The Wandering Character in the Coen Brothers’ Films: When the Southern Gothic Meets the Western by Julie Assouly

“…Characters roaming the American territory in search of money or adventure are also part of the Southern literary tradition. The Coens admitted they had Flannery O’Connor’s works in mind when they created some of the characters in The Ladykillers (2004), or O Brother, Where Art Thou? …”
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Plexiform Schwannoma of the Penis: A Rare Subtype of Genital Schwannoma by Chrysovalantis Gkekas, Vasileios Kalyvas, Evangelos N. Symeonidis, Apostolos Malioris, Michail Papathanasiou, Nikolaos Kalinderis, Kyriakos Moisidis, Konstantinos Hatzimouratidis

“…After sonographic and magnetic resonance evaluation the patient was admitted to theatre and underwent topical resection of the lesions. …”
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Effect Of Nutritional Status On The Surgical Patients Using Subjective Global Assessment by Tahir Ali Mabroor Malik, Fahad Akhtar, Kanza Farrukh, Muhammad Arslan, Fahim Sakhizada, S.H. Waqar

“… Objective: To assess the effects of nutritional status on surgical patients using a Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) scale Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the Department of General Surgery, PIMS Islamabad from March 2022 to February 2024. All admitted patients in the ward were recruited by convenient sampling during the study period. …”
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Efficiency and Safety of Prolonged Levosimendan Infusion in Patients with Acute Heart Failure by Georgios Aidonidis, Ioannis Kanonidis, Vasileios Koutsimanis, Till Neumann, Raimund Erbel, Georgios Sakadamis

“…Methods. 70 patients admitted to the emergencies with decompensated chronic heart failure received intravenously levosimendan without a loading dose up to 72 hours. …”
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Ultrasound-Guided Multiple Peripheral Nerve Blocks in a Superobese Patient by Alper Kilicaslan, Ahmet Topal, Atilla Erol, Hale Borazan, Onur Bilge, Seref Otelcioglu

“…We present a case report of a 31-year-old, ASA-PS II, super obese man (190 kg, 180 cm, BMI: 58 kg/m2) admitted to the emergency department with a type II segmental tibia shaft fracture and ankle dislocation after a vehicle accident. …”
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Optic Chiasmitis as an Isolated Manifestation of Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein-Associated Disease – a Case Report by Nina Barankiewicz-Tyc, Karolina Kania, Wojciech Kozubski

“…Case report We report a case of a 43-year-old patient who was admitted to our department because of a two-month history of headaches and constant, symmetrical blurriness over the temporal sides of vision. …”
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Bilious Vomiting in the Newborn: A Three-Year Experience in a Tertiary Medical and Surgical Centre by Rebecca A Lee, Theodore Dassios, Ravindra Bhat, Anne Greenough

“…During the study period, 48 infants were admitted with bilious vomiting. Forty-five infants had upper gastrointestinal (UGI) contrast studies, and only six had an abnormal study: four had malrotation and two had Hirschsprung’s disease. …”
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First line antiepileptics and their hidden risks - a unique case report on diffuse calvarial thickening and twisted tongue linked to the use of phenytoin and sodium valproate by Sankavi Kaarthic, Selvakumar CJ

“…CASE 1: 15 year old boy a case of refractory epilepsy with global developmental delay who was on multiple antiepileptics including phenytoin was admitted with breakthrough seizures. Patient had gum hypertrophy and serum phenytoin level was elevated and CT brain showed diffuse calvarial thickening, the offending drug was stopped. …”
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Relationship of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction with weather and season by Okkes Zortuk, Fatih Selvi, Cihan Bedel, Mustafa Korkut

“…The study recorded the weather conditions of patients on the days they were admitted to the hospital. The data collected included daily average air temperature (in Celsius), dew point (in Celsius), humidity (as a percentage), weather condition (fair, cloudy, windy, or rainy), wind speed (in rpm), pressure (in inches) obtained via the API where previous data is stored, and precipitation (in inches). …”
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Disertación para una nueva construcción en Colombia de la culpa in contrahendo by Vladimir Monsalve Caballero

“…El ordenamiento jurídico reconoce o admite que la autonomía privada sea el punto de partida y conformación del contrato, pero no hasta el extremo de considerar que, así las negociaciones preliminares permitan la concreción de un contrato, éste tenga un sistema propio, o autónomo, que esté sujeto a los términos incluidos en el texto contractual. …”
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Drafting of the Union treaty in September-December 1991: from the dismantling of statehood to the USSR's collapse by A. V. Lukashin

“…The Union Treaty, originally designed to create the necessary balance in the relations between the Center and the republics, in practice was an instrument for the implementation of the ambitions of the Republican elites and became one of the factors of the USSR`s collapse.…”
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infection Symptoms in Pregnancy and Maternal and Neonatal Complications Due to COVID-19: A Systematic Review by Sepideh Miraj, Azadeh Asgarian, Abolfazl Mohammadbeigi, Maryam Derakhshani

“…Conclusion: Pregnant mothers with COVID-19 infection are at higher risk of being admitted to the ICU and mechanical ventilation and consequently maternal and neonatal death. …”
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Severity of Burn Injury and the Relationship to Socioeconomic Status in Nova Scotia, Canada by Jeffrey Le, Sarah Alyouha, Lihui Liu, Michael Bezuhly, Jason Williams

“…Nova Scotia residents admitted to the Queen Elizabeth II burn unit in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1995 to 2012, were included in the study. …”
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Hypernatremia in patients with neurological conditions in critical state by David Wilfredo Suàrez Prieto, Mairen Pèrez Fuentes, Elaine Teresa Gutièrrez Pèrez

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> longitudinal analytical observational study on 55 patients who were admitted to the acute care units at the Arnaldo Milián Castro University Hospital, between October 2020 and May 2022, regardless of the plasma sodium value upon admission to the service, as well as during their stay in the critical care units. …”
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Clozapine-Induced Cardiotoxicity Presenting as Sepsis: A Case Report and Literature Review by Mazin Khalid, Oluwole Jegede, Vijay Gayam, Ying Chi Yang, Binav Shrestha, Amrendra Mandal, Osama Mukhtar, Pavani Garlapati, Mowyad Khalid, Alix Dufresne

“…He developed fever and tachycardia and was admitted to the medical unit on intravenous antibiotics for management of sepsis as he met the criteria for systemic inflammatory response syndrome. …”
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Prognostic Value of Glomerular Filtration Rate in Diabetic Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction by Ailed Elena Rodríguez Jiménez

“…<br /><strong>Methods</strong>: a case-series study was conducted in 68 diabetic patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction admitted to the Camilo Cienfuegos Hospital in Sancti Spiritus from January 2012 to December 2013. …”
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The Use of Corticosteroid Randomisation after Significant Head Injury (CRASH) Prognostic Model as Mortality Predictor of Traumatic Brain Injury Patients Underwent Surgery in Low-Mi... by Radian A. Halimi, Iwan Fuadi, Dionisius Alby

“…Results. 112 TBI patients were admitted during the study period, and 74 patients were included. …”
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Gastrointestinal transit time of radiopaque ingested foreign bodies in children: experience of two paediatric tertiary centres by Chen Xiang Ang, Win Kai Mun, Marion Margaret Aw, Diana Lin, Shu-Ling Chong, Lin Yin Ong, Shireen Anne Nah

“…We excluded those who were not given follow-up appointments and those admitted to inpatient wards. We categorised the outcomes into confirmed passage (ascertained via abdominal X-ray or reported direct stool visualisation by patients/caregivers) and assumed passage (if patients did not attend follow-up appointments). …”
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Sarcopenia and frailty as predictor of outcome in critically ill elderly patients with multiple comorbidities by Dina mostafa Elmaleh, Dina Morsy Ahmed Mohamed

“…Patients and methods Clinical frailty scale and SARC-F scale questionnaire were done in 70 critically ill patients admitted to geriatric ICU in geriatric hospital. Results There was a highly significant effect of frailty on primary outcomes whether sarcopenia was present or not (which means that effect of frailty on primary outcomes is more prominent than sarcopenia). …”
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Syncope with Surprise: An Unexpected Finding of Huge Gastric Diverticulum by Mauro Podda, Jenny Atzeni, Antonio Messina Campanella, Alessandra Saba, Adolfo Pisanu

“…We present a case of large gastric diverticulum that has been diagnosed during clinical investigations for suspected cardiovascular issues in a patient admitted at the medical ward for syncope. A 51-year-old man presented to the medical department due to a syncopal episode occurring while he was resting on the beach after having his lunch, with concomitant vague epimesogastric gravative pain without any other symptom. …”
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