Changes in Corneal Higher-Order Aberrations and Ocular Biometric Measurements after Phacoemulsification Combined with Goniosynechialysis in Primary Angle Closure/Glaucoma Patients by Jiali Xia, Siqi Guo, Fei Hu, Liqi Fan, Ling Yu, Jian Ye

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Clinical Trial of Human Fetal Brain-Derived Neural Stem/Progenitor Cell Transplantation in Patients with Traumatic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury by Ji Cheol Shin, Keung Nyun Kim, Jeehyun Yoo, Il-Sun Kim, Seokhwan Yun, Hyejin Lee, Kwangsoo Jung, Kyujin Hwang, Miri Kim, Il-Shin Lee, Jeong Eun Shin, Kook In Park

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Effects of biophilic virtual reality on cognitive function of patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery: study protocol for a sham randomised controlled trial by Bin Gao, Yanling Zhou, Jianhua Wang, Binbin Zhu, Qiuyan Weng, Wenjun Luo, Xiuchao He, Lufei Jin, Qinwen Wang, Ahmad Khaled Ahmad Harb

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Therapeutic effects of acupuncture therapy for kidney function and common symptoms in patients with chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Shan Liu, Fan Zhang, Yan Bai, Liuyan Huang, Yifei Zhong, Yi Li

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Trends to shorter diagnostic delay in spondyloarthritis patients during the last decades and association with clinical presentation: data from ASAS-COMOSPA study by Robert Landewé, Désirée van der Heijde, Filip van den Bosch, Maxime Dougados, Anna Molto, Stefan Siebert, Juergen Braun, Yuko Kaneko, Adeline Ruyssen-Witrand, Martin Soubrier, Atsuo Taniguchi, Masato Okada, Alain Cantagrel, Shigeto Kobayashi, Jon Packham, Philippe Goupille, Rene-Marc Flipo, Alain Saraux, Philippe Gaudin, Roberto Caporali, Raj Sengupta, James Cheng-Chung Wei, Tetsuya Tomita, Fernando Pimentel-Santos, Alberto Ortiz, Gaëlle Varkas, Alejandro Martínez, Shigeyoshi Tsuji, Alejandro Alvarellos, José Maldonado-Cocco, Yoshinori Taniguchi, Fadoua Allali, Raquel Almodovar González, Elena Alonso Blanco-Morales, Maria Aparicio Espinar, Pamir Atagunduz, Pauline Bakker, Leila Benbrahim, Bahia Benchekroun, Alberto Berman, Pedro Carvalho, Gustavo Casado, Francisco Colombres, Eugenio del Miguel Mendieta, Vanesa Duarte, Cristina Fernandez Carballido, Manuel Fernandez-Prada, Pilar Font Ugalde, Dolors Grados Cánovas, Jordi Gratacós Masmitjá, Vittorio Grosso, Naomi Ichikawa, Hisashi Inoue, Taku Kawasaki, Manjari Lahiri, Hernán Maldonado-Ficco, Kazuo Matsui, Ramón Mazzuchelli Esteban, Corinne Micelli, Chisun Min, Mitsuhiro Morita, Juan Mulero Mendoza, Gisela Pendón, Dora Pereira, Hanan Rkain, Oscar Rillo, Carlos Rodriguez Lozano, Adrián Salas, Carlos Salinas-Ramos, Amelia Santosa, Caroline Spiegel, Carmen Stolwijk, Kurisu Tada, Naoho Takizawa, Chung Tei Chou, Lay-Keng Teoh, Wen-Chan Tsai, Olga Tsyplenkova, Kiana Vakil-Gilani, Rafael Valle-Oñate, Virginia Villaverde, Ai Yap, Pedro Zarco Montejo, Juan C Barreira, Juan D Diaz-Garcia, Michel De Bandt, Astrid van Tubergen, Rodolfo Pérez-Alamino, T Marhadour, Christian Waimann, Mari CruzFernandez Espartero, Jose Raul NogueraPons, José A PereiradaSilva

“…A possible interaction between decade of disease onset and initial clinical presentation was performed.Results The overall median delay from disease onset to SpA diagnosis was 2.9 (p25−75=0.3–9.8) years. Diagnostic delay showed a progressive decrease during the last decades, patients with disease onset after 2010 showed a shorter delay in diagnosis than those with disease onset during 2000–2010 (m 2.00 vs 0.41 years, p<0.01). …”
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Effects of 24 Weeks of Growth Hormone Treatment on Bone Microstructure and Volumetric Bone Density in Patients with Childhood-Onset Adult GH Deficiency by Hongbo Yang, Kemin Yan, Yuping Xu, Linjie Wang, Qi Zhang, Fengying Gong, Huijuan Zhu, Weibo Xia, Hui Pan

“…In radius, cortical perimeter (74.1 ± 10.0 vs 75.0 ± 10.9 mm, p=0.034), trabecular thickness (0.208 ± 0.013 vs 0.212 ± 0.013 mm, p=0.008), trabecular separation (0.743 ± 0.175 vs 0.796 ± 0.199 mm, p=0.019), and inhomogeneity of network (Tb.1/N.SD) (0.292 ± 0.087 vs 0.317 ± 0.096 mm, p=0.026) were significantly improved, while trabecular number (1.363 ± 0.294 vs 1.291 ± 0.325 1/mm, p=0.025) decreased significantly. …”
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The Impact of Targeted Therapies on Red Blood Cell Aggregation in Patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Evaluated Using Software Image Flow Analysis by Anika Alexandrova-Watanabe, Emilia Abadjieva, Lidia Gartcheva, Ariana Langari, Miroslava Ivanova, Margarita Guenova, Tihomir Tiankov, Velichka Strijkova, Sashka Krumova, Svetla Todinova

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Magnitude and Its Associated Factors of Urinary Tract Infection among Adult Patients Attending Tigray Region Hospitals, Northern Ethiopia, 2019 by Abrha Hailay, Kidane Zereabruk, Guesh Mebrahtom, Woldu Aberhe, Degena Bahrey

“…Urinary tract infection is a major public health problem in terms of morbidity and mortality worldwide. It ranks as the number one infection which leads to an antibiotic prescription after a physician’s visit. …”
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Subthreshold Micropulse Laser (577 nm) Therapy with an Individual Approach for Power Titration in Patients with Chronic Central Serous Chorioretinopathy (Pilot Study) by Taras Kustryn, Oleg Zadorozhnyy, Illia Nasinnyk, Nataliya Pasyechnikova, Andrii Korol

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Predicted indirectly recognizable HLA epitopes scores and clinical outcomes after haploidentical stem cell transplantation in pediatric patients with relapsed neuroblastoma by Eun Seop Seo, Eun Seop Seo, In Hwa Jeong, In Hwa Jeong, Hee Young Ju, Ju Kyung Hyun, Ji Won Lee, Keon Hee Yoo, Won Young Heo, Ki Woong Sung, Hee Won Cho, Eun-Suk Kang

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Prevalence and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Bacterial Uropathogens Isolated from Pediatric Patients at Yekatit 12 Hospital Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by Yamirot Merga Duffa, Kumera Terfa Kitila, Dereje Mamuye Gebretsadik, Adane Bitew

“…Of these patients, 61 (15.9%) had significant bacteriuria. Of the 185 females, 36 (19.5%) came up with positive cultures, while 25 (12.6%) of the 199 males had significant bacteriuria, and the largest number of study subjects were below the age of 3 years, and the largest positive culture was obtained from this age group, accounting for 35 (57.4%.) out of 61 positive cultures. …”
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Shorter versus longer durations of antibiotic treatment for patients with community-acquired pneumonia: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Gordon Guyatt, Arnav Agarwal, Mark Loeb, John Basmaji, Ya Gao, Maryam Ghadimi, Layla Bakaa, Luis Enrique Colunga Lozano, Saad Asif, Aninditee Das

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Intraperitoneal paclitaxel for patients with primary malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: a phase I/II dose escalation and safety study—INTERACT MESO by Job P van Kooten, Jacobus W A Burger, Cornelis Verhoef, Joachim G J V Aerts, Eva V E Madsen, Alexandra R M Brandt-Kerkhof, Stijn L W Koolen, Ron H J Mathijssen, Michelle V Dietz, Niels A D Guchelaar

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«No-reflow» phenomenon and risk factors associated with its development after primary percutaneous coronary interventions in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction by V.І. Tseluyko, M.M. Doloh, O.A. Leonenko

“…NRP was determined after recanalization of the infarct-associated coronary artery as the absence of optimal myocardial perfusion using MBG (Myocardial Blush Grade, MBG ≤ 2) scale. All patients after PCI, depending on the angiographic pattern, were divided into two groups: patients with NRP were assigned to the main group, n = 18 (17.1 %), patients whose angiographic data met the criteria for successful PCI, were appropriately allocated to the control group, n = 87 (82.9 %). …”
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Construction and evaluation of a triage assessment model for patients with acute non-traumatic chest pain: mixed retrospective and prospective observational study by Xuan Zhou, Gangren Jian, Yuefang He, Yating Huang, Jie Zhang, Shengfang Wang, Yunxian Wang, Ruofei Zheng

“…Triage assessment urgently requires the use of simple, rapid tools to screen patients with chest pain for high-risk condition to improve patient outcomes. …”
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Diagnosis and management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in patients with ischaemic heart disease and acute coronary syndromes - a review of evidence and recommendations by Muhammad Usman Shah, Muhammad Usman Shah, Alun Roebuck, Bala Srinivasan, Joanna Kate Ward, Paul Edward Squires, Claire Elizabeth Hills, Kelvin Lee, Kelvin Lee

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The influence of exercise modality and intensity on ventricular arrhythmia burden and perception of effort in patients with Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy with pla... by Fernando G. Beltrami, Kyle G. P. J. M. Boyle, Guan Fu, Corinna Brunckhorst, Firat Duru, Christina M. Spengler, Ardan M. Saguner

“…Thus, such exercises might be better suited for training in ARVC patients. Generalized recommendations for a maximum HR of 120 bpm during exercise likely predispose a high number of ARVC patients to inadvertently perform high-intensity exercise, risking accelerating disease progression. …”
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Foot screening and customized health education program for patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy: A nurse-led, real-world observational study by Shuhong Liu, Hexiao Ding, Dandan Li, Fen Lu, Gumei Luo, Yujin He, Hui Li, Xiuhong Zeng, Kaixin Li, Dong-E Gong, Xiling Hu, Yanming Chen, Xubin Yang

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Efficacy and Safety of Sofosbuvir-Based Direct-Acting Antiviral Agents Treatment for Patients with Genotype 3/6 Hepatitis C Virus Infection by Yong-yu Mei, You-ming Chen, Yuan-kai Wu, Xiao-hong Zhang, Wen-xiong Xu

“…The numbers of chronic hepatitis, compensated cirrhosis, and decompensated cirrhosis patients were 39, 9, and 6, respectively. …”
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Antiviral Treatment Alters the Frequency of Activating and Inhibitory Receptor-Expressing Natural Killer Cells in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infected Patients by Juan Lv, Qinglong Jin, Haibo Sun, Xiumei Chi, Xiaoli Hu, Hongqing Yan, Yu Pan, Weihua Xiao, Zhigang Tian, Jinlin Hou, Damo Xu, Zhengkun Tu, Junqi Niu

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