Biological treatment options for eosinophilic asthma, with consideration of markers of eosinophilic inflammation as predictors of treatment efficacy by Aleksandra Niemiec, Olga Branicka, Barbara Rymarczyk, Radosław Gawlik

“…However, the conventional therapy may provide insufficient control of severe asthma and may induce a number of adverse effects when used long-term. These limitations prompted the development of targeted biological drugs that inhibit the mediators involved in T helper 2-inflammation, which is linked to the pathogenesis of asthma, such as interleukin 4, 5, 9, 13 and immunoglobulin E. …”
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Risk Factors and Options to Improve Engraftment in Unrelated Cord Blood Transplantation by Anna D. Petropoulou, Vanderson Rocha

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Rates of Tobacco Use Disorder, Pharmacologic Treatment, and Associated Mental Health Disorders in a Medicaid Claim Review Among Youth in Indiana, USA by Corey McBrayer DO, FAAP, Fangqian Ouyang MS, Zachary Adams PhD, Leslie Hulvershorn MD, Matthew C. Aalsma PhD

“…Purpose This study delineates a number of Medicaid youth with tobacco use disorder (TUD), prescribing habits for treatment, and associated externalizing disorders. …”
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Acupuncture as prophylaxis for chronic migraine: a protocol for a single-blinded, double-dummy randomised controlled trial by Claire Shuiqing Zhang, Bin Li, Lin Zeng, Lu Liu, Luo-peng Zhao, Kelun Wang, Jingxia Zhao, Linpeng Wang, Xianghong Jing

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Mitral Valve Repair by Irbaz Hameed, MD, Adham Ahmed, BS, Christina Waldron, BS, Percy T. Algarate, MD, Michal Kawczynski, MD, Maurish Fatima, MBBS, BS, Amnah Alhazmi, MBBS, Samantha Colon, BS, Alexandria Brackett, MA, MLIS, Samuel Heuts, MD, PhD, Peyman Sardari Nia, MD, PhD, Mario Gaudino, MD, PhD, Vinay Badhwar, MD, Arnar Geirsson, MD

“…Sixteen studies (6,099 patients) reported long-term survival. The overall pooled 10-year survival was 70.8% (95% CI: 68.9%-72.8%). …”
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Using a String Scar Marker with Iodine for CT Simulator in Breast Cancer Cases by Bun Veasna, Nurbaiti Nurbaiti, Nursama Heru Apriantoro

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Endoscopic Closure for EUS and ERCP Related Duodenal Perforation by Endoclips by Yaping Liu, Dong Wang, Zhaoshen Li

“…During the study period, a total of 17,406 patients were treated by EUS and/or ERCP. EUS and ERCP related duodenal perforation occurred in 9 cases (0.05%): 2 males and 7 females. …”
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Personalized metronomic radiopharmaceutical therapy through injection profile optimization via physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling by Aryan Golzaryan, M. Soltani, Farshad Moradi Kashkooli, Babak Saboury, Arman Rahmim

“…Our framework applied to five patients led to increased AD between 2 and 358 Gy (between 2 and 146%) higher than normally administered to patients, safeguarding OARs. …”
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Impact of First- and Second-Generation Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors on the Development of Graft-Versus-Host Disease in Individuals with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia: A Retrospective Anal... by Ugo Giordano, Agnieszka Piekarska, Witold Prejzner, Lidia Gil, Jan Maciej Zaucha, Joanna Kujawska, Zuzanna Dybko, Krzysztof Dudek, Sebastian Giebel, Jarosław Dybko

“…<b>Background</b>: The implementation of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) has brought a significant improvement in the prognosis for CML patients and a decrease in the number of patients requiring allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HCT). …”
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Levosimendan and Global Longitudinal Strain Assessment in Sepsis (GLASSES 1): a study protocol for an observational study by Iacopo Cappellini, Alessandra Melai, Lucia Zamidei, Maddalena Parise, Simone Cipani, Guglielmo Consales

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Comparing propofol anaesthesia guided by Bispectral Index monitoring and frontal EEG wave analysis with standard monitoring in laparoscopic surgery: protocol for the ‘EEG in Genera... by Luzius A Steiner, Salome Dell-Kuster, Bettina U Gruber, Valerie Girsberger, Lukas Kusstatscher, Simon Funk, Anita Luethy, Lien Jakus, Julien Maillard, Christoph S Burkhart

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Influence of SARS-CoV2 Pandemic on Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis, Presentation, and Surgical Management in a Tertiary Center: A Retrospective Study by Roman Taulean, Roxana Zaharie, Dan Valean, Lia Usatiuc, Mohammad Dib, Emil Moiș, Calin Popa, Andra Ciocan, Alin Fetti, Nadim Al-Hajjar, Florin Zaharie

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One-Year Comparison of Efficacy and Safety of PreserFlo MicroShunt with Mitomycin C Applied by Sub-Tenon Injection Versus Sponge by Nora Majtanova, Adriana Takacova, Veronika Kurilova, Libor Hejsek, Juraj Majtan, Petr Kolar

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Esophageal Impedance-pH Monitoring and Pharyngeal pH Monitoring in the Diagnosis of Extraesophageal Reflux in Children by Anna Plocek, Beata Gębora-Kowalska, Jakub Białek, Wojciech Fendler, Ewa Toporowska-Kowalska

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Floating-embedded stems reduce tibial stress shielding in total knee revision arthroplasty by Dominic Schaefer, Artur Barsumyan, Kambiz Roshanghias, Jan Adriaan Graw, Christian Soost, Wolfgang Richter, Jonas Knoche, Arne Ohrndorf, Rene Burchard

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Stent Selection for Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Drainage of Pancreatic Fluid Collections: A Multicenter Study in China by Hui Lin, Xian-Bao Zhan, Si-Yu Sun, Xiu-Jiang Yang, Zhen-Dong Jin, Duo-Wu Zou, Zhao-Shen Li

“…We attempted to establish some guidelines for the selection of transmural stents during endoscopic drainage of PFCs by retrospective review of the clinical data obtained from three tertiary hospitals. Patients and Methods. Clinical data of 93 patients with attempted endoscopic drainage of symptomatic PFCs were obtained through chart review and prospective follow-up. …”
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Comparison of carbon dioxide control during pressure controlled versus pressure-regulated volume controlled ventilation in children (CoCO2): protocol for a pilot digital randomised... by Luregn J Schlapbach, Barbara Brotschi, Kristen S Gibbons, Florian Zapf, Rebeca Mozun, Daphné Chopard, Philipp Baumann, Anika Adam, Vera Jaeggi, Beat Bangerter, Juerg Burren

“…Analysis will occur on an intention-to-treat basis. We aim to enrol 60 patients in total. Recruitment started in January 2024 and continued for 9 months.Ethics and dissemination This study received ethical approval from the Cantonal Ethics Commission of Zurich (identification number: 2022–00829). …”
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Burden of alopecia areata in China, 1990–2021: Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Xiangqian Li, Huixin Liu, Wenhui Ren, Qijiong Zhu, Peng Yin, Lijun Wang, Jianzhong Zhang, Jinlei Qi, Cheng Zhou, Lishao Guo

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Advances in Cell and Immune Therapies for Melanoma by Tanase Timis, Sanda Buruiana, Delia Dima, Madalina Nistor, Ximena Maria Muresan, Diana Cenariu, Adrian-Bogdan Tigu, Ciprian Tomuleasa

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A Shorter Circular Stapler Height at the Gastrojejunostomy during a Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Results in Less Strictures and Bleeding Complications by Michael Horkoff, Kieran Purich, Noah Switzer, Shalvin Prasad, Neal Church, Xinzhe Shi, Philip Mitchell, Estifanos Debru, Shahzeer Karmali, Richdeep Gill

“…The laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) is prone to a number of complications, most notably at the gastrojejunostomy (GJ) staple line. …”
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