Three-Year Outcomes of Patients with Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treated with Aflibercept under the National Health Insurance Program in Taiwan by Kang-Jung Lo, Jin-Yu Chang, Hsin-Yi Chang, Shih-Hwa Chiou, De-Kuang Hwang, Shih-Jen Chen

“…Ninety-nine eyes in 99 patients were followed up for 3 years. The mean age at onset of nAMD was 82.8 ± 9.26 years, and 65% of the patients were male. …”
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IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF PROSTATE TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION IN PATIENTS WITH BENIGN PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA THROUGH INTRAOPERATIVE TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND MONITORING OF THE REMOVED TISS... by V. B. Filimonov, R. V. Vasin, I. S. Sobennikov

“…The average prostate volume atier surgery in patients of the 2nd group was 25.6 ± 1.9 cm3 (p < 0.05). …”
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Nutritional Profiles and Factors Associated with the Intake of Certain Food Types in Patients Undergoing Maxillofacial Prosthetic Rehabilitation: A Cross-Sectional Study by Nehasha Pradhan, Mai Murase, Masako Akiyama, Hiroko Tani, Yuka I. Sumita, Noriyuki Wakabayashi

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Identifying specific subgroups of older patients at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death after discharge in a prospective multicentre cohort in France by Jean-Baptiste Beuscart, Fabien Visade, Genia Babykina, Jesus Carretero-Bravo, Guillaume Deschasse, Vincent Vandewalle

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Development and Preliminary Testing of a Framework to Evaluate Patients' Experiences of the Fundamentals of Care: A Secondary Analysis of Three Stroke Survivor Narratives by Alison L. Kitson, Åsa Muntlin Athlin

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Presence of a High Amount of Stroma and Downregulation of SMAD4 Predict for Worse Survival for Stage I–II Colon Cancer Patients by Wilma E. Mesker, Gerrit-Jan Liefers, Jan M. C. Junggeburt, Gabi W. van Pelt, Paola Alberici, Peter J. K. Kuppen, Noel F. Miranda, Karin A. M. van Leeuwen, Hans Morreau, Karoly Szuhai, Rob A. E. M. Tollenaar, Hans J. Tanke

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Sevoflurane versus propofol on immediate postoperative cognitive dysfunction in patients undergoing cardiac surgery under cardiopulmonary bypass: a comparative analysis by Na Zhao, Rui Qin, Bin Liu, Dongmei Zhang

“…Clinical trial number Not applicable.…”
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Sick leave and disability pension in patients with chronic hepatitis C compared with a matched general population: a nationwide register study by Matti Sällberg, Katharina Büsch, Fredrik Hansson, Michelle Holton, Martin Lagging, Johan Westin, Jan Kövamees, Jonas Söderholm

“…The mean total number of annual workdays lost in 2012 was 126 days in the HCV patient cohort compared with 40 days in the matched general population comparator cohort. …”
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A retrospective study on potential drug‒drug interactions in patients with severe asthma receiving biological therapy: a single-center experience by Mirna Momcilovic, Petra Turcic, Franka Butkovic, Sanja Popovic Grle

“…Interactions of level C, D and X were recorded in, as follows: 83.33%, 25% and 33.33% patients with an average of 4.66, 1.53 and 1.9 interactions per patient. …”
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Cardioprotective effect of crocin in patients with breast cancer receiving anthracycline-based chemotherapy: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study by Xinye Li, Xin Su, Wanping Liang, Li Wang, Chao Yuan, Juping Xu, Yijun Zhang, Yan Liu, Ning Ma, Fan Yang, Yiyuan Yang, Liyuan Tao, Shipeng Sun, Hongcai Shang, Yanwei Xing

“…Anthracycline chemotherapy leads to cardiotoxicity in patients with breast cancer. We performed a double-blind randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of crocin (crocin tablets) in reducing anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity in breast cancer patients. …”
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Assessment of myocardial deformation by CMR tissue tracking reveals left ventricular subclinical myocardial dysfunction in patients with gynecologic cancer undergoing chemotherapy by Kai Tao, Kai Tao, Lu Ye, Yan-Jia-Ni Xu, Yan-Jia-Ni Xu, Meng-Xi Yang, Ru-Tie Yin, Qing-Li Li, Xiao-Juan Lin, Ke-Min Li, Liang Song, Yu Ma, Lan Zhong, Ying Hu, Hua-Yan Xu, Dan-Qing Wang, Ying-Kun Guo

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Liver Expression of Sulphotransferase 2A1 Enzyme Is Impaired in Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: Lack of the Response to Enhanced Expression of PXR by Ewa Wunsch, Marta Klak, Urszula Wasik, Malgorzata Milkiewicz, Malgorzata Blatkiewicz, Elzbieta Urasinska, Olivier Barbier, Dariusz Bielicki, Dimitrios P. Bogdanos, Elwyn Elias, Piotr Milkiewicz

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Efficacy of soft palatal augmentation prosthesis for oral functional rehabilitation in patients with dysarthria and dysphagia: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Naoki Kodama, Tomonori Yokoyama, Takao Mukai, Kana Takao, Takashi Hiraoka, Nobuyuki Arai, Jitsuro Yano, Hiroaki Nagatsuka, Yousuke Manda, Kozo Hanayama, Shogo Minagi

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COVID-19 in India: Health implications and treatment needs of people who use drugs (PWUD) and patients with substance use disorders (SUD) by Gautam Kr GHOSH

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Large Rearrangements in Genes Responsible for Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, <i>MUTYH</i>-Associated Polyposis and Peutz–Jeghers Syndrome in Russian Patients by A. N. Loginova, Yu. A. Shelygin, V. P. Shubin, A. M. Kuzminov, D. Yu. Pikunov, T. A. Saveleva, A. S. Tsukanov

“…Seven large deletions and one large duplication in the APC gene were identified in 83 patients with classic familial adenomatous polyposis, with rate of large rearrangements 9.6 % (8/83). …”
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Prevalence and predictors of permanent pacemaker implantation in patients with aortic stenosis undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a prospective cohort study by Erlend Eriksen, Ronak Rajani, Sahrai Saeed, Svein Rotevatn, Daanyaal Wasim, Øyvind Bleie, Abukar Mohamed Ali, Erik Jerome Stene Packer, Håvard Keilegavlen

“…Among the 548 eligible patients, 173 (31.6%) underwent pacemaker implantation ≤30 days following TAVI, evenly distributed between females and males (29.6% vs 33.6%, p=0.317), with higher implant rates at low-volume phase (2012–2015) and lower implant rates at high-volume phase (2016–2019) (45.8% vs 23.9%, p&lt;0.001). …”
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Validation of a delirium predictive model in patients admitted to surgical intensive care units: a multicentre prospective observational cohort study by Kaweesak Chittawatanarat, Onuma Chaiwat, Sirirat Mueankwan, Sunthiti Morakul, Pitchaya Dilokpattanamongkol, Chayanan Thanakiattiwibun, Arunotai Siriussawakul

“…The optimum cut-off value to discriminate between a high and low probability of postoperative delirium in SICU patients was 115. This cut-off offered the highest value for Youden’s index (0.50), the best AUROC, and the optimum values for sensitivity (78.9%) and specificity (70.9%).Conclusions The model developed by the previous study was able to predict the occurrence of postoperative delirium in critically ill surgical patients admitted to SICUs.Trial registration number Thai Clinical Trail Registry (TCTR20180105001).…”
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Evaluating the antagonist effect of naltrexone implant via opioid challenge tests with escalating doses of hydromorphone injection in former heroin dependent patients by Wei Qu, Xuyi Wang, Chongyang Dong, Tao Zhang, Shugui Yin, Zhijun Sun, Shiqiang Wang, Anni Guo, Wei Hao

“…Thirty-one former opioid-dependent individuals were randomized to the 0.9g or the 1.5g NTX-IMP group. All subjects exhibited significant antagonistic effects during hydromorphone challenge test. …”
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First-in-human phase 1 study of the arginase inhibitor INCB001158 alone or combined with pembrolizumab in patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumours by Michael Smith, Aung Naing, Todd Bauer, Kyriakos P Papadopoulos, Osama Rahma, Elena Garralda, Glenn J Hanna, Michael J Pishvaian, Xuejun Chen, Sven Gogov, Omar Saavedra, Howard Kallender, LuLu Cheng, Emil Kuriakose

“…The most common INCB001158-related AEs were fatigue (n=10/107 (9.3%)) and nausea (n=10/107 (9.3%)) with monotherapy and diarrhoea (n=24/147 (16.3%)) and fatigue (n=22/147 (15.0%)) with combination therapy. …”
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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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