Comparison of Simulated and True Keratometry Measurements Using Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography and Dual Scheimpflug–Placido Imaging by Elizabeth A. Urias, Efstathia Polychronopoulou, Rahul T. Pandit

“…A retrospective chart review was conducted for all patients undergoing phacoemulsification by a single surgeon (RTP) from March through September 2020 and who underwent imaging with both the IOLMaster 700 and Galilei G4. …”
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Preoperative vs Postoperative Patient Outcome and Recovery Expectations of Total Joint Arthroplasty by Siddhartha Dandamudi, BBA, Kyleen Jan, MD, Madelyn Malvitz, BS, Anne DeBenedetti, MSc, Omar Behery, MD, MPH, Brett R. Levine, MD, MS

“…Expectations of long-term pain differed: 48.3% of preoperative patients expected no pain and 1.7% expected to be unable to move; postoperatively, 7.3% (P < .0001) reported no pain and 10.3% (P = .03) were unable to move; 17.3% of patients finished PT within 2 weeks, compared to 1.7% who believed this was possible (P =.0027). A total of 73.1% of postoperative patients requested additional weeks of PT. …”
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Acute Angiographic and Intermediate-Term Clinical Results of Patients with Non-Left Main Coronary Bifurcation Lesions Treated with BVS by Jailed Semi-Inflated Balloon Technique and... by Chieh-Shou Su, Keng-Hao Chang, Chih-Hung Lai, Yu-Wei Chen, Tzu-Hsiang Lin, Hung-Chih Pan, Tsun-Jui Liu, Wen-Lieng Lee

“…Sixty-eight patients with non-LM CABD who had undergone provisional one-stent implantation with SB protection by JSIBT between January 2015 and December 2017 were retrospectively enrolled. …”
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CONSTANT MURLEY SCORE ON PATIENTS POST SUPRASPINATUS RECONSTRUCTION WITH MEMBRANE AMNION COMPOSITE AND FAT TISSUE ALLOGENIC MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL AUGMENTATION by Heri Suroto, Bayu Antara Hadi, Goklas Ridwan Ricardo Gultom

“…Methods: Retrospective comparation study of 15 postsupraspinatus reparation patients who has been treated for more than 4 months at the Dr. …”
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Association between blood hemoglobin levels, anemia, and body mass index in children and women of Myanmar: findings from a nationally representative health study by Shiva Raj Acharya, Diwash Timilsina, Sabitri Acharya

“…Abstract Despite the high prevalence of anemia and malnutrition in Myanmar, the relationship between anemia and body mass index (BMI) remains underexplored. We analyzed nationally representative data from the Myanmar Demographic and Health Survey (MDHS) 2015–2016 to explore the effects of BMI on hemoglobin levels and anemia among children (n = 2,937) and women (n = 9,262). …”
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Brief Coping Scale TCS-9: Optimising the Assessment of Coping Strategies. The case of Health Care Workers. by Basant K. Puri, Anastasia Miari, Maria Theodoratou

“…# Background The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the focus on mental health, particularly on the coping strategies of healthcare workers who have faced unparalleled stress due to their pivotal role in addressing health disparities and determinants of health. …”
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Voices of change: experiences of early women urology residents — a single institution qualitative research study by Aurora J. Grutman

“…Methods A convenience sample of women residents who trained at the Brady Urological Institute between 1980 and 2022 was chosen. …”
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Polypharmacy and self-medication among older adults in Indian urban communities—a cross-sectional study by Saibal Das, Pavithra Gnanavel, Shalini Smanla, Anku Moni Saikia, Shilpi Mishra, Shweta Khare, S. Arun Murugan, Vadanere Nidhi Prakash, Parimita Roychoudhury, Ishteyaque Ahmad, Vishal Diwan, J. Rajesh, K. Sathish Kumar, Jugal Kishore, Namita Srivastava, Sabrina Yasmin, Mahmuda Nasrin, Rinku Borah, Mandeep Sarma Basistha, Chetanjit Baruah, Manoj Kalita, Shambo Samrat Samajdar, Jerin Jose Cherian, Ashish Pathak, Samiran Panda, Santanu Kumar Tripathi, Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg

“…The prevalence of self-medication was 19.7% (95% CI 16.6–23.1%), associated with factors, such as staying alone [aOR 4.5 (95% CI 2.4–6.6)], multiple comorbidities [aOR 3 (95% CI 1.4–6.7)], and recent hospitalization [aOR 4.8 (95% CI 1.5–8)]. Among those who self-medicated, 65.3% lacked knowledge of self-medication, 50% did not comprehend the risks, and 40.7% reported unsafe self-medication practices. …”
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The Efficacy of Paxman Scalp Cooling System in Preventing Hair Loss in Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy in Western India – Multi-centre Retrospective Cohort Study by Mangesh Mekha, Ashish Joshi, Vashishth Maniar, Udip Maheshwari, Kshitij Joshi, Pritam Kalaskar, Smit Sheth, Pradip Kendre, Disha Morzaria, Reshma Korgavkar, Chandrashekhar Pethe, Sonal Dhande

“…The univariate analysis results showed that CIA was significantly higher in patients who received anthracyclines (OR: 2.69; 95% CI: 1.04–6.958; P = 0.041) and in patients with a post-infusion cooling time of >150 minutes (OR: 8.409; 95% CI: 2.295–30.787; P = 0.001). …”
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Potential health and economic impact of achieving Kenya’s overweight and obesity reduction target: a modelling study by J Lennert Veerman, Leopold Ndemnge Aminde, Mary Njeri Wanjau

“…Introduction Kenya has adopted the WHO target of halting the rise of overweight, including obesity, by 2025. …”
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Longitudinal trends of high school physics students’ perceptions of experience, difficulty, and development in a long-term inquiry framework by Michal Sigron, Dorothy Langley, Stanisław Dylak, Edit Yerushalmi

“…The quantitative analysis revealed four groups of inquiry components, only two of which aligned with the hypothesis. The quantitative findings are explained based on program design and qualitative data about student effort and ways of coping and teacher-mentor scaffolding methods.…”
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Consideration of Sufficient and Insufficient Benefits in Hearing Aid Fitting by Yoshihiro Nitta, Hajime Sano, Shogo Furuki, Sachie Umehara, Yuki Hara, Taku Yamashita

“…An insufficient benefit was defined as speech discrimination being better at 65 dB sound pressure level (SPL) with HAs than without HAs and worse at 80 dB SPL. …”
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Mixed methods study protocol to examine perceptions of family medicine among long-term patients of a family medicine clinic in Japan by Tesshu Kusaba, Kotaro Sato, Ryoko Michinobu

“…Previous studies in Japan have examined the general population’s understanding of FM as a medical specialty, but none have explored this topic using actual FM clinic patients. Here, we describe a protocol to explore the perceptions of FM among long-term patients of one of Japan’s oldest FM clinics.Methods and analysis The study will be conducted at the Motowanishi Family Clinic in Hokkaido, Japan, using patients who have attended the clinic for over 10 years. …”
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Handshake antimicrobial stewardship for adult surgical patients by Abby Kosharek, Elizabeth Neuner, Emily Welch, Spenser January, Alice Bewley, Kevin Hsueh, Sena Sayood

“…The handshake stewardship team consisted of an infectious diseases (ID) physician and pharmacist who reviewed charts of patients receiving systemic antimicrobials without a formal ID consult. …”
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Triglyceride-glucose index is associated with microcirculatory resistance in patients with type 2 diabetes and STEMI undergoing primary PCI by Guoyu Wang, Cen Xu, Jian Wang, Zhimei Teng, Xiang Sha, Kai Xu, Ruzhu Wang, Li Zhu

“…However, the association between the TyG index and the AMR in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) remains unclear. We consecutively recruited 168 patients with T2DM and STEMI who underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI) at Taizhou People’s Hospital from January 2022 to December 2023. …”
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Regime Change: The Need for Scientific Critical Consciousness by Usama Javed Mirza

“…This is illustrated by presenting a “revamped” curriculum of the Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) O’ level physics, complete with a learning outcomes and assessment framework. …”
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Relapse-free survival is progressively shortened in a subset of Black patients with immune-mediated TTP treated in the rituximab era by Ayotola Fatola, Michael D. Evans, Jenna Brown, Elizabeth Davis, Andrew Johnson, Ana G. Antun, Andrew M. Farland, Ryan Woods, Ara Metjian, Yara A. Park, Gustaaf de Ridder, Briana Gibson, Raj S. Kasthuri, Darla K. Liles, Susan Eubanks, Frank Akwaa, Todd Clover, Lisa Baumann Kreuziger, J. Evan Sadler, Meera Sridharan, Ronald S. Go, Keith R. McCrae, Harsh Vardhan Upreti, Ming Y. Lim, Nicole K. Kocher, Radhika Gangaraju, X. Long Zheng, Jay S. Raval, Camila Masias, Spero R. Cataland, Marshall Mazepa, Shruti Chaturvedi

“…Using the United States Thrombotic Microangiopathy Consortium (USTMA) retrospective iTTP registry, we evaluated clinical relapse-free survival (RFS) with subsequent courses of rituximab treatment in multiply relapsing patients. …”
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Feasibility of the area reduction post-closure technique for bedside weaning of veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation by Chen Xu, Guo-xiong Xu, Yi-fei Cao, Lei Chen, Yi-qi Jin

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Coronavirus Disease-19 associated arthritis – An observational study by Debanjali Sinha, Sumantro Mondal, Alakendu Ghosh

“…Methods: We have collected the clinical data of 14 patients over the past 6 months who have developed arthralgia or arthritis during or after symptomatic COVID-19 infection, proven by a positive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction test from nasopharyngeal swab. …”
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Intra-abdominal pressure and residual renal function decline in peritoneal dialysis: a threshold-based investigation by Jingjing Zhang, Lei Song, Zhongwei Ma, Lina Sun, Xiaoqing Wang, Duanyan Liu, Feng Huang, Yulin Man

“…Additionally, an optimal critical pressure of 15.65 cmH2O was identified for predicting the rate of RRF decline. …”
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