by Rose Duroux

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The Challenge of Implementing Smoking Prevention Measures in Malaysia: An Analysis from a Hadith Perspective by Rahim Kamarul Zaman, Ahmad Sanusi Azmi, Razin Mohamed Rosli, Alia Abdul Rashid

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Improvement of Renal Function by Long-Term Sustained Eculizumab Treatment in a Patient with Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria by Haruhiko Ninomiya, Naoshi Obara, Akiko Niiori-Onishi, Yasuhisa Yokoyama, Mamiko Sakata-Yanagimoto, Yuichi Hasegawa, Shigeru Chiba

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Editorial by Jörg Tremmel, Marisa dos Reis, Joseph Burke, Raphaelle Schwarzberg (†)

“… Future generations lack representation in current day politics. Modern representative democracies are largely oriented to the short term. …”
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Evaluation of practices and attitudes of caregivers influencing adherence to seasonal malaria chemoprevention in children under five years of age: the case of Rural Embangweni, Mzi... by Chisomo Salangwa, Reston Munthali, Lusungu Mfune, Vegha Kaunga Nyirenda

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Game, set and message by Charl Durand Charl Durand

“…In the days before mass media, the sports message sent to those absent from the action on the field contained little else of fact other than a score, and a winner, and the message reached the receiver a day, a week or a month later. …”
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Effect of Matrine on growth performance, gut health, and gut microbiota in chickens infected with avian pathogenic Escherichia coli by Ningning Mao, Yaming Yu, Jiqin Cui, Jin He, Yang Yang, Deyun Wang

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A Case of Adenomatous Goiter Involving Diffuse, Acute, and Painful Thyroid Enlargement after Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology by Toshiro Shimo, Katsuhiro Tanaka, Ryohei Ogata, Wataru Saito, Yusuke Ohta, Yoshikazu Koike, Tetsumasa Yamashita, Yutaka Yamamoto, Junichi Kurebayashi

“…Thus, we continued the steroid (prednisone) treatment, but the dose was gradually reduced from 10 mg/day to 5 mg/day at 1 week after the patient’s symptoms disappeared. …”
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Phenotypic characteristics of indigenous dairy buffaloes of Bangladesh by Md O. Faruque, Abdullah I. Omar, Y. Zhang, Md Mohsin T. Raju, Sahed Hossain

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Association between nutritional status, daily nutrition delivery and clinical outcomes of critically ill adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit: a protocol for Isfahan... by Awat Feizi, Sabrina Schlesinger, Nafiseh Shokri-Mashhadi, Somayeh Rajaii, Milad Nasiri Jounaghani

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Quantification of Rear-End Crash Risk and Analysis of Its Influencing Factors Based on a New Surrogate Safety Measure by Qiangqiang Shangguan, Ting Fu, Junhua Wang, Rui Jiang, Shou’en Fang

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Assessing waste separation behaviour in Nigeria: implications for post-Covid-19 pandemic waste management strategies by Tolulope B Olaiya, Shuliang Zhao, Oyewale D Abioye, Uzoamaka P Mgbachi, Oluwabunmi A Falebita

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Persistent Bacteremia from Pseudomonas aeruginosa with In Vitro Resistance to the Novel Antibiotics Ceftolozane-Tazobactam and Ceftazidime-Avibactam by Louie Mar Gangcuangco, Patricia Clark, Cynthia Stewart, Goran Miljkovic, Zane K. Saul

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Complementary feeding and the early origins of obesity risk: a study protocol by Daniel D Reidpath, Ireneous N Soyiri, Naleena Devi Muniandy, Pascale A Allotey

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The sport and Lithuanian national identity by Ingvaras Butautas, Rasa Čepaitienė

“…This process was painful. More than one and a half years of lasting boycott of international sports federations almost ruined the Lithuanian sport system. …”
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Respiratory Failure due to Possible Donor-Derived Sporothrix schenckii Infection in a Lung Transplant Recipient by Nathan C. Bahr, Katherine Janssen, Joanne Billings, Gabriel Loor, Jaime S. Green

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Is There Any Point in a Corticosteroid Treatment of Intermittent Asthma? by Ivana Stankovic, Tatjana Pejcic, Branislava Milenkovic, Dragana Jovanovic, Milan Rancic

“…In Group B, there was a statistically significant decrease of lung function parameters FEV1 (3.80 vs. 3.71) (p < 0.001), forced vital capacity (FVC) (4.43 vs. 4.37) (p < 0.001), FEV1/FVC (88.2 vs. 85.3) (p < 0.05), PEF (8.05 vs. 7.51) (p < 0.01), PEF variability (17.85 vs. 18.33) (p < 0.001), increased BHR (PD20 1.04 vs. 0.62) (p < 0.05), and symptom scores (0.46 vs. 0.62) (p < 0.01), as well as the use of rescue medication during the day (p < 0.001). …”
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A new prognostic model based on serum apolipoprotein AI in patients with HBV-ACLF and acutely decompensated liver cirrhosis by Ruidong Mo, Zhenglan Zhang, Yanmei Zhou, Yue Wang, Pengbo Yin, Chenxi Zhang, Haoshuang Fu, Cong Qian, Xiaogang Xiang, Rongkun Yin, Qing Xie

“…A new prognostic score-integrated serum lipid profile for ACLF patients (Lip-ACLF score = 0.86×International Normalized Ratio (INR) + 0.0034×total bilirubin (TBIL) (µmol/L) + 0.99× hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) (HRS: no/1; with/2) + 0.50×hepatic encephalopathy (HE) (grade/ponint: no/1; 1–2/2; 3–4/3) − 2.97×apoAI (g/L) + 5.2) was subsequently designed for the derivation cohort. …”
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